Selection bias for the lose.

They want to cross the road, and that car is still a hundred yards away. They can’t conceive of the car moving fast enough to hit them. That’s my theory anyway.

I would contend that knock is compression ignition. Is not knock caused by high temperatures and pressures (as opposed to contact with a flame front)? Is not that high temperature and pressure caused by the compression of gasses due to the expanding flame front?

Yes, most of the fuel is ignited by compression. The spark plug starts a flame front that expands and compresses the air in the rest of the combustion chamber. Most of the fuel then ignites due to the increased pressure.

That’s not technically correct. Traditional spark ignited engines have a fairly uniform flame front. Each molecule of fuel is ignited by the burning of the molecule, and so on and so forth until each molecule is expended. In this engine, the spark ignites SOME of the fuel. As that chemical reaction takes place the…

One item that you’re totally missing is that it’s plausible that 16% of millennials never plan to own ANY car. Mass transit, ride sharing, and human-powered transportation may be their long term plan. Whether that will actually come to be is another question (having a family changes things).

Growing up on a farm, my parents (both of them!) used to not only leave their cars unlocked in the driveway, not only with the keys in the car, but with the key in the ignition! Oh yeah and the front door to that house was locked so infrequently that they didn’t even have house keys on their keychain. It was hidden in…

It’s worth noting that if he lived in any other developed country he may have not been able to afford the Challenger build due to the high tax rate.

Shipping costs, import taxes, language barriers, shipping lead time, time zone communication issues, etc. There are actually many advantages to domestic manufacturing if you can do away with the pesky problem of labor cost.

I understand that sentiment, but I won’t die wishing I had seen a sunset on the Savanna. I won’t die wishing I had the chance to hike the Galapagos and enjoy the nightlife in Sao Paulo. Busting my ass in the office gave (and continues to give) me experiences that I wouldn’t otherwise have had.

Quality of life is constantly improving, whether you like to admit it or not. Think of the cars, phones, TVs, medicine, and food that your parents (and grandparents) were using when they were your age. I agree that the average person is not working less, but 40 hours per week today yields a vastly improved life over…

No one needs a car that powerful.

They don’t have to make it not gross. If they pass enough laws to suppress competing services, people will be forced to use public transit. And it’s easier to kill the competition than it is to try to keep up.

I’d argue that 100% of pot smokers are super comfortable doing a lot of things when they’re high...because they’re fucking high.

Me! I had that perception! Because I know a few, and it’s silly accurate. Every car demographic has those people (the high and mighty), but DAMN it sure seems like the Prius has it especially bad. There’s a reason they made the episode...

Still better than Celebrity Brain Crash.

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make. Did you reply to the right person?

It has nothing to do with “fair” pay. The fair pay is what a worker and an employer agree to.
If you live a lifestyle that costs X, and have a job that pays Y, if X>Y then you either need to cut back on your expenses or get a job that pays more. These are the kinds of decisions that functioning adults have to make…

That’s not really a fair way to look at it. If I had four kids and lived in a 4 bedroom 3 bath home on 30 acres, I could make 50K per year and it still wouldn’t be enough to survive. If Uber isn’t working out to minimum wage, then find another job. If you’re working Uber, you have a car and a cell phone and with…

Because it doesn’t pay as much as those real jobs. That’s what makes a job a “real job” as opposed to a “paying hobby.” You make enough money to survive.