You have to figure that on the heels of Karate Kid, Elizabeth Shue was just too expensive for a minor supporting role, but it’s a damn shame.

That’s what I see as the end game in this, once the technology is sufficiently proven in the real world. On-duty remote operators responsible for monitoring 5 (or 20, or 100, depending on demonstrated need for human intervention) autonomous trucks, intervening when the default algorithm of “Pull off road…

A human truck driver can take out your family right now. The question isn’t whether autonomous systems are perfectly safe, it’s whether they’re safer or less safe than the *typical* (not ideal) human operator. A computer does not get bored, tired, distracted, angry, aggressive, sloppy, etc.

It’s an early S197 Mustang with the 401(A) appearance package. Pre-2011 or so, with the 5-speed. I recognize it because I have a late S197 with 401(A). Mine’s a six-speed, with the VW-style layout (R is left of 1 and you have to push down to engage it). The appearance package includes the metal shift knob as pictured.

Cool writeup. I’ve always wanted a DMC-12 but I’ve assumed that the hot setup is to just swap in an SBC or something.

Say what you will about its looks, but we auto enthusiasts should applaud Honda for bringing to market a family car with a rear-mounted boxer engine.

This can’t be good for his diabetiss.

Coming soon to a left lane near you!

Worst part is, on a lot of the newer jets, it's impossible to turn the traction control all the way off.

I started undergrad in 1996, just as the internet was becoming a big deal, so I got to watch it grow up. I definitely remember using Netscape, and I remember (not at all fondly) the universal use of serif fonts on pages intended to be read on low-resolution CRT monitors. My freshman year in the fall of 1996, it was…

My family car growing up/DD when I was a teenager was a 1987 Ford Aerostar with a 5-speed manual. It was awesome. If someone made a RWD minivan with a stick and a modern (300+HP) engine today, I'd buy one. You can get the soon-to-be-discontinued Mazda5 with a stick but it's too small to really be a "minivan" by…

I had to chuckle when I clicked the link and looked at all the photos. 1999 — year of the remote control for the stereo head unit, and the trunk-mounted CD changer.

But still, I want so bad.

Pack fan here. I remember that game and ISTR that the Pats had first-and-goal from the one and threw four straight incomplete passes, turning it over on downs (to which the Packers responded with a 99-yd TD drive). I could remember wrong, though.

I've been saying this all day. In 20+ years of following football, I've never seen a QB face so little criticism after a bad interception. Terrible decision coupled with a poor throw. If the play isn't developing the way it's supposed to (and it wasn't), throw it to the blonde in Row 8.

Pack fan here. I remember that game and ISTR that the Pats had first-and-goal from the one and threw four straight incomplete passes, turning it over on downs (to which the Packers responded with a 99-yd TD drive). I could remember wrong, though.

Hi, Opal!

Exactly. What amazes me about this is not the reaction itself — we know that police universally and reflexively defend any and all behavior by their colleagues. But the degree of tone deafness here is just mind-boggling. To think that after the year the League is already having, it would jump into this fray and…

As a football fan, I demand informative answers to thoughtful questions.

1. The best era in automotive history is right now. Cars of all types are so good — so powerful, reliable, safe, well-equipped, efficient, whatever you prefer — it's just stupid.

"Per source"?? Court orders are supposed to be public. [/legal nerdy]