We do have a need for good public transit, even if people don’t WANT it. If we want to cut down on drunk driving accidents, and just accidents caused by terrible drivers in general, we need alternatives to cars so people don’t have to drive literally EVERYWHERE. And since public transit in most places in North America …

I don’t think it’s the large cities that are the problem - it’s the suburbs around them. Here in Metro Detroit, the overwhelming majority of the 3 million people in the area live OUTSIDE Detroit, with only a bit over 600,000 living in the city itself. Several of these suburbs have populations 100,000 people themselves…

How much more can they progress? I guess maybe in terms of stamina there’s still a long way to go, but in terms of maximum performance? Not really.

IIRC, all the ships in that fleet that are named after people include the middle initial - Kaye E. Barker, James R. Barker, Lee A. Tregurtha, and Paul R. Tregurtha. Probably something as simple as having more than 1 person in the same family with the same first name, so they did the normal thing of differentiating…

Welcome to lake freighter naming tradition. You’d think with these ships named after company big wigs, they’d have taken better care to make sure they didn’t lose so many of them during storms back in the day, but apparently they were cool with ships carrying their names routinely sinking with their entire crews in…

This is probably why I’ve had a hard time actually befriending other car enthusiasts...

About the Malibu:

Reminds me of this scene from the beginning of MIB:

Given how expensive F1 “power units” now are (and still will be even when they get rid of the MGU-H), I’m not sure which engine builder would take up a contract to supply them, except maybe Cosworth. Then again, this seems so far outside GM’s wheelhouse that a 3rd party engine builder makes sense (GM makes some great…

Thankfully I haven’t seen that ad in months, but I remember it far too vividly due to it playing on EVERY commercial break during the Rolex 24. The part that pisses me off is the disjointed dancing that’s clearly not to the music being played. Honestly just get rid of the overdramatic directing/acting and just showed…

It’s only a matter of time before someone finally figures out that the way to sell normal hatchbacks and wagons in the US is to label them as “sport crossovers”.

I remember dying of laughter multiple times watching them try to find the source of the Nile River, and the segment where they were discussing what type of drivetrain different animals have was funny too.

Most people don’t care. There’s a myriad of reasons I wouldn’t even take one for free, and the biggest one is because of Elon (and if Henry Ford were still alive I’d have the same disdain for Ford too), but clearly most people don’t care about his increasing public slide towards embracing actual Nazis (he’s not there…

You expect thoroughness from software engineers? That was your first mistake...

The “EV movement” was going nowhere fast until the con artists at VW got caught with dieselgate and various governments used it as an opportunity to push for EV mandates, so VW is really who you should be thanking for the EV push (or, less tongue-in-cheek, politicians who pushed for more EV proliferation as a result).

There’s a ton of other stupid features already in new cars that a lot of us also hate, but that hasn’t exactly put a damper on new car sales.

I was expecting it to actually, you know, swerve around a tire that was directly in the middle of his path of travel, not just move 2 inches to the right to go around it when it had practically rolled off to the shoulder by that point, like anyone who barely passed their road test by a single point would manage to do..…

Just no stupid fake Fart-tronic exhaust please...

If synthetic fuel is supposed to be a “drop in” replacement for fossil fuels, how is the engine supposed to tell it apart from fossil fuels and stop itself from being able to run of fossil fuels?

I’d give that collision a 15/10 because it also improved the appearance of the car...