Get a better umbrella stroller. We had a cheapo $20 one at first. The handles were too low and our feet kept hitting the wheels as we walked. We threw it away and got a Maclaren umbrella stroller that was so much better. Easy to push and so much easier to carry around than the full-size stroller.

Why would you take the stroller to the grocery store? We have literally never taken our stroller into the grocery. When they were small babies, we had “travel system” seats so we unclipped the seats out of the base and set it in the cart. Once they were old enough to sit up on their own, they sat in the child seat of…

The “Obama Project” wasn’t maglev, OP seems to think all high speed rail is maglev. It isn’t. Maglev is very expensive, and as such is only found in a handful of locations.

In many cases, so are the financials.

lovely analogy...

Half of those words are fine, though they are probably often used poorly.  I hate the recent rise of the work “bespoke”, especially in automotive journalism.

I absolutely use penultimate correctly, and antepenultimate,but only when speaking, and always in manner that suggests that it is a silly word to use..

Urinals: anyone else feel like most urinals are the wrong height? I’m 5'10", which is exactly average in the US, yet it seems that the vast majority of urinals are positioned where I am barely tall enough to use them. My junk is only a few inches above the lip, and then there is like 12" more of usable urinal above…

Another thing they should do is offer it with both a rotary (hybrid) and a standard piston engine.  Lots of people will never buy a rotary, so the market is limited if only a rotary engine is offered.  Sell another version with a piston engine in the same chassis so that the chassis development can be spread across…

Instead of a rotary range extender, I’d love a plug-in hybrid rotary. Keep the rotary engine, bolt a decent sized electric motor to the front of it and keep the manual transmission. The electric motor can provide torque fill-in at lower RPM, and the fuel injectors can be shut off for all-electric driving at lower…

I like low and sleek cars, and wagons are lower and sleeker than CUVs. Not all wagons are great looking, but the long roof visually lengthens their profile, which doesn’t work as well for CUVs because proportionally they are so much taller.

The front end on those is so ungainly.  The refresh was so much better looking, but you never see them.

1. We built a system of levees to protect the city from flooding. This caused the city to sink which makes flooding issues worse.

As an engineer that works in automation, this is interesting. But on the other hand, the use cases they outlined seem to be pretty poor applications for autonomy. If they are talking about being used to make temporary bridges, what’s the point in them being autonomous? Just use a tugboat and some standard latching…

I still have my first car, an ‘89 Nissan 240SX two-tone coupe.  Owned it since 1995, and my mom bought it new in 1989.  Unfortunately it hasn’t run in 5 years because I pulled the engine to clean up the engine bay and haven’t finished putting it back together.

On the Volvo Amazon wagon, the gas cap is that low too.

It just looks odd. It has all the styling of a CUV, but the ground clearance of a Honda Fit. It’s the invert of this:

I own a 2011 RX-8 Sport. I bought it new in the summer of 2012 as a leftover. Knowing how important correct maintenance was on these cars, I wanted to buy a new one, and there were only about 15 new ones left in the country at that point. Several of the “new” listings had several thousand miles on them because they…

The new GLE looks miles better than the 3rd-gen it replaced, which I always thought looked terrible.  And the new GLC looks better than the GLK it replaced.  But that’s about it in my opinion.  I haven’t really been a fan of MB’s styling for a while now.

In the mid-90s, Chrysler didn’t have a V8 that put out more HP than this V6.