Standard practice on buses, aimed at the passengers, yes. We should trust people to do their job the way they’re trained to do. There are already enough measures in place to verify what happened after a crash (CVR and data recorder in planes, data recorders for all driver inputs, safety systems and dead man pedal in…

I’m guessing you’re also in favour of installing a camera in/on every plane, ship, car, truck, motorbike, bicycle, ...?

Afaik they are built from the ground up, using the bodyshell from the car it’s based on. So I guess you could send a bog standard Fiesta to them, but they’ll start off by gutting it, so you might as well buy a finished one.

They’re based on production cars, but in practice they’re bought off-the-shelf from the likes of M-Sport. You’d be looking at R2B or R2C if you want to do the conversion yourself (with a manufacturer supplied kit).

It’s the car’s class; R5 is part of WRC2 and sits just below the full-blown WRC cars. Helpful Wiki page here.

They can and do if you’ve got the same income as the people considering tickets for the Japanese train.

For the same reason people take roadtrips: the journey instead of the destination.

In other news, a squirrel was found hoarding digital tire pressure gauges.

Isn’t there a The Shining prequel underway?

The blue Wrangler as well.

Right indicator to show it’s safe to overtake for the cars behind, left when overtaking.

Add 80 Days to the list of amazing mobile games! Though that plays fine on PC as well.

This just makes it more amazing (from TV Tropes):

This brought a tear to my eye.

Amazing quali, awful race. High-speed Monaco without the glamour, quoi.

This one freaked me out the first time I met him:

I endorse this.

Another railroad fun fact: in corners, the rails are set further apart than on the straights, to allow for smoother bogie movement.

Really?