I saw the Engineering Explained video on the seat heater move, WTF?  Change for the sake change in programming is exhausting.

It may sound counterintuitive, but things happen way more slowly in a plane. Generally if a system shuts down (altitude hold or heading or whatever) you have several seconds or even minutes to correct it, and you can often feel or hear there is a problem as it’s happening. In a plane, other planes do not jump out from…

I’m a private pilot and work in aviation, Mercedes is pretty good with the plane stuff.

I’ve only driven one car with radar cruise, a Sienna we rented for about 1,000 miles of driving from LA up to the Sierra’s. And yes, exactly what you said. I normally set the cruise at 8 over, and I am as right-lane disciplined as the best German, but I was constantly realizing the van was slowing to match the speed…

A mere $1.7 million/hour for the past 2,021 years. Which when I put it that way...yikes. 

Seriously, the last 30 seconds before his destination the car tries to turn down some RR tracks, tries to hit 3 separate bollards, makes numerous janky turns and stop/starts as it feels its way around turns, and then he pulls to a stop and is like “Perfect, it got us here!”. If I were driving behind this car I would…

4:47 makes a right turn to drive straight down some railroad tracks instead of the separate lane.  Grand Theft Auto has taught me that could end badly.

Your last stat is pretty eye-opening, about 17.7 million hours since the first Christmas and $10,350/hr gets you $183 billion. Yikes.

I think the “always understood” is a somewhat recent interpretation away from “born here”. But still, somehow even that was not good enough in Obama’s case, since his mother was a US citizen, making him one at birth...even if we he was born in Kenya (which he was not). I’m just pointing out that this standard is/will…

Although “born here” is a bit oversimplified. Case in point, Ted Cancun Cruz & George Romney were born in Canada & Mexico. Barry Goldwater was born in AZ...before it was a state. Even McCain was born in Panama. The born-here only applies to the black and/or democratic candidates, it seems.

When I take one look at GM’s currentvTahoe and Suburban architecture, I’m hard pressed to feel safe in an M1 tank, much less my GTI.

Yeah :-(

This could all be solved with a Monthly Seat Mobility Subscription (MSMS) to move the seat. Base subscription gets you 60 seconds of adjustment per month for, oh, $30, then it’s $1 each additional second. Otherwise you just live with whichever way the seat was last time you paid up.

Woah, woah, I am not advocating that side AT ALL. I am just recognizing there is a sizeable portion of the US population who DOES think social security, the WPA, the TVA, the CCC, the entire New Deal was the beginning of the end of American Exceptionalism and the (mythical) bootstrap origin story. Like with…

I’m not sure there is anyone in American history that “every” American would revere or at least see as non-controversial in some way. We have politicized everything. I don’t necessarily say that in a bad way because it’s past time we take a critical look at our history, and I do believe we need to own our skeletons.…

I still miss my high-revving Celica, it had way more personality than my GTI. Yeah, the torque is no comparison, but the Celica was alive in feel and sound from 4,000 to 8,000, and the GTI runs out of steam at 5,500. Just not the same.

He must have the same mentality as the idiot that filmed Ahmaud Arbery’s killing, thinking it was proof of those bubba’s innocence, when in fact 12 sane people saw it for exactly what it was, proof of a racist ambush and murder.

Sounds like a good suggestion for the current article on “What Car Feature Disappointed You the Most”?

A. He was leasing it, like most people, so that he could “afford” it.  So maybe he could not afford to buy it.

I had a 2018 Sienna as a rental a few years back as I needed the space for my bike box. Driving it 1,000 miles around southern California and the Sierra’s convinced me that ALL minivans are underrated.  Why anyone with kids would pick an SUV over one is mind boggling.