Classic military paranoia. If we don’t do X thing with big downsides, people could just walk right in and take our country. Better ignore all the consequences of our actions because of military necessity.

I love how dickhead ground pounders like to walk into these threads and imply that they know more about military planning and necessity than civilians with degrees and experience in government analysis.

If you have to injure every marine mammal within 100 miles so that you can be sure there isn’t a sub nearby, despite not actually being at war with any sub equipped countries and despite the fact that it’s 100% legal for anyone to drive their subs around in the middle of the ocean, that really doesn’t seem like a…

The Pronto looks like it drove right out of one of the Batman animated series.

No it’s actually really fun to say “hey let’s go over to place, I heard it was full of x” then your friends all pile into the car and go catch some.

My absolute favorite part of the video is watching the metal blue then turn red over the course of a second.

The best thing about the autobahn is that passing lane/cruising lane are actually enforced.

Are we sure there’s even track back there? It could be some kind of test sled on rails or something.

They should never have called it that. Should have just been “manual traction mode” and we all know what it means. You have to nod knowingly with these things, not actually say out loud that it’s for drifting. Ford asked for this.

A headwind is needed, but surprisingly less than you would assume.

Remember that you can have partial fault in a civil case. So you could see a situation where something was used incorrectly, but some factor if it was such that a reasonable person would mess something up some percentage of the time in perfectly good faith, so they could find the company to be 5% responsible or…

Just as an example, Kansas highways have no reflectors and the paint isn’t very reflective, but it also isn’t typically FADED. So a user would look at that road and say it’s fine, but the cameras might have a really hard time tracking the lines.

Good post! I didn’t know about the Deere incident. I’m going to go read about that some more now!

We PROBABLY have the technology for a camera to recognize hands on the wheel.

“captained-out” should be real asap.

What do you mean “useless” game? Do you insist on only playing games where you file taxes or what?

I think fortune really has it weirdly in for him.

Yeah well designed checkpoints always make you spiral in or turn hard at the end of a street so it’s impossible to ram.

I kind of wonder if that isn’t the best they can do designing a truck. The forces at play are absurd when hitting an immovable objects.

The way to learn from this is to remember it the next time you’re posting about some future story in this manner. Ask yourself if you really know what you’re talking about.