Wow, that’s an old reference!

Unfortunately, yes. It’s a pretty common misconception, though.

That username though. Hahaha

It’s ok, so did I. Nobody likes Mech Eng.

Mythbusters actually proved this wrong. You don’t combine the speeds to determine crash forces — instead, it’s like each vehicle hit a stationary object at the speed they were going. (They tested this by crashing a car at a set speed into a wall, and then crashing two cars head on, each going the same speed. All cars…

The hydrogen car was the FCX Clarity. It vaguely resembled the Insight (4 door Prius clone, not original), but I don’t believe they were the same. The 2nd gen Insight hit the floors in the fall of 2009 (as a MY2010), while the CRZ came to market a year later, in August 2010.

I’ve ALWAYS hated that people call the CR-Z the successor to the CRX. See, what happened is, Honda fucked up their naming.

The CRX was a small economy car that happened to be super fun to drive. Honda still makes that — it’s called the Fit (in the U.S. Market).

No, the CR-Z is actually the successor of Honda’s first…

A friend of mine used to live LITERALLY one street over from there.

Even if the story was true, I would consider gaining more keys to PT Cruisers a net loss, not a net gain.

To be fair, several cars back then were equipped with sealed beam headlights. Because the entire headlight came out as one piece (as opposed to newer cars with a housing and a bulb), it gave you limited options for how to style the front of the car.

This is probably the only time a car was broken into, and the owner actually gained something.

I can imagine the other person’s story: “Back in the late 80's, I came back to my Toyota Space Cruiser, only to find that someone broke into my car and adjusted the seat! Nothing was taken, however.”

You’re right about them being uncontrollable. I bought a mustang, and it ran down 3 children after mistaking their fingers for carrots.

Mentioned briefly in the article, and probably in a few hundred comments below, but get a damn Butter Bell.

Not my story, but a friend of mine (to my best recollection):

COTD!

Is this seriously all on Google Streetview?! How did I not know about this?

These already exist on semi trucks, in a way.

Most trucks are limited between 60-65 mph. But there’s a feature that allows you to temporarily go over the limiter, in order to pass. Unfortunately, it can only be used so much per day.

Source: good friend of mine drives trucks, and she’s always bitching about this…

Well, it was built by the Swiss.

Yeah, but a majority of owners are just commuting A-to-B, not pushing range limits. My commute, for example, is 30 miles round trip. If I plugged my car in at home every night, I’d leave home every morning with a “full tank”, and never have to worry about a supercharger.

Along with all the other reasons given, it’s also slightly cheaper than a similar sized field of PV cells.

PV cells are still fairly expensive. Acres and acres of cells (all motorized to track the sun) are pretty pricy. This replaces your sun-tracking PV cells with sun-tracking mirrors (slightly cheaper), and just has…