Lane-splitting has been legal in California for years (I think the top speed it’s allowed is 35MPH).  For the most part, car drivers are considerate and will even move over for the bikers.  But, even alert drivers get surprised on occasion.

Tom Petty’s ‘Buried Treasure’ show is worth $0.50/day to me.

“We are incredibly excited to announce that the standard Model 3, with 220 miles of range, a top speed of 130 mph and 0-60 mph acceleration of 5.6 seconds...”

Happened to a good friend of mine who just visited. He lives in MD, and started his Jetta to warm it up before he left for work, went inside and returned a few minutes later to find the cabin engulfed in flames. He thinks the seat warmer ignited his (cloth) seats.

re: “Jack Welch fucked the world by cutting cost at GE and being rewarded.”

Anecdotal ‘data,’ but it seems to me there are more occurrences of people in large SUVs backing over children (backup cameras notwithstanding).

So, do ze Krauts call their tankish SUVs ‘Panzers?’

re: “Am I reading right that during media testing of the Silverado at IMS, drivers saw a 40mpg on a 15-mile loop?”

Nice, but you need to fit ‘J. D. Power’ in there somewhere.

Chebby is slowly but surely ditching the godawful rectangular wheel wells.

re: “A majority of these trucks get sold to suburbanites that immediately ditch the factory tire and wheel package for some obscene MT tire and wheel that will gimp any MPG gains made from the factory.”

You missed the point: All the proposed SS aircraft are ‘biz jets;’ only the insanely rich—e.g. Bezos, Gates, Buffett, etc.—will be able to afford them. The insanely rich will buy whatever they damn well want and do whatever they damn well please, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

‘Ice Road Truckers’ is going to be even more boring without the drivers.

The ghost of Colin Chapman speaks!

Planes have pilot(s)—usually two, but sometimes three and, rarely, one—trains have engineers—and usually a ‘brakeman’—buses have drivers ...

It’s inherent with any solid front axle. If one sides oscillates, for any reason, the other side will too, and the reinforce each other.  One of the big reasons most modern cars have independent front suspension.

Brakes will do it, too; my ex’s ‘96 Cherokee had it (steering damper is the first thing I changed--hope springs eternal).

Cars and trucks with solid front axles will do this; it’s inherent in the design (when one wheel wobbles or its brakes grab, the other will, and they reinforce each other).

FYI: My ex-GF had a ‘96 Cherokee with the ‘death wobble’ every time you hit the brakes (the harder the braking, the worse the wobble). I tried everything I could think of to fix it—new steering damper, checked out ball joints, rotated tires, etc.—but in the end a shop diagnosed and fixed it; it was the front brakes.

Um, no. All the ‘small’ airports are occupied by people that can pilot their own aircraft point-to-point, often at well over 120MPH—and in a straight line with no stoplights to boot—completely avoiding the TSA and baggage check/claim (but, yeah, you might have to take an Uber/Lyft when you get to your destination).