I think the only reason this seems confusing is the ease with which it seems like the dunking population could get this done. You lock a 6'10" person in a gym and tell them they can’t come out until they dunk, and they’ll be home by lunch. A five-footer is going to die in there. There’s no real similar criterion for…

Also, what’s clumsy about them? Slide right for hot and left for cold. Slide to these positions for these outputs. It’s the same thing as a knob, but linear. Does it look dated? Sure, but let’s be clear that that’s not a functionality critique—we just like new shiny things every generation or so.

Consider that rich people ran out of things to buy so long ago that they came up with something called toggery, and someone makes a very good living selling it.

This might be overthinking, and the wrong place for this, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the use of the word “evil” in cases like this. I don’t think I like it.

I’m standing by my point about Paris, even though its modern iteration is only about 150 years old: you’d be hard-pressed to make that kind of urban density and activity happen in the American context, out of whole cloth. I’m not saying people don’t want to or shouldn’t shop, eat, take in a game, etc. That’s basically…

This is fair; I should have been more clear to say that I meant “perfectly” somewhat ironically—that is, to build something like this without adding strain to your regional highway network, you have to make it so that people don’t have reason to leave. (Not that this is a desirable condition for residents). But you’re…

He wouldn’t have had to leave Chicago, perfect!

(architectural designer, studied architecture and urbanism at school) Little bit of both, though mostly the former. As mentioned in the piece, it’s a little bit weird and ultimately very suburban to try to develop like this in a place with minimal to zero public transit options. To execute this perfectly you’re…

How is it possible that Paulie is the only person who doesn’t understand he’s playing a bit part in a roadshow? In this context he exists solely for exactly these sorts of pictures to be taken and disseminated, that more fools might more quickly be parted with that sweet sweet pay-per-view money. Shut up and cash the…

This is a super annoying opinion, and many ostensibly educated people seem to hold it. There are so many problems with it:

I think those are M-sport wheels, so I think 2010-2013 528 or 535i .

yeah but Tyler was so cool though

Have a new X5 X-Drive50i and can confirm, you do have to say, “Entschuldigung, ich möchte rechts abbiegen bitte” every time you want to signal right. By the time you get through that you might as well have just changed lanes.  

Right—doesn’t have to be absolutely the fastest, just fast enough. I believe Torch covered that with the maximum passenger travel time.

I agree, but it would be useless for urban scales, as I’m pretty sure the bus or subway would be faster with none of the risk of falling out of the sky. Seems like at their speeds/capacities they’d be best replacing regional buses or train routes with low ridership. NY to the Hamptons, or a ferry from the north shore…

I still think the FF91 looks like an RX who saw an i8 and decided it was time to make some wardrobe changes.

That’s Klay Thompson right?

100,000 strong here in Boston!

Honestly I’m surprised how well-received this post is. This is car-guy homerism bullshit. Diplomacy is its own discipline, one which this guy spent his whole life not learning. I know it would make people on this board feel a little better but just because he’s a auto executive doesn’t mean he’d be effective at all.

This alternative version of a Smashing Pumpkins song for the Watchmen trailer is the first one I remember.