I suppose they could take them from TSA, but who would then keep us safe from the tyrannies of nail clippers.

sack of hammers on the seat and you are good to go- they should use some sort of conductance sensors on the steering wheel combined with an eye sensor like Mercedes has

They should have like an “Industrial Size” silly string gun:

The Subaru SVX was my first thought. Good choice.

Here’s the odd thing. I’ve ended up with the weird companies. Instead of one big QA department, all the testing specialists were just broken up and made a part of the programming teams.

Car & Driver just discovered that more complex mouse traps just make for smarter mice. i.e. any system can be circumvented if the driver tries hard enough. If you required a heart monitor, someone would engineer a false pulse generator. If you required a 3d scan of your face, people would 3d print copies of their…

Am I the only one that was disappointed that they didn’t try an inflatable sex doll to fool supercruise?

they also conveniently omit that there was a big kerfluffle in the 1940's that caused a widespread drop in working aged people suited for manual labor at the same time an abrupt loss of infrastructure happened all across europe and asia. 

but keep in mind, for a union to work they need political backing so they can tell execs to fuck off. MAGA hats fetishize the 1950s as a time in which “America was great;” they forget that a big reason why it was that way—for at least some of the population—was due to the insanely strong power Unions could wield at…

One thing an organised union can do is negotiate fair hours. The hours mentioned above are ludicrous. It should be fairly common knowledge by now that long hours actually decrease productivity, here’s a fairly common study that stands up to scrutiny:…

I don’t care that it’s probably not, the Toyota 1FZ never gets its dues in these lists.

I was thinking of course the 2JZ-GTE, used in the Supra and non-turbo’d in a few Lexus models. Built for power, extremely smooth, easy to work on.

Gioacchino Colombo’s V12 engine. Reached specific powers over 100 HP/liter already in the 50s, looked amazing in its 250 Testa Rossa incarnation, and powered many Ferrari legendary cars all the way from 1947 to 1988. An incredible feat of motor engineering.

In terms of legendary large engines that did make it into the passenger vehicles, it’s the Cummins B series(6BT, ISB, B6.7). These are engines that hit 7 digit mileage with ease in hot shot applications. Even the modern CM2350b engine can have the DPF and other emission equipment surpass 500k without issues.

For the V8 crowd: LS

One of the best ever made was BMW’s S54 Inline 6 that was in the E46 M3, E37 Z3M, and the E85/86 Z4M. 3.2L iron block that revved to 8000 rpm and made 333hp all without the aid of forced induction. Oh, and peak power was at 7900rpm, so you were rewarded for taking it all the way to redline. It was one of the sweetest…

I will see your “simple and bulletproof” Toyota engine, and raise you the 22R.

The 1UZ-FE. Simple and bulletproof.