If the lake is 30 miles away it could probably get the boat there in four hours.

Yeah, I was doing some math on this in another thread and it turns out in my particular case, if I needed something the size of a Suburban more than 15 days of the year, it would actually be cheaper for me to drive a Suburban all year long than it would be to drive a smaller car and rent a Suburban when needed. And…

I agree to that in some cases (notably drunk or extremely reckless drivers), but permanently banning someone from driving simply because they aren’t already an expert while they’re LEARNING to drive doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.

Those are still some very broad terms. Wouldn’t a game that allows you to murder your own daughter by ripping her chest open and making a terrible movie joke while peeking through the resulting hole be pretty malicious and demeaning? That’s Mortal Kombat. How about games that glorify being a public menace to the point…

Wow, they’d have been better off just putting sliding doors on a Tahoe.

Ugh, I can see the resemblance. At least it doesn’t appear to have that obnoxious pop-up entertainment center that the SRX has. Unless Cadillac pulled off some engineering miracle, I have no interest in giving the XT5 a chance.

It’s also possible to rent a sedan, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to switch to a motorcycle and rent a sedan whenever I need to carry a passenger (which for the record happens less often than my need to transport something that won’t fit in a trunk). If a car can’t handle my needs 99% of the time, as far as I’ m…

Yeah, I’ve had to drive the CTS and SRX on many occasions, and based on my experiences with those, there’s no way I would consider Cadillac “the crown jewel of American luxury cars”. The SRX in particular has really weird power seats that almost feel like they’re broken, and the backup guidance system was far inferior…

You want it to crumple. It helps absorb the force better. If you’re concerned that it will crumple too easily, some sort of framework could be put in to help reinforce it. The problem is that if you make it too rigid, then you’re transferring the crash forces directly to your body instead of letting the car absorb…

If the cargo is too big to hide under a cargo cover, chances are it’s too big to fit out a broken window, too.

Isn’t it more about how far the rear end of the door needs to move away from the car? I have to park in lots of narrow spaces myself (so narrow I have to turn sideways to slide out the door of a Honda), and in my experience a thinner door would be more useful than a shorter one. In fact, when getting my work bag out…

While that’s technically true, not everything is a solid box. For instance, as one example of many I could put an assembled table upside-down in the back of an SUV or wagon that wouldn’t fit into a sedan trunk. Sure, the table legs would technically interfere with visibility, but only to a small degree. Also, even…

With backup cameras now being a mandate, rearward visibility out the back window promises to be less and less of a concern—not that the lack of backup cameras has been stopping automakers from restricting rearward visibility.

I dunno. I think this article makes more sense than the one advocating that SUVs should only have two doors.

Minivans rank among the worst when it comes to carrying one of their most critical pieces of cargo—the engine. I’m perfectly fine with driving minivans as soon as they put a hood on them that’s not a repurposed glove compartment door. I don’t care if they have to make the whole front end tilt like a cab-over semi, but…

Depression and mental illness as a whole scare me so much because they are truly invisible at times and do not discriminate against who they affect.

Excellent point. After all, how many people would actually want Valve to pull Doom, Mortal Kombat, and Grand Theft Auto games from the store? Those were all quite controversial for their time, with many people finding those games quite offensive. Everybody draws their line in a different place, and as you’ve already…

Considering it was her parents that raised the two children after she left, not the ex-husband or his parents, I don’t think that scenario is likely.

I think what would make this scenario tougher than normal is that she abandoned the two kids in favor of a third kid. It’s close to being the most painful version of choosing favorites, especially when the “favorite” one really shouldn’t have been conceived in the first place, given the circumstances.

All I can think of is how short the run time on that flashlight must have been with zinc-carbon batteries.