It really didn’t need to go far. If the VW was sitting directly over the wheelbase, its weight wouldn’t have been relieving weight from the front of the trailer. The further forward the better for anchoring the trailer, but any position that doesn’t put the VW’s weight behind the trailer wheels would have been a…

The VW is clearly strapped down as the trailer is rolling away. It doesn’t really make much sense to unsecure the load, move it, secure it again, then unsecure it a second time to unload.

I dunno. If someone had a stretched Cullinan, that would be less than two Cullinans, but still more than one. And if there’s anything people of wealth know, it’s that you can always add more car to your car.

Another pro-tip: Don’t place your load’s center of gravity behind the wheel base. If the vehicle had been secured ahead of the trailer’s wheel base, it would have helped pin the front of the trailer to the ground instead of taking weight off the front of the trailer.

Well, neither really. Why would I bother to switch up my commute if it didn’t offer me any benefit? 

For what it’s worth, I did say the “first” 10 miles. I still have to drive another 40 after that point. That being said, I will acknowledge that Los Angeles is probably better equipped to handle cars than a number of eastern cities, plus the weather is a lot better. The two big problems with LA are that many people…

I’m not going to defend Elon Musk, but I have to take exception to your claim of “fast” trains. There are train stations near my home and my job, but I still drive to work because even in peak LA rush hour traffic, I can make it to work up to an hour faster each way than the trains are capable of. If I can avoid the…

When I leave work it takes me about an hour to drive the first 10 miles, so yes, it is pretty bad.

In California the suspect can be formally charged with murder in such a scenario. In fact, the suspect doesn’t even have to be directly involved. A getaway driver waiting in the parking lot was charged with murder when his accomplice got into a shootout while robbing a McDonalds.

Yes, and that was exactly the problem. It was an OS that had no business being on a mobile phones due to its design, but Microsoft stuck it there anyway. I’ll forgive them for not having the vision to come up with a proper mobile phone OS prior to the iPhone, but after the iPhone came out Microsoft still kept trucking…

Even more amazing when you consider they were doing all that without even the benefit of electronic calculators.

I was going to question your use of the word ‘roof’ instead of ‘hood’, but then I found the ad you were probably talking about.

You know what? I’m going to defend your take. It’s true. Pizza is not a meal. It’s basically the restaurant-served version of a party-sized bag of chips. It should be shared with people, but will probably end up being eaten in its entirety as a single serving in a distressingly short amount of time. And throwing…

I wouldn’t consider Windows phones to be handheld gaming devices either, but they don’t need to be to illustrate the point. Microsoft missed the boat to be a major player in the smartphone market noy once, but twice. Prior to the iPhone, Microsoft failed to come up with a workable smartphone design, sticking to an…

Why is your gun in someone else's car?

So you’re just going to ignore the fact that they developed Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Gears of War, and most importantly the Unreal Engine? The Unreal Engine in particular has in its various iterations powered many critically acclaimed games over the past two decades—games like Deus Ex, Bioshock, Dishonored, and…

I recognize the issue with pointing all three mirrors to cover the same area, but seeing someone looking over their shoulder is not inherently a bad driving practice. I drive 30-40 hours per week on very busy freeways, and having a mirror covering my blind spot means little if I don’t look to see the person two lanes…

One-eight-seven-seven Kars For Kids,

Just for clarification, a “life without parole” sentence is a true life sentence in which a person is never eligible for release. Their prison sentence ends the day they die. With an ordinary “life” sentence, there’s a mandatory minimum term that must be served before the person is eligible for parole hearings. The…

Indeed. I think it was a requirement that all games in the genre exist solely as Early Access titles.