Holy crap! You actually made me find one thing to like about a modern-ish Cadillac. The Cadillac SRX has a ledge right at the base of the infotainment screen, which I routinely brace against when using the on-screen radio controls. It’s quite possibly the only bit of thoughtful design on that car--which probably means…

Unfortunately, modern car design is well on the road to making that impossible. Cadillac in particular seems to be dead-set on making blind spots a major product feature. Sometimes I have to drive a Cadillac SRX, and you absolutely have to use the backup camera to safely backup, because the rearward visibility is so…

As other people have pointed out, the quality of navigation can vary considerably. That said, I’ve been using GPS navigation since back when I needed a PDA and external GPS receiver to do it and was never routed to the wrong destination.

He’s asking why they don’t just ignore the in-game timer entirely and either mod the game timer for improved precision or use an external speedrun timer.

In all fairness, the in-game timer isn’t really broken. If a game isn’t going to track time increments smaller than a second, it doesn’t really matter if the game rounds up, rounds down, or rounds to the nearest whole number. In all cases it can take up to a whole second of improvement to register a change in the…

Nope. $6,987 dollars is the wrong answer, or at least it doesn’t explain how one operates a manual transmission on an RC car. I’m imagining a clutch pedal and shifter on the remote, and some tricky finger pad/palm action on the gas and brake while running tricky courses.

Not a dually, so technically it doesn’t count.

Something I’d like to add to this is that it is in fact generally illegal for people to be unrestrained in a moving car, and many laws exist that further increase the requirements for restraining children in a car. People who violate those laws can be stopped and punished accordingly. Nobody has a “right” to ignore…

You’re probably not missing much. I consider it to be a hazing ritual for up-and-coming comedians.

Wow, you’ve already got me wanting to buy a ticket to see that!

Nah, they just look for the crack sprinkled on the clothes.

I was thinking more along the lines of reliability. I’d trust a new trailer far more than I’d trust a $1500 used truck—especially in southern California. Plus, there’s a lot less to go wrong on a trailer. And price could still be an issue to a degree, because the more money invested in a reliable truck/SUV could mean…

A brand new folding trailer rated for over 1700 pounds can be had for under $500 (lighter duty ones are even cheaper), and trailer registration is really cheap. We’re talking under $100 for a 5-year registration, so less than $20 per year. Good luck finding a usable truck in a remotely similar price range.

Yep, that would be easy to overwhelm even with the oil flow from many smaller cars. Here’s the one I use:

How big is the the drain on your drain pan? The one I use has a drain aboutvthe size of a shower drain on it. The screw-in plug for the drain is about 3" in diameter. About the only way I could overwhelm the drain on that drain pan would be to pour the oil into a bucket, then dump the bucket into the drain pan.

Getting a trailer and hitch is exactly what I was going to suggest. That way, the car can be chosen based on sportiness, and the trailer offers a lot of versatility while keeping the load well away from premium interiors. Trailers are also going to be lower to the ground, making them easier to load and unload, and…

Wow, Snacktaku sure has gotten bleak...

Yep. I once saw the aftermath of a crash where a 2006 Mustang gave a small tree the Cars & Coffee treatment. Aside from some lost bark, the tree is still doing fine today. The Mustang was totaled.

Given that the wiring has to route out the front of the door, the wiring run might actually be shorter when the switches are installed wrong. Of course, one then has to wonder why they didn't design the switches to mount closer to the front edge of the door.

What’s crazy about that is that all they needed to do was make a part with left/right symmetry only, for instance a trapezoid shape. That would still allow the same part to be swapped between left- and right-hand drive cars, while preventing the part from being installed 180 degrees from its intended orientation. And…