There is absolutely nothing complicated about having the car turn itself on and off. It is literally the exact same system, just you don’t have to turn the key (or more likely press the button). A slightly beefier starter and more mass in the A/C evaporator are the only substantive changes, plus a few lines of…

Did you read the installment (part 10 in a multiple installment series), or did you kinda half-assedly skim it? If you read it, and still fail to grasp why Kettering is an important part of that history (of gasoline), I’m gonna have to recommend that you re-take grammar school.

I know, reading is hard enough, what with…

besides a manual Supra, manual 400Z... or anything with a manual... manual, manual, manual....

Surprisingly well. But it was a lot in a pretty remote part of campus, not next to the dorm itself.

I meant that a girl can dream that the byzantine bureaucracy that is any two local government departments attempting to work together, would actually manage to work together to provide a public service.

Always here to second having less kids.

We don’t need to go any farther. What we need to do is incentivize not buying more vehicle than you actually *need*. Imagine if perfectly adequate 1980s standards of performance were met with modern technology - you would have like a 60mpg fleet average. Instead we have family crossovers with 250-300hp for no…

Thank you for saying this out loud. We’ve made our bed, time to lie in it. Might as well have a little bit more enjoyment before things get really bad, because it’s not going to make a measurable difference.

Oh you’re talking about the long long term. Speaking of which, there was a lady on Instagram I stumbled upon who had a pregnancy for each year starting with 2011...Like really, having that many kids is still a thing? We should probably set a max number of 2 kids, 3 if you’re an idiot.

Not a big deal but gasoline taxes are mostly diverted to other non-road expenses already. And damage to roads is primarily a result of temperature cycling, poor initial foundations, and heavy trucks. Making a small change to passenger vehicle weight won’t make a difference.

I the motor needs pulling, pull it, sell it, put in an LS for crying out loud. And stick a 6 speed manual in there while you are at it.

googled why that’s bad stuff.. oh unstable peroxides form with air, righto, nasty.

Holy shit I was wondering how long they kept showing those Red Asphalt movies. I saw them in Driver’s Ed in 1978 for fuck’s sake. They already seemed old back then.

It depends on when they want to bring this to the market, but yes it will need to be an EV. Within a few years the market for new ICE cars will be dead in developed market, the US excluded.

I think what we will see first, is hybrid performance engines with manuals. Eventually, some new feature of EV’s can be created that will match the driver involvement of a manual transmission. Only then will the full EV sports car have a chance with operators who enjoy the immersive driving experience of a manual.

After the Vietnam war, a missionary group from the Uniting Church of Australia sent a team to a small fishing village at the southern end of the Rach Gia Bay. The village was to the South of the Cut Canal; and to the West of the Culvert Kenh Cut Bridge. There were a few primary buildings on the shoreline. Open swaths…

Because excess nutrients will cause eutrophication, which results in ocean dead zones.

I was going to say any of the hard-core nationalist BS that became the status quo right after 9/11

Not any exact one but the hyper blinding patriotic ones just make my skin crawl. Over the top patriotism just to sell trucks is just so ham fisted.

I know jealousy when I see it.