Yup, no stars for anyone today, it appears. My guess is they diverted the energy powering the Kinja star servers in that final push to dislodge the Ever Given. Probably won't work until the inspection is finished.

I interned for Porsche R&D in Weissach the summer of 1997. While the other American intern got to analyze Excel files full of exhaust data, I worked in the “Finished Prototype Department,” basically the team of ~12 mechanics who would build and modify prototype, pre-production, and small volume production vehicles. It…

Did you watch the video at all? she linked it at the time stamp to show all the turns. The sketchy one was the last aborted left turn. The system didn’t detect a truck AND a truck towing a boat as a moving target (yellow designation instead of the blue in the other attempts) and was literally about to pull in front of…

This x 10000.  And even if you try to signal them that the lights are off - they still never get it...

Easy.  An instrument cluster that is backlit even when headlights are not on.  Because of that, I often see people driving down the freeway with no headlights or taillights on because they have no clue they are off.

Start/Stop technology, and the inability to permanently turn it off.  You have to disable it every time you drive your car (at least on Toyotas).  It is annoying as fuck and I’m not getting any better gas mileage than my old car of the same model without the “feature”.

If I’m already participating in a race series, and decide to stop, how are they going to collect?  Ban me from the series?  And, if I decide I want back in, I will insist they wave that fee to get me back.

What’s keeping me from shitting all over this dealership?

Depends.

I agree with platform sharing, but only if the car on top of the platform is significantly different.

First Gear:

I’d axe/change the following:

I love how tongue in cheek clickbaity this was, didn’t even read the article yet, I just had to begrudgingly high five the Torchinskyness of it.

Well naturally speed goes up as traffic decreases. It’s hard to have a severe accident in bumper to bumper traffic. Faster speeds in accidents are more severe than slower speeds. Fewer traffic jams means fewer fender benders, which means the ratio of severe accidents to total accidents is higher. Driving faster does…

Copyright and patent laws usually only applies to commerce. For example, I could build my own Ferrari Enzo from scratch and Ferrari can’t sue me...unless I start selling said car.

...which leads to another useful hack: cuss words. Some things just won’t work until you swear at them. If you’re working on a car, work blue; it helps.

I guess he did Nazi that.

Needed smore lanes to turn that behemoth around. 

Always a thrill to see an article about the Ridley Scott Superbowl commercial.

As long as The Morning Shift doesn’t adopt a slideshow format, I’m good. 

Let’s look at it this way. You save $7,000.
What does paying the extra money get you?
1. An extra year of warranty which will probably save you one repair, but lets say its a big one. A $2,500 warranty fix
2. Lower financing. Lets say new is 2% and used jumps up to 6% and you don’t pay anything early. That will cost you…