Really? Please, tell me where I've advocated for the government doing only things which benefit me, directly. Show me.

And what was the previous system?

Sooo... you're pro-statism? Seriously?

Foxtrot Alpha is great, and yeah I wish the rest of the Gawker blogs would get off the military beat; they're not good at it.

I find it a little odd that there are fewer First streets than Second or Third streets.

Hate to be Buzz Killington over here, but this is vaporware that will never happen. It's a design exercise and may as well be powered by a nuclear reactor or an FTL drive from Battlestar Galactica.

It'll never happen. As someone already mentioned, Ferrari killed the Stratos concept because they didn't want another production car using their engine. This thing has about the same chance of success.

Sigh. A CJ2 gave it's life for that.

Think about this; a twenty grand premium on top of a sixty grand car - to go 300 miles. And that is an optimistic figure, to be sure.

Jesus what a goddamn clusterfuck. My thoughts as I watched the video:

How did they get the hatch of that tank open? I would think it would be pretty much impossible, being that it's a tank and all, and you'd probably not want just anyone to be able to open it up and kill everyone inside.

10 and 2 is unrealistic for a lot of reasons, but having pressure sensors that can ensure two hands are on the wheel should be good enough. It's not a silver bullet, but about building good habits, and something like that can surely help.

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. Everyone has a cool Saab story (no pun intended) but it always involves their awesome 1982 900 Turbo, or their uncle back in the '70s that had one. Nobody really had anything great to say about their modern cars, mainly because they were priced way beyond what they actually were…

Pfft. I don't want to live in world where a man is ridiculed for grafting an old truck cab onto a Grand Am, using nothing but bondo.

Aaah... that makes sense.

Hahaa I don't know about that... a feature designed to keep your kids locked in the car sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen. I know there are child locks for the doors and windows, but that usually has to be activated from the drivers side. This is on the key fob... weird.

Wait, so is the double-lock feature designed exclusively to lock would-be thieves inside until the cops arrive? Because that sounds like a pretty limited use for a standard feature, awesome though it may be.

Hahahaha... I wonder how many people are going to get that reference.

I think we've reached a tipping point with kids in general; we've seen an entire generation coddled and sheltered from all consequence and negativity, and they've turned into the most spoiled, entitled and socially malevolent generation in history. Now there's a backlash, because we really just can't take any more of…

Excellent summary. You're spot-on, and I have no idea why this is so hard for people to understand.