One of my great-great-something aunts drove one of these. She was from a wealthy family in Kansas and known for her sassy streak. It was the only one in town and she’d give children joyrides in it.

Also the market competitor for them was likely plush carriages. For many wealthy people that would be what they expected. Fast open top cars would be for enthusiasts.

If it wasn’t just a holdover from the 727 rules, it probably had to do with temperature and airflow. The front has less cargo in the way of airflow so it would stay warmer.

This is just not true either. Some 727's from a long time ago had part of a cargo hold where heat could be turned down to an unsafe level, but that was it. No commercial airline plane since has anything like that because of changes in air packs.

Trolls and online ne’er-do-wells have always been around. In the 90s I ran a BBS - sort of like a text based site that you dialed into, used for file swapping, messaging, chat and games - and then I ran a few web based games in the early 2000's. I remember having to program a robust banning system to deal with the…

This is so sensual

He took multiple meetings from them - if you have no intention to sell, why bother? He tossed out a $15 mil number - which is large but not outrageously so. I think he was serious but he tries to pass it off as not.

I bet ol’ Uzi puts in his will some kind of unenforceable bullshit like they can have the domain but can’t sell it.

Meh... Like a lot of long running disputes, there’s errors on both sides. From what we know (according to Mr. Nissan) Nissan Corp asked him to name his price and he didn’t do so until throwing out “15 mil” which may or may not have been serious. It doesn’t seem that outrageous today, but perhaps at the time it was.…

I wonder about maintaining traction too. Controlled 300 mph on a street with curves and bumps isn’t the same as doing it in a straight line on a track or desert flat.

For this to be valid they’d need to have done the same survey in its respective decade. Let me assure you that at least in the 90s, a lot of young people thought “top 40" was horrible. “Alternative” was called that (I think) because it was the alternative to top 40...

Yes exactly. Bios is a very simple form of operating system. Something to watch for interrupts, interface with the car and update the graphics.

Nah.. I haven’t been able to find specs on it, but this would be running some very simple custom operating system. Hardware may be similar to arcade games of the era but cheaper.

Found this good story on the history of that system: https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2017/12/27/1986-buick-riviera-gcc-touchscreen

Okay that screen is pretty great. Also the shitload of buttons instead of a wiper stalk.

I honestly hope there is a homage to Patrick Stewart leading the charge, dog in arms.

But it’s so much easier to quickly write an outraged response on twitter and dig in your heels than ponder and reflect on the nuance.

I read this years ago... I think it still roasted everyone alive in the stadium, though it didn’t destroy the city as intended.

Nope. Trains need very slow grade changes - raising the tracks, say 2 feet, would mean changing the track for a long distance before and after, taking it out of commission for weeks or months. The railroad company owns the tracks and aren’t going to spend the $millions to fix a problem that isn’t theirs.

This has been suggested before - but where to put it? The bridge is right at the intersection and there is a lot of legitimate truck traffic going by on the street running parallel. Those trucks would hit the pipe all the time. If you put the pipe by the bridge; it’s too late.