Holy crap, the woman on the left somehow appears 6 times in that image.

I believe it is this one: https://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nti/pdf/811597.pdf

I read a white paper once where analysis of unintended acceleration found that people lightly pushed the gas (thinking it was the brake), then when the car moved forward shoved the pedal very hard (again, thinking it was the brake), compounding the problem. The car is then a runaway and its very difficult to stop once…

Ludacris drives a very sensible 1993 Acura Legend with 300k miles. https://jalopnik.com/acura-restores-ludacris-1993-acura-legend-to-its-perfec-1740497887

Honestly it’s not about the technical side at all; it’s about artistic intent. Modern devices are very good at recording things quite accurately. But that is an interpretation given by the engineers who built it and not necessarily what the end user wants. I think a lot of people who debate these things on the…

I’m a photographer who’s worked with the major brands. You can’t really achieve these results in one shot. The many curves of the car all reflect light differently and affect each other. If you watch the video you can see that many of the plates are made by putting a bounce card right by the car and aiming the light…

I’m a photographer who’s worked with a number of the major brands. The overhead softbox was a thing back in the film days (Chimera rented a massive set up complete with guy to put it together) though less common now. It’s sort of an idiot-proof way of lighting something. Today it’s less common as it’s a very sort of…

This makes me think of how I tend to keep my eye on Altimas while driving about. A pretty good number of them are poorly maintained and driven. They’re like the Eclipse of the 2000s: sold in great numbers to people who have poor decision making skills.

They had all kinds of issues - vibration, cavitation, uneven build quality etc. Single engine rockets had huge problems with that back then, much less 30 engine rockets. It was a system too complex for where rocketry was at that point in history and they didn’t have the resources to build enough test articles to work…

SpaceX already has Texas infrastructure in McGregor. It’s farther south than Florida so you get a boost from that and for geo orbits its intended for, the launch angles miss populated areas.

Seeing this screenshot brought on a hard urge of nostalgia. So many hours...

I also had a rental. It was brown - my wife and I called it the go-turd. It was shitty, noisy, rattly, horrible seats, clunky transmission and slow. It didn’t even have a good turn radius. 

Before the mall arcades like Aladdin’s Castle came into being arcades were often viewed as dens of iniquity. Dark, smoky - gambling, assaults and drug deals were all fairly common. Owners didn’t like kids because they weren’t for kids. Some areas tried to ban them as a result - so in response, arcade owners…

All to be found in the same circle of hell as the tip jar thieves

Chromed corvette wheels reminds me of the 90s, but black wheels are going to look dated as hell soon. They’re already kind of dated - early twenty-teens aftermarket to me...

Niche brand these days is a going out of business brand. That’s why they moved upmarket - there’s not enough profit selling to young low budget buyers and wealthier, older buyers aren’t interested in a boy racer image.

The reason for rear facing car seats is to prevent neck and cervical spine damage during frontal impacts. Babies don’t have nearly the neck strength to resist injury from those forces like adults do and airbags aren’t an option for them - so the car seat acts as a supporting cushion restraint. 

How is that opposite to what I wrote..? It is disabled when there is a weight less than ~65 lbs. 0 is less than 65. There is also usually an “airbag is disabled” light somewhere that comes on when its greater than 0.

Cars since 2003 typically disable the passenger airbag if there’s a weight less than 65 lbs there. The actual number varies on several factors however and isn’t a perfect system. Statistically the safest place is in a rear facing car seat anchored to the middle of the back seat, if possible.

Check out his official website, it’s fascinating. The updates page appears to have been updated weekly for the past 20+ years or so, although the design looks about that old. There’s a chatroom (read the transcripts, absolute gold), poems, random games and his answering machine messages.