It would have to be a truck. I’m not into trucks, but I do recognize their necessity for certain functions.

Ding Ding Ding!

Generally speaking, cars near-vertical rear windows (SUVs, hatchbacks, wagons) need wipers to remove precipitation from the window effectively, whereas cars with closer-to-horizontal rear windows (sedans and such) don’t need rear wipers, because the airflow over the window does an adequate job of keeping it clear.

Yes, it’s a problem when this becomes routine.

There are safety mechanisms. Fire will not trigger a nuclear explosion. There are already other nukes at the bottom of the ocean. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Tybee_Island_mid-air_collision

The summer before my junior year of college, I shared an apartment with a guy who was obsessed with Taio Cruz’s “Dynamite”. It was a fine song, but this dude was playing it on repeat for 12+ hours/day. When he’d take a shower, he’d crank up his speakers and leave the doors to the bathroom and his bedroom open so that…

This strikes me as a choice that Ford may find regrettable when gas prices climb back up. But I’d assume that Ford has put much more thought into this decision than I have.

My wife kept her name, mostly because her last name is much more unique/interesting/cool than mine, and it’s a tie that she wants to keep to her cultural heritage. I don’t give a shit. I know that I wouldn’t want to change my name, either— sounds like a royal pain in the ass all around.

Full disclousure: I think that Donald Trump is a racist idiot, and I think that human trafficking has been a more prevalent problem at other points in human history. That being said, I’m having a hard time following your math and logic here:

As the article stated, he *technically* defrauded the federal government when he used performance enhancing drugs while working as a government contractor.

I saw a Countach street parked in Manhattan about 20 years ago.

My first car was one of these (but without the AWD and manual transmission). This is definitely a neat little car with some character, but $2900 is absurd for a rusting 30 year old Camry. Cut that price in half, and we’re talking.

Yup. Stay all the way right, unless you need to move left to pass slower traffic. Got the road all to your self? Then there’s nobody to pass, and you should be in the right lane.

It’s refreshing (heh) to see someone accepting responsibility for their fuck-up, rather than blaming it on unintended acceleration.

I was pulled over for passing in the right lane on an interstate about 18 months ago. Scenario: I’m cruising in the right lane at the speed limit, a faster driver is cruising past me in the left lane. Left lane driver sees police car and hits the brakes, so I end up ahead of them. Then I move into the left lane to…

and the teacher probably isn’t packing a semi-automatic machine gun.

Amtrak has a northeast corridor route, which does make money, the rest of the company just loses more than the northeast corridor brings in. The OP of this thread was saying that true high-speed rail could make sense along the northeast corridor. Whether rail of any sort makes sense in any other place in the country…

Once again: We’re talking specifically about Amtrak’s northeast corridor, from Boston to DC. There are no empty trains. There are completely full trains all day long, and mostly full trains overnight.

The OP of this thread was referring specifically to the Boston-DC corridor. You responded to their comment, saying that trains are sometimes empty. I responded to you, saying that the trains on the Boston-DC corridor, which is what we were just discussing, are usually full.

FWIW, just about every ride I’ve taken on the Acela corridor (Boston-DC) has been sold out. My local regional rail is usually pretty well filled up as well, except at odd hours.