The Honda debacle is a recent symptom of Japanese quality going down - although that's also a function of car electronics becoming a lot more complex since the 90s. Japanese quality was untouchable compared to American quality in the late 80s to late 90s. Lately, even Lexus is getting some systemic failures. Honda…

it might be similar to gluten allergy

Well, it's brash but I agree that American car companies have acted very poorly toward its customers. By poorly, I include knowingly keeping unsafe cars on the road that are known to kill its occupants due to known defects.

yes but it is concentrated through man-made processes and the amounts we ingest can be wildly different and higher than what you would get from nature. It's like saying fructose is a natural substance but our dysfunctional dietary habits can lead to overconsumption to the point of negative impacts on health.

this seems like a bullshit story

My impression has always been that the Corvette was an upscale version of the F-bodies (back when they used to exist) Camaro-Trans-am with better performance across the board. It's actually impressive to observe the evolution the Corvette underwent in a couple of decades. It went from a heavy all-show and no-go to a…

yeah I'm grateful now take your jacket and sit down.

did it have some kind of GPS that relayed its location during the flight or radar contact during the time it disappeared?

Autrey should have shut the fuck up once the attendant informed him it was against policy but he pushed for it and now it's national news. What fucking egomaniac. You want your jacket to hang in first class, buy a first class ticket. Everyone should play by the rules. That jacket is not intended to be used as a…

right but I think the article is pointing to policies (such as loosened credit regulations) as facilitating the purchase of new cars or lease of new cars at year X resulting in a delayed effect of a surge of used cars hitting the market, thereby depressing the equilibrium price due to this high supply. The market…

yeah a lot of keys have a passive RFID and those are embedded inside plastic so they're well shielded from things like water and heat. I was responding more on this idea of the article's proposal to use technologies similar to a USB thumb drive where you need metal-on-metal connection and circuitry that is…

what you actually want is something that won't die if you drop it in water or gets fried if it goes through a cycle in a clothes dryer. What you need is a decent mechanical lock. The real theft deterrent will be the manual transmission. If you really need an automatic, couple the fuel pump circuit or the ignition…

is this thing bumping into stuff a lot?

well sometimes the DVD drive is the D:

Why did this agreement even come about? and why did it go away? It's stupid. The NSX is anemic by today's beige grocery getter power ratings.

yes, but in convertible please. white top.

Jay Leon. He worked at a tv station for a while but I think he has some old cars that he worked on.

Prison staff and sheriffs in jails become very much the embodiment of the Stanford Prisoner experiment in the 60s where they showed that prison guards gained a strong sense of entitlement to abuse prisoners, even in a fictional setting where subjects were supposed to merely "role-play" these roles temporarily.

I'm pretty sure that's a Lambo

yes, the RC aircraft was decades old but its application with weaponized drones is a big step in the way we use air power. We're finally removing the loss of a pilot in the whole warplane equation. That's a huge deal. You can take bigger risks, fly places you otherwise wouldn't, and if you get shot down, it's not a…