Race cars had starter buttons before they had keys. Key start mechanisms were invented as a security feature. As security evolved, the need for key start went away.

If you really want to replicate the springy cord thing like commercially bought coiled cords, the trick is: once you do all the steps above, you then twist the cord the other way. The easiest way to do this is to tape down one end of the cord to a table or something, and then twist the other end. You'll see the coil…

Still no iPad version.

Which is great until 3 years down the line any/all of those services have their encryption cracked and now all your super random unmemorizable passwords are vulnerable because you locked them all up with 1 key.

You made me listen to that whole garbage song just for Pharrell's verse? Admittedly it was good. But not worth that whole song.

I kind of don't buy that in a busy park near a road they could get 2 minutes with no other sound, no cars or trucks driving by, no other people playing on the neighboring courts, no squealing brakes or honking horns, no laughing children, not even an airplane overhead.

"Don't hold us bloggers to the same standards of journalism as the newspapers I'm using to illustrate my point about provocative headlines."

Can we talk about the police LED strobes that blind everyone after dark? Because I've almost crashed several times because those damn things make it impossible to see anything beyond them and once I pass all I can see are purple spots.

James was quite right to be upset about being almost killed by a jib arm with an idiot at the end of it. It's one thing to be all comedy and slapstick and "oh ha ha it's funny because we superglued his heater on max, or suspended his tent over the river, or we keep bumping into each other's cars on these trips" but…

As near as I can tell by shopping at Best Buy and other stores, aftermarket car stereos are kind of dead. Car manufacturers are making it harder to install them by going with custom sized screens and bezels instead of a DIN or double-DIN layout. Many factory systems have integrated climate and driving controls that…

I'd like to know how allowing factory-direct dealerships would cause the 3rd party dealerships in small rural areas (where the factory wouldn't put one) to disappear.

Lots of people can't understand why you shouldn't pass on the right. Here's why: On a multi-lane highway, if you're in the leftmost lane and you want to pass someone on their right, you have to move into one of the center lanes. Now say that someone from the right lane also wants to move into the center lane. It's…

"Technically" if slowing down to the speed limit makes it so that you can no longer pass the person you were trying to pass, you shouldn't have been trying to pass them because they are going the speed limit. Whatever ticket you get for that is deserved, but could range from 'speeding' (if the officer saw you trying…

I write my Qs with the tail straight down.

I grew up in Ridley Twp. It messed me up for a while when I moved away because I was just so used to the cop cars being so easy to spot from 3 miles away.

Can I make a case for the cup holder cap thingy?

It may have just been a bug or a poorly implemented update or whatever.

Untrue. On my phone and my partner's iPad the setting was "on" by default.

I see this as good and bad.

Lots of hate already for the production value, but personally, I rather enjoy seeing something better than shaky-cam potato footage with windblown audio and *maybe* a hint of engine note in the far off distance.