I whole-heartedly disagree about speed limits.  When my family moved to our current city, it took 2 hours + to drive to Raleigh NC.  We now have a 70 mph speed limit highway where traffic regularly moves at 79 mph.  You can now get to Raleigh in just over an hour.  Charlotte used to take 5 hours, now you can do it in…

The problem for NASA, as well as DoD, is what are their other domestic options? There really aren’t any.

My EV requires an order of magnitude less thought and effort than my gas cars. No oil changes. No air filters. No spark plugs. No gas stations. No clutches and throw out bearings. No diff fluid or pinion seals. No chain lube. No grease fittings. Two years ago I set the max charge and then I was done with maintenance.

When I was a kid, I remember going to a car museum/restaurant with my parents regularly. I was obsessed with a Packard there that had a custom body (like all of them) that included a bathroom in the back for whatever rich dude ordered it. If you lifted the cushion to get to the potty, it was just a hole through down…

The Chrysler 1956 optional Record Player.

The Mopar 426 Hemi—the Elephant:

Tire technology sucked back then. This was probably rolling on 165mm wide tires. I’m not sure how well this stacks up against its contemporaries, but I bet that was expected performance.

The Chrysler 300:

Eh I actually think it’s one of the better looking swooshy CUV body types. The front and rear styling is handsome and sporty without being overwrought and they’ve got some nice form to the body that keep it from being generic.

Yeah, that 1979 bailout (in the form of loan guarantee), the biggest ever to date, was actually a success story. The overt logic was what we would later call being “too big to fail”... and Chrysler also had military and aerospace divisions that the government didn’t want failing, especially the one that was developing…

My first car was an 88 Plymouth Horizon, and while I agree that these were hot garbage I will admit that the car was surprisingly comfortable for its size. The full size spare was a nice bonus, and while it did frequently break in one way or another, you could fix it with basically sticks and duct tape. Except the…

That is clean enough that I kinda want it to make a proper powered GLH clone and wouldn’t feel bad about using this to do it.

“You will be helping the environment” - “Yeah, cool”

Chase Merrill is a 24-year-old living in the snowy Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. He figured the $85,626 SUV would make a perfect replacement for his 2015 Ford Edge...

I saw commercial for the Durango Hellcat that said, “Forget everything you know about performance SUVs!” So I did. And it was a load off my mind.

The fallacy here is that sovereign citizens would consider themselves exempt from any sort of gun control laws and would be armed anyway and would respond with lethal force in any attempt to impede them. Even if guns were absolutely banned today those dipshits would be armed and the result would be the same.

Sovereign Citizens and related movements don’t so much scream “mentally ill” as they scream “Nobody can tell me what to do”.

What they did is more practical than it looks on paper. They were $20k $14k (corrected) underwater. There is no magic way to erase that. They owe that $20k $14k to someone regardless of their next steps.

That grid heater pulls a lot of power, near 100 amps for each of the two cables.

It’s only relevant if human miles are miles where Autopilot could be used. If the self driving system can only be used in optimal situations but the human driver is confronted with more challenging conditions then it’s not a direct comparison. Just highway driving would be a better way to see which is safer under…