Um, I get ran into by people walking around my office daily.

Yep I was driving my older Volvo that doesn’t have adaptive cruise and nearly rear ended somebody-  the aids are great until they aren’t

I blame ADAS. Smarter cars don’t make safer drivers. Smarter cars make dumber drivers. 

I don’t think Tesla has a bad product. By objective measures the 3 and the Y are very competitive in their respective classes. There are still some QC issues, but they are getting better about that. So what keeps Tesla from being on my shopping list? Honestly, the interior layout (Musks right wing antics don’t help…

A member of a museum I volunteer at bought a Tesla Model Y. Interesting that he and one of the other members owns Teslas. Both are highly intelligent, left leaning guys who thinks Elon is an asshole. I do as well. I have never spent much time in one of these cars. So he let some of us crawl all over the thing inside…

This marks the second killing at the hands of police this year during a routine traffic stop in France, although last year a “record 13 people died in this way,” as the BBC reports.

Good for you

Interestingly, Volvo floated a concept fix for this quite a while ago:

Well said. As a past volunteer member of our local SAR, I’d like to also add: There are always people who will decry the expense involved in search and/or rescue activity. In the vast majority of cases, the vast majority of people involved are either volunteer, or someone paid to be in that position anyway, whether…

I recognize their value, but the airbags in A-pillars and the rollover requirements have created massive blind spots. If I hadn't had passengers I would have hit someone on two occasions. Hell, I couldn't see a semi one time. And I'm almost 70 with no accidents.

You can borrow mine.

Look at the size difference for fucks sake. You get hit by the small one and you roll off. You get hit by the big one and you’re paste. I’m not tall, mind you, but most pickup trucks grills are taller than I am. And the top 2 vehicles sold? Silverados and the F-series.

Tom Layton here, the original Plaintiff. What you all must know is that the auto auctions prohibit buyers from bringing scan tools on to auction property. Therefore, you must believe what the auctions claim. Furthermore, of the 500 or so FedEx vans I personally purchased 99% of them were purchased on-line facilitated…

Not trying to make light of this because it absolutely sucks, but clearly pop-up headlights weren’t the real danger.

I’m not suggesting that this is the only reason, (as others have pointed out other causes in the comments), but I believe that the focus on improving the safety of vehicles instead of better driving is one cause. That is, instead of focusing on making everyone better drivers, we’ve spent all our energy on making the…

“skill is a much bigger advantage than ground grappling in MMA.”

I’ve been thinking a lot about this incident and the take that resources were potentially wasted on five billionaires. I have thoughts, but no blog or anything so, I’m going to share them here.

I’m not sure I follow your logic here. Here is the analogy that I use, striking and grappling is like running and swimming. You can tell the average untrained person to get into a punching match with someone else and they may do just fine...just like if you told them to run without any type of instruction.   However,…

So here is the deal. This listening array was likely a SOSUS array, operated by US Navy (& possibly British Navy) Sonar Technicians. Guess where Sonar Technicians learn their trade? For the most part, they learn it on submarines like I did. There are some surface ship STs also. But as a submarine veteran dying deep…

They told the Coast Guard right away, which made it possible for folks to find the wreckage and confirm. Announcing “we have received information from a secret source indicating that we are probably looking for a gravesite” is not exactly good crisis comms, especially when there’s a slight chance they were wrong about…