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A major one.

I mention that the fan is for aero purposes and not this--and we cover that in other articles. I just want to know if you could move the car with the fan. I know that’s not the point!

“Should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don’t do one.”

Well it’s especially stupid given all of Trump’s talk about how he wanted to reign in China.

I mean, yeah? For cars with automatic climate control at least. The only time I touch the fan speed setting on my car is to mash the “down” button until the system turns fully off if it’s a nice day and I have all the windows open. Otherwise that thing is in 100% full auto. I can’t ever remember desiring a different

Yeah but the thing is... Reagan more or less jump-started a whole new generation of Republican politics where the government was seen as “the enemy”, public services and financial assistance programs were deemed something only lazy poor people used and thus should be destroyed, where the banking and finance industries

I grew up living in and driving through corn country.  Farmers generally leave space between roads and the fields for drainage, which is more than enough to see if someone is coming down the road.  This sounds more like a problem of people not seeing and obeying stop signs, which is more of a problem of grid based

The typical American mentality of self reliance is great right until the rusted shitbucket in front of me drops an entire exhaust or my back window is nearly smashed in by a rogue wheel that was very recently attached to a moving car.  Both of these scenarios have happened to me

HI Bradley. Like I said, if you go to the IMSA scoring website, you can download gobs of data.

I used to think this way until I drove a DCT/PDK car.

How did Tesla post a profit? By selling carbon credits

Ok Boomer. Stop listening to Rush and let that rage boner die down.

but enough about America......... 

But will AT&T allow you to use those features on their network? They would never allow wifi calling, VOLTE, etc for my Nexus 6p.

In India, the market for automatics is still small, probably 25% or less. In an extremely fuel-sensitive market full of cars that have to be very low in price and power, the manual transmission rules.

I worked on a version of this on an R&D project a few years ago. It’s really an issue around autonomous emergency braking (AEB) with manuals. Having AEB where the engine stays engaged increases braking distance. Also, you get the added benefit of stall prevention, clutch overheat prevention, etc. Also, just add a

Is it still going to look ridiculous?

Yeah, my sister bought 400 shares of Amazon at $4.00. Still has it.

The majority of Jalopnik’s writers were probably just out of high school during the dot-com bubble, and their secondhand experience of it probably cemented their hilariously simplistic conceptions in their minds.

The missed opportunity, of course, is to cast Combs as one of the ancient humanoids that seeded a bunch of planets with DNA. If every planet has a little Jeffrey Combs DNA in its primordial soup, then there’s always the possibility of a Combs-like human, Cardassian, Klingon, Ferengi, or other humanoid emerging at some