Sounds like pedal confusion - went to slow for the light but got his foot on the accelerator and, when the car started to speed up because he pressed it, he tried to shove what he thought was the brake pedal to the floor, leading to more acceleration and more panic.

Saw a video of one just recently. The cover got torn off leaving it with the plate attached at the scene. I’ve also seen videos from rear cameras of cars getting hit where the offender backs up and then turns so the rear plate is never in view.

A number of incidents involving crash hit-and-run leave the front plate behind. That’s a handy feature.

Yes - they can try to recognize someone and that someone might be you who also might or might not be the same one as before.

At the local airport I see this size plane land from time to time. They require about a 10 degree nose down attitude and it looks like they take forever to get there compared to the passenger jets. The funniest part is when they nail the landing just past the threshold and take the first turnoff - then have to look at…

On my first which was also the last day, I found that fire truck and fire wood are named that for completely different reasons. Probably why it took more than a small amount of tinder to get the truck burning really good.

Just saw a similar arrangement - one of those pump-forward cement trucks that is forced to slow due to a driver who did not learn to look both ways. The cement truck stopped with a few feet to spare at the bumper. The liquid concrete inside the truck was less satisfied and buried the offending vehicle like a mob…

Eh - sometimes what is tipped goes over in a rush - sometimes it’s like watching cold tar; still moving and inexorable, but tough to notice that it has started to move.

Recall when they used crap plastic hole-punched strip that would get brittle and break and drop the window to the bottom of the door? Pepperidge farm remembers - also having a tiny wood wedge hammered between the glass and the door panel to keep the window up.

I agree on the pinch-detection and believe that many are more sophisticated that just motor current - also detecting the window position so that the full force can be applied when it reaches the seal.

Sorry - it is a different “they” who did the same thing as in Mexico - spend a ton of money on a stupid expansion that made everything worse. The Mexicans aren’t the only ones. Poorly sited airports or trying to expand or extend the utility of one is a great way to redirect money in exchange for kick-backs, political…

No doubt - they are going to pour another several billion dollars into the local airport. The last time it was to expand capacity when it was clear their hub airline was collapsing. Now they expect that those billions of dollars are worth it to decrease the amount of TSA and increase traffic density for the Cinnabon.…

“You can’t just make mountains disappear”

Most moved to natural gas, not diesel. Coal, Nat gas, Nuclear, et al have diesel generator back-ups to power control systems but they aren’t anywhere near the capacity to power a city.

One of them better have suggested “Vera” after Jayne Cobb’s Callahan Full-bore Auto-lock in Firefly.

“ This is the best gun made by man. It has extreme sentimental value. ”

Go for it and add Moller International. Makes that flying leap simpler.

I’ll bet Gym Jordan will be on this right away. He is always demanding to get to the bottom of things.

The real crime of Enron wasn’t the stock fraud - though that was bad on its own. It was Enron manipulating power production to economically rape people and also forcing their own employees to solely invest their 401ks into Enron stock.

About that missile reference - thank you for you that. Knowing this I’m a bit bothered as I did some drawing production work on the missile canisters so they could make more of them. They didn’t have 6 months for the drafting group and a dozen people to slog through it, so they gave it to us two engineers for a long…

I’m saying that’s what a scrap yard would pay. The yard might sell it for more. Tweakers aren’t the smartest and scrap yards are DGAF.