No need for a motor.

Yes, you are right 3 X 7.50 = 22.50. Congrats.

Spare wheel and tire and jack aren’t particularly modern. The modern thing is a can of flat-fix spray and a knuckle busting tiny lug wrench that bends too far when it’s stepped on. Radio is iffy. But for options, the 1962 Ford Falcon I drove had the optional heater package to keep the windshield defrosted. Nicely…

Self-inflicted wound. Everyone saw the prices going up, so a bunch of morons dumped investment money into it. They overproduce and when there’s a sniffle a bunch of stupidly operated overextended companies go under.

If you only burn 3 gallons over 1o hours that takes less hourly wage for 10 hours of work to pay for it. If you burn 3 gallons over 10 minutes that takes more hourly wage for 10 minutes of work to pay for it.

The speed of sound varies with the square root of the absolute temperature for perfect gasses. Nitrogen is pretty close. The temperature drops off nearly linearly from sea level to around 33,000 feet, to about -56°C from 19°C (per the International Standard Model) so the ratio of the speed of sound is…

Sure, but if it’s only 15 minutes one is still burning 3 gallons per hour, or triple what one would make in 15 minutes of employment.

Says you.

Dollars per gallon isn’t a good comparison against dollars per hour.

Fortunately it won’t have a spillover effect on cell phones, laptop computers, tablet computers, or most any portable electronics that use lithium based cells.

It’s even - one hit the stop bar, but mostly it is bridge operators not waiting for people on the bridge to leave the bridge, and by “not waiting” I mean not bothering to look - hit the button for the guard arms and then hit the button to operate the bridge. I guess Tik-Tok videos were more interesting than the screen…

Maybe the climate control AI chip figured out a way to keep warm.

Welllll - the VW diesels “met” EPA emissions too.

Was it mufflers that don’t muffle? Crossing fingers.

Are the lights the don’t-hit-me-light or, particularly the headlamp, one that lights enough to not hit things?

It starts out with some jerks adding smoke dark covers with retroreflectors built in to prevent detection by a casual glance or photo-enforcement. Then the legislature draws up a law against obscuring plates and the police are rewarded for BS tickets.

A related study on drunk driving: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3400188/

It is rarely as simple as “the road conditions” and instead is set based upon a certain crash rate being acceptable and not per US population rate or miles driven, just the rate per year on that road. 2-lane country roads get ridiculously high speeds because the amount of cars is low enough that there aren’t many…

The how-fast problem vs traffic lights is this: Suppose the car can go the speed of light until there is a red light. Sure, it may be stopped at the immediate next light, but it will always, on average, still be going through green and yellow lights that a non-speeding car will not.

Wait until you see what Americans do with guns.