There’s a story about why a guy wears a Rolex - because when he’s in the bar looking to pick up a woman she cannot see his Mercedes in the parking lot or his beach-front home in Malibu.

I had a dealership say that the pads needed to be replaced with nearly 1/4th inch remaining. I said, “No” and went along with life. I would check the squeeler gap, which was suitably large to be safe. Come some time later and I have a much closer look and the pads were down to paper; the squeelers had a 1/8th inch…

Every vehicle can be programmed to ignore traffic laws, particularly rolling stops. Coming to a full stop in some areas is inviting getting hit by the car behind you for not performing a rolling stop. Likewise not going 10-25 over the posted limit invites a massive car crash on many highways.

Would they be able to rust as fast as those middy-vans?

It was even cheaper when Nixon was President.

I think he was slowing up to not hit the truck, so one way or another he wasn’t going to make a damage-free landing.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Google gets the credit.

That plane that landed on the highway and coasted to the side? Pilot didn’t put enough fuel in it/flew it out of gas. Same cause of the crash of a beautiful restoration job of a classic Boeing 307 Stratoliner https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-boeing-307-stratoliner-seattle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVDCf9sz3fw

I know a guy who built his own Stargate. Maxed out his girlfriend’s credit card to do it and it only worked once, but it did work.

The City could place Jersey barriers along the sidewalks to separate the vehicle traffic from the pedestrian traffic. If not, then one could claim there is no need for such barriers between highway sections or even to provide rails to keep drivers from departing the lanes on bridges to plummet to the water or valley…

The source article says the car jumped the curb and hit them on the sidewalk.

Of interest:  https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/faa-concerned-again-with-cherokee-fuel-selectors/

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/08/05/1115859376/clearing-up-some-of-the-myths-that-have-popped-up-about-monkeypox

It can’t be that easy - I’ve never seen a BMW blinker light in the wild.

Bad news in this case - she’s a contract worker from Texas. This might be the first time she’s gotten local police notice.

It’s the lack of certification traceability that’s the big problem. Russia has workers capable of making most of the parts, but the planes won’t be allowed into anyone else’s airspace.

Steve Lehto had an interview with the builder.

Mitsubishi used to have a line of airplanes as well; some only good for one-time use.