I experienced a thief who used a crowbar to remove the factory radio from a Sentra - a radio held in by one screw from the exposed underside. Then, instead of uncoupling the connectors or cutting them off to take both sides, they just pulled until the wires gave way, destroying the dashboard harness. Did about $1500…

And more broken comments. Hurrah!

“We’re going to need a bigger boat.”

Are they withholding Social Security? If so, that shows their age. If not, there’s more trouble for them.

There was no standard saying that an airbag inflator would not cut the throat of a driver. Does that mean that lawsuits against Takata should have been tossed?

Isn’t the problem that they didn’t proportionately increase the strength with the increase in weight and instead decreased it substantially versus the increase in weight.

$4k is a cheap experiment. It’s tough to find something that would make driving only unpleasant for the drifters and not for everyone else, much less avoiding making driving through the intersection more dangerous for normal drivers.

It’s a $5k watch with a $130k price tag. They may get $2k for it.

A company doesn’t have to be “required” to make products that are safe for the conditions they are used for. That’s why this isn’t a criminal situation. Certainly Ford was aware of roll-over as a potential hazard and was likely building other vehicles that met a damage-resistance requirement, and they knew the reason…

They don’t look like they are riding mopeds, but the twitter feed is “age restricted” and I won’t be getting a twitter account at any time.

Aftermarket convertors are a lie. Good enough to sell the car the next day to a schmuck, but not if the car will be in your possession for more than 5 years.

Brain eating amoeba.

They are going to be left somewhere for days.

Huh. I thought that around here the cars would be left at the take-out and they would be shuttled to the put-in to avoid this exact problem. Still leaves the chanced the cars will be burglarized but entirely eliminates the chances of them not being there or any miscommunication of where the take-out point is.

I’ve had people cross the double yellow to come head-on into my left-turn only lane because they expect every bit of road to have a bi-directional turn lane and those giant left-turn arrows pointing against them don’t seem to be visible.

EVs are a good enough solution - the problem lies in charging them. A post office might have 30-40 delivery trucks per location, so will need 30-40 charging stations. They may need to have the power company upgrade the power delivery for the facility - larger transformers, for example. The building will need an…

Oshkosh is in the low-volume, long-term support vehicle business, a business major makers want no part of and other low-volume makers don’t have the reputation for.

The 9/11 hijackers had box cutters that were allowed on the plane per FAA regulations. The TSA with the same rules would have had the exact same result.

Breaking the law is the draw, not the lack of a venue.

So much momentum was lost after WWII - thousands of women doing the skilled welding on aluminum parts for aircraft, not just driving the millions of rivets, leaving the workforce and not taking those skills to their daughters.