Jail time often means loss of job, loss of family, loss of housing, and the chance of never getting any of that back for those without wealth - jail time could be a lifetime sentence for what is cured by spending money on a tow truck and maybe some oil sopping.

The big fine makes sense; a prison sentence does not. Kudos for the warning letter though. It makes an appropriate point.

There’s a reason for the chinstrap on a helmet. 

They are at anchor, which means they are likely in a spot where they are out of the way of moving traffic. Near harbors there isn’t nearly as much room as one would think because the sea floor needs to be suitable to keep the anchor from moving. Tides, crap on the bottom, natural gas pipelines or electrical cables or…

Lack of warranty is the cause for the excitement.

Boeing did not respond to a media query about why this capability was removed for the crew flight test.

Gold (the metal) is a good IR reflective material, hence the use on astronaut visors. Sufficiently thin films are also transmissive of the light in the blue part of the spectrum.

I think everyone would agree that getting crushed in a gigapress would result in cardiac arrest, but be much harder to confirm. Quicker than being locked into a tuna can processing machine and being pressure cooked to death, if one is concerned about horrors on a factory floor. 

If a fire originates inside a door, far more has gone wrong than opening the door will deal with. This sounds like an underhood fire taking out the ECU which then takes down the comms buss and therefore communication with the door control computer and there should not even be such a thing, but it should act through an…

That’s not a quality problem - that is a fundamental design failure. The door latch should always have a mechanical linkage directly to the door release handle. If there is some need to retract the window to clear a seal, that’s what sensors on the handle are for. There’s no need to have a computer program between the…

It was a chance encounter in a production facility for which no article exists. The developer showed me the processor data sheet (really more of a book) that had a section that discussed wait states and that the unit would operate with 0 by default. Perhaps there was some application that no external memory was used…

Well, neither is a car I would want to own, so the comparison is a good one. 

Sounds like they must have fired the electronics team that designed it and could not find anyone else willing or able to figure out the problem.

I cannot put here what I think should happen to drunks because I’d rather not be banned. My parents were nearly killed by a drunk and I have been in a car hit by a drunk. Oh, the cop lied on that latter report.

Either let her out or don’t. Raising the bail amount is mere discrimination against low income. She should be on a GPS ankle monitor and a restriction from driving anywhere except as required and bond revoked if she is found anywhere near a liquor bottle.

I want actual drunk drivers to have their ankles pulverized and at least a year in prison, but cops don’t just stop actual drunk drivers and the field tools they use are crap. The cops can ask for a warrant to get a blood draw, but they don’t want to because they would have to supply more than something that isn’t…

You miss that the reason for asking about the breathalyzer in the first place is flawed.

Field sobriety test = cop works hard to notice anything, even things that aren’t there. Like drug sniffing dogs trained to “indicate” on command, usually a small sound or hand signal, the Field sobriety test is a fake-out to claim “reasonable suspicion” and “probable cause.”

I want touch-screen accelerator and brake and steering. Get rid of the mechanical interface completely. Make sure the screen lighting is so bright that night vision is completely obliterated and maybe have it off to the side where little animations can constantly play within peripheral vision to draw attention from…

There are no anti-cancer service dogs and cancer isn’t particularly caring of emotions. On the theory that it is trained as a medical alert dog. if that requires it to have a sense of smell, that is not what this sort of dog can do.