It wouldn't be possible to fit it into a cell phone because of the necessary antenna.

One thing is that AM’s long range could be important in some mega emergency with internet outages. In theory anyway. I’ve got no clue if the Federal government has emergency broadcasting on AM anymore. I am not advocating. Just saying.

I disagree.

Seems they could just include a $10 transistor radio in every car.  Branded for the vehicle.  Would that take care of it?  I only listen to AM/FM until the Bluetooth in the car catches up to my phone.

Counterpoint to most of what you pose here: Unless AM radios are either an optional extra, or a delete with a credit attached, I don’t expect any of this savings to make it back to the person buying the car. See what the industry has done to the spare tire as an example.

I don’t know the first thing about restoring a 1955 cruise ship, but sinking a million into it for restoration doesn’t seem like much for a ship that size.

why such an exorbitant fine?

Also no parking zones maybe 50 feet from the crosswalk entrance would help a lot as well.

That’s why the chicken crossed the road?!

nice to see cops being proactive on this, considering it is so hard to get judicial system to act retroactively after a tragedy.

I think this is great. People driving 3000+ pound vehicles at speed need to be be paying attention.  As a recent juror in a automotive related case, I can see the logic in the bright costume, particularly if the incident is caught on video. Show that to a jury and it is a slam dunk conviction.

These are the kind of stops cops should be making and charging people for, not “5 over in a 55.” I also think that any money collected for traffic stops should go into traffic safety programs, not law enforcement budgets. Make people pay for their own driver’s (re)education.

“So you’re saying that the problem in 2008 was that this was sub-prime?”

Willson saw the vessel listed on Craigslist in 2008, the ship was well past its prime.

The definition of ‘sunk costs’.

That is a good way to wear your ankles as earrings if you are in an accident. Do you want to see what the soles of your feet look like up close, if the answer is no then don’t put your feet on the dash. Plus it is just clatty. 

Had a passenger lean across from the back seat to shoot (yes shoot) a BB gun at another car because “he thought it was his friend’s car”. I pulled over and booted his ass from the car, and then dragged back him to my house six hours later, at 10:00 pm that evening to explain to the understandably pissed off cop in my…

Be a bad navigator.

Reached over and honked the horn at someone else on my behalf. Someone who was driving dumb, not, like, a friendly honk to someone we knew or something.