I can smell the stale cigarette smoke just looking at that interior photo.

You also can’t fly these into most airports anymore due to noise regulations.

They look like typical conversion van fare from the 1980s.

Ham radio is still routinely the only way to reach island nations after hurricanes. Eventually services like StarLink may supplant that but we’re not there yet. 

I live in a mountainous area and there are plenty of FM dead zones, some of them shockingly close to population centers. Medium-wave signals like the AM radio band can bend over peaks, whereas FM is mostly line of sight.

They work with special FM transmitters in the 160 MHz range, run by the National Weather Service.

Where I live radio stations have emergency generators, and cell sites do not.

Cell phone broadcasts stop working a couple hours after the power goes out.

With the airbag recalls the problem has been that parts just aren’t available.

A friend of mine has one of these Hondas. She keeps getting contacted about it, but every time she contacts the dealer they tell her parts aren’t available.

It’s a house that experiences an earthquake and a hurricane at the same time.

As far as I can tell everyone goes through the same scanner, pre-check or not, at the airports I fly through. Pre-check just means they let you cut ahead of people in the main line.

Elon noticed there are places with even lower labor standards than Texas.

Just slap a “designed in USA, manufactured in China” label on it like Apple does.

I have to admit UPS is really good at putting those missed delivery stickers on the door. I can be home all day and still not hear them sneak up and put that sticker on.
And you’re right about their tracking. It’s top notch. I can see in great detail when they send my package to the wrong distribution center and it…

My 1990 E-250 camper van also gets 12 mpg combined. On the one hand, it can’t go offroad like this truck. On the other hand, it sleeps three adults.

Ironically, letting my hair down seems to make it less likely to trip the scanner. I think it’s the dense bit where it’s held by the elastic that causes it to get flagged.

I think the sense of speed is mostly related to how far off the ground you are. Heavier vehicles are often higher off the ground but that’s more of a coincidence.

The Leaf is something of a worst-case scenario due to its passive battery cooling. That turned out to be a bad idea, to the point where no one is doing it that way for any current car.

Looks like Vegas?