Usually you don’t get the title right off the bat when you buy from a dealer.

Usually when you buy a car from a dealer you don’t get the title right away -- it gets mailed to you when the transfer goes through. This is different from how private-party sales work in most states.

I wonder if it would be too hard to distinguish a rollover scenario from just crossing very uneven ground? I’ve seen trucks stranded with the drive wheels off the ground by steep off-camber driveway entrances.

Usually truckers only do this when they’re mad that gas prices are high or that Trump lost.

I’d love a convertible EV. No one really makes one, though, except Tesla -- and they want $200,000 for it. Starting to seriously  think about doing an EV conversion on a Del Sol.

Make a 3-wheeled version and you can sell it in the US as a motorcycle (and I’d be tempted to buy it.)

93 million miles of headroom!

Forklifts have huge counterweights built into the back — in fact the difference between different payload classes of forklifts is often just the size of the counterweight. There’s a tradeoff here because you can easily exceed the weight bearing capacity of the floor.

More weight in the tail also makes it easier to spin the airplane, but too *much* can make the spin unrecoverable, so this is something to approach with caution. ;)

Something doesn’t *quite* add up there, since the Econoline’s drivetrain was mostly aft of the front axle.

As far as I can tell the only place that rooftop deck makes sense is in the infield at a NASCAR race. But if you take this there everyone will throw beer cans at you for driving something so *foreign*.

That already happens if you have an Apple phone and an Airtag not registered to you is traveling with you.

It used to take a day or two, but now it’s more like half an hour. My wife gets an alert if she borrows my keys (and I’m not with her.)

I used to work at a place that had a block of 16 inbound fax lines. The amount of medical data that was faxed to us by accident was disturbing. Apparently one of our numbers was similar to that of a local prosthetics lab.

Also, that would be quite surreal to jump out of a plane and watch it fly off on its own.

Maybe he thought it’d go into Lake Superior, and mis-calculated the fuel load. More likely he just didn’t think that far ahead.

I flew sailplanes for a while. We didn’t even have an electrical system!

IIRC the windows on the C-172 don’t open far enough to fall out of. I think it just has little vents. Remember, this is an airplane, you’re not reaching for your drive-thru coffee or paying at a tollbooth. ;)

I’m confident in saying it wouldn’t fly straight that long without an autopilot to correct it. It’s a very stable airplane, but no plane is perfect — you always have one wing a little heavier than the other, or the ailerons are rigged a little asymmatrically, or something like that. Generally if you leave your hands…

Even more surprising was that there was an autopilot *and it worked.* ;)