Parkas should go in the coat closet, duh. :)

This reminds me that in the USSR, the planes were designed so passengers boarded on the lower deck, stowed their own bag, then climbed up to the upper deck and took a seat.
Given that many of the airports Aeroflot flew into were extremely remote and sometimes completely unstaffed, it made a lot of sense.

I mean, at least Burning Man is *supposed* to be on fire and if you don’t like it you can leave. ;)

Urban warfare is hell. Which actually leads me to what might be the best answer: The worst possible vehicle to drive into a city is a Russian tank.

Good choice. This is the kind of thing you buy if you hate cities and want to advertise to city people that you’re not one of them, in a self-immolating sort of way.

Anything with a manual transmission is awful in cities. I gave up on having a stick-shift after moving to Seattle and realizing how much it sucked to clutch-bump a car for an hour every morning in stop-and-go traffic.

I have wireless charging for my cell phone and that sucker gets hot. I can only imagine how much power wireless charging for an EV would waste.

I feel like if it’s going to cost me the equivalent of a full-sized car to register, insure, and park, it had better have the capabilities of a full-sized car. I can only afford so many different vehicles. I have too many already, frankly.

The best part would be watching the cable jump when the switch was thrown, as the magnetic field kicked in.

The rear bogies on a semi trailer are attached by some pins and gravity; a lot of times they’re on a track so they can be adjusted fore and aft after pulling the pins. They aren’t really made to take fore-and-aft forces other than whatever braking effort the trailer’s drum brakes can scrounge up.

Came to see this, was not disappointed.

Slipping ringers to car magazine testers used to be really common practice. This is why Consumer Reports always anonymously buys their test cars off the lot instead of letting manufacturers loan them examples.

I bet it’s for the fleet market. A huge percentage of F150s are sold to fleets and fleet buyers can demand option combinations that one-off buyers can’t.

Is anyone really going to be using one of these as a daily driver, though?

I mean, my camper van only gets 12 mpg, but that’s balanced by the fact that I only drive it on camping trips, and thus put less than 4000 miles a year on it.

It’s often amazing to me the logical pretzels people will twist themselves into just to justify not voting.

Especially since we now know that “plotting to kidnap the governor” is in the list of things that aren’t illegal if you’re a white guy, just like taking over federal wildlife refuges.

My neighbor who would start up his chopper at 6 am every morning resembled that.

They’re tee shirt stores that sell you the Harley lifestyle, but in many cases can’t actually sell you a bike without a long wait.

Republicans have always both wanted illegal immigrants for the cheap labor that their corporate donors desire, and wanted to give the impression of being hard on illegal immigration to make their law-and-order voters happy. It’s not the contradiction you think. They want an underclass that can be exploited because…

Suspending people’s licenses doesn’t work. They still have to get to work, so they keep driving anyway.