Nah, they’re not that slippery and they’re usually spaced out enough that a motorcycle can drive right between them if you prefer. They stick up maybe an inch. In California they’re routinely used to create rumble strips and mark lanes; as lane markers they have the advantage of creating an audible warning if you…

Doing it on a drag strip won’t make you YouTube famous.

I deal with it by flying in and out of small airports whenever possible. Sure, I might still have to change planes at a big airport, but I get to park and go through security at a small one. The airport I usually fly from has six gates total and security has never taken me more than 5 minutes.

Amtrak does not mess around with drunks. Their contract of carriage says that if you create a disturbance you can be put off at “the next civilized place,” and they interpret that pretty broadly. I was on the Coast Starlight in the middle of January when they hustled a guy off at Klamath Falls. It was the middle of…

We’ve got e-bikes with a theoretical 20 mph limit, although no one actually goes that slow; 30-35 is more typical. One of my coworkers complained recently that they’re afraid to use the bike paths anymore because the closing speed with oncoming traffic is getting so high.

Yeah, I’ve been to Santa Catalina, where golf carts are used almost exclusively (along with kei trucks.) The exhaust fumes are pungent. Sitting at a sidewalk cafe there is like sitting next to the road in a 1970s city. They don’t have to meet any real emissions standards and a lot of them trail visible smoke plumes.

My 1990 Ford E-250 also has nozzles on the wipers. Not new at all.

One of Kari Lake’s biggest supporters says that if elected Arizona governor, she’ll round up all the LGBTQ people and put them in quarantine to protect people from monkeypox. So this slope seems quite slippery, indeed.

This. If there’s no one already on the scene helping, that’s one thing. But at a certain point you’re just standing there staring at someone during the worst day of their life, and that’s tacky.

In most modern cars the brakes CAN override the engine, but often only barely. During the Prius stuck accelerator issues one news organization tested it and found it was kind of counter-intuitive; if you pressed on the brake firmly and held it down, you could get the car to a stop, but pumping the brake would use up…

One of the problems with modern cars is they can accelerate to high speeds extremely quickly, whether intentionally or not.

What’re the odds this thing actually goes anywhere under sail power? It seems like most yachts I see end up just motoring around.

As someone who routinely flies out of a smaller airport: It’s less stressful, but you still get delayed. Either because your plane is stuck at a big airport, or because there’s no traffic control slot available at the big airport you’re supposed to fly through. I had a three hour delay for an evening flight out of…

I feel the same way about LAX. ;)

They do list them, but there’s so much fine print involved in booking an airline ticket that most people just ignore it.
What we really should be doing is asking whether liquid restrictions still make any sense. It was always a dubious threat to start with.

Farming is big business. There are no “family farms” anymore, except in the sense that Wal-Mart is technically a family business. But agribusiness plays on the idea of a family farm in order to get immunity from the kind of regulations that any other industry would have to honor.
I used to live next to a river that had…

It’s pretty typical for a major surface arterial in LA. It look looks like a freeway to you because it’s elevated.

Maximum speeds:

The speed limit on that street is only 35, so unseparated traffic is pretty normal.

Yeah, this. If you’re sober by the time they find you it’s harder to pin a DUI charge on you.