When I first saw the teaser image I thought this was going to be about the Hummer’s new four-wheel steering option.

Most of those residential street laws only apply to commercial trucks.

Well, it’s a consumer model Hummer, so I assume they designed it knowing it wouldn’t see any off-roading more vigorous than driving over the curb while parking at Outback Steakhouse.

I bet Maxwrist has crashed more motorcycles than that in a month.

I accidentally flew with pepper spray once. It was in the pocket of a jacket that went through the X-ray scanner, no less. The TSA’s main job seems to be to inspect my pony tail, which invariably comes up as suspicious on the porno scanner.

I usually fly out of SBA. Pre-check might reduce my wait time from 5 minutes to 1 minute on a really busy day. ;)

I dunno if I’d do it “for fun,” but the experience of meeting a loved one at the gate -- or accompanying them to their gate so you can spend a little more time with them before they leave -- is something I miss.

Agreed. He’s just justifying their lack of investment by parroting a typical Republican talking point.

I’m pretty sure you don’t have to kill dissidents in order to build EV chargers. The two are probably unrelated.

Probably to distinguish it from model aircraft with more typical two-stroke glow ignition engines, which use a mix of methanol and nitromethane. Not all scale model jets use turbines — some use ducted fans powered by two stroke engines.

In gliders the overall perceived effect of pitch trim is to set the airspeed you fly at. More nose-up trim = a higher angle of attack = less airspeed. That’s only indirectly related to how fast you descend, although in most gliders minimum sink speed is just above stall speed.

I feel like if anything this just perpetuates the myth that you can’t take long trips in an EV.

Depends on what year Westfalia; my ‘75 would go 80, although it didn’t like to. But I think if I still lived in a flat state with no smog requirements I might have been tempted by the Toyota. It’s just a poor match for where I live in CA, where any trip involves climbing a 6% grade at some point.

I feel like that’s probably a drop in the bucket compared to the punishment they already get from heavy trucks.

That, and building new often at least temporarily alleviates traffic, which people like. Repairing existing roads does not improve traffic and temporarily makes it much worse. The highway near where I live has been being “improved” for the entire time I’ve lived here. Six years of orange cones, K-rails, and traffic…

You already see that to some extent, with pre-emission diesels carrying a premium.

Yeah, I’m lucky in that I rent a house that has a dryer outlet in the garage. But I can’t guarantee my next house will, so I don’t plan to make the jump to a BEV just yet.

I don’t see how these are going to be any quieter than helicopters. If anything I would expect them to be more annoying because the noise will be higher pitched. Already a lot of the noise from a modern helicopter comes from the tail rotor.

And the average age of a car is 12 years, so we’re looking at nearly 2050 before you can expect even half the fleet to be EVs.

I think all the current development efforts are toward supersonic bizjets, so the wealthiest 0.01% can zip around while the rest of us get boomed.