Gotta hand it to them, this is the boldest use yet of “the algorithm did it” as an excuse.

I like trains. Too bad any neighborhood that gets light rail immediately gets priced out of reach for the middle class, though.

Have fun paying more in taxes:

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?

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.

It’s always somehow Democrats’ responsibility to be the ones to back down and keep things civil, and predictably it always leads to Republicans walking all over us. I’m tired of it, frankly. The moral high ground has never been worth anything in politics and I’m tired of sacrificing for it, especially since proposals…

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