Keyless entry is actually pretty great. It is kinda like the fingerprint unlock on a phone. It is not necessary, you can type in a code every time, but it is so much easier and faster once you get used to it. Also, most cars come with locks and ignition. In mine, you can remove the start button and put the fob in and…

I mean if you are only going to eat food from places where you agree with their politics, it is going to be slim pickings, since most food comes from red states. If you go county by county, it is even worse. The vast majority of food comes from red counties.

This reminds me of the Daily Show skit where they went to the Democratic National Convention and asked about tolerance. They found tons of people who would say they tolerated everyone but Republicans, then worked with them till they realized how hypocritical it was to say you tolerate and love everyone except a…

Oh I will. That cloud has it coming. 

Is this standard for electric cars, the pause/play pedals, or is it someone’s attempt to make it relevant for ‘young people’?

I’ve seen this episode. Kitt sank into a pit of acid and it dissolved his protective coating. 

This was my question. When I saw the lead picture, I wondered why you called the police. There is no way this accident met the $250 requirement to call the police. Then I saw the bit about not believing in electronic proof of insurance.

for once, red really was scientifically the fastest color.

I saw a recent ad for a Jeep with all kind of off road mods and big tires. Then they said a selling point was ‘not driven off road.’ Are people worried if they drive their Jeeps off road, it will decrease in value?

I have heard of this law before, but I thought it was actually put into place somewhere. Too lazy to google it though. 

Of course the pod racing holds up. It was lifted straight from the chariot race in Ben Hur. Of course, I am sure the idea came from somewhere else before that. 

I would add, if you are going to race your car, invest in a good fire extinguisher.

I’ve had to do the last couple of hundred of yards on foot before, due to traffic, but that is crazy. 

At the airport, I almost always take a cab these days. I go to the taxi/ride share area and there are 100+ people trying to find their Uber/Lyft while there are normally taxis just sitting there waiting for riders. No line or anything. It ends up being faster to take the cab.

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Yeah, I now assume all those website claims are bogus. Prior to dealing with the dealer above, I went to another dealer whose website claimed they would give a free lifetime warranty with every used car they sold. They mentioned it many times on the website. I started negotiating with the salesman and asked about the…

We humans don’t make luck. We’re either born with it, or we’re not.

I found a dealer that had their own internal website with different prices than the public website. I went to look at a car and the price was $1K more than it was online. I said it was cheaper online, and the salesperson pulled it up on his computer and showed me the higher price on their website. I pulled out my…

I have a friend that just bought a new Dodge Ram this year. He said the AC was weak and even under the best of conditions could only produce air at 65F at the vente. (for reference, normal duct temperature on a 90F day should be 40-50F) He lives in Georgia and when he gets in the hot car at over 125F, it takes 10-15…

When all of the people making decisions live in and around DC, they tend not to think about such ‘small’ problems in other parts of the country. They probably saw a slide show where it would have cost them 1 MPG to run the AC and abandoned the idea.