It costs more for Ford and Chevy to make each vehicle than the other companies, even though they are using cheaper components, mainly because the employee costs are 44% higher.

I was thinking I have seen other studies that show no difference in accidents with increased speed. They seemed to indicate there was a ‘natural speed limit’ where increasing the speed limit beyond a certain point doesn’t actually make people drive faster.

A better example of branding would be Pop-Rocks. They would have been a hit except for made up bad press.

That was one of the terms used at the time. I will admit I left out an “i” in the word though. Also, I wouldn’t call something that was on the cover of both Science and Nature journals a work of a small minority of scientists.

E10 replaces Methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) with ethanol. Probably justified given the carcinogenicity of MTBE.  Though you may have a point on anything higher than 10%. 

Rumor has it Henry Ford thought hydrogen or some other fuel would be better, but it was too hard to deal with hydrogen at the time. It was just easier to go with petroleum.

US: We better replace this carcinogenic compound with something cheap and readily available, ethanol.

When unions become multi-billion dollar entities, like the UAW, are they really any different with regard to corruption than a corporation? Do they really have the employees best interest in mind when the companies that bribe the UAW pay their employees $7 less per hour than their competitors? Should the UAW be…

You are right. It would be rude to go to France and demand a pickup truck to drive around in. When in Rome, do as...

I would add more space for the driver. As people have gotten bigger, the space for the driver in a lot of cars has gotten smaller.

I don’t know why the contactless didn’t catch on the in US. I mean I had it in all of my cards 10 years ago. It was great, but they did away with it when I renewed my cards.

Up until the 1950s the US still had many sharecroppers, so it is not like it has been gone for long. However, this is nothing like that. 

Pretty sure the article should have said they are building another city. They already have Toyota city. They have their own sports stadiums and everything.

We have an HOA meeting coming up. I should ask their opinion on yard art like this.

Delta hedges their bets by giving themselves tons of extra time for arrivals. They generally list the arrival time 30-60 minutes after the actual expected time. That way even if they take off 15 minutes late, they still have room to make it on time. Then they brag about getting you there early.

Isn’t this the same kind of short sightedness that makes the turnpikes lose money in general. I mean yes you get a dollar/car or whatever, but along the Mass turnpike there is absolutely no economic development because they have hardly any exits. At least with interstates there are billions in economic development,…

I always found it weird the way there is no good way to get from Boston to Worcester. They somehow didn’t connect the turnpike to the second biggest city in New England.

You mean glacerization was averted by public awareness even though it was later proven wrong? Nuclear war would have happened if it wasn’t for public awareness? Honestly, you sound like one of those boomers who go on and on about how Woodstock changed the world.

From the people I know that bought the new Ram, I would probably still go Chevy. They seem to have a lot of problems. One guy bought one and it died before he got off the lot. He service department told him they had a bad batch of computers from the factory, and they decided to just install them and let the dealers…

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