It comes back every couple years, usually centered around people mad about some new car regulation as a reminder of how dumb the full-on anti-regulation people can be.

One of the things I remind adults about when they talk about how they were fine with all of those things is that the crowd against it can’t be as vocal because they probably died. I think it was 32 teenagers who died in car accidents in my metro area of ~250,000 people during just the 4 years I was in high school.…

I remember when those first gen Sebring convertibles became disposable $2k cars. I’d argue the design on them was all great for what it was - an economic convertible with a usable back seat. The mechanicals were just the usual garbage Chrysler product, so it would have been awful with any body on there. 

I’ve had to do a lot of reiterating to my kids that inanimate objects do not get defined as being for boys or girls. There is no such thing as a boy or girl specific color, clothes, hair style, toys, etc. Those things just exist and you can make your pick on which applies to you. I also live in Texas, so I’m sure…

A 19-year-old

Instead, the opposite happened, where deaths per capita increased as people were speeding like crazy. The country did finally have the first day (since this tracking began) without a recorded shooting on school grounds, though.

It’s still legal in Mississippi for the driver. A few states allow passengers. 

Stupid Kinja https://www.aclu.org/publications/captive-labor-exploitation-incarcerated-workers

Here you go: Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers | ACLU

Weird. I suppose I haven’t gotten close enough to a pole for my Ascent to trigger it, but it’s definitely been jarring when it brakes. I do think if you’re going really, really slow that it won’t trigger and requires a little velocity before applying, so that could be her issue. It doesn’t go off when I back up slowly…

Avoiding kids while backing up is honestly the core reason I keep my EAB on. Backing into a car or pole will ruin my day and maybe someone else’s. Backing into a kid (especially in an SUV) is a completely different thing. Even the best behaved kids with the most attentive parents are able to find a way to run behind a…

What vehicle is that? When I go on back roads in my Subaru I have to turn off the EAB before backing up near brush because that will trigger it.

I blame that on regulations. The ability to monitor exists, especially on the types of line that feed power generation plants (I’ve designed those). Relative to the cost of install and value of the gas, it’s not all that expensive either, it’s just not required.

some of the power from the electricity is most likely from natural gas anyways so it’s just changing one power generator for another one.

I’ve never seen any that fully operate using diesel or natural gas generators, just having those generators as a backup during power outages. Part of my job has been sizing and installing gas lines to connect to natural gas systems to feed those generators and I’d be surprised to see anyone that actually relies on…

The super chargers are such a weird anomaly for Tesla. I’ve been part of bid/engineering on some facility type stuff and it was a total mess, but anything for the super chargers, whether a new install or backup power, runs so smooth. 

The ad used a dolphin with a horn on it, though, not an actual narwhal.

Even as someone who likes that it will exist, every time a new article comes out I realize that I forgot it was ever even announced. Just feels like vaporware at this point. 

Almost every recall I’ve gotten for a car was something like “bolt may need tightened,” “hose clamp may come loose,” or something very basic and non-descript. I’m sure the complexity of cars increases the number of bolts/clamps & how to fit them all, but they still seem to be mostly basic things that need checked.

As someone else noted, this car came from Florida with a new paint job, so was it flooded?