This could be wrong, I am not fanatical about planes, but the FAA says the square windows are what fatigued the fuselage. Last sentence of this webpage summarizes it.: http://lessonslearned.faa.gov/ll_main.cfm?Ta…

I think he was contrasting the Comet's problems against the 787, pointing out that it's a problem that has plagued engineers from the beginning of modern flight, rather than an unprecedented issue.

They need to add spike strips to their landscaping

Sounds like employees were just trying to outdo one another with outrageous reports.

My dad had a '74 GT that didn't make its 5th birthday before it was structurally unsound. Three of the six roof pillars actually broke loose...

...so, an evil scientist won't use those memorial stickers to find and dig up our relatives, then use them for a zombie apocalypse??

I'm not saying that this is an acceptable explanation, but in the USA, drunk driving kills 10,000 people a year, tobacco related mortality 500,000 people. 50 times more deaths than drunk driving. I tried to come up with numbers regarding the burden of tobacco related costs on the healthcare system, but the figures…

Yes, I remember as a parts driver in the early 1990's I was driving various cars from the late 1970's to late 1980's at work. I'd say at least 25% of those cars would have sloppy, loose ignition switches...sometimes you didn't need a key to turn the ignition on or off. I owned one of these specimens myself - the…

.. [A]utomakers based here in the Motor City can't handle prosperity. At all. They ride the boom hard and fast, like they're riding a rocket that will never run out of juice. And then they crash hard with a giant thud, leaving a trail of collateral damage that is breathtaking to behold. This boom-and-bust cycle is…

There was a Toyota Matrix social media campaign that was trying to capitalize off the popularity of Jackass type pranks (and a brief review of the story makes me think it could arguably be the inspiration for the show Catfish). The victim of the hi-jinks apparently thought she was being stalked by someone with access…

It would be really funny if, in the end, Biogenesis was just injecting these players with saline and telling them it was PEDs

I support the shift to aluminum, especially hearing my boss talk about his 2013 Wrangler getting 14mpg in the coldest part of winter - but the idea of an monocoque, frameless Wrangler? No thanks.

I hope that the next generation platform has a CUV or SUV version - while I know some range will be lost on a larger, more-boxlike platform, there are some people who just won't drive a car.

Well, the word 'vision' doesn't speak to what they current sell. They have been investing a lot of money (considering their limitations) into battery system development for the next generation Volt and other vehicles, which allegedly outperform the current models at a lower cost. I agree, the SparkEV only counts as…

I've invited GM President for North America to come in and see if he can articulate his vision for what GM is going to be.

I saw Bertel Schmitt walking out with one... and it had Subaru lesbian porn playing on it

Putin was actually pulling this shit since the early-mid 2000's while Dubya was in office. It isn't our business to start WWIII over these Eastern block countries he keeps trying to invade and destabilize...and I am glad about that

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