Don’t forget the “wait - we have to take a public transport bus OUTSIDE the airport to change terminals?”

It’s also a captive market for credit and bank card fraud. Stores can skim the cards and then start hitting them once you’re in flight. The first you know is at the other end when your card has been locked because your bank detected fraud and halted everything. More than one colleague of mine has been stranded abroad…

You know what LHR and LGW could do that would make the travel infinitely more pleasurable? Function as airports!

Come drive in Utah, where the most densely populated lane is the far-left, all going 5 under the limit. We even have laws here about faster traffic behind you meaning you must pull to the right, but it’s un-enforcable so everyone just continues to owner-occupy the left lane.

When I moved to the US from Europe, I couldn’t quite understand the “lunch at 11" brigade. Regular as clockwork, all my co-workers would disappear for lunch at 11. “It’s to get ahead of the crowd” they told me, but when all the offices around here also bail out at 11, that means 11-11:15 is the most crowded time to go…

Just once I’d like to see a manufacturer offer a model in many colours, but specifically exclude black, white, silver and grey. Those are non-colours for people who hate cars and can’t make a decision.

Great comment. Would star again.

A Lyft arrived for me at SFO airport in the pouring rain a year or so ago. It wasn’t that the tyres were unsuitable for wet weather. It was more that there was no rubber left on three of them, with the cord / belts showing through. I passed and let that deathtrap pick someone else up.

Why are imperial measurements even still a thing? Suspension settings in inches? Really?

If you’ve ever seen the ‘parking pawl’ inside an automatic gearbox, you’d never rely on it to keep your vehicle from rolling away..... always use the parking brake (ahem - not emergency brake).

Found the same on our gen 1 leaf. Hot summers and cold winters kill the range. But as a city car it’s bloody great. 

Without hyper-miling, what’s the true range? If they quote 226 I’m guessing closer to 180?

Holy shit. Given the steepness of the ramp and the depth of the gravel (if the one near me is anything to go by), that guy got a hell of a long way up it.

Hence my comment about assuming all car drivers are blind if you’re riding a bike or a motorbike. Travel 10 miles in a city on a motorbike and you’ll have to compensate for the asshattery of probably 40 car drivers along the way. Ride a bike or a motorbike and you must practice defensive riding or you’ll end up as a…

The cyclist video bothers me mostly because they both appear to assume the car is going to stop for them. It’s not clear that either of them did a shoulder check - looking at the shadows of their heads on the road. As a cyclist, motorcyclist and car driver, that behaviour irritates the piss out of me. If I was faced…

I’m glad you mentioned the Tesla 3 being part of your crew, because my first reaction to the top picture was “WTF is that Tesla doing at a gas pump? Is the owner retarded?”

I’m OK with nuclear, apart from the not-knowing-what-to-do-with-the-waste part of it. The large capacity capacitor / battery arrays are not that far off. Australia and Norway (I think) are using them for load-balancing and covering for power outages.

I tried that but every full race video I click on says “the uploader has not made this video available in your country” :(

“because no F1 street circuit is being created these days,”

The oil, coal and gas brigade are as out-of-date as the fossils they love so much to burn. This is akin those who think that solar panels are bad because the more solar panels that are installed, the less sunlight there is for the rest of us.