We paid $40 for a crusty Schwinn Collegiate for my wife. Spent $5 on new shift and brake cables, $2.50 for steel wool to polish the chrome. New seat was $15 and post for it was $9 after she decided it was worth the additional investment. So, about $70 for a functional 5 speed that’s already survived 50 years of use.

The telecom companies get the low roof model to add ladder racks. They don’t give a crap if their employees can put them in a garage.

Don't worry, the legislature will work that out after sufficient deaths occur.

I have an old phone just sitting with my borescope because it’s also pre-C. Sounds like an expensive choice, but by the time I was done using the phone as a phone it was worth half of the thing in this article. Still connects to wifi, so none of the transfer headaches described here.

Or, since Tesla has selectable rolling stops, via authorizing their car to break the law.

Oh, the heaviest loads are frequently pulled by day cabs, which are the lighter end of class 8s. Every pound that’s not in the tractor can be freight.

Lawrence tossed in one short mention of enthusiast car buyers so he wouldn’t have to come out in favor of barring auction attendees that live more than X miles from the site.

Pretty much.

In my youth, putting bald tires on the rear was a useful teaching aid to get students to understand how slick conditions impact driving. Do they have any specialized rigs along those lines?

He wrote about 69ing.

A high credit score with a crap income. You can still be penalized for borrowing beyond your means even with a strong repayment history.

I sure hope that “100 miles of on-road testing” was a typo, and there are several more zeros.

Eh, he’ll probably just buy a cheap Chinese market car priced around $15K, slap fancy plastics on it and price it at $30K. It won’t be road legal, but idiots will still buy it because it looks cool.

Looks like it was barreling down the inner shoulder. That remains uncleared here unless they can run enough staggered trucks to do the whole road in one pass. It’d be bad enough if it was just slush, but that’s a vast repository of trash and past crash debris if it hasn’t been recently swept.

Not if you add a large enough nose cone. Think of it as an excellent crumple zone addition.

“Most productive factory” just seems to be synonymous with “basket with the highest percentage of the company’s eggs in it” in this case.

On paper, I like many of the simple features here. In practice, I’d take a decade older Corolla, Civic, Camry or Accord with the same simplicity.

She didn’t choose to highlight that quote, tacitly agreeing with it by including it without additional comment?

Stop looking at the whole toupee when there’s hairs to split!

I look forward to the video of them attempting to move this by slapping a 25 horse Evinrude on the back.