Not really surprising. The lead time for a new Tesla just keeps getting longer even as the price goes up. Prices will keep going up as long as lead times do. 

Killing or hurting someone while mishandling a firearm isn’t necessarily criminal either. People don’t go to jail for every hunting accident. In order to be criminal, you’d need to be criminally negligent, which is a much higher standard than ordinary negligent.

Of course you are liable for your negligence and I never said otherwise. That doesn’t mean the law provides for criminal charges for every negligent action that results in an injury.

We can debate what the statute SHOULD say, but what I was saying is that the statute does not mean what you said it does.

I agree. But the Texas penal code won’t support criminal charges against you. 

But there are no facts here to support a charge of negligent homicide. Texas defines criminal negligence as follows (criminal homicide is causing a death through criminal negligence):

What I was saying is there’s no specific statute that says “drivers may not drive blindfolded” in the same way that there’s a statute that says drivers may not drive drunk.

If that’s what the statute meant, then every single car accident where an injury occurred would result in criminal charges.  

Although definitions will vary from state to state, the general legal definition of criminal negligence doesn’t necessarily depend on whether the underlying conduct was criminal. It’s about the difference between a mistake and total disregard for the safety of others.

But ordinary negligence is not, and there’s a legal distinction between criminal and ordinary negligence. If you are inspecting a loaded gun and it fires, killing someone- that’s negligent. You shouldn’t have been pointing it in the direction of someone, but it’s likely not considered criminal because it’s the type of…

Turning it around, do you really think criminalizing negligence will make people pay attention? If so, you need to spend more time around the average driver.

There’s already a law like that in Houston. It’s rarely observed, though they’ve announced enforcement initiatives from time to time. 

As frustrating as Manchin is, I’m afraid this sort of tactic is just going to cause him to dig his heels in even more, or worse, formally caucus with the Republicans, which would allow McConnell to run the show again. 

“according to police reports he failed to control his speed”

On any used car test drive (if private party), I always drive it very sedately at first and then ask the seller if I can run it to the redline. I won’t do it if they say no, but I’m also probably not buying the car. For manuals, you also want to floor it in high gear to check for signs of clutch slippage.

466 if you count the reserve driver. But I assume Mercedes is the largest team. Doubt Haas has that sort of juice. 

I believe the Hemmingway quote was actually bull fighting. But bull riding has to be up there. 

Yes, but the ratio of participants to support is totally different. There are over 50 players on an NFL team but only 3 drivers on an F1 team (including the reserve). The ratio is around 200 support and management people per driver on some F1 teams.

Well yes, that’s why I referred to a “one-off” club. If F1 cars were sold to the public by the tens of thousands, it would be a very different cost structure. 

Big difference is that other sports don’t require a team of dozens of highly skilled professionals to support each player. Yeah, a pro golfer may have a coach and a physical therapist and such, but they don’t have a team of dozens of engineers devoted to improving their one-off golf club costing millions a piece.