Quite often, the design engineer absolutely has the authority to ratify design choices. But they forget it because they are by nature truth sayers. So when the bean counters ask if corners can be cut, designers often comply even though it is well within their power to not.

Yeah - I just now spent an hour trying to understand how I am supposed to reach a certain pipe connector without taking a grinder to the chassis. The instruction video made it look simple, though they used a special tool sourced from the manufacturer.

Jesus, you missed the absolutely stellar Jackie Chan movie Wheels on Meals (1984).

Stellar idea. Then it is just a matter of time before the car industry realizes the benefits.

Why is it that corruption always push terrible things?

My interpretation:

Most things look good when compared to the worst examples.

“Should you get a Subaru?”

Well, the small one we built worked well for evaluating various auxiliary tech. 

Yes. I have a brother not quite as extreme as that, but he is certain that Bill Gates tries to eradicate humanity by means of microchips in vaccines.

This here is what I call “parasitic optimization”.

2nd gear: if you have the agency to deploy a machinery that is a danger to others, you should be responsible through that agency alone, if not by the actual operating of the machinery.

It does however reeks a lot of autism, what with the obsession with rules.

I might be wrong because my knowledge about legal systems is rudimentary;

My mom learned to bicycle on a 1926 thing, and she still uses it daily. She turns 80 this year.

I’d be like “Oh, is it rear engined? All I see under this hood are some fluid containers!”

Yeah, but it was stupid easy to double the performance number just by swapping a few stock components to whatever.

These are terrible chairs.

These are terrible chairs.

When I was a kid we used to go camping in a RWD VW Bus type 2, with a 70 hp 2L boxer. A dozen summers in a row, all over Greece, for 4-6 weeks at a time.

My exwife made lists of the lists she needed to write.