Whoosh.  Thank you Captain.

Speaking of old movie tropes... The car that won’t start, regardless of type of car. Honestly, how often do cars not start? Old, hackneyed, lazy storytelling by inserting some fake drama... “Oh no! The car won’t start! And at the worst possible time.” Just makes me roll my eyes. I have had a car fail to start exactly…

Indicated by this quote, “Tuten told The Drive that when the techs began diagnosing the vehicle, they noticed it had been left in “4-Low,” it appears the owner didn’t know what occurred even after the fact. These are the people out there on public highways, driving large RV’s the size of commercial trucks or busses…

Ahhhhh.  Good one.  My opinion has been reinforced.

You are the reason why there has to be idiot notations at the bottom of commercials.

Yes, it seems like that one decision to make the car 2 dollars more won’t be noticed, but in the design of a car, there are thousands upon thousands of those decisions that have to be made, so your argument is only valid in a vacuum, not in the real world.

No, not even close. Go build one on BMW’s web page and you’ll find there are just a few packages of options. Go build a Porsche on their website and your head (and wallet) will explode trying to choose options. There are a bunch of packages and hundreds of individual option choices, all of them ridiculously expensive.

Yet another hideous looking thing from GM. I would have to give it some time to fester, but that thing might give the Pontiac Aztek a run for its money for the ugliest car in modern history.

As crash protection technology advanced, there was a time when rear seats were safer than front seats for kids, but studies have shown the gap has closed in recent years to the point that with newer cars, there is generally negligible difference. But the nanny laws, as usual, lag behind reality. Of course, if you…

While covid is real, and people are really getting sick and people are really dying, there is no way that 238,000 people died because of covid. There is a lot of gray area in statistics that people want to throw around as unmitigated fact. Too many people I know, who are not extreme tin hat wearing nut cases, who work…

Yes, yes we can pass judgement. Touchscreen controls, or flat capacitive touch buttons as opposed to actual buttons with tactile feel and actual movement suck. They suck immensely. They require taking your eyes off the road long enough to find, focus, touch, and see that what you wanted it to do has been done, as…

Yeah, I have to remember the advice that I often give to others when discussing science, or physics type subjects... Math is the answer.

I’ve always thought pickups would be a better platform for an EV because of this... the ease of carring around a little emergency generator. Also, the ease of adding some more batteries. With a pickup bed, they could make optional extra range battery packs that you could just slide in like extra modules, even if it…

First, you complain about the apparent hypocrisy of them not toeing the environmental line; “...kind of eats away at the foundation of any corporate argument for reducing vehicle footprint and material waste.”

This.  I’ve ridden in a few (before I knew better) and have even had to drive a couple.  Just no.  Those things are unstable, unsteerable cans full of people meat just looking for a place to roll over.  I won’t ride in one, and if I see them on the highway, I give them a wide berth.

“99.99% of those particles left the interior of the aircraft within six minutes” I find this hard to believe. I would have to do the math, and know the volume of the cabin and the flow rates of all the gozintas and gozoutas, which I don’t know, and haven’t done dilution equations in 40 years.  But that just doesn’t…

It’s not unusual at all. I knew of many small towns that did this. A couple places I lived, and a few places where various grandparents and relatives lived. You are right in regards to a once a week or once a month test probably being sufficient, but people kind of liked the every day at noon siren or whistle. No cell…

This is absolutely true. My parents taught me to look both ways before I cross the street. It seems to me this is such a basic thing, that it shouldn’t need to be said, but it does. I taught my kids the same thing. And I mean, it was pounded it into their heads, whenever we crossed a street, walking through a parking…

Yup. If you own one, not only will you not need to rent one, but you will probably be loaning it to friends and family. They would be cheap enough to buy, in time, there would be thousands of them living in the wild, cutting deeply into U-hauls rentals.

No. It was just stupid and pointless. Apparently, 10 other people agreed with me. Does Covid have a smell? Obviously, much like any other disease, it interacts with humans in such a way that a dog can smell the difference. What’s your point? Yes, it mutates.  Again, what’s your point?