Evidently John Cleese did a voice for some in-car GPS or another, with silly directions like, “Bear left... badger right.” I would love to have his voice on my Google Home or GPS.

While I won’t argue that those would have been cool, you gotta remember how expensive it would be not only to license the voices from their respective owners (both the rights holders from the specific films or shows and the voice actor or their estate) but also to actually produce enough dialogue to make this a viable…

I feel kinda bad for him, but at the same time he probably wouldn’t be in this predicament if it didn’t appear that he left the Jeep with its entire facia missing this whole time. If he had disguised the engine on his porch under a tarp, and kept the nose of the jeep on and cleaned the dirt off of it occasionally so…

What’s stupid is that car makers are fully capable of meeting the efficiency standards. Engines have become vastly more efficient over the decades. But instead of that translating to gains in mpg, it translates to gains in horsepower while mpg remains stagnant. Instead of stuffing another 100hp into a Ford family…

I worked on one of those today (not unusual, I work for BMW), a 3-series. Turbo diesel, 4wd automatic wagon. No points for guessing what color it was painted.

JPL did that with NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover too. The markings on the wheels spell out “JPL” in morse code as it travels over the Martian surface.

It says

Because we have stupid fucking lighting laws. Amber should be required - it’s not, so automakers try to save a few pennies by incorporating the turn signal into the red tail light. Not only is it less safe, it’s uglier too.

All BMW cars including the Z4 have a hidden feature....

Eh, not a fan of the puddle lamp projections. I haven’t had a chance to try them in-person, but I get the sense that the lines in the logos could inadvertently line up with the edge of a puddle, masking whatever you’re about to step out on. I really don’t need another reminder of what I’m driving. A simple lamp to…

Part of what makes infrastructure hard to maintain is that renovating it often times requires limiting access to said infrastructure. The addition of parallel infrastructure will make it easier to maintain the old one.

To be fair, ten years ago the idea of ‘land rocketship on an autonomous drone platform in the ocean’ was pretty spectacularly stupid, too.

I’m happy to take whatever bad crap that Musk is related to - largely the shitty work environments, by all accounts - for all the good he’s doing, particularly in advancing our species in the arena of space and pushing every major auto manufacturer towards doing more with electric sooner rather than later.

How’d you score that? I’m loosening my grip on ever landing that dream job testing mattresses and I need another payday.

I love the idea of people agonizing over naming their business and then being like “NAILED IT.” Can't go wrong with the bible.

Everytime I see a Kay’s commercial, I harrumph that I hate it but at least it’s a good pun. I resent them for the position they put me in.

I always see huge trucks around from a company called Kane and their slogan emblazoned on the side is “Kane is Able!”

Also, Ray Bans are so named because they ban rays from your eyes.

I had been living stateside for years before I realized the genius multilevel punnery of the Sleepy’s slogan, “For the Rest of your Life.” Like, not only will the mattress last the rest of your life, but you’ll have the greatest rest you have experienced in your lifetime... It’s too clever for how hokey that jingle…

You’re a poet and didn’t realize it.