First Gear: Were there any reductions in executive pay?  I’m going to guess the answer is no, but I’ve been surprised before.

We should not be beta-testing this kind of thing on public roads. I really hope this case goes to an actual trial. No settlements. Don’t let Elon write a little check to make this go away. People were killed using software that was absolutely not ready to be deployed to the public.

I took a look at the headline and thought, “$15k for a TRD Tacoma? How old is this thing gonna be?”

Hi I’m Johnny Knoxville and this is “Clean Getaway!”

I gnu it!

It was the 80's and there was nothing on earth more radical than the late-stage Countach. Turns out there still isn’t. Remember when you could buy one for under $100k? I sure do.

Huh, I figured they were done making Jackass movies.

Oh my god I can’t even deal with that white top.

This is an excellent object lesson on the interplay between mass, speed, inertia, and kinetic energy. Show this to every kid in physics class AND driver’s ed.

How have we let a paid, (nominally) professional workforce have so little accountability to the people they actually work for? In my lab, if I stop a two-hour incubation at an hour fifty-eight, I’m going to be spending time filling out paperwork explaining myself to the QA goblins. And I’m just working with cells, the…

Hot damn, one less. 

Or at the very least the entire A1 yard firebombed.

Given the location and nature of the business, I am 100% certain the tow truck guys are also armed.

Both given the Murica! position that a non-zero percentage of truckers have AND how trigger happy Memphis police are!

Honestly surprised no employees of these predatory towing companies have been shot yet.  

If you’re gonna make stuff up, why not have fun with it? Tell me it was driven into battle by the Warrior Princess of Canada in the Maple Syrup Wars or something. Really go for it, you know?

Take your damn star for that one...

Unrelated - You need to add an extraneous space to your handle to aggravate all the typography nerds.

Full disclosure - I walk to work.  I hardly drive except for fun and sometimes getting groceries.

as a daily? You’re a wild man.