John Lockwood, Bob Shuman, Jim Snyder, Doug Gorder, Mike Furlotti and Dianna Raedle are also executives at Oceangate, and are also responsible for enabling Rush.

Yeah, that’s exactly what I was thinking is the main problem here. Not even the AWD vs 4WD argument. You can get the most capable off-road vehicle on the planet and if you give it to someone who gets nervous parallel parking, it’s probably not going to go well. ;)

I think most if not all of the CRJs use cascade vane/barrel reversers. But I could be wrong.

The whole “airspeed vs ground speed” thing can be really hard to wrap your mind around if you aren’t aviation-savvy.

Physician-assisted suicide is illegal in the majority of the country. If a doctor helps you commit suicide in any of the 40 states where it’s illegal, the doctor will go to jail.

Seems to me the way to do it is “if we have to come rescue you because you got stuck, it doesn’t matter what you’re driving, you’re in trouble.”

Jail time brings lawyers into it, whereupon the rich guy still gets off because they bring in a dream team while the poor guy has to deal with a PD 3 hours out of lawschool who has 150 cases on his desk just for this week. Still a miscarriage of justice.

The old airplane/conveyor belt argument is stupid because it’s very obvious the conveyor belt is nearly immaterial in the delta-v of a vehicle with a propulsion system that doesn’t rely on ground friction.

I agree from a compensatory damages standpoint. From a punitive damages standpoint, you’re not supposed to kill someone even if they’re an idiot.

Yep. They’ve been “out of fashion” for airliners for a couple of decades at least. And still very much in fashion for smaller private/bizjets.

There are quotes where the guy knew it was unsafe but thought he might be able to help save the situation if things went bad, along with the usual “well, if it’s my time then it’s my time” nonsense.

Again, because this is apparently hard, there is a significant segment of buyers who does not like SUVs or things that look like SUVs. You could give them a modern-day Typhoon and they wouldn’t want it even if it outran Porsches because, it’s an SUV that looks like an SUV. And, again, they don’t want SUVs or things…

“They have a compact car that’s a little tall cause it’s a crossover shape” is not the rebuttal you think it is.

I thought Hyundai made a big mistake in killing the Veloster instead of releasing an EV version. They already had a race electric Veloster. Why not do a street version?

It’s the one I’d pick, but it’s definitely an old-man snoozefest of a car to drive. Fine with me because I have other cars that are more fun that I can switch to, but if it’s the only car someone has, they might give up a little bit of cruise comfort to get a more engaging drive.

They don’t give a damn if people know what the fuel consumption of a military airplane is. We have air to air refueling. Our planes are “the pilot will run out of food eventually” limited, not fuel limited. Bombers have gone on missions that involved nearly two *days* in the air nonstop. During the wars in the Gulf it…

Well, the leaded fuel thing is a red herring because we’re talking about jets, and they run on jet fuel, not avgas. It’s kerosene, and since jet engines don’t have soft-metal valve seats that need protection, (and also because jet engines don’t use valves in the way that piston engines do in the first place) the fuel…

Plus, each of those planes is carrying multiple people. That’s why a 737 gets 96mpg per passenger - because one fuel burn is moving over 100 people at the same time. If they all drove instead of flying, even if they all drove Priuses, they’d be burning more fuel than the plane.

I mean, the syphilitic CEO of the biggest electric car company on the planet is also pumping money into his coffers.

And that’s why no one reads The Onion anymore. ;)