The speedo/odometer on our ‘72 Pinto (bought used in ‘83) gave up the ghost at ~269,000 miles. My brother and I probably drove it another 20,000 or so miles (with an rpm x gear = speed spreadsheet taped to the dash!) after that, before selling it for the same $300 our dad paid for it.

The doors on my ‘89 Isuzu pickup are about 2" thick. There is zero chance they would pass a side-impact test. They would need to be much thicker to hold the reinforcement needed to prevent incursion into the passenger compartment. The doors on my F-150's are bank vaults in comparison. Same with the roof. And so on.…

Exactly. There is so much safety in air travel that it almost always takes a sequence of failures (human, mechanical, etc) to cause a fatal accident.

Lots of blame here. The 737 should have reached V1 in ~30 seconds, but it took 45 (the copilot had expressed concerns about the engine performance pre-take off, but was overruled by the pilot). In addition performance was hindered by icing. Partially because, (of current interest), a Trump Airlines deicer truck using…

If, say, engine performance was not as expected (such that you would reach V1 too far down the runway to actually get off the ground) you would abort the takeoff well before V1.

They simply can not make them as small as they did the “ye olde days” because they won’t pass the safety requirements (which trucks *were* exempt from).  If you want something that size, you’re going to need to buy used (and realize that a collision may well kill you).

And women take full advantage of those feelings by acting like ignorant little babies who don’t know how to rewire an outlet or insulate a crawlspace and it’s the mean -old -man- yelling- at- them- for- no- reason’s fault for not appreciating them.

“keeping in mind that the number of minutes spent (on child care) applies across the entire population and not just parents” — what the hell kind of useless statistic is that!?

Wasn’t this called “Kill Bill” (Parts 1 through interminable)?

I never said he couldn’t do whatever he wanted to his own car. But if he’s going to drive like that, on a setup like that, he’s going to get very familiar with curbs and expensive repair bills (or worse, hurt somebody). Also, now that he’s “internet infamous”, I’ll bet his insurance company sees that video and either…

He learned the hard way that that stanced crap is antithetical to good handling.

Is it too late to give Texas back to Mexico?

No worries!

There were actually quite a lot of good ideas in that 1949 film.

Sorry.  Honestly, I still can’t find your comment. Geez, this comment system is crap.

There are many countries with no extradition (to the US or at all). List: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-without-extradition However, he would likely consider many of them to be “sh*thole” countries.

And the smaller the car, the more moisture per volume of air you are generating by breathing.

That would have been a completely different car. In the Pinto, the rear axle is under the back seat (and, famously, the gas tank behind that). Actually, pretty common for small cares of the era -- say compared to the (modern) MiniCooper where the wheels are much more rearward.

At first I read that as The Dude.  Alas.

They got the math *very* wrong. They weren’t even computing the cost to Ford, they used a standardized “value of a human life” figure and came up with a “cost to society” of $~50M. And they figured the cost of changing the Pintos at ~$137M. So, the “right” answer (to their wrong question) was to do nothing. Of course…