That was the 787 making headlines w/ the battery fires IIRC.

There’s a contingent of folks who will order 3-4 drinks on the first service. Flight attendants are usually pretty good about reading them and giving it to them if they’re going to be a sleepy drunk and a ‘not our policy, just one’ response if they look like they’re going to be talky or belligerent. Sometimes they…

I’d rather re-read about ‘dying car culture’ than re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-read about the return of the RX7.

The former could happen someday, the latter will not.

No good place to put a low-clearance bar. There's a lot of legitimate truck traffic that goes up to that intersection you see immediately before the bridge and turn onto the side road that would get continuously fwacked.

Nah, this isn’t a skip barber course. These are on long roads with very slight grades where if you remain in top gear you end up ~10mph over your desired speed before the nadir. This isn’t dragging for the whole hill (would obviously downshift if the slope necessitated that) it’s applying the rears for a second or…

No more wear then it would be on the syncros or across all the pads, same amount of energy dissipated just to the rears in this case which wear slowly anyway on most cars.

The annoyance is that down shifting (or braking) cancels the cruise so when you’re going up and down these long hills (think very slight slope that…

I use my parking brake all the time at highways speeds when on cruise control with a slight downward grade. Other options are to shift to 4th or brake which are annoying for a 3-5 mph change over a mile or two. Granted I don’t let it ratchet and just barely drag it, but it's perfectly safe.

Nah, not cheating. No engines would meet emissions specs across the entire operating region. The requirements are set based on a series of cycles that ostensibly represent how cars are operated the vast vast majority of the time and it’s understood that some conditions will cause them to emit more/be less efficient.…

It's the latter with a wrinkle. It's the average transaction price with any manufacturer incentives backed out so those pickups with 10 grand on the hood ring in 10k higher than the person actually paid.

Well, I suppose it went like this. They pruned down the fish bone until they had a couple remaining things: "Cheating" and "Novel Tech". They looked all over for novel tech and couldn't find it so they assumed cheating. Since they weren't willing to go there they tossed anything related to VW in the bin since their…

This article is on repeat. Been published every year (more than once) across numerous outlets for at least the last five years. Every time the point you made gets brought up in the comments and is never addressed by the folks with the dataset. Maybe the median and the average fall right on top of each other, but it's…

Those ‘professionals’ tend to do merely adequate jobs. I always double check their work when having warranty stuff done (outside of warranty I do it myself) and regularly find things not up to snuff.

Ex: early water pump leakage repaired under warranty at the dealer. Crap I had to redo in my garage: attach two wiring…

Please please properly torque your lug nuts (or bolts) when putting them back on. 'As tight as possible' is ok for putting on your mini-spare for an emergency trip, but you really don't want a newbie (well, anyone, but with someone new it'll scare them off) snapping a stud or rounding off a bolt on a simple brake job.…

Truck fatalities are reported in 100 million mile rates by IIHS

It absolutely is the responsibility of a driver to avoid or lessen a collision if possible...even if the other road users are disobeying the rules of the road. You won’t be held criminally or administratively responsible (ie you won’t get a ticket) but you can be, and regularly are, held partially or fully liable for…

That’s a disingenuous comparison though. That’s comparing the road user stat (which includes motorcycles, pedestrians, bicycles, etc.) to a point car stat. If you wanted a valid comparison you’d need to compare luxury cars (actuary tables show older drivers are less likely to be in fatal accidents and that's who…

Um...what?

If that’s the metric (which is a bad idea since we’re at a single data point) we should have human drivers driving semi-trucks since their occupant fatality rate is .21 per 100 million miles traveled from IIHS. Nearly 5 times safer than Tesla autopilot...ban all passenger vehicles? That sounds just as silly.

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Yep, that's a big issue with these things. There've also been a number of these types of articles going at least back to the 90s and it regularly turned out that the 'AI' was given instantaneous, perfect, access to all data including, sometimes, the inputs the human opponent was making. I don't know if this thing is a…

Clutch interlock is a government requirement and has been for quite some time. Same with automatics, they have a park/neutral/brake interlock (depends on manufacturer). Happened after a bunch of folks squashed people starting in gear.

I'm bettin they’ll probably just join in the European Free Trade Association with Switzerland and some of the northern countries. So meh.