There is the possibility that it was, say, her husband’s car. She may never have pulled into a gas station before this.

We have cars that can auto-slow, auto-brake, and auto-stop. Yet there’s no implementation of this tech on trains capable of causing far more death and destruction than a Corolla?

Because HE gets to drive all this stuff, and loves to Lord it over us common peasants.

How about a Ram truck? Saw that. That’ll work, right?

Good God. Please don’t make some knock-off just for America. Please. I want the exact same little bug hatch I drove in Norway once when I was over there for a NATO op. That was fun. That, I would buy.

Fine. Buy it. But if you need 3 100-mile tows, you shouldn’t be driving so far. And, might want to look at a better car.

Twenty-five years ago, my Wife ran out of gas. That’s because she was in my old ‘78 Cutlass, where the gauge said 1/3 tank when it was empty.

So? We have to have insurance anyway. And AAA isn’t doing it as a community service out of the kindness of their hearts, either. And my regular premium isn’t bad.

And Geico gives me all that for like, $5 a car.

2nd:

You can re-tune, though, on some cars. My Wife’s fancy car said to use 89, but the shop set the computer to run fine on 87. Said it was a standard thing for a lot of cars.

Quickest test is just undo the transmission side, slide out the square center cable, spray it with WD40, and replace it. If you have to get a new one, I just left the old outer cable and slid the new center in.

Didn’t a lot of ‘80s cars still have speedometer cables, though? The old Buick did. Lube it or replace it.

“I mean, it’s not like Toyota doesn’t know how to build the rest of the car.”

Sorry, but even I am a touch more advanced than that. 150 .mp3s on a disc, pop it in, and I’m good for the week.

Quite a few things exist, but are not common, nor commonly priced. Now, even taking into assumption that the springy metal tires are for off-road, since there is very little pavement I know of on the moon, and for the reduced weight due to gravity, those are not ‘runflats’. Those simply will not get flat. Period. And…

Where’s all that “technology trickles down” stuff when we spend billions on engineering?... 4-wheel steering, puncture-proof tires, and we STILL don’t have them.

Yet Apple, a company with more cash on hand than the U.S., hides billions and billions in off-shore accounts, like the Ireland thing. Creative accounting is a hallmark of big companies.

That is something to fix. I think when someone is released, they deserve a chance. The whole; “they were a convict, and now we can’t trust them” thing is a self-fulfilling prophecy. But ‘time-out’ doesn’t seem to get the idea across.

Not oversimplifying it. I understand that pretty much everyone keeps track of everything you do today. And I fully understand that the more different things you use (Windows and Android, as well as Apple) can mean that there is possibly a greater risk that one or more sources could be hacked, or used for marketing…