That’s a behavioral issue (either they are irresponsible by not charging their phone, or just lying to you) and not a technological issue.

Anything with a Buick 3800. They are the cockroaches of the automotive world, as long as you address the plastic intake allowing coolant to leak into the engine oil problem. Ask my sister about that one. Her free LeSabre is sitting in the driveway with a rod knock because she didn’t fix it in time.

The joke

My best automotive decisions were working for companies that either sold high end, high performance cars, or used them in programs, saving me from the pang of lusting after something I’m never going to spend the money on. Highlights include: Audi R8, Dodge Viper SRT/10, Lotus Elise and Exige, various Porsche models,…

It is, you just don’t want it to be. No officer is going to wait until a suspect is actively running into or over people to respond. I don’t know what else to tell you. The officer is suspended pending an investigation because officers are suspended when they are involved in fatalities.

No, I replied to you with what the article contains. The “this” in my comment is referring to the article elements I referred to.

No matter how many articles are written and hands wrung, safety is always going to be a reactionary exercise.

Unless you’re piloting the plane yourself. That’s why the comparison isn’t comparable. They’re comparing mass transit to personal transit.

It looks to me like the guy behind the tree steps into his throw, which would make sense given he was throwing some mass, but that movement pales in comparison to the motorcycle that was bearing down at him at a high rate of speed, which can be easily claimed to be a reasonable threat of eminent harm.

Read the headline.

Appreciating the fact that these drivers walked away is a testament to the hard work they’ve done since the rash of fatalities in the late 90s and early 2000s culminating with Dale Earnhardt’s death at the 2001 Daytona 500, not complacency. And why bring up two incidents from 30 years ago? If we’re going to go that…

Wait, two people dying in 10 years on commercial airlines is now shitty?

And not proof read.

The headline reads:

So the officer was both running toward the motorcycle AND waiting behind a fence for the motorcycle to drive by so he could slam the operator in the face with a cooler. Which is it?

The pad did not explode. The pad was blown out by the the rocket’s exhaust plume. The rocket later exploded (eventually) after the destruct system was activated.

It’s a bad faith argument and one of those articles that reinforces the notion that Jalopnik doesn’t like cars.

This is such a disingenuous, clickbait argument. If you’re going to try and compare fatalities between two forms of transportation, at least come up with something resembling a common metric, such as “per miles driven” versus “per miles flown”, and include ALL forms of aviation (general and commercial) because there…

What “pad explosion”? While technically a rocket launch is a controlled explosion, you make it sound as if the rocket never left the pad. SpaceX has done that too, but that isn’t what happened here.

And we’ve all seen Teslas with serious degraded (or flat out bad) battery packs outside of warranty that required tens of thousands of dollars to replace. Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal.