Musk does come across as yet another utopia building billionaire. One whom by virtue of striking it rich has decided he gets to say how everyone else should live. Perhaps that has made his enterprises special with regard to the what the established billionaire utopia building families control. But that’s just the…

Pressure washer right over the engine fuse box......

Given the large number of vehicles produced your measure of fatalities per million miles will likely look even better for Takata air bags, GM ignition switches, fireball ford pintos, and oversteering corvairs.

Didn’t the federal government make age an illegal admitted reason to fire someone?

I don’t think TM is going to be bankrupt so long as the federal reserve can create new money. That new money flows to wall street (or the federal government) and then to TM. If the only source of funds were Musk and investor’s savings…

When the truck is stopped at the corner or approaching it there is the usual space in the gutter. When it begins the right hand turn the rear of the trailer or sometimes even the rear of a fixed big vehicle like a garbage truck or bus, but usually only with trailers will track towards the right and reduce that space…

Your usual useless prattle serves no purpose.

You seek to have the last word by waiting so long to reply nobody gives a fuck anymore. I am just willing to tell you what an ass you’re being. Thanks to google groups there are now people posting replies to things that were written in the 1990s. Either participate in a timely manner or let a thread die.

Apparently you never completed the third grade so there’s that.

You keep moving around not I. First it was ‘it’s illegal’ then when I pointed out the flaw in that you changed to ‘moral compass’.

With all the major roastings of GM and Ford there is usually no issue of significance at all (Pinto and Corvair) or it’s an issue that fell through the cracks or wasn’t properly diagnosised (GM ignition switch). The media goes out of its way to distort the issues into one of ‘automakers want to kill you’ in these…

I haven’t made any. You just didn’t think what you babbled forth through and won’t back off or defend it and your attempts to explain it lead back to the same place, a cost/benefit analysis of freedom where you are quite clearly using a cost as an objection to the freedom.

What do you call it when someone tries to achieve a goal using politics?

The media runs all sorts of hit pieces on Trump, they just don’t stick. Some of them are so amazingly bad. My favorite was the one saying Trump had concrete contractors with mafia ties working on some of his projects in NYC like that was supposed to be shocking or that Trump had another choice. The article read as if…

You’re being delusional and ignorant. The fact you don’t know about the politics around driving doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Are you familiar with the text by Mr. Nader called “Unsafe at any speed”? Probably not. This was one example of the political blather that resulted in the malaise era. The people who have had…

So you’re just too fucking stupid to understand the implications of what you blather forth? You clearly stated the costs of not being managed (being free, driving our own cars) are too great. That the benefits of not being managed are not worth the costs. You make that very clear. You don’t have a point otherwise. You…

So “driving while black” is a conspiracy theory? If enforcement wasn’t selective GWB and HRC would be in federal prison. Life isn’t fair and punishments are selective. The idea is do what it takes to get ahead and not to be selected for punishment when it requires doing something punishable.

The simple courtesy of timely responses has been in place for discussion groups since the 1970s. You don’t have to be immediate but if a week has gone by then it’s a dead subject. Once upon a time the entire thread could be expected to be no longer available a week later. Deleted to save precious expensive hard drive…

You haven’t. You just delude yourself.

Bicycling is not dangerous. I’ve been riding adult sized bicycles on the streets of the chicagoland area since 1982. I am about to do so again right after I type this out.

There are simple things that need to be learned before doing so to not get killed. Things the current crop of 20 somethings probably didn’t learn…

At Belmont and Sacramento the truck was likely moving slower than even a Divvy bike. I doubt she was right hooked in the conventional sense of a driver passing a bicyclist and turning right across the bicyclist’s path. More likely the truck was at stop and she was passing it on the right. The truck’s trailer probably…