The dash is steel. Only the pad on top cracks. On later cars the bottom shelf is replaced by a plastic dash piece and glove box. It gets cracked by carless mechanics and doityourselfers.

Having nearly everything that’s needed high on the left is nice. Left hand is right there anyway.

“I am just sick to death of the general tendency to take simple things that work properly and are easy and intuitive to use and replace them with expensive, ultra-complicated, totally un-fixable hi-tech devices that require intensive retraining to work very much less well. If this is the future, then the future…

Touch screens, nav knobs and buttons... the whole mess is stupid. It’s the 21st century’s concept of a rolling living room. Except instead of having a living room sized car with two sofas these have distractions so people can do everything but drive.

most frustrating.... hmmm... I am going to go with my Mazda protege’s intake manifold gasket. Not for the broken bolts or other typical frustrations but because of the internet. Everything actually went well as I got everything apart except for the EGR tube. The nut wouldn’t budge because there was no way for me to…

At first he doesn’t and then as the rope gets tight he figures it out and backs away.

1) The tests were not the right ones. If you drove it like they did in the tests you would be just fine.
2) Something changed between the prototypes/pilot units and the production units. It can be very little such as an assembly procedure that ends up damaging a part or a manufacturing process for one of the parts.

“You know exactly what an African-american sounding name is, just like you know if you’re speaking with someone of a different race or ethnic background.”

And you often don’t. Furthermore I’ve heard people speak one way and then entirely different way depending on who they were talking to. Not in a pandering way…

I don’t know if Lorem did, but I did. They had indistinguishable first names like Alex, Mark, Gene, Terry, Curtis, etc and so on. I can’t think of single black kid I grew up with a ‘black sounding name’. Some had names more common in the south or antiquated names a couple generations out of style but all were names…

Surprised would only mean statistically unlikely not impossible.

Yet another conditioned response citing prohibitionist nonsense arguing something that wasn’t in my comment. Thanks for being an example of what I referred to.

Government doesn’t have to do proper FMEA. Why? because they won’t lose business and can just tax people for the money. Government doesn’t have to worry about voluntary customers or even going broke if it knows people won’t be moving away.

The video is gone now but I can imagine what it showed. People who deserve to be yelled at because they don’t give a shit about anyone behind them even if they recognize there are people behind them. Like you say everything from driving to simple walking paths there these people are.

As someone who strives for…

“I often think most drunk people who cause accidents are shitty drivers to begin with. The alcohol certainly doesn’t help.”

The drunk drivers that cause serious collisions are usually well in excess of 0.1 BAC. It’s been that way since BAC values started to be used. It’s why BAC values for drunk driving were that high.…

What if he was just plain stupid? Would that make a difference?

I was nearly killed because a 16 year old with a freshly minted license decided it was acceptable to clean the inside of his windshield while driving. He crossed the center line and plowed into my car. I avoided the driver’s side offset head on by…

You should learn how to read and comprehend the english language without first running it through your emotional filter.

“Is this a joke? Fuck drunk drivers. Petty theft, minor assault are jack-shit compared to drunk driving.”

Another well conditioned logic suspended reaction. A prime example of what I referred to.

“Drunk Driving” is having a BAC above an arbitrarily chosen value. Vehicular manslaughter is something else entirely. Vehicular manslaughter is a real crime. Having a BAC above an arbitrarily chosen value is not.

BAC value as it used today is to indicate some amount of impairment due to alcohol consumption. The problem…

“By drunk driving, do you mean “attempted negligent vehicular homicide.” Because that’s kinda what it is. Don’t. Drink. And. Drive.”

MADD and others successfully convinced enough people that drunk drivers were very evil people who needed to be treated harshly. Conviction didn’t matter much, accusation is enough. That’s generally how minor things get pushed up to the bail level. Remember the USA comes out of history of control freaks that were…