I remember when they mandated seat belt interlock switches. Lot of people (on all sides of the political spectrum) just left the belt buckled and sat on it. Then they went to self-tightening shoulder belts - which were a pain in the ass and a lot harder to bypass.

Had a 2002 Honda CR-V. Visibility was excellent, was considered a very safe car at the time as I recall. It was practically a rolling greenhouse compared to cars today.

67. Hell, I had friends back in the ‘70s who didn’t believe in seat belts. Idiots. “I’d rather be thrown from a car if I have a wreck and end up in a river.” Yeah, like that’s so frequent.

What I’d like to see is drivers stop acting like they learned to drive off GTA.

I’ve always wondered how the Smart Car ever got approved.   I mean, there’s nothing THERE to serve as a crush zone, and if it’s depending on the roll cage to survive... well, hell, no.

Well, that’s the trick, isn’t it? You can’t sell ‘safer’ based on what the standards were - you’ve got to constantly up the tests, make them more stringent, make them more improbable and at a point you realize that no matter what’s improved things will never be ‘safe enough’.

When we had to replace our 20 year old set, the feature-packed washers didn’t, in my estimation, have sufficient utility to pay for the higher prices. Like you, I don’t need to know everything down to how many seconds remain on the spin cycle and the temperature of the hot water...

“Even after getting a ~5 page opinion...”

Probably only about 30 seconds difference either way. Hell of a way to die...

Same - though I liked it for a while, I ground to a point where I HAD to team up to progress, and since I’m a solitary player by preference that was pretty much it.

And it dug out what’d have to be excavated anyway, in a rather energetic manner.

That’d be an interesting outcome - certainly more unusual than just natural gas...

1,008 new coal plants have been announced, are in the permitting process or are under construction.

That’s one hell of a UTI you got there. Might want to go see your doctor - but until you can get in try Azo Standard, it’ll help with the symptoms...

I’m thinking a sandblaster might have been more appropriate for some of the messes I’ve made in pans...  ;)

They got someone else to clean up after them in the retail kitchens, including dishwashers that use really hot water and detergents that contain serious caustics? (I mean, if it comes as a powder with a pH of 14 - that ain’t no OTC dishwasher pod.)

There’s a big difference between a theme part and an amusement park - and I think it’s lost on a lot of the folks that run the ‘amusement’ parks. I’ve thought some portions of Universal Orlando were rather nondescript, even though the theming would have been easy to do, but other parts were excellent. It’s the little…

Seems like everything in California causes cancer...

They do it right, don’t they?  Universal tries - but they don’t quite manage the same sort of immersion that Disney’s accomplished yet.

That sort of attention to detail isn’t cheap - and it’s essential for full immersion. You don’t quite get that at Universal - though it’s kind of close in the Harry Potter area.