“Disproportionate” is not the right way to think of it, because VW and Takata didn’t run afoul of the same laws and the same courts. Yeah it seems out of balance how much more VW has been fined - so far- but that’s because environmental law is a lot more settled and pervasive than possibly-knowing-faulty-product law,…

Only problem with this plan is inevitably one team will just invest everything in the “blowing up the competition” aspect and slowly coast to a single-finisher victory. Then all the other teams will do the same thing. Then they’ll just drop the “race” part entirely and now it’s Battlebots again.

“Normal beat cops drive marked cars”
Not where I’m from they don’t. My office is on the service-road of a highway through town, and on average day every unmarked car and police motorcycle in the department is sitting outside my office waiting to pull people over for doing 60 in a 55.

Because nothing says “We’re here to serve and protect the community” like a police car you can’t see.

It’s time somebody sat you down David. The problem is not that your vehicles -look- like junk, it’s that they -run- like junk.

Buying a fully functional schoolbus with air-conditioning on Craiglist for less than $5000.

“I have no idea what that lever does.”

The engineers who do all the grunt work aren’t paid enough to live in the same city, while the managers are shoveled African-nation-GDP amounts of cash based solely on the valuation.

God forbid LEOs and security went back to using sedans like they did for the first century of driving.

Reverse: I’ve read this sentence a dozen times, and it will not come out as anything other than “Fire king Tirestone dies”

Trump’s never held a rifle either, and you can count the number of Republican congressmen who have on one hand. There’s a word of that: chickenhawks.

This is a guy who tried to clean motor oil off his pants by putting them in a dish washer. What do you think he did?

I’d love to see David and Torch do a “weirdest pile of crap we can find” build video together.

Mister Y. P. Pull here-

Look Torch, we were willing to accept a drink or two at lunch, we all have some tough days, but this is starting to get out of hand...

I was 19 and took my mother’s POS Honda out to the store, which included a five minute jaunt down the interstate. It was Christmas Eve and there had just been some light snow and freezing rain, but it’s Texas and I’m 19 so fuck it.
Came up over a rise in the road and hit a patch of black ice on the downslope, at 55.…

Why does an article about the CR-V get three times the views of the Porsche? Any or all of the following:

Wow, I remember reading an article about this in an airliner magazine a couple years ago. Good to see they actually went through with building it.

This right here is the deal, especially with the cagey stage-magician way that FF is both part of and not part of LeEco at the same time. Expect other Chinese companies to start using this model in the future.

As a supposedly-passionate millennial in the tech industry myself, I have two things to say: