There was a whole cluster of them near Hawthorne, about a hundred and twenty miles southeast of Carson City. Two 5.7 quakes and another smaller one. If Sacramento felt it, I’m suddenly rethinking my “We’d be fine if The Big One hits, really.” position.

Shit, forget the damn San Andreas. I live in Nevada and felt a quake yesterday for the first time in my entire life, and after living here for over 11 years. It was like the Earth itself just wanted to remind us that it’s here to fuck with us, too.

In systems designed and installed in passenger cars, you can override it by stepping on the gas. This seems to only apply to big commercial trucks. And if you’re in a big commercial truck, you shouldn’t get t-boned by a car coming at you with automated brakes.

Newsflash! Human being tries to kill other human beings, is stopped by technology.

Yeah, they look absolutely great. Out here, though, you’d need to get the Alpine model if you even considered going up over the mountains across I-80, or up the hill to Lake Tahoe. Fortunately, 99.9% of the time we only NEED to get from one part of Highway 395 to another right here in town. For $200-300, I’d probably…

They’d have to be *really* awesome for $600 a pair. Holy crap. It’s easier to stay home. :D

Mexico is stealing our manufacturing jobs because they make $3/hr and have zero safety regulations at the plants. Never mind an abysmal record on pollution. This too is about to end.

People like talking about manufacturing jobs because the numbers are so high when an individual plant is closed or downsized, and it makes them sound like a big deal if they can save one of those but ignore the hundreds of other struggling businesses that exist in other sectors.

As a recent Hyundai buyer, I have to say the controls in the Santa Fe Sport aren’t... *that* bizarre. I wish the steering wheel had four-way switches and more buttons in better places, and I wish the heated wheel and driving mode buttons were more easily visible to the driver or at least more distinctive from one…

This. As someone that lives on the Nevada side, I completely and 100% agree with this sentiment. Hell, here in the Carson Valley, we don’t need snow tires all that frequently at all. There might be a month, maaaaaaaybe two months where there’s enough crap on the pavement to make you think about snow tires but the odds…

The article talks about LA drivers, but really should be focused more on northern Californians and bay area drivers if you’re talking about Interstate 80 like you are here. I live on the Nevada side of I-80 there and have driven over that pass in snow season with chains on my car before, only once. The brand new…

He had just grabbed that from a Wayne employee, I think. It looked to me like a corporate motor pool vehicle.

My first winter car was a rear wheel drive Mazda 929S, which absolutely loved to kick itself around on snowy New England roads. Tossing fifty pounds of kitty litter in the trunk was a standard move that both helped the car stick to the road a little better by adding weight to the rear axle and gave you the ability to…

Most of his summer job savings is put aside for college.

Came for this, not at all disappointed.

I understand it quite well. The whole concept was that if you use it, it’s *over*, but that doctrine really only applied to the geopolitical situation during the cold war where two opposing nation states were the ones with the bulk of the weapons. For the better part of the last 20 years, we were able to relax and not…

I’m countin’ down to the day deservin’
Fittin’ for a king
I’m waitin’ for the time when I can
Get to Arizona
‘Cause my money’s spent on
The goddamn rent
Neither party is mine not the
Jackass or the elephant

What we need, and this is a terrible thing to have to say, is enough weaponry that we can still guarantee an aggressor nation that even if they can shoot down 90% of our arsenal, that last ten percent will wipe them from the Earth.

This is the finest portable gaming PC Razer has produced, worthy of taking over the dusty spot where a gaming desktop once sat, should that be your aim.

My understanding is that the first generation Infiniti Q45 was also a beneficiary of the gentleman’s agreement, and rated at 278 instead of its supposed 300+ as well.