Were you perchance, employed as comrade to a teamster, ensuring the passengers and cargoes had naught an occasion to be set upon by highwaymen?

The real reason there are not closed top speeders is because bystanders NEED to be able to see the driver. Other solutions were proposed, but the halo concept as well as the wind screen merely collected large icicles that tended to break off and impale the occupants.

should’ve aborted that flight.

You didn’t actually ask for advice here, but I’m giving some anyway. It’s the internet. You don’t have to obey some random comment anyway.

Use the cassette adapter with an 8 track adapter like this. It’s how we did in the 1990s when we could only afford cars from the 1970s.

If that’s the direction they go, it’ll be a really hopped-up car.

Think of this type of race as a development program for autonomous vehicle engineers. It may have commercial aspects, but I’ll bet it’s more like the DARPA Grand Challenge program that raced vehicles point to point off road as proof of concept.

What Matt Brown said. I got in my sophmore year and got to drive one of the older cars for a few laps. It really blew my mind. It was the first vehicle I had ever been in that would pull more than 1g lateral, and 0-60 in 4 seconds.

At least it’s not made of bricks.

May your connecting rods be strong, your safety cell tough, and your control arms resilient.

Another good one is Rossi vs. Gibernau in 2005. There were multiple instances of contact and being forced off the track, and IIRC some pissy disputes about what you can and cannot do at your starting grid position.

Ford Gelding

Pause for a moment and consider; people, probably a whole team of people were paid good money to create a flying broom concept. It’s a concept that does not have to work. It doesn’t even have to be feasible, just interesting.

I suppose tying a driver profile to a key would be viable, but only for as many keys as are available. Some of those key fobs are darn expensive, so people don’t go get multiple like keys of old.

I think the argument that livestock uses more resources, including water, must account for the water needed to grow food for the livestock. Livestock water use is consequently much more than what each animal drinks. In that way a whole bunch of land and water are needed for each head of livestock.

I was totally unaware of this aspect of history.  Maybe I can use it to convince my wife to go on bike rides with me.

That’s true, but you don’t need to shout.

Whoa-there! That’s a lot of generalizing. There are lots of Harley riders who are really great people and not hostile to the rest of the American populace.

So, it’s $30,000 to purchase, and you had better not take it home for too long or ride it too far from a dealer. What a great value! Where can I find one to not take home?

Didn’t you read the article? Charges are dropped for every battery.