I’m so tired of these systems. If I have to sit in the driver’s seat while awake, alert and sober than this system benefits me not one bit. It adds no functionality.

Well yeah I agree 110% on not using this through any kind of road works. But you know as well as I do, someone will at least try to. Maybe they need to give it a system to detect roadworks, I’d call it OBDS (Orange Barrel Detection System).

Huh? The described assisted driving system requires the drivers to pay more attention to the road than they do now!

More proof that fully autonomous cars are at least 10 years away, with significant market acceptance at least 20 years away.

If I need to pay full attention, this tech is is a gimmick - not a feature.

Actually... they know exactly how many seats they sell.
It involves some very complicated statistics but airlines always oversell on purpose since they know not everyone that buys a ticket will get on the plane, so they sell extra tickets to make more money.

I don’t think a vehicular arms race to see who can kill the most people with half-baked autonomous driving software for bragging rights is in anyones best interest.

Though, that $3200 isn’t in cash, it’s in flight vouchers (also probably for overbooked flights), so it technically doesn’t actually cost them anything. And I think airlines have standing deals with the hotels at airports for their employees, so the rooms are also probably already paid for.

Understandable, and offering to buy off the passengers is a valid first step. But I think the chance of delaying a flight the next day may be better than forcibly removing and assaulting a passenger who didn’t wish to take a pay-out and give up their seat.

This makes United seem almost unbelievably incompetent. Why were people allowed to board if they knew not all of them were going to be on the plane? Denying someone boarding is way easier than asking someone who’s sitting down to get off.

United should have just gotten a rental car for their employees that needed to get to Louisville for the next day. It’s a 4.5-5.5 hour drive according to Google maps.

This is why we can’t have nice things—because no matter how useless it may be to someone else, if that person is a sufficient asshole who finds opportunity, they’ll say, “Yeah, I’ll just steal that.”

Not at all. There are very few vehicles you could actually use the parts on and they are all owned by other race teams. The racing community is close enough that if any of the other teams saw the parts pop up they would let GMG know about it.

Only issue I see is then that the former owners of the property probably illegally sold a house with TWO parking spaces of which one did not belong to them anymore. So in the USA you would now sue the crap out of the former owners to get even ;)

Yeah.

Other ways to freshen the face of a car— sand/polish the headlight lenses to make them clear again, use trim restorer to make black trims black again, replace cracked/chipped fog lights, and line up the bumper properly. A lot of older cars have saggy or misaligned bumpers that can be fixed with a bit of time and…

I’m actually amazed at how ugly MOST cars are today. And I don’t want to get into some wistful rant about how back in the day cars were more beautiful, but I think starting in the ‘80s when cars slowly started losing their edges and looking very same-ish, up to today where designers are playing with folds, awkward…

This made me a fan of his years ago