1988-1989 6th grade in Southern California we were forced to Square Dance.

Winnie did my boy dirty.

Except when Moms for Liberty is talking about swinging, they don’t mean the dance.

Any discussion of compulsory square dancing in American schools should reference the seminal episode of The Wonder Years titled “Square Dance” (S2E15), which featured a classic one-off character, Margaret Farquhar.

To be fair, I don’t think it’s possible to find any old American tradition that wasn’t either founded on racism or had long standing racist practices, but it is interesting to see the weird ways that impacted things still popular today. A certain dance style become a nationwide mandate because a rich racist confused…

Many SUV’s are basically just evolving back into wagons and hatchbacks. Sites like Jalopnik, The Drive, and The Autopian (my personal Holy Trinity of procrasitination) revere the wagon, especially in its ideal form—brown, manual, diesel. Most of public still views the wagon as dorky at best—especially the public old…

Yes as was the Cherokee. They did have square-ish tubes in them that kind of acted like frames but were NOT frames. I have worked on and off roaded both.

Hasn’t the Grand Cherokee always been unibody?

The nitrogen doesn’t have any water vapor in it, which could be argued as being beneficial to prevent rust, tire damage, etc. But in the grand scheme of things, its basically a non issue as most commercial shops should have should have a separator to keep the compressed air dry

It’s a Racing Thing (tm).

Came here to ask this exact question — if “paying attention” and “hands on the wheel” are prereqs, how is “autopilot” any diff than just regular ole’ driving?

Good news! This has never happened before, but I was able to get them to take $100 off the price of the TruCoat.

It’s amazing how NADA, dealer groups, (and probably some politicians) are upset because they really want to preserve their “right” to lie and cheat dollars out of the consumers’ pocket.

About fucking time NHTSA started showing signs of life. Maybe now that they started rousing from their slumber, they'll grow an actual spine. 

Have all Tesla’s with “autopilot” had all these built in safety devices?  Seems like Tesla is the only brand where you still see videos of people sleeping or having sex while the cars “drive themselves”.

I’ve seen enough videos of people driving them without their hands on the wheel to know that it must be pretty easy to get around.

“Those notifications will remind drivers to keep their hands on the wheel and pay attention to the road”

This. It’s rather counterintuitive, but chunky mud treads look as though they ought to do great in snow, and generally aren’t. (Tread design as well as compound plays into it.).

I tell people snow tires are called snow tires for a reason. And mud tires are called mud tires. People think one tread will magically work everywhere. All I know is that almost every CT I’ve seen on the road is rolling on all-seasons with the “concept” cut on the sides for their rim covers.

If they were M/Ts, they are notoriously bad in snow. If they were A/Ts, then they may range anywhere from decent to horrible in snow, depending on the tire.