I built a small, low deck based on old rules that said what I was doing didn’t need a permit.  Asking forgiveness didn’t work.

When ordinary folks play that game with the government, it tends to go quite badly for them. But if you’re rich, whatever fines you get slapped with are typically minor annoyances. Example: Someone bought a burned-out shell of a (~100 year old) house a few blocks from me. They wanted to knock it down and build…

Considering average divorce rates and how frequently parents will split once the kids age out, I think that is actually a fairly common thing now. The people who I know that have a parent with new spouse basically after they turned 18 refer to the new spouse by their first name. None use mom/dad, AFAIK. It is a mixed…

Yes, all the cars and trucks would need gps and communication ability with each other. And everybody would ideally get a gps implant so the cars know where they are too. But good luck getting everybody to go for that.

“My mom’s husband..”Damn, that guy ain’t even considered a stepfather :>)

In regards to animals, I think you need to program the car to stay on the road at all costs. Presumably a self-driving car will know how much room it needs to stop and also how far back the car behind it is driving. At that point it can try coming to a safe stop, but if it can’t the animal is going to have to take it.…

Agreed. Doing little to nothing with the overall design for the past 12 years since the first model S came out hasn’t been a good choice. On top of that, making every car in your lineup look basically the same doesn’t help either. If you took the model numbers off the image below, the average person would know they…

It actually is job security when TxDOT does these massive projects, so I’ve caught people off guard when I complain about our lack of transit spending versus highway spending. These urban highway expansions are a massive pain, which means big consulting dollars to try and put it all together.

This is such a massive unforced error by GM. No way am I buying a vehicle that does not have CarPlay. My apps and info move between all my cars currently and I do not even have to think about it.

26 lanes and it still gets gridlocked every day.

Any exhaust that sounds like gun shots or could be described as “brap brap”.  In car subwoofers.  Any forward facing lights that aren’t installed directly from the manufacturer.  Window tint past whatever percentage is required to safely block out the sun, and window tint on a windshield full stop.

With a pattern of events to show that it was foreseeable that something bad could happen, it doesn’t seem like quite as big of a stretch as it could be in charging parents for kids’ behavior. With documented cases of not only her knowing that he was driving at dangerously high speeds and that she was aware that such…

But as a parent of a minor, she is legally responsible for him. She knew he liked to speed (double highway speeds). She knew speeding could lead to an accident, or even death. She gave him access to the weapon he used to kill someone.

It’s been deleted, but did Dinan “do” them, or did someone else put Dinan upgrades on this car?

And you have to have a good bit of money to own any of those.

And now think about the fact someone that braindead has access to two M60's and other automatic weaponry.

Supply and demand, baby. Same price structure on cruise ships and movie theaters. And in defense of the gas station, a little pre-planning with fueling up before driving into the desert and traveling with plenty of water is simple common sense. 

On the few occassions I’ve seen these in person, I’m always shocked at how small they are.

The Delorean from Back to the Future

I understand that times are tough for Jalopnik right now, but whoever is currently maintaining your site has made it nigh-unreadable. Whenever you scroll to the bottom of an article, it leaves the article and takes you to a random Root web page. It’s absolutely maddening and I won’t be returning until it’s fixed,…