Doors have nothing to do with it. It’s all the drivetrain, thus sayeth the LAW.

We’re really already there. This isn’t highway entrance ramp fun anymore; this is “do you want warp 9, or warp 9.5, when you slam on the brakes to not meet the corolla already on the highway”.

Shit.  I’m surrounded.  I’m just south of Castle Rock.  

GAAH! More [H] people stalking me. Been in Colorado from the beginning; what part are you near? How you liking the RX? Thought about getting one of those a few times, but I worry about the short trips I sometimes have to take and the thing flooding :p

It makes up 90% of Luxury car sales in Colorado, which is the only place I particularly care about, since I both have to buy AND sell here. RWD BMWs or Cadillacs are toys; they’re not usable for a significant part of the year, and both resale and value fall drastically as a result. The only ones that do sell are…

... I think I had the ZL1 and the G37 back then.  Still have the ZL, now have an M550 and an NB Miata.  All is quite good, hope the same on your end.  Miss the old crew, those were fun days.  What you working on these days? 

International flight - recline all you want.

Wranglers break all the rules.

Oh absolutely, even definitely, but we have orders of magnitude for battery density before that works for large airliners.  Doable, I’m sure, with a lot of work - but we ain’t there yet.  

Yep, same dude ;)  

Never mind that almost ALL cars lose all their value over 5 years and 100+k.  That’s how cars work.  If you don’t want that, buy used. 

Single engine plane != 737.  

Not really, no.  Stuff that CAN happen by videocon does.  That which can’t, doesn’t.  So we fly.  

I’m younger.  I live on touchscreens.  I also fly and drive all the time and recognize when stateful vs stateless controls are important. 

Miss all the actual tactile buttons?  Buttons that never change function and don’t move? 

Agreed, with the following addendum: I’d buy the Porsche just because they put in the effort of making a driver-focused car, instead of “enabling autonomy” with a giant touchscreen and ~nothing else~ for controls.

If you travel enough, you have Pre. You likely have clear as a backup (either paid for earlier that year, or do the 5 minute signup and move through). Convenience costs. As for security timing - I’ve never waited in line for more than 10 minutes at Seatac, and I went through there at LEAST twice a month for the first…

Risks going through security? That’s 5 minutes. Clear and Pre. Be late? Nah, never has happened, just planning there. Accident in the cab?  Call an uber and get a move on (that’s happened, but it was actually my rental after a semi rear-ended me near Seattle - I was on the way to Seatac).  Always leave plenty of time…

I’d cry.  Definitely cry.  Especially at LaGuardia. 

I’ve never had to take flights like that.  I decline if work pushes me towards those - I’ll leave earlier, or stay an extra night somewhere to travel during normal hours.  I’m worth too much to be “stuck” in an airport too much (both from their perspective and mine), even if I’m on my own dime.