Yeah, while I cringed seeing the flappy paddles, intellectually I understand some people are just that lazy.

Hellcat Challenger question: why do half the trims offer a manual and half not? The Redeye trims don’t. 

I seem to recall that Fahrenheit 451 had extensive street-level surveillance.

Marginally safer cause there is only you

For when you want to practice social distancing everywhere you go, and everyone around you is encouraged to do the same.

Needed them on Florida beaches.

True enough, sorry shouldn’t have vented.

My problem with motivation is that I’m turning 50 this year. Not old, but old enough.

The chart is definitely underrepresenting the problem, since it’s only insurance claims (and not all states are handling the claims under the current load). That doesn’t make it bullshit, just incomplete.

like a Rocky punch

Certainly possible.

Jeep made them for a few years for (theory goes) rental fleets. Part-time 4wd is just another feature to confuse people and potentially cause damage when they use it on dry streets. 

Yep, that’s a common reaction.

I’ve seen estimates of around 150 million in the past, so maybe 2%? 

Well phooey.

This is reminiscent of those old-school driver’s ed movies of a car driving at 80mph directly into a wall. “Carnage on the highway”.

I saw a YouTube video by Jeep offering 0% loans for 84 months. 

Oh, yeah, this is just the first week, and some states are slower to implement lockdowns than others. “Brutal” doesn’t begin to capture how awful this is going to be.

You know what’s more astonishing than an 80% dive?

There’s also this: just because someone has it worse (and healthcare workers almost certainly do) doesn’t mean you can’t take action for your own safety.