It reads very similar to current Airbus technology. On a manual approach the pilot selects an attitude with the side stick and the aircraft handles the rest.

It’s political satire more than laugh-out-loud funny. At least that’s what I thought until I passed your link onto my wife.. who.. hasn’t... stopped... looking....at...them....all. And laughing like a hyena. Watching someone on Facetime do this is a little unnerving.

Thanks for the link - I consider myself duly educated! Still an aggressive target though...

If you don’t work for the NYT or the Washington Post, your skills are wasted! That’s one of the best non-partisan political pieces I’ve read on here.

Aha! I’m not sure I’d found Jalopnik in 2012, but that explains it very succinctly. I consider myself duly educated - thank you!

Thanks for that. It’s this kind of insight that keeps me coming back; I’m more than happy to be corrected if I get something completely wrong, or I’m out of synch with most peoples’ opinion, but it’s great to learn something and not just be called something rude!

It depends what you’re coming over for. I’d probably recommend waiting until the summer months for a first trip as the winters are essentially perpetually dark and really, really cold.

Well, it’s a US site aimed primarily at US readers so I’ve probably fallen through the cracks when it comes to this kind of knowledge. I’m British, my wife is Finnish, but we’re well travelled and I’ve always thought I was reasonably knowledgable about the stare of play and politics in the US - I’m over there roughly…

Yes, exactly that. Reversing legislation doesn’t have to tbe the Wild West by any means.

You haven’t seen deadpan until you’ve seen a Finnish girl stare at you. Stare at you until you cry, because you’ve said or done something she disagrees with. Your eyes will bleed and vacuums will form around her.

Norwegians are friendly and funny - they have a very dry sense of humour which gels well with our British outlook - but when they’re drunk they’ll kick you into the middle of next week. My experience anyway. If you want a fun place to visit, you can’t go wrong with Norway.

There’s a reputation for alcohol fuelled violence which is deserved in some cases - the Swedes and the Danes are not generally considered to fall into this category, but the Finns and the Norwegians (particularly) are.

Write to the editors and offer to pen an article that explains how a target of 54mpg translates to 40mpg in reality. Tell them you’ll explain to the readers how the footprint is important and that what we’ve been told is political nonsense. This is basically what you’re saying.

The secondary weapon is always going to be electronic against these things. A shotgun fired net is a weapon of last resort.

I’d need four different accents to pronounce that one - I can do ‘Johnny Foreigner’ with just the right amount of British disdain to mean ‘not you - the other foreign chap’ and not get anyone upset.

He’s talking about any regulation that makes manufacturers invest profits into research instead of handing them out to his shareholding, golfing friends.

On a gut feeling, I think you’re right, but I’m having a hard time thinking of any, especially related to cars.

I’ve always thought that early RHD cars emulated the practice of driving horse-drawn carriages on the right. Reins in the left hand, brake on the right. This could be utter nonsense but it’s the story I was told by someone much older and wiser than me.

We used to make a point of inviting the Finns and Norwegian women to all of our mess dinners whenever they were around. Because reasons.

Dear BMW NA,