As a senior in high school, I was doing a video project with some friends, filming in different locations and occasionally in the car, my first car, a green 98 firebird with T-tops.

Hook up some general anaesthetic to the AC unit and you’ve got on-demand kidney harvesters patrolling the streets. How do you arrest a traffic-navigating AI programmed for evil?

What about hacking? Wouldn’t it suck to step into a box with no controls, have the doors lock behind you, and be kidnapped right off the street? I can see fraudulent or compromised autonomous taxis leading to all kinds of trouble.

That only makes me want it more.

Everyone knows there’s only one answer, the true champion of convertibles.

I’m sure someone could make a pretty penny off of this.

Ditto! Guess we’ll have to share one.

Leave the mk3 alone! I’m saving up to get one in a year or two, and if you keep this up they’ll all be gone by then!

Original AAMCHAAGEAS

You make a good point. I have a mystic teal 98 firebird right now, but I admit most cars don’t have enough curves (or 90s cheesiness) to pull it off.

What do you say about mystic teal (aka blue AND green)?

The fools. When the world is flooded with Camaros, the Firebird will rise from its ashes and claim the throne!

You drain the cool water while filling with more hot water. Bath maintained.

I’ve spent 4 hours in a bath before. I could totally do 8 to 10 in a hot tub if someone dared me, but beyond the 3 hour mark you really need something to do to fend off the boredom.

Just shy of the top of a huge hill, at night, on a narrow road, just before a blind corner, I ran out of gas for the first and only time ever. Had I made it to the top, I could have easily coasted all the way down the other side to a gas station. My mom had to get out of the shower, fill up a can of gas, and bring it…

Tier 5: own a Porsche. That’s quite an entry barrier there.

As useful as this is, I can’t help but hold some negative feelings toward this notification, due to the sheer number of vans on craigslist which are missing their back seats as a result. I just want a fun people-hauler, darn it!

Great read!

To be fair, if the entire front end crumples, that’s less energy being deposited in the occupants, so you’re really safer that way anyway.

I think the issue is that the software engineers are also directing the design.