Properly sized in that they will stop you within the legal required stopping distance. then yes. Properly sized in that it will stop you in the same distance as the small econobox in front of you... sorry no.

Some of that ‘Lifestyle Creep, can be avoided... but much of it is just life. I recall when I started out in my career I thought, if I ever earn $50K dollars a year, I can invest half of that, and in just a couple years retire. Haha... youthful ignorance.

It is not uncommon when a company is sold, that the new owners will offer the outgoing CEO (especially if they are the founder or have been a major force behind the companies growth) and advisory roll. Then once the deal is closed, they say we don’t need your advise, thank you very much, here is your severance check.

Ummm, unless the lane ended 3/4 of a mile after you managed to get in, your not doing a proper zipper merge. To be honest, in the US most people probably don’t have a clue what a zipper merge actually is and since it really requires every one doing it the same for it to work, its basically meaningless here. In Germany…

Go to a classic Fiat 500 race.... good action on TV.... terrible at the venue. They really just need to simplify rules, and limit wing sizes. Too much wings kills action. MotoGP got it right in banning the winglets. In fact while the official reasoning behind them was to prevent wheeling, many suggested it had a…

I am not a Nascrap fan.. as evident by the fact I call it Nascrap... But I have been known to go to a race when I happen to be nearby when one is being held... the ONE and ONLY reason I go... The noise and thunder of the field of cars racing past the grandstand, especially in a tight pack, is something that ought to…

I was at a club race at Hockenheimring, in Germany. for most of the race they used a Porsche Boxster, but for the final race (ironically an all Porsche 911 race) the pace car was not working. They enlisted one of the other race cars... an Original ACE Cobra 427. After much work figuring out how to strap the lights to…

My Brother is 8 years older than me, so when he was in high school, I was still in elementary school. When I got to high school, and got my license, he told me this story as a warning about paying attention when driving.

When I was in Germany, there was a news article about odometer tampering on digital odometers. I’m going by memory as it was so long ago I doubt I could find it in the time I am willing to spend on this. Basically people would remove the instrument cluster, pull the chip responsible for storing the odometer reading…

I would not call it slams on the gas, not sure if someone above worded it that way. However as the Toyota driver is moving into the middle lane, the Cop is clearly gently slowing with traffic. His brakes lights are on the entire time. As the Toyota continues to move over making it clear he is going to move into the…

I would tend to say in normal situations its a both at fault situation. The white Toyota does not have the right to push his way in. If his lane was ending both parties are suppose to do a zipper merge, but that’s not the case here. But even then forcing your way in while way too often is the only way it’s still not…

My thought exactly, plus, a laser is far more sensitive so you could encode more information. But most importantly people don’t have to listen to the noise of a rumble strip as they drive.

First, cameras don’t pick up rain very well. To make it appear like a light rain movies create a near torrential down pour with fire hoses, and then they have to light up the water for it to kind of sort of appear like it’s raining. Your best guide is how wet the roads appear, and the speeds of the wipers.

If I remember my history correct, Eleanor Roosevelt was really the first, First Lady to use her position to advocate for things. Most the First Lady’s since have followed in her foot steps. It would be nice to see her decide to take things a different route.  

My Mom always did left foot breaking. For the road, I certainly understand why they say not to do it. When ever I followed my Mom in her car I would see the brake lights come on because she had her foot prepared for breaking, and it was enough to turn on the brake lights even though she was not slowing down. For…

Deeper snow is easier then a little snow, unless it’s a dry snow. Twice in my life so far I’ve come up on a snow plow being pulled out of the ditch... big highway department snow plows. In both cases it had been raining all day, and then we got about 1" of snow on top of the rain.

Clearly Minneapolis. More rural places, don’t get plowed that efficiently... so you have to learn to drive in the snow and ice. you can tell the locals they drive the speed limit in 5in of snow on top of last weeks packed snow.

I don’t think many people expect Louisiana, or anyplace else that far south to deal with snow. But look how far North into Oregon that light green goes, and even the very light blue all the way up to Seattle. A friend of mine from Seattle basically gave the same excuse you give. No plows, nobody has snow tire. Seattle…

Interesting that except for Phoenix every place I have lived (that’s on the map) has been in the 24"+ zone, but apparently within one county away from the 12"

OK.. should have been obvious. know that I see the explanations, from everyone, but somehow I never made that connection of the direction the force is exerted. Some how in my mind .18 g’s still sounds weird, but at least I know understand why it is less then 1.