Now I physically shift my body to see around the a-pillar as I come to a stop.

And with higher labour costs in Europe than US, it makes even less sense, unless they’re already using bicycles or something. I think a small hatchback would work better than this.

Not at all. It’s all about what effects it has to the parent company, not to the child company.

TIL Ford was under Japanese accounting and reporting requirements. I never said it was uncommon, I was pointing out just how much of Subaru Toyota owns.

There’s Japanese legal significance on 20%, which Toyota only achieved in 2019. 

And what’s so funny about that? Subaru and Toyota are partners!

Yep! Reliability figures from sample size of 1 grossly overstates things.

We literally only needed to go to and back from our hotel. Turns out their rental counter closed before our flight in, so we had to go to the hotel, and then return to get our car.

In this day and age, you can just uber/lyft, or if you’re in a metro area, ride an electric scooter.

It’s missing a whole bunch, which is probably the only reason I was able to find the answer in 6 tries. Unlike regular wordle, “oh look, I got one of the letters in my first try” doesn’t appear to be a good thing.

Wow the photo they used — maybe I’m a little jaded, but those women’s faces receiving the heavy-handed airbrushing, is it me or do they all fall into uncanny-valley-land?

When my uni was renovating one of the lab buildings, rumours say they found a bunch of old chemicals behind a sealed wall for the contractors to find, also without any secondary containment. They did call the local fire department’s hazmat squad a few times during their renovations.

The masks aren’t just for the wearer; they protect those around them. Cloth masks especially, favoured early in the pandemic due to supply issues, are incredibly asymmetric in whom they protect.

I mean, sure, but I’m not spending more than 48 hours to go from NYC to Denver, not when I can just fly it in a few hours.

ikr? and noone said “it’s as picturesque as a freight train”, except to mention something’s not.

Why spend seven hours stuck twiddling your thumbs on a private plane crossing the U.S., when you could instead make it a two-day trip surrounded by luxury as you take in the country’s scenery?

EVs and, to a lesser extent, hybrids are newer vehicles. They have not reached shitbox status yet. We won’t have a clear picture of their fire risk until then.

I mean 15 kV is no joke. Friend of mine works with that sort of voltage, and he was training someone on how to measure the value. His unshielded hand got too close (still good 50 cm — almost 2 ft in Freedom Units) and the resultant arc threw him backwards. No permanent damage thankfully.

Does every sector have all of the same equipment and access points to clear a crash, though?

I think there’s a misunderstanding. Before the race, we designate one or more passing areas (where it’s easy and relatively safe to pass cooperatively) in each of the sectors. During a safety car period, if the crash is in, for example, sector 1, the passing zone for sector 2 can be used but not ones in sectors 1 and…