These robot cars programmed and controlled with everything Joan Claybrook and Ralph Nader wanted to force in the 70s,80s,and 90s. They are not autonomous as every decision will be like having Joan Claybrook in control. For revenue purposes speed limits and other traffic control devices are set up not to match actual…

The future cars predicted for now and the past are cooler than the cars we have now. The cars predicted for the future now are worse than the cars we have now.

It’s not interesting. It’s a curiosity from a 2017 point of view but from a 1988 point of view it’s just a van with a manual transmission. Back in 1988 MTs were still offered in wide range of vehicles. Sadly in most cases only for those who ordered theirs instead of buying off the dealer lot. Dealers generally…

Trump and most of the republicans are not trying to destroy obamacare, they are trying to usurp it and guide the spoils to republican cronies and away from democrat cronies. 

The purpose of Obamacare, Trumpcare and everything else for the last century is how to feed ever greater proportions and amounts of americans’…

The robot cars (they are not autonomous, they will be state & corporate controlled) will make things a bit more problematic with regards pulling over anyone at any time at first. But how are these vehicles going to handle information? The vehicle could simply tell police it just left a bar. Or the police will get to…

So it’s an automatic with a manual mode controller that resembles a manual transmission shifter. Blah.

If you want to ride you’ll follow the rules the government has laid out. The government’s rules come from the control freaks in society and the owners (see George Carlin). The control freaks don’t want you smoking weed or drinking alcohol or any such thing. The owners know such things will harm your productivity and…

DUI laws are much too profitable and give government powers it would need to find another excuse for. As such they will never be rolled back in any shape or form.

Unless things have changed recently the general public can’t buy at Copart yards. Without a state license for dealership, repair shop, or salvage yard you aren’t allowed to register and bid. That’s not to say a determined person couldn’t find a way but copart isn’t like the ‘open to the public’ auto auction.

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This thing is rather very simple. It’s just geometry. There’s no springs, no mechanism. Make it out of an appropriate material and there won’t be a problem for many thousands of cycles.

Someone who took their time and had some skills could make one of these bump stocks. By the looks of it one could be made from wood or block of plastic. Put some metal in the right places to reduce sliding wear and good to go. Making it look nice is the harder part than making it function well.

All terms will get a legal definition one way or another. Then people will work around those definitions. Simulate will get a certain definition relative to what exists for automatic weapon. Then that definition will be worked around.

Instead government making things illegal tends to increase the danger because the workarounds generally don’t work as well, things become more difficult to detect, and things like drugs become more concentrated and powerful to make smuggling easier.

The big gun manufacturers would love a no modification bill just as the car manufacturers love all attempts to prevent modification of automobiles. The customer becomes captive to whatever they want to charge.

I look at that opening illustration and this is what I see:

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The stories of skipping a gas station because of this or that preference are just silly. Here’s what I do if I am low on fuel.... I stop at a station that may be too expensive or not a preferred one or whatever and buy a couple gallons of fuel. Sometimes five if I have a longer trip and gasoline is cheaper where I am…

Why would anyone name a product one ingests “soylent”?

Why would anyone name a product one ingests “soylent”?

The surveillance state is not being built to protect ordinary people. That’s not its purpose and never was its purpose. A nice secondary might be useful for thing that makes a good sales pitch though. Neither is it a purpose of treating everyone like a classroom full 1st graders and banning everything the slowest,…