Perfect if we want to drive structurally compromised POS and trust what will most surely be poorly maintained and cleaned robots to swap these out without causing damage to the contacts, the design of which is another issue. Ever have an engine not start to find that those tight battery connections, while tight enough…

“Get with the times, bro—this isn’t the same Hyundai from, like 20 years ago.”

I’m watching the video embedded in the article. Are you watching the same one? The Yaris has its brakes on the whole time until just before the LR hits—too late to be anticipated and certainly in no way giving any excuse to the LR to be expecting such—and that blue car is in its own lane the whole time. There’s…

That blue car (Peugeot?) remains in the left lane, which appears to be a left-or-continue-around-the-roundabout lane, it doesn’t cut them off. But, even if it did cut in, the Yaris has its brakes on the whole time until just before the stupid eunuch hits it and flips itself over. It looks like the Yaris starts to move…

Does this mean there might be suckers looking to unload cars with un-upgradable 3G at a discount to people who don’t need whatever pointless features are now gone? I actually thinks it makes those cars more valuable to no longer be connected and vulnerable.

I had a book as a kid called “Great German Cars” or something like that which included this. I thought it was so fascinatingly visionary and always stuck with me. That designs like this were never picked up by anyone else, even during times of rationing, was early testimony to me that most people are stupid and…

Last night, the coyotes were howling somewhere in the woods around me. Second best neighbors I’ve ever had. Best was a skunk I named Lockheed who lived somewhere behind a more urban apartment I lived in. It would come out around sunset and I’d toss it some food and it would hang out while I talked to it for a few…

Certainly a lack of experience is a danger that is under-appreciated by too many, but discounting the obvious recent damage, nothing about that boat nor their story says properly adequately maintained to me.

Yeah, with all the fairly rave reviews for they drove, I had one as a loaner and expected it to be like a bigger, more comfortable Focus, but it was just a Ford Camry (at best) with less comfortable seats than the Focus.

I just bought a $6k 200k mile 2008 Camry 5-speed to get me by for a few months that was a much better buy than an Ecosport at any price. The $6k is still a fairly high a price, if not for the market, but not absurd and the car is in great shape and runs well, just needs a motor mount. Something like that is a much…

That was the one that got me! Made no sense on so many levels. There were multiple other options there, all of which were better, including (and I can’t believe I’m typing this for an Ecosport) buying a new one as they’re not much more money new, have trouble selling even in this market (they were about the only…

Yeah, my road bike barely gets used, either. I won’t ride on the streets around me as they’re winding roads with no shoulders and the typical idiot drivers. Other people ride in groups around here, but I also had to stop to see if I could help someone who got hit by a car even with being in one of those groups. Plus,…

Name it after a sales bomb, that’ll do it! Although, the original was too far ahead of its time while this one might be behind its competitors, so at least they’re trying a different strategy.

Sounds about right.

And bikes are usable for a long time. I have a 1912 bike. It’s a racing bike, but at some point (I imagine during WW2 fuel rationing or maybe the Great Depression or both), it was put into utility service as the seat stays show evidence of having an old fashioned clamp-on rack put on at one time. I could ride it…

Most prefer easy jobs that don’t require special tools, are simple to diagnose where they can usually beat the book time, and aren’t likely to have the customer back (and angry) when those fixes didn’t work or because they broke something else in the process of fixing the first thing. A lot of independent mechanics…

Get a Power Probe. It’s a test light that can apply power or ground. Also, if the car smells, the electrical issues could be rodent damage.

You already mentioned aircraft. 

Yeah, my car was running perfect until the head cracked suddenly. Now I’m in a 200k mile ‘08 Camry that cost $6k and it was easily the best deal I found on anything with about a month and a half of looking. Probably the manual transmission reduced demand and I has a little luck tied to a bit of ruthlessness (the…

Also, the pollution from billionaire asshole vanity rockets.