Key word is “Factory”, and some owners are unaware that their cars are equipped with manually adjustable tilt with a control on the dashboard, and drive on lowbeams that are pointing up.

Or with no taillights because they didn’t turn on the headlights and they’ve mistaken the DRLs for headlights.

There are aftermarket systems that flash the high brake light rapidly several times EVERY time the brakes are used. These are annoying as fuck. As I understand it, these are often added to a vehicle and tacked on as a ~$500 charge at F&I to people who don’t know any better.

Here in Texas I don’t think that the safety inspection requires the high brake light to be working. I certainly see a lot of non-functional ones every day.

I can sell you one, used. From a little old lady who only drove it to church on Sundays. No money down, 25% interest, 108 month term.

Yeah, it will slow the adoption of 84 and 96 month car loans. Think of the bank shareholders! What can he be thinking?

Don’t we all have a soul? Ottis and James Brown got Soul.

Isn’t “a bit unemployed” in the same category as being “a little bit pregnant?”

“I signed aboard this ship to practice medicine, not to have my atoms scattered back and forth across space by this gadget.”—Dr McCoy

Wasn’t there an article awhile back about an apology that was issued because one of the trains in Japan was something like 20 seconds early?

Is it strange that I’d rather go 750 mph in a closed tube than take a self-driving cab ride through San Francisco?

Yeah, you could argue that there’s an alarmist push in the media, at least on Jalopnik, but I haven’t seen much in the mainstream media. That doesn’t mean that it’s not there though. I doubt it will kill that many jobs, but this is the type of action where job loss is going to be a smattering of jobs over a large…

What I’m seeing is that the general read on the issue is that you may be adding a few jobs in steel, but we’re loosing more working class jobs in other industries because of the tariffs. That’s hardly taking pleasure in hurting the working class.

Yeah, I didn’t try to read the WSJ article because of the paywall.

Reading the article I didn’t get the impression that they would only look back a few months. It certainly wouldn’t make sense to do that, not if you are actually trying to determine if someone is likely to pay back a loan.

So not taking out loans and keeping plenty of money in the bank for extended periods makes you a higher risk if you do take out a loan? Because that’s what you are saying, and it doesn’t make sense.

One company can’t save the world, but on the other hand every company can do what they can to avoid obvious harms. Low hanging fruit and all that.

Fair enough. TIL.

“The release goes on, saying analysts controlled for a number of factors, including: “differences in the rated driver population, insured vehicle fleet, the mix of urban versus rural exposure, unemployment, weather and seasonality.”

There’s too many differences to weed out to make a legitimate comparison.