A friend of mine works in the used car department at a dealership for one of the major car manufactures. They buy a lot of cars at auction to supplement the ones they get as trade-ins. He told me that the GM expects $4K to $5K profit from each used car.

Supercapacitors take up more space for the same amount of stored energy than lithium cells, so the idea doesn’t seem that great.

Most politicians in DC are already millionaires. What you are really saying is that no one who isn’t already a millionaire should run for/be in office, because no one who isn’t a millionaire can afford to live and work in DC while having a home back in their own state. Good luck with that.

While IANAL, a quick search seems to indicate that court decisions on Terry Stops allows cops to ask for IDs for everyone in the vehicle, not just the driver. You can also be detained if you fail to identify yourself.

How common is it for people to press too hard while brushing?

How common is it for people to press too hard while brushing?

I always thought that it was floss, then brush.

I always thought that it was floss, then brush.

Me too. David’s on Instagram, fwiw.

A thousand times yes to that! A reasonable number of low-resource, non-obtrusive ads are more likely to get attention, and thus revenue, than a page filled with resource-hogging, glaring, loud, obnoxious ads.

You’ve asked me to sign up for some fucking newsletter over a dozen times, I’ve clicked cancel the same number of times, yet that same pop up for signing up still shows up! WTF!?! /endrant #fuckGMG

You have a brilliant future ahead of you in marketing/sales.

Get David Tracy on TheDrive and I’m gone.

I won’t even try it on my phone.

Do you sometimes stop to admire the green glow? /s

Also lights on non-emergency vehicles. Trash trucks with yellow flashing LEDs, road constructions vehicles with the same (and not near a construction zone). Moving, mind you, with lights that are either way too bright, or distracting.

The Sonicare Essence. Got it for $20 on Amazon. Hear me out: I bought this shortly after going in for my usual teeth cleaning. That cleaning removes a noticeable amount of stains from daily coffee drinking that regular brushing wasn’t removing. With the Essence, I can’t tell that there’s any staining at all. And your…

The Sonicare Essence. Got it for $20 on Amazon. Hear me out: I bought this shortly after going in for my usual teeth…

We’re talking highway speed trap stops, not chasing a suspected felon tearing off from the crime scene.

The world record is probably for stock production vehicles.

Agreed, she must be one of those rare people who can tell to within a fraction of an inch where the tire/body of the car on the opposite side of the driver is in relation to the cones, which no doubt contributed to the record. And likely due to honing her skills in karts. Good on her, and best of luck in the future.

I’d guess that the cars don’t meet the requirement for patrol/pursuit, so the administrative. There was a story years ago that the CHP forgot to put in a minimum top speed for the vehicles, and the cars they got on the wining bid were too slow to catch anyone driving an even slightly sporty vehicle. The joke was that…

Because when they were kids GM was new and exciting, and their parents drove GM cars that were actually considered reliable relative to everyone else. GM changed over the years, isn’t any of those things anymore, and a lot of old people don’t realize it.