This is bullshit Kabuki Theater! A wiring harness issue does not keep the car off a turntable at NAIAS. Keep in mind, this car has been driving around the country, in camouflaged near-production trim for almost a year now. No, what’s keeping it off the Cobo Hall stage are the optics and certain political outrage of…

Time it next time using your wristwatch, not just your mental clock—I think you’ll surprise yourself. I know I did. You’re busy when you stop at a gas station on a trip, so time passes quickly. Also, unless you’re stopping for gas when the needle only reaches 1/2, or you drive a Volt (9 gallon tank), you’re taking…

I disagree—There’s plenty of charging available (in the US), if someone wants to do 5-10 minutes of online “flight planning” before they hop in their Bolt/Tesla/Leaf/i3 and hit the interstate. The issue is that no one wants to drag out a road trip, taking 20-minute Reader’s Digest shits, browsing the aisles of Chinese…

In today’s world with the current infrastructure, if someone cannot charge at home they really should not own an electric vehicle.  It just doesn’t make sense right now, for people in that scenario.  In 3-5 years it will likely not matter as much, if at all.

If you were on a trip and stopped at a gas station, you probably did spend 15 minutes and just didn’t notice the time go by, if you did the following that most people do at gas stations on road trips:

Filled your tank
Pulled your car into a parking space so as not to block the pump
Went inside to pee
While inside, bought…

Great driver...without the manual
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Gold medal...Special Olympics

I walked up to the Avista turntable at NAIAS two (three?) years ago, reviewed the specs posted on the acrylic stand—400+HP, turbo V6, RWD, auto, 2dr. coupe—and turned to all the equally open-mouthed, wide-eyed onlookers around me and asked aloud “Do you know what you’re looking at, if Buick builds it?”

As many grappled…

Police are not authorized to use a PIT maneuver until/unless a subject is fleeing in an automobile (not a motorcycle or scooter) in a manner that directly endangers the lives of others around them in the immediate, such as high speeds on busy secondary roads, wrong way on a highway, driving on the sidewalk, etc. And…

But please...enlighten me...and the british police as well...because none of this “infinite methods” seems to have had any effect

Don’t forget selfies, both inside and standing in front of the crippled bird, blocking the approach of crash trucks and emergency vehicles. Lots and lots of selfies...

Exactly this! Legally, in a force continuum situation (look it up if you’re not familiar with the term-of-art), the intent to stop matters vastly less than the level of force employed to affect the stop, in comparison to the underlying crime or resistance.

Ex 1: A peace officer, or a McDonalds clerk, may stop a…

Do you realize that’s not what the article is about?

Um...the alternatives are any number of nearly infinite law enforcement methods that don’t involve the deadly force method of ramming a theft suspect on a scooter with an automobile.  This is the point.

I’m not going to engage in the toxically charged debate over US police “executing” blacks. But purse snatchers on scooters (yes, this is what the article is about, not the myriad of other deadly criminal permutations brought up in comments) do not pose “a clear and present danger to the public”. In fact, that is my…

Yep it is. And in non-totalitarian western society, the crime of eluding police does not involve deadly force, and thus deadly force may not be employed to affect an apprehension.

And once again, that’s not what the article is about.  It’s about purse snatching from scooters.

You’re ignorant of the law—there doesn’t have to be. Google the legal terms “deadly force” and “force continuum”, dumbass.

Actually, it’s about the very legality of employing an act of deadly force against a suspect who has not done the same.

They are different in the level of their liklihood to cause death, under the reasonable man standard.  A “reasonable man” understands that shooting at someone or ramming them with your vehicle is readily likely to cause death.  Tazing or puncing someone is not, despite the fact that it can and has in unique…

Deadly force is deadly force, reagrdless of whether death actually result. People are shot all the time who do not die, but utilizing a firearm is ALWAYS deadly force, even if you miss altogether with your aim. Ramming someone with your vehicle is no different—it’s an act that can readily result in death.