Not sure I agree on #4, unless you’re talking about not wishing to interact with a strongly political seller. Right wing people tend to be “correct”, “proper” and “uptight”, especially ones who are younger and yet still conservative. This means they tend to see things in black and white, letter of the law, i.e.…

While all of the “red flags” listed in the article are absolutely valid, one thing that wasn’t mentioned is how the various flags are relevant or not, depending on what price-point of used vehicle you’re looking for. I think the only flag that holds for any vehicle (even $300 parts shells) is that of potential scams…

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…

Yes. This. (BTW, I’m a military pilot).

Flying is *FAR* less complicated than driving, from a automation standpoint, as the margins available for error in aviation are orders of magnitude greater than those for surface vehicles.

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…

I don’t see how it can’t result in fewer jobs. There will be no more manual work. Even highly skilled manual work, like piloting. Even if every one of those people were retrained for “thinking work” (and many can’t be—most ditch diggers aren’t in the profession out of choice), there aren’t enough “thinking” jobs for…

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.