You like the belt, huh? Well how will you like it when you're. . . . . . cold as ice?

How tall are you? I'm 6'5" and most of the time my knees are already painfully pressed against an unreclined seatback. I 100% guarantee that your inability to recline isn't even a fraction as "uncomfortable" as when someone reclines into my knees.

The issue with aluminum relative to steel won't be rigidity, it will be fatigue resistance. You actually want some compliance in a HD pickup to cope with the bigger insults from loads/terrain. At the same overall strength level, steel will have considerably more compliance than aluminum, and it will hold up to way…

My grandmother lives in rural Kenya. As far as she knows, a Mustang is a horse, skirts can be Mini, Beetles eat her maize, and a Corolla is a Toyota.

The Corolla is one of the most well known names in the world. It's sold in nearly EVERY country. If not the Corolla, then the Land Cruiser definitely. I LOL at people who think it's the Mustang that's the most recognizable.

I think the point of his kid asking for the cigs is so they wouldn't get wet?

I think the problem here is that we're calling them "self-driving cars". If we called them "transport pods", more people would be more inclined to embrace the Google car as an evolution of our commuting infrastructure.

You'd utilize a subway system in an abnormally large airport [like SFO] rather than walk from one end…

If they are both smokers, why wouldn't he?

Oh, look, another butthurt person that can't stand the idea that people could be having fun with something.

I'll disagree a little. The frame of the truck is still steel. What we're talking about is aluminium body panels. As for rigidity, aluminium is pretty great. The only practical experience I have with it is in bikes, however with thin wall/wide diameter tubs aluminium is more rigid than steel and significantly lighter.…