OSHA and waste management. The chemistry and logistics of processing is easy. Putting people near that stuff and dealing with the byproducts is financially crippling in the USofA. China has an ample supply of land, coordinated government investment, and a cheap, renewable workforce that can’t complain.

I don’t want a new Ford F-150 Lightning unless its pedestrian rating is 5 out of 5 Mustangs.

This is probably the first time I’ve disagreed with you. Risk = probability x severity. Planes only occasionally crash so they must be good enough, right? It’s worth a rethink. Probably just need a special tool for the rare case this occurs.

Are you saying we need diversity in these bad videos? Would you have written this article if the women were non-white or non-women?

There’s nothing about its design that looks like it even could be used as a weapons platform.

I don’t know anyone that measures dead hookers in cubic decimeters.

It’s a turboshaft engine, not turbojet engine. It should breathe like a helicopter, not a jet-plane. Ram air will do little for the engine but will hold you back in general body aerodynamics - see spillage drag.

Trick question. The driver is wearing neither blue jeans nor boots; therefore he is not a cowboy.

If Jason doesn’t get around to to it, I’ll have to consult Mona Lisa Vito.

Jason, can you do a run down on all the “expensive cars” that ran full-width tail lights from this era? I’d like to understand the Monaco’s competetion and there’s only one person with enough thoroughness who could possibly pull the data together.

Now we know how he beat the hare.

As someone in the jet engine design business, there are compelling reasons to have different numbers of spokes on each of your rotating (and stationary) elements. As for the mix of centered vs off-centered, that’s a bit off-putting.

Come on. A Corolla that makes less power than my G37 from over a decade ago?

Tape it to a drone and spell ACAB in the sky.

and tow operators have a suitable tool or connector that works for Nissan vehicles

Also the only planet in the universe where “you” can have the pleasure of interacting with a car salesman and enjoying car salesman memes.

I’m willing to believe communist China is monitoring such references within and outside their borders. I’m willing to believe they would do unscrupulous things. I’d even be willing to believe they would take action against some random commenter on Jalopnik. But the idea that China could get kinja to work is a step too…

The concept of the magic carpet came from old Arabian tales. It was typical to line tents with large carpets in those days. The original magic carpet used by Prince Husain in 1001 Nights was a teleportation device and did not literally fly. In that case, it would’ve been a large carpet. For the modern interpretation…

It’s a protoype so you can only claim that it could theoreticlly reach 16" some time in the future. Individual user performance may vary. Results only valid in China.