The probably isn’t the airbags or crumple zones, it’s that they don’t come standard with any nannies other than a chime to remind you to plug in your seat-belt, and since it didn’t score a percentage in that area, it automatically got knocked down to zero.

The flying car is not really a technological problem: it’s a people problem.

Eventually, those China factories (which are usually contractors and NEVER wholly-owned subsidiaries) decided they didn’t need the American “mother” company...

“Witness 70 year old American iron tooling around Havana. Cars DO NOT just wear out.”

I used to read every Cracked article and get a laugh from most of them. Now they are just dark and depressing and express opinions that reflect very little understanding of their subject matter.

The fact that the Optima looks way better than the Malibu to begin with still tilts the scale slightly in the Stinger’s favor.

I was going to reply that Stef could have left “Driving” out of the title and it would have still been 100% accurate.

To be fair, Cracked doesn’t understand 95% of what they make articles and videos about

it’s a special name for a pepper to make it apparent that some people don’t know their peppers from their sport peppers. similar to calling a specific shade of green ‘forest green’, and then mocking anyone that calls it ‘green’.

It will rise again...just give it like 20 minutes.

Split the difference, adopt the Penix as a mascot:

They usually use the below scale to tell them what to do.

VW is like a spouse who got caught cheating and is now legitimately working on becoming a better person. Electric rear wheel drive Beetle? I am intrigued.

OK, well, there can be minor regression in certain areas without affecting overall progress. At least Toyota seems to be working on bringing back tail fins.

Fake. There were no cell phones back then. How could someone possibly have taken a video.

The amount of technological development that happened in the first half of the 20th century must have been absolutely mind-blowing for the people old enough to have lived through the whole thing. We went from dirt streets in major cities, families living in tenement apartments with a bathroom down the hall, horse…

why do we only associate peg legs with pirates?

As long as we also end corn subsidies, funding to the Middle East to stabilize oil production, and tax breaks for oil companies I’m ok with this too.

We should make a new standard that meets everyone’s requirements.

This is a myth. I went to Malaysia two years ago and got sneezed on a bunch, and nothing bad ever happened to me, unless you count that sometimes I lose track of what I’m doing right in the middle of