I find the voice control great for having incoming texts read to me and/or making calls. I don’t recall using it for anything other than that, though.

the verge... massive fuck off pothole... council cunts... couldn’t be arsed

Perhaps I’m the only ignorant bastard who needed to Google SEMA to find out what it was, but I kinda doubt it. This is why it’s cool to write out acronyms on first use.

One that’s kind of implied but not outright stated is: be prepared for seemingly decent people at the time of the accident to turn into giant liars after the fact. Don’t assume their saying “I’m so sorry, I was distracted, I didn’t look...” will insulate you from blame. Many people will do a complete 180 where they lat…

Just one more reason why manual transmissions rule.

It’s gotta be the Coot, an articulated 4WD amphibious vehicle. Crawls over rocks, can climb trees, and cross rivers and lakes. I understand the Coot2 now offers a luxurious hydrostatic drive system. But if you want a machine you can fix in the middle of nowhere with the most basic of tools and the most basic of…

I only buy new cars, which means I have bought very few cars. I do extensive research and have never ended up with a car I wasn’t completely satisfied with. I have never had a car that contained surprises, courtesy of some stranger who did gawd knows what to it and/or in it. I drive them until they drop, so…

It’s like a scene from Superman. Unbelievable. God was watching over those children.

Virtually all the tickets I have received have been earned, and the cops have almost always knocked the speed on the ticket down a bit to make the financial hit a bit less painful. One incident, however, presented an interesting “lesser of two evils” thought experiment. I decided that speeding was safer than remaining…

You want to have gas-propelled cars.

Yeah, you need to be talking to a therapist a lot more than you might already be. What happens when you go into that “state” with your actual wife?

Stupid, yes. Understandable (by me)? Also yes.

Back in high school, middle of winter, going out to a friend’s cabin on an island on Lake of the Woods in NW Ontario. The ice road would get you pretty close to the island, then it was a short walk to the cabin. We would go out to hang out and drink beer, have a bonfire, roast weenies, etc. The usual cabin stuff. We…

I discovered that if I scroll only as far as absolutely necessary, it doesn’t happen. Still extremely annoying, but at least I can read articles and comments.

I posted about this in a couple of other places as well. I finally figured out the bit about not scrolling any farther than absolutely necessary. Extremely annoying.

Sorry to hijack the thread, but something very weird is going on with Kinja. (This is one of very few articles where I can make it to the comments.)

I would like to add: if you’re going straight at a red light on a multi-lane street and there is zero to little traffic, don’t get in the right lane. Some people want to make that right on red

I bought my first smartphone in 2014, a Samsung Galaxy S5. It still works; why should I replace it?

Clearly.