You can use a dog for that kind of detection. Syrup density would be measured in the time it takes the dog to lick 50 ml of syrup off a plate at 20 degrees Celsius.

Driver: See, I told you, nuthin’ wrong here. Damn CAL-TRANS can shove it.

Nah, they used specialized equipment to find it. I have a pancake meter on my desk and it probably wouldn’t even beep if I had it stuck to the outside of my car going that fast.

I already have a complaint about the MK7 controls... removing more basic knobs and switches to move them onto a screen, hell no.

Yeah, like this was maybe, kinda-sorta one of those transportation stories that should have been given a pass.

Yes and no. Depending on the type of meter, you may need to drive very slowly. And some of those meters go off when the radiation from the sun hits them. I’m not volunteering to slowly drive down a highway in the Australian outback at night looking for that, thank you very much.

There’s a few ways to get a piece of plastic to look chromed.  One is actually to chrome plate the thing which is kind of a pain in the ass since plastic doesn’t conduct electricity, but it can be done.  But since the adhesion isn’t so good, you end up with the chrome flaking or peeling off easily.  And let me tell…

It’s definitely one of the best.  Any time I encounter a Mazda owner with this color I will congratulate them on choosing the only correct color choice offered by Mazda.

My job includes accident investigation and coming up with ways to prevent the incident from happening again. The airline, airport, FAA and NTSB will go over this and work on different potential solutions.

The price of scrap steel isn’t worth it. Even when thinking about huge ships, many ships get dumped in poorer countries and scrapped there. Ship breaking is mucho dangerous too so when scrap steel is at $20 USD a ton, no one wants to deal with it.

Looks like one of those cases where the lawyer threw a Hail Mary and it almost worked. Geico probably figured “The judge will toss this out, just file it and don’t waste your time.” Totally not sure of the legal aspect of this, but if the judge decided that since Geico didn’t show up for the initial hearings and thus…

Was this a newer SB or are you talking about driving a 10+ year old beetle in the snow?  I know they make defroster kits for those now, but I also know that once the cars started to get old, heat came with exhaust fumes if it came at all.  My ‘72 SB gets heat, but I’ve never had a chance to drive it in snow... it…

Might just be a Jeep thing... I had a Liberty (ugh) and for a Jeep product, you would think that people like to use those products in conditions like snow. Didn’t seem that way. Even with the max defroster on, I would have to open a window to keep the inside of the car from fogging up. But the defroster wouldn’t even…

Perhaps?

Sure is ugly... but a nice detail and one of the following mods and it’ll be fun: 1) artwork delete mod, 2) pain job, 3) wrapping it.

Don’t forget “the show must go on” mentality. My guitarist did something similar in his garage years ago. 3 Days in a burn unit. I saw him a week later and you could see the outline of where his safety glasses had been. His left arm took the brunt of it, from fingertips (outside of the hand, not the palm) almost to…

I think that’s based on the SUV’s size and weight where it may be considered a medium to heavy duty truck. There’s a bunch of factors, and standards are always changing, this article gets into some of it 

Hard to say, I’ve had cats hide in the closet, get locked in that closet, and then just sleep an entire day until the door was opened and pop out like nothing happened.

Yeah, the sponsorship has been quite questionable, especially that energy drink thing. We’ll probably never know exactly why HAAS is there, but if the exposure has meant more machine sales for them, then it might well be worth it. We have a few of their machines where I work and they must be damn good considering the…

Go watch some videos of people driving the wrong way on the highway.  You would think that seeing cars coming at you, like LOTS of cars, would be a solid indicator that you fucked up... but it ain’t.  And when they say ‘drunk’, there’s no way those people are just over the limit, they have to be near blackout drunk.