I read once that a 10mph variation on highways costs around 10% mpg IIRC. It may be different with current tech. Still it means that ECO-boost, fuel management, and economy modes look fine on paper, but don’t always transfer to application. With a dongle and Torque app for example, I find I get better mileage in hilly…

I drive a sporty Hatch with DI, adequate power, and decent gas mileage in a hilly to mountainous area. On I’s, High’s, and expressways, I like to set the cruise control and leave it. However...

Navistar’s commercial offerings would never survive the market if they weren’t bolstered by the company’s municipal contracts, defense contracts, and tax breaks.

You REALLY want to see suspicious over compensation: bring up ID and flaccidity.

Oooo! Maybe they're planning an update too coincide with a conference announcement and someone screwed up prices while coding a placeholder before it goes live!?

Worked for me about 15 mins ago, but only after a 2nd try. I’d imagine the server may have gotten flooded and bogged.

I get this, but let’s frame it properly: Yes he’s white, but he’s also an athlete from an at least reasonably wealthy family at an Ivy League School. Blue collar kid from community college would be a perfectly disposable example for a false narrative that justice actually exists for rape victims.

Gonna iron this out right away:

Florida had, and I assume still has, an automatic license forfeiture if you refuse tests. The way I understand this, they ruled there wasn’t adequate probable cause for a test in the first place, so the forfeiture didn't apply.

As a Rider I get the same stomach knot that everyone else does seeing this, but I wonder if it’s going to become a, “They had me cornered and I feared for my life” scenario. Florida is a Stand your ground state after all.

Stickshifts and Safetybelts

Can sympathize. Was forced to 2 wheel for many weeks on an ADV bike when I first moved. I quickly learned that I had to give myself an extra 45 mins just to come down from the fight or flight response. To get comfortable and complacent in the that scenario is to abandon self preservation, and it seems like that's the…

The eventual solution seems to be what I think of as flipping the HOV concept: priority lanes for autonomous only, fewer lanes for the human behavior/error lanes. Growing pains, and maybe even safe following distance trolls until this pans out.

I honestly don’t think it’s something you’ll have to worry about. I’m sure there will be autonomous only cars SOME day, but I foresee driver control being at least an option until way after any of us are out of the transportation planning equation. It just doesn’t make any sense, financially or otherwise, to force it…

I don’t think autonomous control will become standard equipment or a matter of mandatory compliance for MANY decades, and even then ONLY in populous areas - though that does mean mean a radius around major cities, 60% of California, and the entire eastern seaboard north of DC in the US.

Why is it terrible? Do you commute more than 15 minutes a day in or around a city of more than 800k? It’s hellish mindbending exercise in loosing faith in mankind. Took 2 hours to go 40 miles on Fri solely because of a rash of fender benders, congestion, and the “I have to get 3 car lengths ahead RIGHT NOW in this…

I showed him my wallet. It’s the one that says Bad Mother Fucker on it. He knew enough to high tail it. We laughed at his dumb ass and threw our crushed beer cans at him. Then headed back to the Pussy Wagon to cruise for foxy hitchhiking backpackers: Grass, gas, or ass baby.

What's the financial commitment of giving these a try? Armada specifically, but really any of the SW combat table top series.

This is also how I envision every Honda Insight owner in my head.

Wow, that’s actually kind of... Yeah. Wow. Right?