Yes, that’s one failure mode.

I usually get the CDW. I justify it by saying I’m not buying insurance against a collision, I’m buying insurance against the gigantic hassle that I’d otherwise experience trying to get the credit-card people in New Jersey to play nice with the rental-car people in East Bumfuckistan while I’m back home in Seattle.

So here’s the thing - you have no expectation of privacy out on the roads.

I’m no expert but I can say that the on-road driving dynamics of the older Jeeps were just awful compared to the current model. It’s hard to exaggerate how much easier a JK is to live with. I’d even call it fun to drive, which is something few sane people would have said of the older ones.

Yeah, but the robots are getting better, and the humans aren’t.

Dude, if we can land a nuclear-powered golf cart on fucking Mars, we can design an autopilot that can land an Airbus in a river.

The reason we don’t have pilot less aircraft is the same reason we won’t see fully autonomous cars anytime soon - they still can’t handle the odd, the unexpect, and inevitable system failures.

That’s another seismic change that’s coming, that this (very long) article seems to omit for some reason. The notion of “owning” a car will soon be as obsolete as driving one. When your car is completely autonomous, it will also be completely interchangeable with everyone else’s, and that means you won’t want to…

An engine that small will feel gutless without forced induction, no matter how many other tweaks and mods you make.

Athletic department on line 2. Coach says put those goalposts right back where they were, or there’s going to be trouble.

Except when they are. Who funded the America’s Army franchise, again?

“Congratulations, Premier Xi. You have successfully destroyed the United States Pacific fleet. All our base are belong to you. You now have 20 minutes left to live, and we probably have about 25. Good job, asshole.”

Yeah, no. Statistically, that cop’s job is almost but not quite as dangerous as the guy who risked his life to bring you your last order from Domino’s.

Interesting, thanks — I’m probably misremembering what I pulled out when I did the upgrade. I didn’t spend much time examining them before I pitched them.

These are what you want. Spend the $$$ and do it right, seriously. You’ll thank yourself every time you turn on your lights.

Point being, “doing things just right” is trivial for anyone with a decent multiaxis CNC mill. It’s not 1944 anymore. The only real obstacle to building a multi-kiloton class device is getting your hands on the material.

This just in: car commercials are made by advertising agencies in New York City that are staffed by people who take a bus to work. Ric Romero has more on this late-breaking revelation at 10.

You wouldn’t necessarily care about the bomb, just the fissionable material inside it. The rest of a bomb is easy to build compared to the difficulty of getting (and machining) the core material.

That’s some Coen Brothers shit, right there.

The other legitimate use case is the Jeep Wrangler, which to this day is sold with sealed-beam headlights from the 1960s that are inadequate for any modern vehicle. LED upgrades are expensive because the whole headlamp has to be replaced... but as the article points out, you need to do that anyway.