(Shrug) Those complaints are often very valid. Regulation has a cost, just like anything else. How many more people have died on the highways since the TSA made flying such a pain in the ass after 9/11, catching a grand total of 0.0 terrorists in the process?

I don’t get the fire extinguisher. If your car catches on fire, you don’t want it back, believe me. Get to a safe distance and break out the marshmallows.

Wouldn’t surprise me if it did. These “races” are usually won in the tire shop. IIRC the current Camaro has posted Nordschleife times ahead of everything made by Porsche short of the 991TTS, and maybe the 918.

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.

Pro tip: stay off of anything made by Airbus.

At some point you’re just fucked. Got a problem widdat, stay outta space.

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.