Get real, it’s not a valid ticket, and I place just as much blame on this officer’s supervisor and the judge that has upheld and tolerated them. A vehicle needs to be currently registered and inspected when on public roads. These vehicles are parked on private property and not being operated on public roads at the…

This saddens you? What about the absurd enforcement of traffic laws all over your state? The nasty habit of ticket cars going one mph over the limit on I-95? Shooting laser/radar from over head bridges? Hijacking/extorting out of state drivers on the most heavily traveled north south route on the east coast. No other…

All of this is yet more evidence that the software in our cars NEEDS TO BE OPEN SOURCE. You can take apart the mechanical parts, see how they work, and repair them. The customer needs to be able to do the same with the software that controls how the car runs and how it keeps its occupants safe.

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It’s a well-known fact that most German cars are limited to 155, and that removing the limiter is an easy way to get many of them (particularly the obvious V12 Mercs) to go much faster. But with this, you don’t have to. It’s a 2002 Porsche Boxter S, and it will zip to 60 in 5.2 seconds and on to an S65-trumping…

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Porsche-Bo…

This certainly puts a new perspective on the auto industry’s recent push to make reverse engineering in-car computer systems illegal.

Hopefully lawmakers finally kick into gear on this binding arbitration nonsense. Many people would say “if you don’t like it, don’t do business with them”, but as more and more companies require them, who are you going to do business with? Being forced to sign away your legal rights just to buy a product is wrong.

People say this all the time and even though that might have been true in the 2000’s, Cars today look nothing like this. They are bloated edgey, angry, have styling lines which make no sense, huge pillars and skinny windows I could go on and on. This car is timeless but it could never pass for a new car it’s simply to…

Did that in OR a few times; usually no big deal, but once the attendant came running up yelling at me, pulling out his phone supposedly calling the cops. I did my best “I’m not from around here” (not very convincing with WA plates...), and he finally calmed down. He was genuinely stressed out about it.

I’m also in Washington and my parents are in Northern California. Whenever I visit them I make sure the tank is full before crossing into Oregon and I fill up in California on the way back. No gas stops in Oregon, only food and bathrooms.

In Oregon (with California plates) you get out to do it yourself...

When I was new to the region and did not know of this stupidity, I was driving up the turnpike and had to stop for gas. I pulled up, turned off my car, and got out to pump the gas before three attendants, the clerk in the store, and my passengers all yelled at me to “Get back into the car!! We (They) have to pump it…

I'm from Tacoma and I avoid any and all trips through Oregon specifically because of gas stations.

Union guy named tony comes out of the bushes and files a grievance with your kneecaps.

When I was at OC for high school beach week, I was on a bus on my way to 85th Street for a party. A very poorly disguised “undercover” temp OCPD cop tried to get me to tell him “where the party at” by bribing me with a cold, congealed slice of pizza. While I was feeding him a falsehood like any other typical teenager,…

Let me see if I have this right.

I’m generally against the machinations of the police state, but I’m willing to make an exception here.