I’m glad to know that. My parents drove in the late ‘80s until the mid 90's, so that’s how recent my knowledge is. But given the scares they talked about with swinging meat trailers, I’m not surprised they ended that particular practice.

My parents drove from the late ‘80s until the mid ‘90s. Automatics were becoming a thing just as they retired. Dad grumbled a bit; Mom loved it.

Most of my knowledge is a couple decades old, but when my parents were driving refrigerated, they could end up with shipments of animal halves that were loaded as swinging meat. They said those cargoes were particularly dangerous because if the halves got to violently swinging while on the mountains, the trailer could…

I was also thinking about refrigerated units and swinging meat. Or how such a unit would behave going over the mountains. This demo is impressive, but I’d like to see more examples in working conditions before getting too much more excited.

*raises eyebrows* My parents were truckers, and I know my dad would have been extremely impressed by that acceleration. My mom would have loved not shifting as much.

To add: large airplanes take off at 170 MPH. The cars were going 190 MPH. Cars weigh far less than airplanes. That’s why the airflaps; they break up the suction going over the car and lifting it up into the air.

Saw the following license plate in Nebraska decade or more ago:

Jimmie Johnson, seven-time NASCAR Champion. Definitely qualifies for Zaddy. DILF status confirmed.

*reads through the responses*

Carson is a Seventh Day Adventist. That church’s knowledge of archeology is stuck somewhere back in the 1800s, and they don’t bother to watch Discovery to catch up.

Woohoo! A team I can join happily!

You mean like, Kyle Larson? He’s Japanese-American.

Someone’s sarcasm detector may need updating. I’ve found that Cillizza’s op eds to be best read with a /s at the end.

English is a living, growing, changing language. In spite of many attempts to insert a gender-unspecified, non-neuter pronoun into the language (e.g. hir), native users have glommed onto using “they” as the acceptable singular gender-unspecified pronoun. NYT, bandwagon, on you go now. Good news organization. As a…

Psychopath, more than likely. Psychopaths are born that way, i.e., nature. Sociopaths are made that way by life, i.e. nurture. And these distinctions are made at the criminal justice level, not psychological/psychiatrical. The criminal justice people are interested in origins; the psych people lump them both together…

The second circle is missing inheritance. Otherwise, carry on.

It’s not gonna take that long. In fact, many of us are already there with the idiocy belief.

And all across the nation, Libertarians have very creamy underwear, but don’t realize that the government subsidizes water via taxes, the same water they have to use to wash said creamy clothing....

She looks almost exactly as I imagined her. Cool!

It’s only 40 cars these days, and some races don’t even have that many.