Every time I read about another officer in a sticky situation who “forgot” to turn on their body cam or “experienced a technical malfunction,” I get the sudden urge to throw my phone through a window.

I mean, the man committed sexual offenses as both a minor and adult, and also used a deadly weapon (vehicle) without a license. I am not sure why he was even allowed to be in a vehicle, let alone out of prison. Meanwhile, some inner city youth is serving a 10 year term for getting caught with an eighth in his pocket...

Yeah, they used an F150 with 3,000 lbs of weight in the bed to test the new barriers.  If you watch the crash video, the weight in the bed smashes right through the cab and would have destroyed anybody and anything in the cabin.  I guess it is good the batteries are under the car on these EVs but I would hesitate to…

That is twice the weight of my already heavy X5! I echo other comments that cars like this (HD pickups included) should require advanced licensing just like box trucks, semis, buses, and other heavy vehicles.

Well, surely the dash cam footage on the police cruiser and the shoulder cam on the officer should set things straight.  Those were turned on for transparency purposes, right?

That’s one of the reasons I love my ageing F15 X5 - it has a low shoulderline and a very tall greenhouse. Combined with its tall ride height, visibility is excellent despite somewhat thick roof pillars.

This is so true. I was “nudged” by a large box truck that had been hit by another box truck at crawling speeds and it managed to do nearly $10K in damage to my vehicle.  Sure, a box truck is a good bit heavier than the Hummer EV but at nearly 5 tons, it will certainly cause significantly more damage than the average…

This sounds like a person who will never be a productive member of society and is, in fact, a major threat to the safety of others. He should be locked up for life with no probation.

There are so many reasons to finance. Aside from likely getting a better deal and in most cases still having the ability to pay the loan in full with no repayment penalty shortly after financing the car, for many it makes more sense to invest the money instead of locking it up in a depreciating asset like a car. It is…

That doesn’t surprise me one bit about the NYPD’s lack of ability to coordinate a response. I have never seen the concept of “mailing it in” and complete ineptitude taken so seriously by a group of people as I have by the NYPD officers I have observed and interacted with over the past decade. They must have been the…

Don’t worry, there is always a Walmart within a few miles and based on what I see on reddit, you can poop anywhere you want at one of their stores.

Oh I forgot about snakes.  Yes, lots of snakes and they are almost all venomous. 

If only they had just made the truck a bit more conventional and easier to design and build, there would be a Tesla truck on the road today and it likely would have class-leading range and charging capabilities like its other vehicles.  Instead, they decided to create a never-ending list of engineering challenges for…

This wasn’t a car that I bought but one that my wife leased before we got married and I drove on a regular basis. It was the Merc C240 coupe. From the front and side, it looked good enough in black on black but the rear straight up looks like a pick-up truck rear end. It certainly felt like Mercedes forgot it did not…

That’s the one thing we can take away from this: stay out of the water in Florida or maybe avoid the entire state alltogether.

It most likely is man-made but I have seen plenty of gators in those too.

I was thinking the exact same thing. It is incredibly easy to nitpick data to support a hypothesis/narrative.

It’s kind of like watching a fat guy on a rope swing loose his grip and tumble down a hill instead of swinging directly into the water.

And putting any potential rescuers at risk.  I just assume all lakes and canals in Florida are 50% water/50% alligator.  There is no way I am jumping in to save some asshat aggressive driver and risking losing a limb to a gator.

I saw that - it looks like the other car is a large Merc sedan, possibly an S-Class or CLS.  It also looks like they were road raging at each other and the Challenger went to illegally pass and understeered in a very major way.