Yeah, Penn Station to Manassas. There’s a commuter rail line that almost took me to where I needed to go, but it only runs during commute times when I looked at the schedule. Otherwise it would have required taking an Amtrak line to overshoot by a few miles and walk/bus back

Just turn your head and look where you are going. Your eyeballs have more definition, better depth perception, and provide better situational awareness than a wide-angle lens feed stuffed into an 8in screen will ever provide.

the Pixel 8 will include a 6.17-inch screen compared to the Pro’s 6.70.

Commuting via Acela, saving half an hour each run means you save 50 hours a year.

Outside of most city centers, parking is plentiful, so that wouldn’t be an issue. On this trip, I was looking at another 2 bus rides and a 0.7 mile walk for about 2 additional hours by transit vs. a 40 min taxi ride from the train station.

I took the Acela for the first time a few weeks ago from NYC to DC. It was neat to do 150mph for a few short stints, but I’m not really convinced I’d ever do it again when it’s only 30-45 min faster than driving. Plus, that’s not counting extra time you’re spending getting to/from the train stations and your actual…

But at 161.6-inches long, it’s smaller (7.2 inches) than the current GTI and much longer (11.2 inches) than the original.

With the recent news of the end of the manual transmission for the GTI and Golf R ...

Politico says that keeping cabin temperatures down would require airlines to burn more fuel

A bit surprised the 3-row 90s Mercury Sable / Ford Taurus didn’t make the list

Those are neat, but I imagine since there’s no Skoda in the US, few of the commenters would have thought of that

Some did! I was super surprised to have a Beetle rental in Arizona about 10 years ago. I’m so used to just shitty GM products that it’s forever tainted that brand as “the rental car company” to me.

Google has once again shown that customers should be very hesitant to invest in any kind of subscription deal with them

I too vastly prefer the 1.8L Golf and Sportwagen over the GTI, but as far as basic commuter cars go, the base Golf always compared pretty poorly to competitors like the the Corolla or Civic hatches. It was doomed for a while; they only moved around 6000 units a year in what’s arguably the best generation of the Golf…

I don’t know if the fuel consumption vs. speed would be necessarily linear like that, but we’ve definitely come a long way in engine efficiency in the 60 years since Concorde was designed

I’d love the up! but I get why it wouldn’t work here. Since they already killed the Golf in the US, I doubt there would be sufficient demand for the Polo

I don’t know what airports you’re flying through, but every US one I’ve been to in the last 5-10 years has either had signs on the floor or TVs overhead with animations repeating the same instructions over and over, and the TSA agents still have to yell out instructions

The amount of people in security lines who act like it’s the first time they’re being asked to remove shoes, jackets, empty their pockets, and pull their laptops out is by far the most frustrating thing about modern flying IMO.

Of course the big wild card to this is, “Do I have regular access to a reliable charger”

Letting my first, beloved car go. I had put tons of money and time into my 1996 2.5L Mazda Millenia to keep it alive because I truthfully loved it more than anything else newer that I had driven (I liked it so much, I spent 2 years filming/editing a 12min Top Gear-esque video about my car and the model’s history,…