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The best electric car is two cars. I bought a used leaf as a commuter and in-town vehicle. It supplemented an F150 that gets 15 mpg. I paid like 14,000 all-in two years ago. I will likely never recoup this cost but it’s really nice not to have to buy gas.

Drilling a gas tank for maybe 8 gallons of gas. $35.

Did you know truck tires are inflated to ~100 psi? And cars to ~40? Who exerts more pressure on the road?

Most headlamps have replaceable drivers. I don't think that's the case with tails or signals, so yeah, they'll be expensive.

“My shoddily designed radio picks up interference because I only used 1st-order filters. Please turn off your equipment that conforms to its specifications.”

How were you supposed to know he was Iron Balls McGinty?

So that’s 11 lbs less co2/$.

4runner and taco are also super small front seating. The floor is so high.

We live in Colorado and like to ski. AWD vehicles and snow tires. It’s so much fun driving to the resort on a pow day. 

However since plagues and the environment doesn’t care about class, it’ll be interesting how well they maintain this in the next 50-100 years.

I feel attacked. I do build my own computers but I take my coffee black. So there!

I had a 2001 manual ZX3. I loved that car so much. Dead reliable. Manual sunroof!

Those tauruses won’t die. My friend has a 94 with a hefty power steering leak. Still works fine though.

“Sealed” means there are seals, not that the bearings are hermetically sealed. Some seals are non-contact, which means they have lower friction, but aren’t as effective at preventing contaminant ingress.

This guy accounts.

Eh, he didn’t have guide cones to run over and his correction ran very wide.

Police unions are a cancer.

Menacing with a deadly weapon, assault with a deadly weapon, vehicular assault, attempted murder (because of the 2nd pass at it), reckless endangerment, vandalism, not to mention using the cell phone while operating a vehicle and clean air act violation. But he probably won’t stand trial criminally. Hopefully he gets

It’s Robocop Detroit, obviously.

It took me way longer to parse the headline in my head than it should have. “But nobody would make that mistake.