clearly the driver isn’t from Buffalo then

They do, but they don’t pay legal bills you’ll accrue in court to assert those laws saying you aren’t liable.

“well it’s not the bad plutonium” isn’t exactly the selling point you seem to think.

Fukushima says hi.

It can, but we have a long road ahead to get to grid scale storage. We need to get there, but it’s a whole lot of R&D that we aren’t yet doing.

Coal caused this problem, quite literally.

Nuclear’s only positive is that’s it’s mostly zero carbon. It’s other emissions though are more than a little problematic. Waste hasn’t been dealt with and really can’t be in the current political climate. We have centuries of expense and care ahead of us even if we stop it now.

Please, that’s outdated.

wonder about a paradigm change here a simple replaceable ‘seam’ cover might replace mud/tape?

You know who can ‘get to Herb’ better than a random commenter?  a writer.

Can you guys get a real comment system? I mean, it’s *daily* that “oh well Kinja messed up”.

If traffic is completely stopped I’ll roll forward slowly as there’s no joy for anybody.

The only time an overpass is possibly safe during a tornado is if you can get entirely up into the enclosed girders. Basically becomes an upside down ditch.

Might have something to do with the *average* new car price breaking $40,000 too!

Without some pretty significant international standardization, I’m assuming everybody using diff voltages/amps would be a serious impediment to widespread adoption.

Hot roads are a sci-fi fantasy.

and that radius is de-marked by the charred remains of local gas stations!

She executed the perfect go around

As a 50+ DINK, there’s some of the reverse frustration at always being stuck with “well you can stay late since you don’t have kids”.

Schweddy Balls are the best!