that is actually a scenario that I never considered. I agree, this will be a great time to ride motorcycles as long as they are not all electric by then ;)

The intersection boundary lines should have light sabers installed that would enable the whole area of an intersection (or cars in it)to be vaporized during the split second that all traffic directions have a red light. It would tremendously improve the traffic flow and eliminate this stupid man made congestion that…

so there are nerdy people like me in the world after all. I’ve been attempting to time green lights during my commute for ages now. I’ve gotten pretty good with certain stretches of the road knowing how fast I need to be going on one stretch in order to hit a green wave for a while.

neither do we but one’s believes don’t override the truth and reality. You can believe in unicorns if you feel like but don’t claim that they are true.

you must be flying some nazi airline. I routinely get up and open overhead bin to get to my laptop after take off.

got it but even with NAFTA supply base it’s hard to run JIT with suppliers 1000 to 3000 miles away. I mean it can be done but not 100% optimized/economically. There is a buffer that needs to be built in and one party or the other has to pay for it (i.e. trucker needs to plan to arrive an hour ahead of schedule to…

I was talking about the supply chain length. If your suppliers are overseas, then it’s hard to run JIT as your transit time is at best 2 days via airfreight.

JIT doesn’t really work well over supply chains that are days long, unless you don’t care how much it costs to bring it. Even then, with customs entries, airfreight and stuff you can’t bring anything from anywhere in less than 48h sustainably.

there are good transmissions and bad ones. We had a ‘12 Camry SE with paddles and I actually enjoyed driving the car when I had to (wife’s car). Now she upgraded to ‘18 Highlander also in SE trim but no paddles and I hate driving the thing. It’s just stupid whenever you need to accelerate as the car is confused for a…

you’re right, but fortunately there are still a handful of companies that have not been infected with the capitalist greed and exist in order to produce honest and good products rather than to make boatloads of profits by selling their sub-par pretty turds to people.

It would make sense if other people didn’t have to carry the burden of their actions. In general, there will be people that because of their own stupidity will require social help for their medical expenses because they also are firm believers in not carrying any medical insurance.

I always found it amusing that people are grossed out by feet. What about hands, or noses? :)

this is why we can’t have nice things (nude beaches) in this country... There’s always someone offended by the nature of body parts.

Have a star. I agree, people got their priorities skewed. I’m a firm believer that a person that doesn’t earn 6 figure salary should not drive a car that costs more than $25k, but that’s me an my financial conservatism speaking.

Those are not sensible unless you are single. A family of 4 could sensibly get by in a 4 door Golf. I know we do.

I know you’re being sarcastic but so is TheDriveress. I’m partially with him. We’re talking about new technologies that are loading cars with weight. Think about the first STi that hit USA. That car didn’t even have a radio but did have automatic windows.

exaxtly. I bought cars this way in the past, most recent one 2 months ago. I even set up a separate email account so that I don’t have to deal with the spam after I purchase the car. Never answer the phone and let them play against one another.

Trade surplus is neither good nor bad. It just is. What should be done is eliminate all tariffs and then the system will work itself out. if you have a crappy product, nobody will buy it. No need to force people to buy your crap by making other people’s products more expensive.

That’s nice but can he drift the tanker?

who spends $170K on their car and the proceeds to leave the pavement in it... ?