I had a TDI that could automatically detect if it was on rollers so it could go into a special mode to pass the emissions test.

Due to a glitch in the universe, replacing the heater core in a ‘99 Expedition will cause it to spawn about 30 extra screws. Theoretically, this glitch could be exploited to generate infinite screws and violate conservation of mass.

Well benefit and drawback depending on how you view it. You can accurately plan your life around a commute, but you HAVE to plan your life around a commute. Not a lot of flexibility.

You cannot physically keep your eyes on the road every second of every mile. Ever looked in your mirrors? Ever looked out your window at a street sign? Ever looked over your shoulder?

Stability Control is magic and does things the best drivers are physically incapable of. Nobody has forgotten how to drive. There are situations in which the best drivers physically cannot react fast enough or with the appropriate amount of precision.

Neutral: The only driver assistance I want in a car is ABS. I don’t need traction or stability control to assist me how to drive. It amazes how people forgotten about driving a car without traction control or the other million driver ads able. Cars would be so much cheaper without these unnecessary nannies.

The waitstaff is serving two people and getting half the normal tip.

This is a bit of an overreaction to someone who says doing this is “mildly tacky,” gives some potential solutions to the person who wrote in worried this might be a problem, and then ends by saying ultimately you can do what you want with the meal you’re paying for.

So we’re blaming the EPA because people are still breaking emissions laws? That doesn’t make any sense at all. Look, I would agree that blame for taking so long to catch the cheaters can be laid at the feet of the organization, but blaming the organization for the cheating itself is absurd. That would be like blaming…

Building an emissions control system that is optimized for the test often means that it doesn’t work as well in the real world. But if it turns itself off when no one is looking, that’s cheating.

I always take a doggie bag unless there is a waylay between dinner and home. Like, say, a movie if I’m driving, or anything time-consuming/inside if I’m pedestrian-ing. Can’t stink up the museum with my leftover bolognese, right? And spoilage-induced food poisoning is nothing I’d like to repeat.

Re Solution Two, does anyone else find that quite often the appetizer section of the menu is just plain more intriguing and delicious-sounding than the entrees section? I order two (or sometimes even three!) appetizers instead of an appetizer and a main all the damn time.

But that is the issue. 60% of what she did was sitting at a keyboard. She’d check the list of a minor FIS event to see if the number of entrants was less than 30, if so she’d book airfare, show up and spend 2 minutes on her “sport”.

That guy did have to break a sweat though. This lady had gravity (and frequent flier miles) do all the work.

The phone number has seven consecutive zeros

You need to back that claim up. On basically everything but the most bleeding edge performance cars, the breaks are more than capable of overpowering the engine.

I might have to turn in my Jalop Card for this, but my answer is none. No car.

Being in the minority does not make one wrong.

Tangent

I’ve had cops tell me a lot of unreasonable things, but this wasn’t one of them.