Agreed, both in the general and the specific.

The good news is, with that provision removed, it doesn’t matter WHY someone chooses to defeat their EPA-regulated emissions devices in order to specifically do a pointless and basically shitty thing on the public roadways: we can ticket them whether they like it, are showing off, or are specifically doing it to piss…

My guess - informed by very little - is that their objection is that it’s evidence of intent to harass. That’s not necessarily the case: many people just think it’s cool in its own right, or are just doing it to show off.

Definitely: if your vape is smoking, you definitely want to do away with it.

Wow. $100. That should definitely stop it.

So, here’s what’s up: for most of recorded history, most fathers have had a certain type of role. It varies from time to time and culture to culture, but some of it’s based in biology, so there are common threads.

I learned in a 1985 Ford Econoline conversion van; Tiff Needell learned in a Morris Minor. You learn more with less car.

And hey: your situation is the exact “worst-case” situation, where you basically had no other reasonable option BUT to fly with your pack in the hold: you’re not likely to be able to keep nine dogs in the passenger compartment! A boat’s going to take a while from Hawaii, and a private jet is beyond your means and mine…

First: brother, calm down before you start having respiratory problems: you don’t have a short nose, do you? Consider not flying in a cargo hold if you do.

You know, I tried that, but could never fit myself fully into the paint bucket, so the pet was always stuck in there with just my screaming head for company. I didn’t even think about mounting the carrier to the shaker. What a fool I’ve been!

How is “don’t take your pet on the plane” setting someone up for failure? How is “fly with the pet in the passenger compartment” setting someone up for failure? I’m sorry, I’m not disputing what you’re saying, I just don’t understand how it applies to anything I said, given the massive practical use those suggestions…

It’s also - uh, says my friend - great fun to just keep all your boxes, and keep adding to the fort, just keeping in mind, like, ventilation and that cats can get stuck or trapped if you make things too weird. You can - I’m told - more-or-less fill a room with cardboard cat castle, and then they can all play in it…

...uh, yes, ‘of yore’, me too. I definitely didn’t spend last Saturday as a grown man doing this myself. That would make me a crazy cat guy, right? Asking for a friend.

And I should note I don’t have any great experience with this issue personally: I absolutely refuse to fly with my pets, period, but I know some people have less choice in the matter, i.e. those moving intercontinentally without the luxury of time for the slow boat, and pets who for whatever reason cannot be…

Depending on the specific plane, there may be tragically very little you CAN do. Even the flight crew may not have access to the animal in any way that’s useful in-flight, which is why I recommend speaking to the airline, and then specifically to the captain, before takeoff, and that’s only in the absolute worst-case…

My advice, however little it might be worth: don’t let your pet fly in a cargo hold. Don’t take the chance your pet will die alone and terrified in a dark, screaming, shaking box it has no means of comprehending. If you have to travel a long distance, don’t take your pet; if you have to take your pet, don’t fly; if…

The roads they’re looking at doing this with would be, by and large, the best-maintained of the roads. It’s largely surface streets that are truly appalling, and while the interstates aren’t autobahn-smooth, they’re plenty safe at 75mph+.

Has anyone considered that from a conservation of energy perspective, there’s basically nothing worse than heavier-than-air aircraft? Like, my XJ doesn’t have to use a whole lot of its power to keep it off the ground the whole time I’m driving, whereas any flying car/bus has to use a huge amount of energy, per person,…

These things were FANTASTIC. I drove an SSEi for rather a while, and it was a genuinely fantastic drive - though I’m likely also biased by the HUD, and by my love of Pontiacs in general, including my 2000 Grand Prix GT (also with a HUD), and not one, but two Sunbirds, a 1985 and a 1992. I still see them today - I live…

“Never cause another driver to change their speed or direction. That means not forcing other drivers to use their brakes or turn the steering wheel in response to something you have done.” Could I get this on 350 million t-shirts, please?