I’m good with what we’ve got going on here north of the Wall.

This is the time of year I own rear-wheel-drive cars for. I spend most of my nights sideways in the cold white darkness, opposite lock until I’m grazing the trees, steering with the accelerator. Oversteer justifies winter.

28 degrees. That’s adorable.

An EMP isn’t a magic bomb that makes all electricity cease to operate. Hospitals with generators would simply fire up their generators as they do during current outages. This would absolutely get more untenable as time went on, no doubt, due to a shortage of fuel, but the number of people who die on day 1 is not equal…

Lutz’s vision is unlikely to come to pass in so short a time for this and many other reasons. (Certainly the end of personal automobile ownership is nowhere near coming to fruition: people don’t seem to understand how wildly impractical that actually is, instead apparently thinking everyone who gets out of a car…

(A) vehicles that are missing or are stripped of their motor, frame, or body, to the extent that it materially alters the manufacturer’s original design or makes the vehicle unsafe for on-road operation as determined by the department;

One point they might reasonably make is that yes, it might very well kill them. These aren’t exactly F1 cars.

Having suggested this to several people, the responses I’ve gathered can be summed up thusly: “I wouldn’t watch NASCAR if it was all radio-controlled.” Humans want to watch other humans in danger, in direct control. They don’t respond nearly as powerfully if they cannot identify with the person in the place at the…

Oh, well, then: you’ll be the one. You’ll be the one engineer who’s also a mechanic, and you’ll change the whole world, and no accounting department or short-sighted manager or convoluted corporate structure will be able to stop you. You’ll be the single most powerful cog this machine has ever possessed, and will…

It’s not the “cold” that’s the key part, it’s the “northern” (or “southern”, which was a bad bias on my part!). It’s about polar vs equatorial. It’s about sun.

One issue that would then bear consideration - and as you say, this being D&D, there would be a variety of solutions - is why people from a cold northern clime would have more melanin in their skins. Not all players would find it odd to have dark-skinned people living at the poles, but it would be helpful to those who…

When your car doesn’t have doors or a back window, and you’re driving through the rain over 45mph or so, you realize you don’t have wipers on the inside of the windshield. A towel didn’t really do the trick, thus this delightful hand-sized squeegee. Eight bucks. Would probably die without it.

Humans care about other humans in rough proportion to their similarity: race, gender, tribe, religion, nationality. People matter less to most people if they don’t come from the same country. This is, sadly, one major reason that Puerto Rico hadn’t received as much media attention early in the disaster: it’s not…

Couldn’t you retrofit this, even today? Prove to the world, once and for all, that your ideas aren’t just random madness, shrieked into the howling void?

I’m with you. Of course, my daily driver (and only car) doesn’t have doors, and I live north of the wall, so my tolerance for vehicular inconvenience in the pursuit of enjoyment is pretty high.

Absolutely, they won’t be as safe as an expensive, heavy, full-size modern car: that’s essentially a given. Neither is a Slingshot, or a motorcycle, or even an e30 or an MX-5, for that matter. You’re absolutely correct, and it’s a point worth making, but some people (who value safety less than money or fun or image or…

In 1917, so many people kept dying on a particular curve in Marquette County, in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, that Will Skewis went to his boss, Ken Sawyer, and said, hey, man, we should paint a line down the center of the road, so people will stop running into each other as they come ‘round the corner. Sawyer…

The responsibility I feel for the generations is in proportion to the rarity, value, condition, and predicted future of the car. I have no compunction about cutting the roof off a junked Jeep Cherokee, because some exist in museums, others are caring for theirs well, and millions were manufactured; if I owned a…

The RE kits - I have the exact same one - are very firm, which is my only complaint about them. At high speeds, they’re absolutely brutal off-road, but they do at least stay firm enough to handle reasonably on-road, to the point that I ran for over a year with no sway bars front or rear (not recommended!) without any…

Is there a reason the “Selec-Trac Full Time 4WD” wouldn’t just be like the SJ/XJ/ZJ/WJ/etc Selec-Trac Full Time 4WD system? Like, you’ve got 2-Hi / 4 Part Time / 4 Full Time / N / 4-Lo? So either RWD, or locked front-rear, or viscous-coupling front-rear, or N, or 4-low-range?