I’ve never understood why more inexpensive cars didn’t borrow novelty features like this from higher-priced cars. Yes, I’m sure a Koenigsegg’s dihedral synchro-helix actuation system is substantially more expensive than two barn-door hinges, and yes, I know that there are safety issues to be dealt with in case of…

The same goes for off-roaders. I had a good friend who wanted to invest $40,000 in a diesel SUV to go off-roading in. As the owner of several sub-$1,000 Jeeps, I gently reminded him that literally the first day he’d do thousands of dollars of damage to his paintwork and underbody, unless all he wanted to do was mosey…

This process often clarifies communication for both parties: hearing your orders condensed and read back to you can provide you new insight into exactly what it is you’ve actually asked them to do.

Besides the obvious safety argument, some incentives for outlawing them in cities include lower emissions and less congestion (the former largely because of the latter). Autonomous vehicles will be able to work with traffic systems to produce substantially less congestion than we see with today’s human-driven vehicles.

I went 20 years without a dentist visit once. Seems to have worked out okay. Still have all my teeth, and no fillings, despite the half-gallon of sugary drink I shove in my face every day. I consider myself extremely fortunate, and recommend people visit the dentist something more like annually.

Once I asked a neuroscientist acquaintance of mine what effect my 32oz-to-64oz daily Rockstar habit might have, considering I’ve been doing it for a decade. “I don’t know,” he said. “No one knows,” he said. “No one has ever done studies on the effects of that level of these ingredients over that period of time,” he…

It would be interesting to see this corrected for population density (or traffic density, ideally), as well, to more vividly display areas which are disproportionately deadly.

I rarely, if ever, look back, but despite having owned basically the same car for a decade, almost every time I see it, it excites me that this thing is mine, and I’m about to get to drive it. I don’t particularly like it - excitement is very much not my thing - but there it is, anyway.

While there is certainly a physical, mental, and emotional difference between birth mothers and all other parents, and while I’m appreciative of any company that provides non-birth-parent/paternity leave at all, the substantial difference between the two is a little wider than I would prefer. Gender roles are changing…

With the whole car being just 3,174 pounds...

1995, but my 3.5” lift is probably giving me more like 4+”, because there’s so much weight stripped out, and all the parts are so fresh [previous owner didn’t wheel, just wanted height]. And lord knows how badly either of our frames or crossmembers might have bent over the years. ;) The individual variance on these…

It’s amazing the variance you see on what should be identical vehicles: I have 3.5” right now, with an SYE but without rear axle shims, and I go through u-joints like nobody’s business, but some guys are running junkyard lifts higher than mine without problems. I know some of it is down to weight - mine is pretty well…

Cassettes are shitty, and the world is better without them, but if they sound terrible, break constantly, won’t rewind, or melt or break constantly, then you’re doing something wrong. My guess would be playing shitty tapes on a shitty player and treating the whole affair in a shitty way.

As someone who has driven four different 250,000+ mile XJs in The Great Rust-Colored North, this one looks fine to me. An excellent example of the breed. Show-ready, really, up here. I don’t see where it needs any work at all.

I don’t even know where to start.

Superb idea. Please, makers of Kroil and PB Blaster, please commit some intellectual property crimes and steal this idea. If anyone objects, tell them Sean said it was okay.

I have a friend whose young son has the natural form of this myostatin-suppression mutation, and has been featured on several documentaries and whatnot. It’s pretty unreal, and definitely enviable. No negative health effects yet, fortunately, so perhaps something we’ll all be able to get CRISPRed in to us eventually.

While I consider it beneficial for an app to remind users about public transportation options where those are available, I would never personally find it useful to be driving my car home from work at 6 on a Friday and have Waze suggest I take the bus, instead.

...imagine losing out on a trip to Mercury because you came up against a team where all three players just used this exploit to win.

I can’t tell: all people in comas look the same to me.