On Tuesday August 15th, Paul Harvey, a resident of San Francisco who lives in the area of operations for Cruise robotaxis, told SFGATE he spotted one of the driverless cars sitting at a construction site sitting in fresh concrete with no one inside.

For example, the new fees and taxes imposed by states like Texas could fall hardest on low-income people who can least afford it.

Agreed again. Mentally I divide the current set of Olympic sports into direct competition (races, physical battles, sports with a ball and goal, etc.—basically, what you’d expect if you wanted to hone hunting or fighting skills) and athletic theater (gymnastics, figure skating, etc.—performances that need an audience…

The Olympics are all about human athletic potential, not how good a powered machine works.

This article, about a report from AAA, has half a dozen links to other jalopnik articles but no link to the report from AAA. There’s a balance between automobile journalism and writing for clicks; maybe jalopnik writers could persuade their bosses of the value in the former.

For 986s and 2005 or earlier 987s, okay.  For 2006 and later, LN Engineering comments that the IMS failure rate is about 1%; they recommend that the IMS upgrade can wait until an engine rebuild.

On the craigslist ad, the owner has a photo (not a screenshot :-) of the TPC Web site for a 981 turbo kit. The 2006 Cayman is a 987.1 model, though. TPC does have 987.1 kits, so maybe it’s just a meaningless mistake? But (having recently bought 2006 Boxster S) it’s not a mistake I’d make. I know what I got, as you…

This is an almost 30-year-old no-frills Miata (LSD though) with 130k miles, a maintenance history with “a few gaps,” various scuffs and stains on the exterior, tears on the interior. The current high bid is $6,800.

This is old-style jalopnik catnip, right?

Ah, the article was poorly written

Not for me. I was surprised to find, looking online, that the SSR has a 52/48 front/rear weight distribution, much better than I’d expected.

All these people saying cosmetic mods are stupid. No they are not. People like to have things that are unique to them. Maybe it’s not your cup of tea, but if the person that bought them likes how it looks then its not dumb.

One of the palpable ways climate change is hitting us all is in the form of droughts, and that means many people are rethinking the way we use water.

What a horrible human being. The dog’s okay at the end of the story, though, and this made me laugh:

LOL. I should have thought of that.

This is too terrible even for AI output.

That was about my budget this past spring, and I got this 987.1 Boxster S. I’m pretty happy with it.

Yes! A few of my colleagues in town did without a car, commuting from home to the S-Bahn station on a bike, and then from the S-Bahn to work on another bike. This was decades ago, though; maybe scooters or other transportation has come into play.

That’s just what I was thinking. “This sounds like the little German village I used to live in.” Not quite, because I had to drive to a neighboring town for work, at a factory, but all the other amenities of everyday living were within walking distance.

Wrong. Social media is all bad, all of the time.