Unfortunately the unseasonably warm weather thwarted all attempts to do so this season, and if trends continue the way they have been, the lower midwest might not see ice thick enough to hold an ice race for quite some time.

I noticed that, too. I think that ISeeCars.com has a mistake in the column headers for this table. It should read “Average Used Price” and not “Average Used EV Price”.

it raises the question of whether the prior two decades of security theater were even worth it.

It’s funny how much a modern car in profile can look like a 50-year-old econobox. I guess there are only so many general shapes a car can be, form following function.

This happened to my wife and me. We bought a house in winter and discovered that during the summer a local track about half a mile away ran races for a couple of hours on Friday evenings. It never occurred to us to check. It wasn’t a huge deal because it wasn’t that loud and it was only for a short time. Caught us by…

The dispute came down to some of Wikipedia’s most sacred tenants.

Oh, everything else in your comment was very informative! Thanks.

It’s kinda like saying the median income

Because the Arcadia will be driven in different climates all around the world...

Good observations—I think you’re right on all points.

I expect this won’t be a popular opinion, but I think the Audi TT Mk1 was the high point of the model for visual style. The Mk2 and Mk3 were okay, but the designers seemed to be saying, “Let’s make the car look more generic.”

CR’s top ten, on metrics of road tests, reliability, satisfaction, and safety:

I’m using “AI” the way people who work professionally in the field do. Machine learning is a subfield (more or less, though also extended to other fields), and there’s lots of AI that doesn’t involve learning at all.

There’s a rural county in eastern Virginia (I don’t remember which) that works this way. I had to pay $400 for a lawyer and attend my state’s driver rehab course to avoid points on my license. During the class, the instructor asked, “How many of you got a ticket in such-and-such county in Virginia?” A bunch of hands…

... and an old white guy that insisted on rapping his drive-through intro to try to sell cookies.

Wait. how does the place use AI?

Wendy’s seems not to realize that consistency is an important reason people buy fast food from a recognizable brand. Consistency in food quality (ideally good, but even consistently not-terrible), sure. Also price, having the feeling you’re not being jerked around or getting ripped off.

From the Reuters article:

I was going to mention “getting thrown clear”! But I didn’t trust my memory, because how could anyone be so stupid?

This is no longer as prevalent as it once was, but I used to hear people say they wouldn’t wear their seatbelt because it could trap them in case of a crash and they’d be safer without it.