As a comparison, here are the state by state laws in Australia.

The single most useful thing my dad ever taught me when learning to drive was, “assume everyone else on the road is an idiot.”

Toyota Coaster 5 speed manual is interesting.

If Swan Hill is anything like most country towns in Australia the rotund build of the local cops would have meant they needed the tilt tray as there is no way they would have been able to lift that thing. Especially as it most likely contained a block of VB.

This thing is an ugly POS, unless you are, no wait, there is no use for this. It’s an ugly POS and deserves to die.

Attention Americans.

“using some alloy they probably didn’t need to develop”

My god, if it’s this “teaching a teenager how to drive,” then scrap the whole thing now!

Just lovely, but the name?

Stick to computers dude.

Exactly, you only need one component missing from your product and it’s an unfinished, unsalable product.

The handbrake is doing you a favor here, ye shall not pass!

Update to the update.

Whoa!!! Awesome event.

Update, apparently a helicopter rescue is on the way today. The cops dropped avgas at the Oodnadatta Pink Roadhouse yesterday to allow the chopper to hop out them. Temps are expected to hit over 40C in the next few days and there are fears it will just get too much for them. The camper will be left until conditions…

For nearly 30 years I worked in the role of CIO, CTO, Technical Adviser and other similar positions. Most of these roles involved being in direct daily contact with company CEO’s, board members and so on. What I came to realize in quite short order was that most of these people were actually quite unintelligent. What…

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This sounds like they totally ran out ideas and just went with the model number, the Toyota Coaster bus we have is an HZB50R. 

How on earth do they manage to only get 62 horsepower out of a 2.5-liter turbodiesel? 

There’s a trade off, higher voltages require better insulation, it’s also much more dangerous to the meat sacks holding the cord. This is why house voltages are kept down well below 1000V, to make them (relatively) safer and so the insulation required doesn’t make the cables unwieldy.