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“One Teensy Seatbelt Problem That’s Seriously No Big Deal Leads to Voluntary Free Inspection of Every Tesla Model S”

But... That’s an accurate title.

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#COTD

People are getting spoiled nowadays. Anyone who complains further will be issued a 1970 Morris Oxford and a book on SU carbs.

The name is just a marketing scheme, as always. The engines were still spectacular, though.

“These pictures of ISIS show how much they really hate the new 2017 Fiat 124”

What the hell is an auto hold button? What about us that like holding our buttons manually, the old fashioned way?

Well.. exceeding the yield point anywhere induces material changes that lower the fatigue life. That was kind of what I was trying to get at.

It wasn’t a test craft, they were just testing a craft. The black box probably showed the g readout that meant that the wings (the only parts that cause large g forces on any plane short of something very acrobatic) were loaded beyond the theoretical limit you’re talking about.

Unfortunately by the time dye penetrant shows any fractures the component is too far gone to withstand its design loads. Forged steel can be an exception to this, but fatigued aluminum is not something I’d want to fuck with.

Metal fatigue is not something that can be easily predicted or analyzed. Especially in aluminum! The only way to make sure structural components like the main wing spars of the plane are still OK would be to cut them up and look at their crystallography with microscopes. Which obviously destroys the plane.

Possible solution: hook up with a loan shark and offer financing through him and his cousins.

70’s Chevy Caprice. Meant to be a full size car for Joe Everyman. It’s the perfect car for candy paint, huge lift kits, and 35” blades.

ENGINE SWAPPED SMART CARS ARE A MARTHA STEWART GOOD THING. SHUT YOUR MOUTH

Deciding not to buy the car and never having any intention to are very different.

You can but then you become the following: an asshole.

They put in the effort to domesticate an entire species before they could figure out how to insulate their speeders?

They have hovercraft and snowspeeders (with heat, presumably) but they decide to ride around on these assholes that die all the time?