Thanks, someone else pointed that out -- I was thinking of it in terms of “Uber driving sitting around in his car, waiting for a fare.” I completely forgot that a lot of them are sitting at home and will go jump in the car when the rates are attractive.

Great analogy, thanks for the education. I wasn’t thinking about Uber drivers being “off the clock” and needing encouragement to go get a fare. Makes sense!

I was gonna say Self-Selection Bias but I think you’re right, or they’re very similar. It’s been a long time since my last stats class....but like any online review, you have to assume ~10:1 ratio of complaints to positive experiences.

I feel like you’re only getting receipts from drivers who feel like they got screwed with this change. I’m betting you didn’t get any receipts from drivers where Uber lost money on a fare because they paid a sticky surge to the driver even though the passenger did not pay a fare.

That’s clag.  The drivers pick it up at the end of a race to add weight.  Next time you’re watching a race, watch what the winner does immediately after taking the checkered flag:  He’ll take a hard move off-line to pick up clag.

I push competitors off the track all the time in video games. Why should Verstappen have to leave room for anyone else to race? Each corner should be like Thunderdome: 2 enter, 1 leaves. 

They always drive over all the marbles and rubber junk on their cooldown lap to pick up as much weight as they can, and it melts to the hot tires. The tires didn’t look like that during the race.

Ha-HAAS

Guy was trying to hide his car after a hit in run in Vancouver.  Got busted.......

In case anyone didn’t notice, the moment comes at 1:00 and you have to watch very closely because he spins up almost instantly.

Last I checked it’s June in CO, and while I will concede they can get fluke snow storms around this time of year, it rarely sticks. Plus the article points out they had just received rain, making the field muddy.

I have a K24 (TSX) swapped Insight. My best tank so far has been 48mpg and I expect 60 is within reach with a light foot. Car weighs under 2000lbs with a full tank of gas, A/C and power steering, and heavy CR-Z seats because my back likes them better. JSYK, there’s ZERO torque steer, presumably because of some magic…

Only if you don’t understand how analogies work. 

Stopping to help someone with a Yugo who has broken down would be like stopping to help someone with a Hummer H2 who has run out of gas.

“Do you like my shirt? All my others ones are covered in grease and rust.”

You mean like a Prius?

Ugh...Jean...right?

And he probably tries to pay them in Mar a Largo buffet gift certificates. 

Ya know, I thought about that, but I figured that saying “and my summers in Tierra del Fuego might get a little too in the woods for the joke. Call it my hemispheric bias. 

I love this.