At 60 mph, you’re covering 88 feet per second.

Average driver reaction time is a hair over 1 second - or roughly 100 ft. Therefore 100 feet is actually close to the minimum safe following distance. Following the 2 second rule, you’re closer to 200 ft.

Outside looks nice, but I hate the slapped-on look with the display on the dash.

In any case, no good reason to buy it imported from China unless they offer the wagon.

“I’ve had root canals that were better than that shit.”

- US National hockey team goalie sitting behind me on a Helsinki-NYC flight after Finnair stuck us with Edward Scissorhands.

I’ll happily pass on the mediocre movie and free food.

I can bring a sandwich or some dried fruit or something... and I can checkout movies from my library prior to leaving and put them on my phone - or download them from Netflix.

he’s “signaled” that, but then turned around and significantly weakened those protections, too.

No pollution regulation is too lax for Pruitt.

“Empathy for who? These are theoretical deaths based on theoretical number with no way to prove it.”

That is the very problem that many people have in dealing with externalities. The GOP falls for this logic very often. My car’s pollution may be miniscule, so by itself it would be a bit absurd to say its killing…

For further evidence of this - imagine a road with a 35 mph speed limit. You place two tubes across the road, they’re supposed to be 5 inches apart, but the placement isn’t perfect and they vary +/- half an inch in distance.

That variation alone would end up with a vehicle traveling at 35 mph being recorded at anywhere…

“Transmissions and parts for motor vehicles not classified“

This alone will cost our local Ford plant dearly. Roughly 20% of their production of transmissions and transmission parts is exported to China. That’s a few hundred jobs at risk there alone.

That particular race requires you to make it up the hill without stopping or getting off their bike. So if you stop or fall over, you have to go back to the bottom and start over, or you’re disqualified.

(the race climbs 13 of the steepest hills in Pittsburgh, and the rules are the same on every single incline - no…

That’s not the same section of southern california I lived in - there it was more like this:

65 mph freeway Sunny, clear day - 80 mph (if not restricted by standard freeway crawl speeds).

65 mph on a rainy day - 90 mph - because rainy roads are slick and dangerous, and we need to get off of them as fast as we can.

That particular picture is nothing but photographic gimmicry - the steepest section pictured there is only about 18% grade, WELL below the worst in San Francisco, and less than half the grade of Baxter St on this particular section. As a whole, that entire run of California street averages about a 13% grade...

Especially the idiots who didn’t cut their wheels to the curb...

There’s a road near me that is pretty darned steep (about 28% grade compared to this at 35%) that dead-ends into a narrow 2-lane road with a 6% grade. A few weeks ago, a semi tried to go down that hill. Wasn’t pretty.

The only jobs it creates are ones in old shuttered factories - because no company is going to build a billion dollar facility on the premise that these tariffs are going to last any length of time.

So you get a few hundred union jobs here, but increased costs for everyone which causes sales to drop and costs a few…

Honda had the most airbags recalled because they had been using the defective ones the longest - but according to the NY Times, they also KNEW about the defect early on and did nothing about it - which then led to the other makers switching over as well to match the cost. So if Honda hadn’t covered up the problem, the…

I believe you’re confusing the old way CAFE was implemented to the current way (started by the Bush administration).

It used to be that the manufacturer had to hit a certain fleetwide average. That meant that to sell large cars, they had to sell small ones, often at a loss.

Nowadays, the requirement is a per-vehicle…

Hell, the Ford Five Hundred did 0-60 in 8.9 seconds and was widely panned for being abysmally slow. Even the 2008 Ford Taurus, which hit 0-60 in 7.6 seconds was trashed by the press for being slow.

Those are numbers that a decade earlier would have been considered to be wickedly fast.

Hell, I can do worse than an “upgrade” to a Tahoe from a van - Enterprise once “upgraded” me from a a full size sedan to a @#%$#%!% Chevy Trax. Not only is the Trax a god-awful POS, poorly built, and badly appointed, but it is TINY. I wanted a full-size sedan for cruising comfort on highways out west with the family -…

Which then is why people think small turbocharged engines don’t get the mpg they’re rated at - they see the idiot next to them at the light pound the gas and race off from the intersection and they think they have to do the same thing - which means they’re always accelerating with significant boost and killing their…

1) Lack of increased standards has shown time and again that little effort is put into improving fuel economy.

2) The standards were not impossible - large numbers of vehicles were already within spitting distance (or even surpassing them). The fines are miniscule - $55 for every mpg you miss them by. We’re talking…