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We don’t really know which is cheaper yet. GM has set their price, Tesla has promised a price. If (and that’s always a big if) Tesla makes their price, then it will start at a slightly lower mark than the Bolt will start in its first year. However, what about equipment? Tesla could make their price by…

Quite a few, actually.

Illinois has no training requirements if you’re 21 or older. Around college campuses this becomes very noticeable as you have residents from all over the world who have had no training, all wanting to drive using habits they’ve witnessed back home. So for some, right hand turns from the left hand…

Could it happen? Sure, but it will take more than an automated Lyft/Uber.

First off, I keep my cars a long time, so my cost is well under $9000 per year per car. With depreciation, insurance, repairs, maintenance, and fuel, I’m looking at more on the order of $2750-3000 per year per car. So the cost for an automated…

I’ll make this plain and simple for you. People like the ass in the video that started this chain don’t care if you are passing someone. They’re tailgating and driving recklessly. There is no way to change lanes safely when you’re done making the pass with a reckless driver on your tail.

Drive like a sane person and…

Most of the cargo area in the Highlander comes from the volume above the seats - so if you want cargo stacked up to the roof ready to fly forward as projectiles or fall on your kids if you hit the brakes, yeah, there’s a lot of space.

Consider this example - Ford Focus sedan v. hatchback. The hatchback is listed at…

Except that almost invariably, I’ve found the trunk volume on a sedan is just as big (or very often - bigger) than the usable cargo volume in a SUV/CUV based off the same chassis. The SUV/CUV only comes out a winner for cargo when you take out passengers and fold seats down.

I made this the other night. Came out nicely. Nothing mind-shattering, but a nice sauce.

I took it down just short of soft-ball temp - I’d wager if you took it to hard crack, you could get some nice naturally-flavored hard candy...

There’s no one channel for all makes - but for Fords, I’ve found FordTechMakuloco to be a pretty darned good source.

And that silent scream is always followed 10 seconds or so later by an ear-piercing wail once they actually catch their breath...

That’s nothing. You should have seen Cincinnati yesterday. Pockets of heavy rain clouds that simply weren’t moving - if you were under them, you were getting up to 2-3 inches per hour for several hours straight. I got about a tenth of an inch by me - a mile to the south they got about an inch. Another mile south and…

VERY true. That’s why I would propose raising the tax not just to create a pigouvian tax to discourage purchase of inefficient vehicles, but also to raise money to finally fix the roads.

You clearly haven’t driven a Trax. Not worth anywhere near $3700 over 3 years. The Trax is a truly miserable vehicle.

This was actually a 2 year lease they’re referring to at that dealer, and the lease terms weren’t fully disclosed in the ad - from my experience with Chevy dealers around here, when they advertise a…

All the more reason why we should raise gas taxes by a large amount, then use the money to

1) Actually repair our roads (not expand - we shouldn’t do that until we can maintain what we already have, and generally expansion is heavily focused in urban areas where smarter, more economical solutions other than just…

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The Trax isn’t worth $77 per month with $999 down.

What a piece of junk.

Evidently NASA’s requirements are solely based on their willingess to pay for suits that fit taller/shorter astronauts. The craft themselves could easily handle the extra size (gone are the days of the microscopic mercury/gemini/apollo capsules)...

I was once someone that had a good scientific education, and was young and fit....

But NASA also has height requirements, and I’m too tall - you have to be between 5'2" and 6'3".

Back in the day, TWA used to automatically book me in an exit row everytime I flew them - being 6'6" made a tight fit anywhere else. The fact that they did this for me made me a loyal customer.

And that was when they had far more legroom than other major airlines just as a standard thing.

dataPOG is right - they cut to 31 inches recently. They claim that their new seats actually give more legroom at 31 inches than the old ones did at 32 - but I have doubts on that.

The seats aren’t getting narrower -

Except that the extra charge for premium seating isn’t in line with their extra cost - For example, my last flight it would have meant a 20% increase in cost for the roundtrip, yet they didn’t remove 17% of the seats in that section (the % needed to balance out the cost).

Not only that, but most of the time, I’m flying…