Cages don’t but harnesses do. Cages keep the outside world outside, harness keep the inside occupants in.

I completely agree. At the end of the day, all that matter is the OTD price and what is included in that price... People that get hung up on the other numbers make car buying harder for the rest of us. (And I used to sell cars, so I know a bit more about the process than your average bear...)

If you enjoy sours, try to find a batch of “The Salty Lady” from Martin House Brewing (in Fort Worth, TX) some time. That beer is so damn refreshing...

Counter point: Can we NOT mandate air bags to begin with and instead improve structural integrity, seats, and belts? (Think “RACECAR.”) Air bags are a one-and-done system. They work once, that’s it. In severe collisions, or in pile-ups, where secondary collisions occur, they aren’t going to be able to help you. I’d…

Andrew,

I get paid to be this “pedantic.” You don’t want an engineer who isn’t pedantic building the world around you. If you find that tiresome, that’s too bad - I really don’t care.

Okay, buddy. You think I am biased, and yet you are basing everything you are saying on your experience in a single car in very specific area... That’s cool. If you don’t want to learn and you want to live your life scared, sure, go for it. Be safe out there. Please don’t leave California.

You’re not explaining physics, buddy... You are simply highlighting the fact that people who aren’t exposed to things more than once every 2 years don’t know how to adjust their driving to handle it. Go to the Rockies and drive in the winter then go back to LA and see if your perspective hasn’t changed.

You are so eager to be right that you didn’t take the time to understand what was posted.

Are we?

FWD, RWD, AWD, it doesn’t matter. The cruise control system won’t behave any differently. At worst, the tires will continue to spin at the speed they are set; they will NOT overshoot, they will not cause the vehicle to accelerate, etc.

How many more acres of land should we dedicate to raising cattle and growing cotton to replace the fossil-fuel-based synthetics we use for clothing?

If that’s what cruise control does for you then you shouldn’t be driving.

The EF Falcon is RWD and the speed sensor is in the transmission tailshaft. If the front wheels slow down or skid, but the rear wheels do not, the cruise control will not do anything because it won’t even know anything has slowed. The rear wheels will need to slow down before the cruise control tries to add power. If…

That is not how those systems work...

I believe you are correct in your premise of the origins of this thinking, but even then, such an outcome isn’t a certainty. It depends on many things, such as where the speed sensor is located, whether the reduction in speed (if any exists) of the sensed wheels is greater than the threshold allowed, and what wheels…

Nah, man; you’re completely wrong here.

Front plates are just a tool for the LEOs to abuse motorists.

Holy shit... The number of people here who drive somewhere and then just want to park and sit in their car to play on their phone, binge watch something, or whatever is ridiculously large. That’s sad. Go live your life, people!

The reason you see SO MANY Jeeps in these cases is because very, very few modern “4WD” vehicles use part-time transfer cases, which are a MUST for flat towing...