A real point! No matter how many airbags, automatic braking, blind spot awareness, whatever gadgetry, people still find a way to undo just about everything with their own commitment to stupidity. Part of my national mandate for standard transmissions is that you can’t steer, shift, and hold the phone at the same…

Still safer that having mom drive holding a cell phone like a walkie talkie. 

As opposed to the mountains of green Jeep has been printing for years?  Nahh. 

It sure seems to fit “unlawful imprisonment.”

When the crowd surrounds the vehicle, and refuses to move, those inside are being detained against their will. Whether the crowd is “peaceful” or means no harm is irrelevant - they have still detained those in the car against their will.

I thought Jalopnik might be the one hold out where I could get somewhat of a break from the shit that is going on in our world now and just focus on car articles. Guess that’s over now. 

There are more than two sides to this, and 66 instances of cars hitting protesters does not mean 66 sets of identical circumstances. The 19 and 4 determinations about malicious intent is testament to this.

Is it an open, public road? Why do the protestors have more of a right to use it than anyone else?

So at what point is someone actually allowed to feel threatened?

Based on recent history I expect this post will be deleted, but while it’s up:

Ugh. Guess what happens when you protest in the street? Hmmm. I wonder?  

People who dont stand in the middle of the road get hit 0% of the time. True story.

I worked at a Hyundai dealer almost 20 years ago where the “negative equity + no down payment + had bankruptcy 3 years ago” customer was a common occurrence in the show room (maybe it still is).

If you are smart, you can finance a car at 0% and you won’t get screwed too badly. If you are smarter, you will find a decent used car, pay cash and laugh on the inside when your poor friends talk about car payments.

If it came to more axle ratio or a double case...Im taking a double case eveytime.  It will net you WAY more than a ratio will and still be usuable on the road.

The real reason is not a practical one, it’s because Jeep advertises the Rubicon’s maximum crawl ratio (and the magazines all quote it) and Ford wants to be able to beat that number.

Still shouldn’t need 4.70 with a 10 speed auto or 6 speed manual with crawler gear and not with 310 lbs-ft at 3000 rpm.

EMC “ElectroMagnetic Compatibility” testing is pretty standard for electronics and isn’t bullshit. Every piece of electronics that you have with CE marked on it has been tested this way. The reason for testing is for safety of equipment, not due to ionizing radiation (though ionizing radiation danger is covered under…

Okay, I’ll bite.  What’s your proposal?  Are you suggesting that the company pay them to not work?  I don’t work there, either.  Should they be paying me?

How dare they threaten to not pay someone for not doing their job!