The odds of that actually being a person and not a deer on a rural South Dakota highway at night are slim but tragically not zero. Calling the authorities to investigate a suspected wildlife strike is the prudent action.

Nothing better than harassing your own website visitors who are ALREADY visiting your website.  

STOP ASKING

no one wants a racing series that says “F*** it, just load that 20 gallons of fuel with the fastest way you can possibly think of...”

In other words, there will never, ever be a new F1 team, and the value of all existing F1 teams just vaulted.

I’m always stunned at people’s resignation to crappy customer experiences because “that’s how it’s always been”. It can be different and Tesla is proving it.

Repeal direct sales bans and let the customers decide.

I have easily waited 8 weeks for a car.  It’s a big purchase.  I like to plan it out.  It’s not an impulse purchase for me.  I prefer waiting to get the options I want versus getting something close.  I keep cars for a long time.

Didn’t Jalopnik recently argue that police should no longer perform traffic stops?

I think the struggle here is the gap between what is perceived as appropriate. I tend to agree though. I don’t feel as though I drive recklessly/ unsafe, and feel many would fail at arguing that I do, but I do frequently break the speed limit.

Would excessive speeding like this be reduced if all speed limits were based on some sort of scientifically-based actual safe traveling speed, rather than having areas of arbitrary reduced limits, seemingly for no reason other than revenue generation?

Most articles with “X cost the US economy $Y” are complete bullshit.  With ridiculous extrapolation and hyperbole.  

Ahhh, so the virus cares where you live!?!?!?! News to me. You know all those thousands of deaths in NYC could have been avoided if people didnt take the voluntary, pointless risk of living in such a high density of population.

What do you think people in the hospital are? Do you think they hand these degrees out somewhere? Years and years of training, for everyone, ICU doctors (12 years), ICU nurses, specialized respiratory therapists, Pulmonologists (12 years combined with ICU), nephrologists (11 years) if in renal failure, surgeons when…

Population of Manhattan 1,650,000 with a land mass of 22mi^2.

“seems significantly off” based Healthcaredive’s article on a peer reviewed academic study in Health Affairs VOL 39, NO. 6 published April, 23rd 2020 “The Potential Health Care Costs And Resource Use Associated With COVID-19 In The United States”.

So the study doesn’t actually tell you how they calculated it, it just refers to another study.

That study doesn’t base the numbers on the cost of treatment, but instead on the “value of a human life”, which considers a human life to be worth $11 million based on DOT numbers. They conclude from this that someone who…

The care you described costing $1,000,000 is unjustifiable in the “normal” case where you’re in the ICU for something unusual.

Yup. Same at Universities.

Perhaps if you’re so skeptical about the stats you should actually read the studies instead of mouthing off based on your armchair expertise? “Seems significantly off” isn’t a sufficient rebuttal.