can someone explain to me how CUVs or SUVs provide increased visibility? I mean, I get that a fire tower needs to be taller than the trees around it to see farther into the distance for fire. But a SUV is the same height as another SUV/CUV. What are you people up there seeing I’m not in my car?

The silver lining is you now can watch the video on their screen and have a new view of the action. Kinda like when you go to a luxury box and people are watching the screens instead of the live action in front of them!

On one hand, I like how the tow truck drivers actually picked up parts of the car. Here in Philly, they leave bumpers on the side of the road all the time.

I know this is days late, but a while back, President Obama came to Philly and ate at a local diner off South Street. I have an old 1983 VW Rabbit, which sounds like an old car, full of pops and backfires. There were sharpshooters on the rooftops and a yellow police tape splitting my car in half as it was street…

It’s a process of creating a ‘debt relationship’. By offering something to someone, it’s their natural reaction to offer something back to you. Try this the next time you are shopping. Bring a pack of Wrigley’s with you. Offer the representative helping you a stick of gum. If they do or don’t take the gum, it doesn’t…

It’s a sad event, but the story is a little misleading. Disc brakes are more consistent, and may provide better ‘feel’ than rim brakes, but if you look at torque arms, you can see that applying a braking force at the rim of the wheel, vs 2 to 3" away from the center of the wheel will multiply the amount of braking…

It’s just people are picking the wrong enthusiast car. I street park my ‘83 VW Rabbit. Those large aluminum bumers with the rubber caps on the ends/middles and shock absorbers do a pretty darn good job of protecting me. Although I always check when a truck is parked in front of me for a hitch in case they damage my…

I’ll admit I haven’t watched the documentary, nor read as much about this issue as I should have. My understanding is Peyton’s wife was getting the HGH.

I’ll admit that most of this was above me, but the ‘self-masturbatory’ phrase has me intrigued. I thought masturbation implied the self part, but now I’m wondering if I’ve been doing it wrong this whole time?

I don’t get the hazards at all. Are you telling me you, the person with the hazards on is a hazard to the all of us competent drivers on the road? Otherwise, stop telling me something I already know, it’s raining, or it’s snowing. Yeah, I can see that.

The fratenity next door to me had rats. They caught one on a glue trap and proceeded to douse it in hair spray. OK, you already know where this is going... Yes, there was a flaming rat that suddenly came unglued. No, their drapes didn’t catch on fire, this is after all a fraternity. But there was a lot of laughter and…

I grew up in Jersey, and once had a long discussion with a State Trooper friend. He said the majority of accidents he sees on the Turnpike are from stuff flying off vehicles. This is probably an exaggeration to some extent, but his description of what motorcyclists bodies looked like after somebody’s sheet of plywood…

Consumerism at it’s greatest is represented above. Instead, go buy a bottle of Lorina lemonade at the supermarket. It comes in a reusable, and thick glass swing top bottle. For $6 you get a good lemonade and a great water bottle for later use, just soak the label off and fill. Sure, you drop this and it might break,…

I can only imagine all the mom’s rushing their children across the street at the Please Touch Museum as the silver driver-less car is doing circles while on the throttle!

No one's going to read this as it's so far down in the comments, but it's helpful to write. After purchasing a 2000 GTI GLX at full asking price because it was Tropic Orange, and perhaps the only one in 4 states, I asked them to install VW's Votex Lowering Springs.

The thing to always remember is to pull the fuse that powers the OnStar in that car, or the Porsche emergency service, or the whatever connect. Once you have airbags deploy, the systems send a signal to the monitoring station including your GPS location for the police to be dispatched to you.

Oh, you guys are all so much smarter than me. I'm still stuck on the fact that to leave earth's orbit, their space ship used three stages to overcome gravity and obtain orbit.

As an Observed Trials Rider, I always thought these Extreme Unicycle riders where kinda like Extreme roller bladers are to skateboarders. With rollerbladers, you jump in the air, and land. Not exactly simple, but simpler than jumping in the air, while kicking a board up, trying to control said board's trajectory,…

Hey. That was quite a bit of cherry picking. Old city is for tourists. And Chestnut and Walnut street below Broad is unreal. Learn to love 676, and especially Pine and Spruce if you are going east/west. Yes Pine and Spruce are one way streets with a bicycle lane, but they are also timed for 25mph.

I totally agree that this percentage thing is bunk. If I order a $10 bottle of wine, I give $2. But an $100 bottle gets $20. What in the world has anyone in the establishment done differently to the expensive bottle vs the cheap bottle to require me to pay them an extra $18?