“Your manufacturer is your mother’s maiden name, your curb weight is the last 4 digits of your social security number, your horsepower is the 3 digits on the back of your credit card, and your chassis design is determined by your last three utility bills (please upload here).”

I’m a 1987 Korean front-engined, FWD, 12-cylinder rotary, 4-seat convertible that’s fast, but rusts horribly.

D’oh - I’d misread that. My impression was that serological tests aren’t typically used for diagnosis of coronavirus, but more as an epidemiological tool. However, if these tests are accurate and able to function that quickly, they could be a gamechanger.

Yes, and tanking their economy and the economies of the nations to whom they export the most was obviously the most reasonable path to success.

Bit of confusion here - this test won’t help. It’s an antibody test - they use a blood sample to check for antibodies created by the immune system. If you’ve had Covid-19, then you’ll have antibodies after you get better.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I don’t agree with Raph that traffic should be closed completely; I do agree with him that closing off fewer blocks than you would for the Puerto Rican Day Parade for a weekend is a pointlessly futile gesture. What is this meant to accomplish? Besides making some Park Ave socialites who want a nice peaceful weekend…

Why does the woman leaning against the car in that first pic look like she’s fading from reality?

Y’know, I don’t mind angry eyes on this car. It’s just too goddamn adorable to see that cute thing try to look tough. Just like that lil puppy. I had a little dog just like that, who was so tiny and cute but so goddamn angry and aggressive - and it was just adorable how angry it was! Yes, you are! Yes, you are! Who’s…

Refrigerated trailers and trucks to store bodies are a standard part of FEMA’s crisis response. In cases of mass fatalities - like, say, an earthquake - it’s necessary to set up temporary morgues. Specialty-built refrigerated vehicles designed as portable morgue units are common enough in emergency response fleets.

I would honestly be down for a Jalopnik TV show. I know, there was “Car vs America” - and I appreciated what little I got to see of it. But what I didn’t like as much was that it featured Raph and Ballaban. No, that’s not a diss. What I mean is I disliked the entire structure of building the show around two starring…

Speaking to a friend who works in equity, she told me I would be amazed at how large profitable companies, especially in America, are leveraged to the hilt. When a company like FCA turns a profit, they don’t use that profit to establish an emergency fund for future losses - they plunge that money right back into…

Agreed, Carbon was the weakest out of the three. It felt a bit like they tried to tamper with the details and just messed with the formula for the worse. Most Wanted’s clearest and most unique selling point was those police chases (it sure as hell wasn’t the plot), which were brutal and intense, but was also still a re…

My favorite racer games remain the preposterously idiotic trilogy of Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005), Need for Speed Carbon (2006), and Need for Speed Undercover (2008), which featured wildly moronic game mechanics, a melodramatic over-the-top plot, terrible acting, and the most try-hard attitude to be tough and…

“Viable” when used in biology literally means “alive”. It’s alive and kicking. The term is not defined in the article because it’s the standard definition in the field.

Well, BI was probably citing this study:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2004973
Published in New England Journal of Medicine by NIH, if you can trust those guys.

Getting through TSA kinda just depends on who’s on duty at the time. I once went on a multi-country trip and I happened to have this fancy reading light/flashlight dealy, which unfortunately just so happened to kinda sorta resemble a pipebomb when looked at through an X-ray scanner (long cylindrical casing wired to a…

The TSA is notorious for being incredibly bad at anything involving efficiency. People who work there report that it’s terribly bloated, poorly organized, and hilariously incompetent. External monitors regularly agree that it’s terrible at transport, safety, and administration - and poses a major hurdle to the…

Articles like this make me wonder if David is just eccentric in his tastes, or if his brain is infested with some sort of behavior-modifying parasitic organism that constantly requires fresh sources of iron oxide in order to breed.

True - but the significance here is that we now know asymptomatic spread is indeed possible, and that complicates the picture immensely - in that it means the “picture” is larger than we are currently observing. How much larger - well, we don’t know. And that’s the problem, because the larger the picture is, the…