When Concorde was flying regular flights it used to go supersonic as it crossed the coast(UK), sometimes you could hear dull thud. Male pheasants tn the mating season, beat their wings together and make a just subsonic boom. Every time Concorde did it’s party trick half the pheasants in England squawked loudly and…

I wonder how nervous the oil companies are with Musk as president. They have to know he wouldn’t do anything to jeopardize his position.

Hertz really did get shafted by Tesla lowering the prices.

The sad thing is, I think the majority of rental car customers would get by just fine with an EV. In fact, since most rental car companies don’t make you recharge before returning the car, dropping it off is easier than ICE cars because you don’t have to worry…

The QE2 is awful even in perfect conditions. Driving up to Edmonton for Metallica back in August was 0 to 130 to 0 for two hours straight. Numerous accidents and near-misses. I’d never do that drive in winter if I could help it.

Those readers who are from - or have driven through - Alberta will know what a shit show the QE2 highway is between Calgary and Edmonton in the winter. You’ve got a high-percentage of lifted pickups coupled with bros amped up on Redbull and who knows what else doing 30 over the limit coming down from or heading up to…

Before you make your ignorant Trump/Elon Musk comment..... 44 aircraft crashed in the USA in December 2024. Yes, we have a problem with aviation in this country. Leave it at that.

Automakers may still appeal the ruling in hopes of finding an anti-worker judge who will overturn Judge Casper’s ruling

Automakers really are finding ne ways to push consumers into keeping older cars running instead of buying new ones......

And remember - it’s DUIs per car. I can definitely see a Pontiac driver get multiple DUIs in a year and lose their car. Then another person - fresh off their sentence (and having lost their Pontiac) pick it up at a police auction, drive it to the nearest pub and lose themselves in a half dozen pints.  And then the…

“This is what happens when you have someone with too much money and not enough sense in charge of things that ignores the rules.”

I disagree, at least for the U.S. market. Americans are fundamentally lazy and they like to think they can do things even if they will rarely if ever do them. So, for example, they will buy an SUV with 8,000lb towing capacity with 4wd even though 99% of the driving will be 20 mile trips through the suburbs. They like…

It’s a percentage of the particular make, normalizing the denominator. So for every 1000 Pontiac drivers, 3.11 have gotten a DUI. For every 1000 BMW drivers, 2.57 have gotten a DUI. etc.  It’s not the raw number of DUIs (I imagine that would correlate strongly to the number of vehicles on the road).

Kind of crazy that Pontiac is #1 for DUI when there aren’t even very many of them left

If I was gonna spend $40,000 on a salvage title car, I would buy a Viper and die historic on the Fury Road.

Oh god, no need to read past the first sentence. Can you point on the doll where the DEI hurt you?

And can we have Alaska Airlines be in charge of the emergency exits?

/s

I count 11 cops in that photo. Certainly there were even more just outside of the picture. Coordinate this kinda thing with a bunch of bank robberies going on at the same time and success would be assured.

This chase is missing music

Because you need VIN plates and a title for the one you stole?
 
Dunno if there’s a YearOne equivalent for the 911, where you can get more or less everything but the VIN. That’s about the only reason I could think of for buying this thing.

I hope Air Traffic Control will be safer than Full Self-driving.