For me it depends on the circumstances and my expectations.

The NHTSA should also fine every other manufacturer that makes a car with more than 100 hp, because anything over 100 hp is just pure insanity, and those manufacturers’ marketing departments are totally cashing in on people’s ignorance, suffering and death. There’s no reason for a car to have more than that,…

Looking forward to it!

I drove to a meeting today in my 1980 BMW e21, a minuscule car by today’s standards.

Speak for yourself. I accidentally broke a capacitor off a computer motherboard once and successfully soldered it back on. Pretty easy.

Just because something is full of electronics doesn’t mean it can’t be repaired.

Isn’t this the same as just watching a bunch of Beam NG videos on YouTube?

Multicar was the minature Unimog of East Germany. Still is, for that matter, they’re still in business...

The fake gas cap looks like its supposed to be mocking the idea that the actual fuel filler door is missing, but still keeps the actual fuel filler door in place and functional.

Its pretty easy to avoid the petroleum industry by purchasing renewable power from your utility. Pretty much every utility has that option. (When you do this, the utility commits to purchase the amount of power you’re using from renewable sources.)

I had a 1973 Volvo 1800ES with this, except the switch to activate it was a stalk on the right side of the steering wheel. Really threw people for a loop when I’d go to shift and instead of touching the stick, I flicked the stalk and get another gear.

Honest question:

Definitely not the only Brutalism fan here. And I’m actually a licensed architect, which means I have a professional opinion on the matter!

Are you kidding? That’s a high end Eastern Bloc office building!

I get that, and I see your point.

So, if you have an area of unstabilized sand up hill from the race track, and you wanted to keep the sand loose to catch race cars, how would you design the erosion control? (Honestly asking, not being cynical. I’m an architect, I deal with site grading all the time, although not to the level of a civil engineer.)

But that’s the point. The sandy runoff areas around the track are not stabilized. If they were, they wouldn’t serve the purpose of absorbing energy from out-of-control race cars.

Not exactly. The sandbags were performing a safety purpose: keeping eroded sand and water off the track surface.

You are assuming that just because someone at a track day event goes off the track, they should expect to be perfectly safe. That is incorrect.

Because physics.