It can be a great improvement if done properly. Imagine never having blinding lights in your side mirrors at night. Imagine night-vision enhanced images at night. Imagine informative overlays on that display screen. You should be able to tweak it for the best color, clarity and least glare...something you can’t really…

My car has under 300hp and 100mph can sneak up on me. I imagine you can get ahead of yourself in a McLaren, especially if it’s your first rodeo in a super car

The fact that you don’t know if users can delay updates makes me question your second assertion about rushed updates.

This. After the Experian breach I kind of gave up. My data’s out there and there’s sweet fuck all to be done about it, so I can only keep an eye out after the fact. 

Neutral:

I have two hives in the back yard and only use the finest smoke to tame those girls. Honey butter and ‘other fine ingredients’ make a mixture by friends and I call ‘sweet buzz’ which is shared widely in these parts....

Well, somebody has to pick it up, or the Belters are going to claim it as salvage.

I don’t mind it being pathetic considering I get a brand new battery pack.  And it’s not like my one anecdote is systemic of the entire brand either.  Hopefully if someone wrote about how their M5 blew an engine at 65k, people wouldn’t assume all M5s blow their engine at 65k.

And of course the most bullshit part of it is that the 9/11 hijackers had NOTHING on them that was illegal to have on an airplane on September 11, 2001. So how was that a security failure such that the government needed to take over the whole thing?

“Security Theatre”

I take the opposite approach. If traveling alone for a short duration, 1 bag, overhead compartment, no personal items. I hate waiting for the checked bags at the airport.

I prefer to think that if I had the resources to buy/maintain a Veyron that I wouldn’t be so put out by a minor accident that I’d want to put a 61 year-old woman in fear of imminent physical harm.

What’s crazy is the older cars aren’t even hard to work on. My 68 Amazon is at a shop, and it’s only their because the work being done on the engine is beyond me. Everything else I can do at home with basic tools.

The Broken Windows theory applies to cars too. Once you let little things go, things go downhill at an very quick pace. If you stay on top of repairs and maintenance, you end up with a car with 200k miles that looks brand new. If you neglect small stuff and let it snowball, soon you are selling your car for scrap with…

For $1K less, you can get this 1 year newer Ford Transit Connect in a much less obnoxious color, with more HP, and a conventional automatic transmission.

I’m afraid to ask what you did to those poor cars.

Good advice but I would respectively like to add one thing as a business traveler.

Have you ever considered that the one common element unifying all of those negative interactions is actually you?

I sold my last home, which was placed in a flood zone along the coast. I had a professional survey done, and was able to get removed from the flood zone after the survey showed I was 1.75 inches above the flood zone. Flood insurance was about $3,600 a year, or roughly 3 times what our regular insurance cost, over 50%…

Some of us never stopped. I still rewind my YouTube videos. Mostly for nostalgic reasons. Mostly.