It’s exceedingly unlikely that a “stress test” was being performed. Most likely, that was a mis-statement from a public official who didn’t understand what the engineers were saying.

Interestingly enough the designers of this bridge, FIGG, designed the 35W replacement.

I have a hard enough time keeping a steady wi-fi signal connected in my house, let alone over hundreds of miles in open country with a varied terrain. You can’t just use forward-looking radar, like on a “self-driving car,” on a vehicle that takes over a mile to stop. You need a constant stream of location data to…

That’s because Bullitt comes from a time when they didn’t have to hit the audience over the head with blatant explanations of everything that’s going on. You had to watch AND think. And if you don’t do the last part you get lost, and then it seems boring.

I guess when you’re living in New York, flippantly owning several hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cars is a thing.

Exhaust leak upstream of the cat...

Ha, I’m sure that’s a randomly picked photo, but I just picked up a trio of company pool cars from that exact dealership, Packey Webb Ford in Downers Grove, IL. (Ok, ok. I was at the Fannie May)

Yes. Tow capacity for the T5 is 3,000 lbs and 4,000lbs for the T6.

I’m pretty sure you can’t open a door in-flight. They open inwards, and the cabin pressurization holds them tight.

I sold a 2010 Sport to Carmax in 2013. Their offer was so high that I was nervous that there was a mistake made all the way until the check was printed. I really thought they were going to be in a tight spot turning a profit, but they ended up selling it before photos were even uploaded to carmax.com.

I was drinking one night in downtown Chicago and this group of Iowa students/grads was at the next table over being a little rowdy. We were bantering back and forth a bit, when one stands up and points to each of the letters on her sweatshirt as she says “I Want Only Alcohol”

The difference is that the number of cars flying off of PCH is orders of magnitude lower than accidents where a car that just barely veers over the centerline of a rural 2-lane highway.

So cars from 1998 only get into full frontal accidents since that’s all they were designed for? Phew.

Well, except that the San Andreas is about 80 miles away from Los Angeles proper on the other side of a mountain range, but regardless, for the lesser faults within the LA basin tunneling across them is a well-figured science. The tunnel liner stops, you have a giant underground cavern-like room across the literal…

They have interior to-sample, as well. If you give Porsche enough money, they will do anything. Case in point, the “final” 928...

Can you believe that poor was boarding 757 Airlines, when Air A380 was back there just taunting with its private suites.

So, just boring two tunnels to hold something as pedestrian as a plain subway train 9 miles from Wilshire/Western to the VA Hospital in Westwood will cost a dead minimum of $4,200,000,000. That’s 4.2 BILLION dollars. This whole tunnel system is somehow even less feasible than the hyperloop, and that thing bends the…

I’m not saying all refineries are going to be taken offline. They aren’t going to be producing the same quantity of gasoline, though, as today if the demand falls off a cliff. Petroleum is an incredibly interesting compound, but it’s not like you can take the fractional content that was used to refine gasoline and…

The price of gas won’t go down, of course, because the oil companies will starting taking refineries offline permanently as the demand craters.

Economies of scale are funny things. There are lots of people who still want to shoot Kodachrome film, too, but Kodak can’t afford to keep the lights on in the factory at the scale they’d have to run the machines at to make it.