Isn’t WOW the third European airline to shut down with no warning and leave passengers and/or crew stranded in the past couple of years?

My guess is that provision for an alcohol interlock is about having a reasonably standard and documented way to install one instead of having every car/installer do something different. The interesting thing would be if that had the side effect of simplifying aftermarket mods like remote-start, anti-theft ignition…

It’s a weird day when I find myself agreeing with California on something (gender discrimination in insurance is bad), but in my defense it’s also probably kind of weird when Montana agrees with California.

I feel the same way about the new-in-box toy collections. Sure, good investment if you sell the right toy at the right time, but it’s also a toy that no child (or child-at-heart) ever enjoyed playing with.

I vaguely remember some years back hearing that a few cars require an extractor like this because they don’t have a drain plug on the oil pan. I’m pretty sure those cars didn’t also put their oil filters in a nice spot up on top of the engine.

1st: Hasn’t the US auto industry gone through this expand-then-consolidate thing before? In the early 20th century, then again after WWII?

If you half-ass the electrical and it catches fire halfway through your trip, you will still have a great story to write.

Fancy tire valve caps might have been easier.

I’m sure these wingsuits can be classified as personal mobility devices, just like rental scooters. Picture it: any random person can open a smartphone app, the suit’s zipper unlocks, they put it on and jump. Afterwards, take it off and hang it up, or throw it on the sidewalk, or whatever.

If you sit behind the wheel of the Porsche Cayenne Coupe, are you sure that the classiest part isn’t you?

Clearly this is a perfect opportunity for a companion piece to https://gizmodo.com/i-rode-an-e-scooter-as-far-from-civilization-as-its-bat-1833434599 so you should rent an electric scooter.

A manufacturer should make a new model just named the “Coupe”. Argue that it’s nothing but a name, not meant to represent the body style. And that new model should be a 4-door pickup.

I think a new electric Beetle sounds great. But it should have legs instead of wheels. And it should have six of them.

Shopping carts snagged from outside the closest grocery store used to be the typical thing for that, but in south St Louis city the stores commonly have anti-theft devices on their shopping carts. The wheels will lock if you take them past the edge of the parking lot.

The guy I knew who owned some generation of Neon was not a fan because he was on the tall side. He said it was called the Neon because you hit your knee on everything getting in and out. I think he drove it because it was cheap.

If I worked at Enterprise I might want a Hertz anniversary Corvette to drive to the office. Especially if I worked at corporate HQ.

How about a plug on a flexible arm that extends from the front of the car, with a charging receptacle shaped like a big funnel so you don’t have to be very precise? On second thought, don’t picture that.

This reminds me that I should try to take a photo of the old first-gen Cherokee disintegrating in a rural friend’s shed as temptation for the next bad decision. I guess that makes me an enabler....

I’m pretty sure all of the concern I’ve heard people voice over autonomous vehicles has been in the “I’m afraid it’ll kill me” space, not the “I’m afraid the government won’t regulate it” space. Worries over government regulation are usually just a consequence of the other, just like the demand for laws about (or…

Option #2 is clearly the better choice, but makes me feel like I should have held out for a deal like this before I agreed to provide cover for those politicians.