I don’t agree with this. Skill cannot overcome stupidity. Just because someone has Michael Schumacher’s car control skills doesn’t mean he won’t be stupid/drunk/high/angry on a public road, drive 150 mph and wipe out two innocent families.

OK, this is a fun discussion but I’ll try to respond to both of your comments in one:

That’s a valid question, to which I raise you what I think is a reasonably valid answer: a $3000 used car with all of the mandated safety features of its year of manufacture (say, 2008), which would still be vastly safer than any motorcycle in an accident.

The steady decrease in fatality rate per million miles driven on US roads points to the obvious trend of car safety massively improving our chances. Yes, a small number of people will take those safety features for granted and drive more recklessly, but the big picture is quite figuratively sweet roses compared to the…

I’m not poor by any reasonable standard, but I don’t like the idea of a poorer person being killed or maimed by a richer person crashing into him or her with a safer car.

There was also the rumour that shipments were delayed by a “missile tech” investigation. Good old days, it was probably fake news!

As long as his supporters have to run in logical circles to redefine the idea that masks are oppression.

Yeah, those people were really goading to escalate the situation, but man, there’s nothing wrong with just leaving the scene instead of pulling a gun.

This is the worst pro-gun slogan I have ever heard. An armed society is a terrorized society.

Serious Q: I couldn’t find this detail in this or the linked article. What did the husband do to get charged with felony assault?

From the various comments here, it seems obvious that the more urban your locale is, the less useful a pickup bed becomes.

Thanks for the correction!

Depending on the frequency of the noise and the direction of the wind causing the noise, pedestrians on the bridge might not hear the whine. You have to be at least one wavelength away to hear it.

I think it’s fair to say that it was cheap OEM paint, so while it may have looked OK new, most cars certainly have not aged well. If this one was garage-kept all this time then it probably looks good enough.

Was this the $50k Civic on BaT?

“Autonomous cars might not eliminate traffic fatalities, it depends on how the intelligence is implemented and how reliable the systems are.”

This is a good comment. The specific choice here isn’t really the main issue—the main issue is, whichever he chooses, can he continue to demonstrate that he moved on and grew as a person, to do the right things in his marriage.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. I remember seeing videos of a Big Boy operating last year, I didn’t know that it was 4104 and the only one.

Thanks for sharing. So there are 8 of these now operational, are they being restored just out of historical interest? I can see how 1 or 2 running Big Boys are awesome, but 8 of these giants is a lot. Are they distributed for historical rides in various locales?

Pretty much what I wanted to ask.