This. Apples and oranges.

I have a feeling Japanese auto manufacturers

I think Grozy is a touch more apt.

So with the benefit of hindsight, it’s clear that the Russians learned something from us. Even the Russians finally decided to isolate ammunition from their crew in the T-14 Armata.

Cancelling a generation of high-and-hot military aircraft in the 60's set us back.

Tell that to China. :P

Then it’s awesome. :)

Autonomous cars are great for people who lack the gumption to do a road trip.

Oh, like San Diego to Texas along I-8 / I-10 / I-20?
Yeah, being born in the former and in the US Army, I’ve only done this over a dozen times. What a joke.

And it’s not impossible in an uncomfortable one.
Just a literal pain in the butt.

Normal person + audience + anonymity may not invariably = total fuckwad, but it doesn’t, it does manage to bring out blinkered, parochial people at least.

Sounds like your idea of what is reasonable or in the range of possible, normal behavior, differed greatly from reality.

So instead of maybe, urmmmm, being wrong, other people are nutters?

Unless your occupation is a trucker, and you’ve covered damn near every stretch of interstate in America, what qualifies you to call BS?

30 minutes?
Hahaha, no.

I road trip a lot. (~2 times a year for 7 years) If I spend 30 minutes at a rest stop it’s cause I went #2, had a sit-down meal, fueled up from less than a quarter of a tank, put air in all 4 tires, and then just meandered for a few minutes.

Now that’s solo. Is there a difference between solo…

It doesn’t need to.

Pirating is a big reason Call of Duty transmogfrified from a solid PC franchise, to the console based, lowest common denominator, close-range deathfest of a shitshow it is now.

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MUCH better value here at an $800 price point, and a GTX 960M, quadcore 2.6ghz i7— I just ordered one in fact.

As cool as that is, if it isn’t G-Sync / FreeSync, it’s a waste of money.

Um, I agree. I should have put a smiley next to oil revenue.

She’ll make for a picturesque piece of rust in 50 years.