The dumbest part of all of this was that Ford was dumping huge piles of money into natural latex production just as synthetic rubbers were starting to be developed.

Exactly. The boat is owned by a “charter company” that’s almost certainly an anonymous llc. Usually this is just a tax dodge, but in this case it’s also letting the owner skip out of the dock fees on a boat that would just get seized anyway if he tried to pick it up.

“My daddy fought in the Second World War, fought in the Pacific, fought the Japanese, and he told me…‘Buddy...if somebody wants to take you out and doesn’t mind losing their life, there’s not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it.’”

“Still, I’m 65% sure this is technically grammatically correct.”

To be fair, it’s only relatively recently that stability control systems have gotten good enough to really put a lot of power down through the front wheels.

As a mechanical engineer who sometimes teaches chemical engineers, it is absolutely amazing how little intuition about the physical world a very smart person can have.

“Being a mechanic and thinking that Chevy’s use Ford engines? This guy needs to find another profession.”

Anything with a cushy back seat and somebody else to drive.

Which is really just a branded golf ball in a different package.

Per incident.

And pay for itself with the added resale value.

Except that everyone’s running that picture of the car outside the hauler where the title sponsor’s name is half covered in tape.

The best case scenario is that a would-be thief is going to maybe keep walking to find a bike without a tag on it. But anyone dumb enough to steal a bike without scanning it for tags is dumb enough to get caught without a tag anyway.

“We’ve got to make our sponsors happy, right?”

Collecting data from non-autonomous cars and letting the AI learn from human drivers sounds intuitive to normal people, but if your philosophy is that “all user input is error” it’s unacceptable.

Maybe, but his actions just got someone else a promotion. Hopefully the new captain remembers how he got there.

From an overly pedantic physical perspective: Work=Force*Distance. Until the car starts moving upwards, no work has been done.

Either the Ford Ranger Splash or Chevy S10 Xtreme. Something about that combination of truly compact pickup and slightly goofy optional trim package couldn’t really have existed at any other time.

“Terminal” refers to the whole building, not just the passenger concourse. 

Yes, W14 as in the Mercedes F1 car that just got stomped by an engine client.