I’m sitting in one of those sleepy small towns right now, and my local government has lost an undisclosed amount of money in lawsuit settlements after similar types of screwups.

The answer being, “very severe”.

If you pull up historical images in google earth, the images are date stamped. They’re usually accurate to +- one day, and they’re good enough that I’ve been able to find my own car parked at an event that happened to get captured.

But the real question is, does she get to keep the wheel too?

It’s accurate enough for the question at hand. I’m looking at the property right now, and the historical imagery shows no vehicles outside in 2010, maybe a dozen in 2012, and a steady increase to what looks like at least forty today. If he agreed to not acquire more vehicles, there’s more than enough publicly…

I doubt they saw anything with the drone that’s not shown on google earth. Which raises the question of why the town paid for information they could have gotten for free.

I think in this case, the driver probably was staring at the flashing lights. They just happened to be across the highway from where the flatbed was parked.

If you stick that landing, your back is still getting broken.

“Aerojet was modifying engines that had flown multiple times on the space shuttle program.”

I pulled into my driveway (between a pair of two-story houses) in the winter once and got a weird feeling. So I backed the car up enough that it wasn’t between the houses. As soon as I got up to the front door about a thousand pounds of ice slid off of one of the roofs and landed where my car had just been. A few…

I’ve encountered a lot of fellow road cyclists who are helmet zealots, but ride without glasses and never understood it. In twenty five years of serious riding I’ve cracked exactly one helmet (though I am under no illusion that it “saved my life”), but about twice a season get absolutely nailed in the face by debris.…

Square-eyed Wranglers can be found for cheap enough to still have room in the budget for upgrades. And the big glass and short wheelbase make them excellent city cars.

The problem is that qualifying is boring. The bracket format would much more entertaining if two cars at a time went out 10s apart for a five lap pursuit.

“I don’t think that Monaco should be a points-paying F1 race anymore”

Vinfast sounds like a street corner window etching service.

Sure, let’s fix this by handing it over to a series that’s been completely ruined by gimmicks...

I’ve never had the battery die on a piece of paper.

“the problem occurs when the Outlander is shifted into reverse immediately after starting — within 40 seconds of the infotainment booting up.”

Dealer-installed accessories are a cash grab across the board, but some of Subaru’s are particularly hilarious. If you’re building out a Crosstrek Sport right now, there is only one bundle of factory options, but you could also pay $150 for eight bucks worth of interior LEDs and $250 for the start/stop button to have…

Don’t forget that modern automatics do better on the EPA mileage tests than manuals. So there’s a regulatory incentive to limit manual production regardless of what the market wants.