Avantasia - Wastelands

DIAGNOSE THIS!

Monday night I was walking the dog after dark and heard a car crash behind me. Turn around and a 5-series BMW has side-swiped about 3 cars and is caught up on the bumper of one of the parked cars, throttle wide open tires smoking. I'm thinking either passed out driver (or other medical situation) or mechanical…

do not understand the super-secret status of oppo. if you land jalop via blog[dot]jalopnik[dot]com there is a big old link to oppositelock forum BAM right there at the top of the page. And whoever in hell doesn't use the blog view anyways?

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good morning oppo. 8 years after finishing my bachelor degree, this morning I take the first step towards a graduate degree - I've enrolled in an online course at the local university to test the waters. Read more

How the EFF are you supposed to wash your back in the shower? 31 years old and this is still a mystery to me.

Alf covering Iron Maiden \m/

I came across a real gem this morning. Check out how awesomely wide that right tire is. Much more grip for left turns.

Given the choice of commuting tomorrow by bicycle, motorcycle, bus, Civic or Prius I'll gladly take the Prius.

Anyone else following this guy who is building his own EV in his garage? He's done with the design/engineer work and already did some wind tunnel testing on a scale model. Now he's using a CNC to cut the shell out of XPS which will eventually be covered in fiberglass around a home-built chassis. …

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I came across a book called Highways to Tomorrow a few years back. Written in 1959 it was a look into the “future” of autonomous vehicles in the far-distant 1975. The authors, after talking to industry experts, predict a future where people own self-driving robotic vehicles. The big pay-off is that everyone gets an…