wow, I am culturally illiterate.

Cranky Gen Xer here. cutoff for Boomers is 1964.

but still, get off my lawn.  seriously.  I paid good money to have that mowed.

could have been laShodra Washington....

that joke clearly flew right over your head.  he probably should have used /s notation but come on, it was pretty obvious.

steamed ham? what kind of abomination is that??!??!

both of my cars barely tell me the time. 2007 pilot and 2010 civic with the basic radio. digital clocks that run about 2 or 3 minutes slow a month.

I survived the first 40 years of my life without a cell phone, gps, ipod or laptop.  I can live without a car with an incompetent and unupdatable GUI.

so this is more of a unibody design than the ford, which is more traditional body on frame....  would expect ford to come out with a single cab long bed work truck version within 2 years, but this is an SUV with a bed and you’ll never see a single cab version.

wow the front is fugly. at least Chevy is consistent with…

yeah, but... I generally keep my cars for 15+ years. do you think USB-C is going to be the standard in 15 years? (I guess you could say the same for bluetooth and/or wifi...)
although I would expect to be able to dongle my way through to USB-C from any new connector standard (likewise for bluetooth or wifi)

I guess the…

what I want in my car is a dumb display and a bluetooth speaker system.

I’ll bring my own computation thank you very much.

at the end of the day, do you really want to pay electric car prices for a chrysler?

just about the only product that whole company makes that doesn’t suck donkey balls is the current Ram pickup and maybe the jeep grand cherokee

You clearly have not been anywhere rural in France. the TGV lines cross almost everything below an A road at a level crossing. The Tour De France often has to pause the race due to trains at level crossings.  I have driven across them myself.

They have level crossings for high speed rail all across Europe and don’t have near the problems we have in ‘Murica.

but they are talking Houston to San Antonio, not San Antonio to El Paso. on the way to El Paso, the only slow spot is in the hill country near Kerrville.  but in the long flats west of there, ain’t no way any trucker worth his CDL is sticking to the speed limit.

No, I have a problem with Elizabeth regurgitating someone else’s garbage without even spending 10 seconds to verify whether it is shit or not.

@Elizabeth: 600 miles for a semi in on I-10 in texas take 7.5 hours. the speed limit is 80. that would be a non-stop, no breaks drive, with the driver taking his half hour break during the unload/reload at the destination warehouse.

yes you can flip a million switches and put the aircraft in direct mode (if you properly diagnose the issue in the middle of trying to recover a tumbling aircraft) which will force the aircraft to not filter pilot inputs (as much) but Even airbus’s own test pilots have failed to do that a few times.

just like the…

fly by wire is awesome, right up until it ain’t.

had this been a 737 (which has plenty of problems of its own) the pilots would have had no trouble hand flying the aircraft because the pitot data (when flying manually) can’t override pilot inputs.

sadly CART fell _because_ it wasn’t a spec car series, that and not having the Indy 500. costs were too high, revenues too low. being a spec car keeps the costs down across the board, allows the series to optimize the car for good close racing and prevents teams from modifying the cars in ways that would hurt the…

holy shit, turn on closed captions and watch it.  sooooo much better.

interestingly, all the modern F-1 engines are based on the CVCC concept.

they all have fuel rich pre-chambers firing into lean main chambers, fed from a common intake and a super duper complex fuel injector due to the stupid F-1 1 injector per cylinder rule.  getting that design right out of the box gave Merc their…