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towman
towman
“... thus men become the architect of his own demise, but for the time, it was good...”
Police trucks? I have a police bus for you (not entirely unmarked, the lights are pretty visible:
98 Toyota Tacoma, wife’s daily. There is no month goes by, where we don’t find notes on the windshield by some who wants to buy it, I’ll never sell it.
Right now it’s far too early in the ballgame to tell how this is all going to shake out
This show that driving is inherently more dangerous than flying, you mind your own business, waiting for the read light to turn green, when all of a sudden a plane crashes into you...
1. Police officer is issued a clapped out old police cruiser on a daily basis.
Exactly! Low weight + 6 wheels = low ground pressure, you can put beach balls on those wheels and it still going to be great.
Google Maps came a long way, does pretty good job to route around problems, and found its ETAs are pretty accurate.
the public will never, ever, trust their flying lives to just a computer
I’m sure that the Transfăgărășan highway is a glorious experience... when driving through on a sunny day, in a super car, while the road is closed for you to do a TV shoot. Our experience was quite different. Clapped out Lada 1200, foggy, damp road, dodging trucks up and down. If you are from Europe, you don’t have to…
“Name Tsunoda, from Japan huh, where were you on December 7, 1941?”
Easy NP. I owned a 78 242, bought it a police auction for 300 bucks, with 140k plus miles on the odometer, when I got it needed new disc brakes and shocks and that’s it. I daily drove it for 4 years and sold it for 800. During those 4 years only needed regular maintenance and replacing one broken generator cable.
The tech is certainly there now, we even have flamethrower drones to execute prescribed burns. Someone just needs to spend some money to build and test a multirotor UAV capable lifting a full bambi bucket, and still has the range to travel from water source to fire and back. Which is cheaper, rebuild existing…
Eh, modern traction control can handle most of the stuff these will face, long as the owner don’t go rock crawling, or mudding in this.
Forward Control Jeep (legs are over rated anyway)...
The only thing this pilot will carry from now on is rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong...
Always liked the UAZ logo
Ariel Atom, long as you don’t wrap yourself around a tree, great views, fun drive to get there.