Unintended descents.

This thing is tall enough to scrape the undersides of the traffic lights where I live. It’s somehow taller than a 54' semi trailer. This thing is over an entire story tall, assuming basic fourteen foot story height.

For reference the roof of a regular E-450 is 6'6 3/4" off the ground. The roof of this vehicle looks to…

Isn’t the electrochromatic film supposed to be a separate layer, however? I thought that you had the mirror at the back, with the impregnated glass layer in front of it, and a contact on both sides to control the dimming function via voltage running across it. If that were the case why is it causing it to take an…

Ford’s wheel design in the ‘90s was the best. None of the weird ‘80s bleed over GM, Toyota, Honda, and Nissan had, and none of the complex shapes or cheap hubcaps that Chrysler, Mitsubishi, and Mazda had. From the Ranger to the Mustang, from the Probe to the Econoline, they all looked good.

I think this is very telling when the electronic systems are causing the mechanical systems to fail. Engineers these days seem to forget that electronic systems are supposed to be an accompaniment to mechanical systems, and are not to be directly integrated with eachother so that one can function if the other fails.…

To the person in the greys, a bit of math:
Where I live, in my state and county, it takes two weeks to go through the entire application process. That includes the written test, physical ability test, health exam, mental health exam, and background check.

From there, you get sixteen weeks of police academy training near…

It’s been forever since I’ve seen the movie. I misremembered it as a Silvia.

Tokyo Drift went under the hatchet a lot of times to become what it is. That’s one of the reasons why I love it. It’s distilled down to the purest form.

The original script was some fucked up “I Think I’m Turning Japanese”-lense view of Japan where guys drive cars through Shinto temples and woo geishas while bosozoku…

When my uncle joined the State Police in 1990, it required two years of an academy with another year of directly supervised on the job training. Every few years he had to go through both mental and physical fitness checks. Granted that’s a different level, but very telling of the requirements.

Modern municipal police…

No, but my dad married into a redneck family where watching that show on CMT every evening was a tradition. I picked up the synopsis for almost every episode of the first three seasons just through osmosis.

Enos used to help the Dukes, though. In fact, he’d do everything he could just to keep people from getting hurt, let alone killed. And his boss Roscoe actually actually has a negative death count. Just off the top of my head I can think of two people he saved that Boss Hogg was trying to kill. One was the guy carrying…

You could use those methods to great effect in larger cities to set an example of how and how well they work, and then slowly build public support behind them so there are budget hearings on whether to include equipment and training for those methods. That’s exactly how S.W.A.T., bomb squads, and crisis negotiators…

That’s another thing, yes. They have helicopters and they have drones. And who is able to actually see a police helicopter or drone from down in traffic without constantly looking up? Let alone identify that it’s from the police? Launching a helicopter to track might be expensive, but it’s definitely not going to be…

I can tell you a really easy exploit for that. After the Amateur Class you can finally purchase the ‘69 Camaro SS. Do some other races to enough money to fully upgrade the Camaro with the race modifications, which give you more downforce, better downforce control, and better weight distribution control. The Camaro has…

I mean, the two things I hope they don’t get rid of are the Bacon King and the chicken fries. The Bacon King because it’s faster and less hassle than making a bacon burger at home. And the chicken fries because there’s a particular seasoning they put on them that I like. They also used to have chicken nuggets with the…

The big thing with the Chrysler LeBaron is that little metal strip above the grille on the leading edge of the hood.

The thing is, even the cars you’re using as examples were used as studies that put various things into production.

It’s a common problem when companies bring in someone who does fashion or painted art to do industrial design. In car design there are common expected proportions and rules for both the shape and the details. Messing with those proportions causes an uncanny effect, the same as shifting a person’s hips down six inches.

A…

It really sucks, too. I refuse to use Facebook or anything related to Facebook like Messenger and Instagram. But everybody’s abandoned Craigslist.

I really wish there was some service that crawled Facebook Marketplace without you ever having to visit Facebook or interact with it in any way whatsoever. No logins, no…

It would be nice, but people are much to angry and self-serious right now to have fun and colour in their lives. Look at the trend of everything being grey and white in home interior design, for example.