China’s actually suffering for their infrastructure expansions. They built most of it on the back of expanding the train network in the late 2000s, as centrally funding the railroad allowed money to organically spread out around the rail lines as people built up next to them. Well, a lot of that train network now…

So basically this is just a blitting error?

The question I’ve had for years now is why not transfer her to an artificial lagoon, drain it, raise her, and build an elements protected museum around her? The ship doesn’t have to be in the water, and especially not in saltwater surrounded by an artificial limestone barrier that’s leeching and turning it all even…

0.25%? They’re calling apocalypse over 0.25%? Really? I could understand if it was 10% or more, but this is just petty greed. If jumping from 0 to 0.25% is enough to destabilize your entire corporate economic growth then you’re running a very fragile financial plan that needs to be broken.

I spent a few years growing up in Ohio where the punishment for missing the bus was scraping all the snow and ice off the very car that was to take me to school. During that time I broke the crank twice, once on my dad’s Mazda B2200, and later on a second generation Plymouth Voyager. You could’ve had that B2200…

No, but ice gets thick enough that sometimes you can’t see out of the windows. And the defroster ain’t gonna do shit. So your only option is rolling them down and busting off the ice so it doesn’t fracture the glass.

Depends. A few days ago it rained, then snowed, then got warm enough the previous day to start melting, only for it to freeze again that night. Even running the car for a few minutes wasn’t enough to break the ice, so I rolled down the window as far as it would go (the electric motor screaming the entire time because…

On the roof it is.

With crank windows you don’t have to worry about burning up the motor when the windows are frozen and you can’t scrape the ice off from the outside. Either those fuckers come down or you break the crank off. Which is an easier repair than tearing the entire damn door apart just to replace an electric motor, rollers,…

How old are you that you’ve never had crank windows? 10? Toyota, Honda, Kia, Hyundai, and Chevrolet were still offering them in the mid 2000s. For Kia and Hyundai it was even longer.

Also another thing about sunroofs and moonroofs that wasn’t touched on: In modern cars, there’s such a massive rake to the windshield…

Eventually Sweeney explained to Musk where he was getting his data from, and the tech-giant was surprised how easy it was to access all of it, according to Protocol.

Damnit.

I bought a Huffy 26" cruiser about three years ago. Despite having built custom bikes as a kid and teenager and doing everything possible that could destroy them, including riding them into lakes and rivers off bridges, jumping them ten feet in the air, jumping off retaining walls over passing ATVs and cars, and…

And they’re starting to suffer the consequences as the market share they once had fragments during a time of rapid change and panic. RAV4 and Corolla sales are stable but everything else has been going up and down since 2016. The Tundra’s been dropping, the Camry’s been dropping, the Sienna’s been cratering, the…

Try unbuckling, unbuttoning, and then unzipping your pants in that order without using your thumb. Unless you’re extremely dextrous with high finger strength, chances are you failed multiple times on just the first step.

An alternative is just wearing sweat pants and basketball shorts, but at that point you might as…

The problem comes when they implement the Zeroeth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or by inaction, cause humanity to come to harm.

The irony is that by intervening and causing stress or loss of control, the robots will harm humanity. And considering the high level of responsibility undertaken in any motorized…

Nothing, because on a long enough timeline everything becomes collectible to someone.

For example, there are a lot of stupid cars I wish I had, like the Mazda B-based Ford Escort or first generation Mitsubishi Mirage GLS. Most people, even car enthusiasts, would laugh and say “What pieces of shit.” But they don’t see…

I mean, Tesla still did use the TZero electric motors. That’s what was used in the Roadster until the 2010 update. The Model S was the first of their cars to use an in-house design, which was then used on the updated Roadster.

Removing the smog equipment from an Aspen/Volare does not make it any less of an Aspen/Volare. Most that survive survive with exactly that modification done when the cars were bought new or recently second-hand. Does changing out the stereo or the wheels make it suddenly not an Aspen/Volare either? The original…

What the hell is this list? A lot of this is just miscategorizing cars, and the other half is hating for what they are comparatively instead of thinking of what they could be with just a little bit of effort or placing them in their era.

The Monte Carlo was never a muscle car. It started out as a brougham luxury coupe, …