To use the public against themselves. They give broader test data due to a wider variety of locations than just Phoenix and Hamtramck and show you the manufacturer their usage habits for it via telemetry. It also trains the public on how to live with these systems going forward, even if they’re using them wrong.…

Jason I think you accidentally found your next story. Automotive crimes committed over patent or copyright battles.

None of the others run on Kinja.

Or just fucking take it apart right there in the drydock.

I feel you have personally attacked me be introducing me to this show that I will now watch every horrifying minute of because what the fucking fuck?!

Pimp My Ride was often worse than you think. Many times the cars needed serious mechanical maintenance, and instead of doing that they’d just cover it in cosmetics. Things like rusted brake lines, transmissions ready to go, and engines chewing their own cylinders to hell were often neglected. A lot of the cars were…

The funny thing is, if you massaged the proportions a bit, like angling the bottom up after the wheel arch and reducing the overhang... This works. It’s very early ‘80s in profile, but it works.

Thanks to some fuckery outside of the update to 1099-MISC and 1099-K themselves

No, it’s not just the “business” side. Thanks to some fuckery outside of the update to 1099-MISC and 1099-K themselves, it’s any undisclosed income larger than $600 over the course of the year on any of the affected platforms. Somebody send you $601 over Paypal to buy some tires for you car because it’s Sunday and…

No. I’m still at large, murdering plants with my horribly incompetent green thumb.

Oh yeah. Keurig cup boxes and rice boxes are the worst about it. I bought a tall cylindrical container with a lid to put my rice in because every time I tried opening the box I’d rip it along the corners before the tab ever got pushed in, getting rice all in my pantry when I put it back.

Actually, kinda, yeah. Either intentionally or unintentionally. I wear plain clothes with no logos or anything on them, built a computer in a plain black unlit case with no badges, avoid branded stuff like the plague, and most of my food ends up in plastic freezer safe bags because the original packaging says it’s…

See also: Apple, Nest.

Upper middle class tech illiterate people really fall into the “Your property is your personality” trap much more easily than other people.

If it works for boats it works for cars when it comes to tying things down.

That said, the disappearance of cleats sometime around the mid ‘70s (and stake holes for flatbeds) is really irritating, because you have to half ass engineer your own fucking solution to keeping things that aren’t cubed shaped secure in the…

Yeah, but... Why? You’d do better off just making a custom painted card insert to add some flare and colour. The digital gauges suck in all the important ways.

There are two things that weren’t noted that’re in addition to decreased traffic decreasing likelihood of vehicle to vehicle collisions.

One is that a lot of cars nowadays have in-car safety systems like automatic braking, lane keeping assist, and adaptive cruise control that allow the driver to be less active in…

Considering the weight of the original M50 Warrior is about six thousand pounds to begin with, the weight of six thousand for the EV version’s an absolute lie. That anchor of a diesel engine that was in the M50 is nothing compared to the extra two thousand pounds of batteries that are gonna be in the M18.

That bridge is awesome and an engineering triumph considering both the extremely limited funds and the odd circumstances under which it had to be designed to operate. It’s just a shame that it was built in a relatively poor area (during the Great Depression no less) where the budget to maintain it amounted to the tank…

A lot of already seems off. John-117 didn’t have some sort of cyborg control implant to keep him in line, he was just brainwashed from the age of 10 to serve the UNSC. He only later on got a neural interface in order to move Cortana around instead of continuing to host her in his suit, which is why her freakouts and…

That second vehicle’s just a Jeep Commanche where somebody selected “Inset faces” for the windows.