This doesn’t need to be a law. Insurers have already conducted this risk/benefit analysis, and most have chosen to offer coverage without this stipulation.

The logic is: not wearing a seatbelt is stupid; being stupid is genetic.

Having never driven a hybrid or an EV, how strong is the braking effect when on the highest level of regeneration? I know it’s hard to quantify, but is it like being in first gear in an ICE car with a manual?  

Also, I noticed a Canadian penny on top of my change pile the other day, and the queen was on it, which really helps to clear this up.

I take a more skeptical view of it: 18-year-old Seaman Apprentice/Private Whoever walks into a dealership with a pocket full of money and thinks $500 bucks off is a great deal. They then sign the dotted line with a terrible interest rate. Hence the legislation concerning such things. Unfortunately, young military…

This is neither how business nor charity works in the U.S. Businesses get nothing in return for discounts they offer, even perceived “charitable” discounts, except the benefit of any extra business it generates. They get tax deductions if they make a donation to a 501(c)(3) charity, like any other taxpayer, but they…

I’m sure it’s a well executed car and all, and it’s clearly awesome to go off-road with the roof down, but it’s an answer to the question of “I’m interested in a convertible, but I’m too vain and insecure to drive anything other than an SUV.”

I imagine this is what flying first class internationally looks like, with the smell of rose petals emanating from the stockinged feet of the wealthy as they browse the status of commodities futures 35,000 feet above the Atlantic, their heads effortlessly supported by the necks of their sweaters alone.

That sounds good on paper, but is untenable in reality. First, Joe the nailmaker (or Uber drivers) isn’t the one who is developing the automation. He isn’t the one making himself obsolete, he is merely a placeholder until technology eliminates his job. Joe has nothing to do with the technology; “punishment” is…

I think I heard Europeans use them when parking on unlit, narrow city streets.

At this point I think we need new icebreakers desperately enough that if outsourcing it is the fastest way to get a quality icebreaker, that’s what should happen. However, the logic of the Jones Act would apply otherwise: we need to preserve the shipbuilding facilities and expertise that we still have for strategic…

Yeah. I know a guy who went from Seattle to Ireland on one via the cold route as well as almost getting frozen over in Antarctica in the space of just a couple years. Talk about unique deployments.

In the context of the Coast Guard, “breaking down” means the dramatic failure of a critical component, a legitimate fear among the sailors of its >40-year-old cutter fleet (which are finally being replaced, albeit slowly).

He sounds like a poor person that resents that most other people can afford the market price for a product/service. If you can’t afford to fly, you better be reading blogs on a computer at the library or something.

Anyone know how pilot substitution works when a pilot is sick or otherwise unable to fly on short notice?

Rear brakes are so bourgeoise anyway.

Sorry, that went right over my head.

Being around a decade younger than you, there definitely isn’t the inherent distrust of Russia/Russians that older generations hold. However, I don’t think anyone that reads the news on a daily basis trusts Putin and company whatsoever.

Most people who think the left coast loves poors are too poor to live on the left coast. Sure, the actual coast of the west coast is typically ultraliberal, but you need to be pretty well-off to live there. It’s a weird dichotomy, particularly because people who live there are so conscious of it given their…

If true, that’s a misleading statistic, and also insulting to good cops who see heinous crimes on a regular basis (i.e., the ones we want to stick around and fight the good fight). There definitely needs to be a complete overhaul of police oversight and discipline, but if you isolate police departments in high crime…