Recently got married. By adding my Wife as a driver, and her 5 year old car to my existing 2 car policy, my total annual premiums went up less than $400. A change of approximately 15%. If I had not added her car my total premiums would have gone down by about 20%.

Also covered parking ages. Paint fades, color schemes go out of style, and general architecture changes every 10-20 years. So the dealer is looking at replacing or doing a major overhaul of the structure every 15 years or so. Or pay a little extra insurance for a hail event that might only happen every 10 years. If I…

Its called publicity. You just named off those companies, free publicity. They are probably rolling the dice with the money that this truck may or may not make it into production in the next 5-7 years, and it may or may not be piratical when delivered. But the exposure and appearance of being “green” and “low…

I think he’s talking from an engineering perspective. What does that high amp draw, and having to cool all those electric do to the range?

Yep, wrinkle the A and C pillar and they loose rigidity and rollover protection. Essentially total anything but a brand new car.

Mine goes like this:

My ‘65 International Loadstar has a 4 speed T-19 with 2 speed rear diff selector switch on a stick that is near 30" from floor to knob. 1st to 2nd is a good 14"-16", and Reverse is damn near in the passengers lap. Split Shifting the rear diff is the most satisfying thing ever. And 1st gear with the rear diff in low…

Took that class as well as a Civil Engineer. I still use the formulas and basic understanding today before any significant financial transaction. That one class has saved and made me more money over my career than I care to admit.

First time I rebuilt the top end on my ATV, I did something wrong about 4 times. Set the timing incorrectly, installed the rings backwards, something. I disassembled and re-assembled the whole thing each time. I did a rebuild last week, total shop time about 4 hours, runs like a champ right off the bat.

I’m with you. I didnt put together my first bike at 5 year old, but my second one, an 18 speed “mountain bike”, I got when i was 13ish I did. And guess what, when I got a flat, I knew how to change the tube. When the the chain jumped off a mile from home, I could get it back on.

How long can NASCAR support 1/2 empty tracks. I’ve been to several races over the past few years and the attendance in person is even worse than what the TV covers. They were removing stands from some a while back, but at what point does is it no longer profitable for a track owner to host a race?

The one in the Carolinas went off, but it did not have the “nuclear” portion in the bomb. However it did have the several hundred pounds of high explosive material that is supposed to set off the reaction. If I remember correctly it blew the windows out of a train station and destroyed or badly damaged a home. I’ve…

Its about time one of the major self-driving companies realized the semi-autonomous stuff will not work. We need to go straight from lane-assist and e-braking to full on autonomous. No one is going to be paying enough attention to take over in an emergency. Its just opening everyone up to a ton of liability and danger.

Thats all well and good, but if we raise the speed limit from 70-75 because “the road seems pretty safe” and someone dies because of the speed increase. Then the state is now liable, and I have to look a mother in her eyes and say “Sorry your kid died because we were fooling with the speed limit, guess we were wrong.…

As a Civil Engineer, I will say that roads are designed using equations with multiple input parameters for the posted speed limit. However the input parameters such as driver reaction time, average braking distance, sight distance at night, and coefficient of friction between tires and asphalt, has to be input for the…

Is it just me, or is he using those Calipers wrong at 0:25 in the video?

$10,500 with compound interest over 40 years would yield $177,000 give or take if you assume an average long term growth rate of 7%. With no cost for fluids, insurance, or will power.

I know a guy who was in the passenger seat of his truck, keys in the ignition with it running. Passed out when the cops showed up. Since he was in the passenger seat with a console separating him from the wheel, he got off with no charges. Used the no intent of driving case.

How does this burn money? You state it like an irrefutable fact, but I see no evidence that this waste any money. Building a “Flood Proof” road cost much much more money than building a road that may flood during the 100-year event. I’d rather have a road that cost much less much to build and maintain, and floods once…

But aren’t diesel’s the most efficent vehicles on the road? Is the overall envrionmental impact from diesel emissions greater than mining, refining, and producing exotic metal batteries. Then generating electricity from some power plant every time they need charging? Even “green” energy generation has a footprint on…