Well, economy is growing - check, average wealth level is growing - check. Modern technologies, drugs, free healthcare, free decent primary education, free kindergartens - check. University grants - check. Free dentistry - check.

Is the scene actually there? I would have assumed the airlines would select a “safe-for-TV” version, ie, ok for kids of all ages.

A far easier approach is to NOT COUNT unbelted fatalities as auto fatalities. Instead create a new “idiot” category for them. Lumping them in with belted occupants unfairly penalizes the auto industry and leads to idiotic things like automatic seat belts.

Late 1980s Toyota Maybe, but that Toyota died a long long time ago, there isn’t one fun bone left in their hulking body. Their idea of “simplifying and adding lightness” is the 4 speed automatic they still sell.

It’s a desert.

Now if there was only some sort of government standard to get morons to turn OFF the DRLs and turn ON the head and tail lights when its dark, rainy, foggy or snowing out......

Curious are you NIS or with the Moonies?

I used to do this in my old Celica All-trac.

Welcome to business 101. This is how most people at the top in big businesses think: They want the ribbon-cutting stuff (excellent phrase, by the way). Fixing something or investing budget into maintenance is not “sexy”. It doesn’t get the same type of photo-op that’s perfect to pass around when re-election time comes…

The US does claim a number of uninhabited islands in the Pacific (Guano Islands, etc), and claim a 200mile EEZ around these islands. This is in addition to all the other US colonies in the Pacific- Marshall Islands, Marianna Isl, Guam, Samoa, etc. So the USA is certainly not in the clear here.

Why is this on my car blog?!?!?

Personally, I’ve always thought that the solution to this would be persuading China that they really ought to just annex North Korea and be done with it. I’m struggling to think of anyone who would take a serious issue to the UN if this happened. S.Korea might not be overly happy about China butting right up to their…

Obama. While in the midst of a questionable, unending war. I like and liked Obama and think history will be kind to him and rightfully so.

Didn’t Jimmy Carter win a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping this?

Isn’t this just a standard stability control system? Using the brakes to manage wheel slip and handling characteristics is hardly a novel concept.

It looks like the took the RSX to its final form. think the designers heard RSX instead of NSX.

To be honest, the weight that gets assigned to that seems to get overstated quite a bit. Is that how thew law is intended? Possibly, probably even. However it’s not how the law has been executed and enforced in oh, decades. Construction companies hire independnet contractors all the time to do work for them. …

That’s fair. A WTF at the agreement or the law itself makes sense.

I think “cheating” overstates things a bit. An Uber/Lyft driver satisfies many of the criteria the IRS uses to determine an independent contractor. If I can work for multiple companies, get paid by the job, set my own hours, and use my own tools, that’s pretty independent contractor-y. I’ve had two different 1099'd…

“As many as 1.6 million drivers in California got involved in a class action against Uber back in the summer over the eternal issue of the ride-hailing service not treating its drivers like employees, but as contractors instead. It’s a move that lets Uber dodge a lot of modern corporate bullshit, like being…