I used to live near Scottsboro, Alabama. They are very proud of this place called Unclaimed Baggage, where they buy lost luggage and sell all the stuff they find. In general, it was a great place to get stuff like Bose QC headsets and iPads and nice clothes fairly inexpensively.

There are two kinds of rich people. Those that became rich and their kids that will become poor.

SpaceX is NOT Killing the ISS. It’s burying the corpse.

Try Breeze. I don’t know if I would call them a budget airline, but they serve smaller markets with occasional flights to common vacation destinations.

Good. I’ve seen the cluster that a Spirit Airlines ticket line looks like and loading and unloading. I can’t see how a company so inept can stay in business without someone big propping them up (like how the US government propped up Chrysler.. twice).

It’s ok. I learned to wear my seatbelt every time from that. I can’t even sit in a broken car to think without putting one on now.

It’s amazing how stupid people can be. When I was around 12 or so, my dad was driving our short bed truck with an 8 foot ladder in the back. We stopped at an intersection and we got rear ended by a guy in a restored 1st gen Mustang that had just come from the paint booth.

Thank you so much for asking.

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There’s also a lot in my industry on making sure that the adhesives don’t have chlorides. It’s sort of funny to tell people you need to get nuclear certified Duct Tape, but it’s a thing to have the paperwork showing the adhesives won’t damage the stainless steel.

The problem with Trains and buses can be seen in England. Back in the 1960s, British rail was a mess. Losing money like crazy and starting to become overwhelmed with problems because of cost cutting.

Car?

This points to a general comment with American Culture. There’s an assumption that things will be corrupted. Which is part of our founding.

anyone gunning for self-driving in a city is dumb. Cities have competition. Buses and subways for example.

Honestly, yes.  The amount of times they stop to help broken down vehicles, they should have some basics.   Especially for Nissan products.

Just to pre-empt any of those tempted by this story.

Not really. Think about the profit margins of GM, Ford and Especially Tesla.  

It sort of happens that way right now. Go car shopping as a family. All the cars are 5 star rated today. Shoot, 18 years ago, when I last was shopping for a new car, a 3 star rating was considered a death trap and I didn’t want to be near it.

The biggest loser of this, as I think about it, is American Manufacturers with their giant grilled trucks that absolutely suck at pedestrian safety.  I don’t see the EU relaxing their NCAP standards on this.

Non-Jalop answer: I would love to see a unification of safety codes between the EU, Japan, Korea and the US. This way, if Toyota makes too many Kei vehicles for their market, they can export some to America cheaply and sell them here. It would allow for enthusiasts to special order stuff like Alpines or the like and…