I always thought these kind of did make some degree of sense. You get an unassuming, easy-to-park, economical city car with a luxurious interior. No they weren’t worth their MSRP new, but I think a rich weirdo could do worse if they wanted something unique to bomb around London in.

I would totally get one and use it for trolling.  I’d valet park it everywhere, and when it was time to leave, I’d loudly ask them to “bring around the Aston Martin, please.”

The flip side is that these celebrities often get expanded access, free tickets, and other perks to show up to the race, with some minor expectation that they’ll be thrown in front of cameras and likely have a microphone shoved in their face and asked some questions. I agree they don’t have to give an interview; they…

There was no outcry - there’s a conspicuous outcry-shaped hole in the article. On the other hand, this may be a rare instance of the (very dull) truth getting round the world before the lie has got its socks on.

It’s the perfect “enrage to engage” reporting technique. Go on Twitter, find people angry about something (everyone on Twitter is angry about something at all times, I guess they find it fun), and report on it. Then you get three responses:

Everything is so dumb these days.  

Do you like looking at pictures of ridiculously expensive cars that you’ll probably never see in real life and couldn’t buy even if you could afford them?

At that depth, it would have needed to be full of some form of explosive to actually explode. The end ring from the carbon tube (titanium) and the tube end with the window both look to be in great shape... minus the window.

The media has confused the hell out of people I think. People expected that the whole entire vessel collapsed in on itself like a black hole, and all that should be left is a hunk of metal the size of a soccer ball or something

Yah man, my mom is 70 and my grandma is 96. Surviving off spite and paranoia, but surviving nonetheless.

Could well be much older than that. Hardly anyone of that generation in my family died before age 90, and a several made it over 100. They all had first kids in their late teens. My great-grand aunt who made it to 105 out-lived ALL of her kids, sadly. And she lived independently in her own house until she was *102*.…

It was crazy, but also not surprising, that Rush was relaying directions to the diver via the tourists. Given the number of times they had comms issues in the water, you would think they would have come up with some sort of formal procedure for when this happened again. I also can’t believe he was asking the tourists…

I know that hindsight is 20/20 and all that, but just hearing Rush talk the way he did about the problems the sub was experiencing would have been enough for me to nope right out of there. It all seemed so casual for an outfit that wanted to take inexperienced tourists into the most inhospitable reaches of the planet:…

Your pilot also needs to somehow use the xbox controller with one hand, since he needs to stabilize him self with the other so he doesn’t crash into the other passengers. Jesus, he’s just an awful engineer IMO.

I think it’s a very important conversation to have; highlighting the gradual move from extreme caution, testing, and expensive risk mitigation to what we have now, basically “hope for the best, what’s the worst that can happen” engineering and production to safe a few bucks. Tesla using real-world drivers as beta…

Someone needs to work on their reading comprehension skills. Bro, TheWalrus was shading the article about the Elon-Zuck cage match. His point was that if you think Jalopnik should be writing about the Greek refugee incident, maybe direct that critique at an article that doesn’t have anything to do with transportation…

They haven’t written the release form that will stand up to demonstrable negligence on the party asking for a release.

Most people here are likely richer than 98% of humanity. Check your self-righteousness at the door, bud

I know. And, I get it. But as someone who has volunteered with alpine and backcountry Search and Rescue for years, we don’t go looking for people based on moral considerations. At the end of the day, these are lost people and we go looking for them. Period.

Objectively a Titanic tourist sub being lost in the depth of the oceans is a more interesting story because of its uniqueness and suspense from the limited oxygen supply. Unfortunately, refugee ships capsizing are fairly common occurrences, so while they still make headlines, it’s generally a far less interesting…