Was that before or after the karaoke scene?

‘one finds that they were somewhat underpowered, odd-handling, and had lousy brakes.’

How many gears did that Suzuki have? Seems like he upshifted about 25 times. Also, what a horrible place to have a drag race!

Surprised this hasn’t been mentioned yet, a movie that was watched more than a few times...

It doesn’t have a lot mileage on it. It’s a Toyota. It just finished the break-in process.

Do not spend a second of your life worrying about me.

Completely obliterated? The passenger safety cell looks perfectly intact. Excellent engineering by Mclaren.

“Well if some regulator wants me to prove my tech isn’t going to kill a whole bunch of innocent people, I’m taking my ball and going home”

I mean, “repeatedly test them, ensure they are safe and can’t be tampered with and turned into mass killing machines, and also let’s make people pass a basic competency test before they get one” actually sounds like a great plan to me...

No matter how well implemented, if the manufacturer of such a device is unwilling to take at least some responsibility for the product itself, it is probably better that this does not make it to market in its current state.

If you don’t want to deal with regulators and lawyers, do something that doesn’t involve the safety of human lives.

I love the GTO comments, but I would suggest a Challenger or a Charger.

If its all you have, its better than being stranded. The same folks who drive on them as a permanent fix probably put their spare on the front and hit the freeways.

“Car has been well over 100mph a bunch of times, so I have a newfound trust in these.”

Love the comments from the folks who used them once and “it held up fine” so they must be safe to use long term. Having worked on tires for years I can happily provide 100 stories of how these failed for every few that swear by them. Do they work in a pinch? Of course. So does a can of fix-a-flat. But they aren’t…

“ or coming out to a parking lot and finding flat tires.”

It’s fortunately a square shoulder tire and not too terribly close to the sidewall. But I can say as a former Bridgestone/Firestone employee (manager), the average internal patch wouldn’t stick. Its an upside down mushroom and the head would peel back as it’d lay over on the sidewall inside. Mushroom patches need a…

Isn’t an engineer supposed to know that those plug kits are a short term, emergency fix? If you’ve watched what they do at the tire shop, a proper repair involves pulling the tire off the rim, inspecting the damage, patching the inner liner from the inside AND bonding a plug through the tread and belted layers. The…

A co-worker of my wife put one in her tire in the summer of 2015 and its still going strong.

Nah. Where I live it barely rains and the tread it still ok. But they will probably be replaced next month before the rain comes.