Modern pedal position sensors use a Hall Effect sensor arrangement that is contactless meaning the only things to wear out is the pivot points.

If the battery is that dead, it’s not going to push start anyway. You gotta have enough juice to run the fuel pump, PCM, ignition and injectors and all the other sensors,  whatnots and doodads.

Jump start the car.

You drop $80-100k on a new mid-engine Corvette, you’re not worried about push-starting the vehicle is your battery goes dead.

I have an insurance customer who owes $40k on a 5 year old Maxima he bought new. Between negative equity at trade in and a high interest rate, he's screwed. Car is only worth $17k and has $14k worth of floodwater damage so it's a total. It's becoming more and more common in my industry to see this. 5 years ago at…

We’ve already lost the pedal feel on the right. If this allows them to use a 3 pedal setup on an automated manual transmission and not have to develop a separate unit it might be the best hope to save the manuals on super cars.

Could you imagine Tom Landry wearing Official NFL On-Field gear?

Ron Rivera wears the same stupid polo every single week and benched Cam for wearing an ascot instead of a tie on the team plane. NFL coaches are the dumbest fuckers alive. 

I’m surprised he never realized it’s the same as his wife borrowing his razor to shave her legs, and him going from “brand new razor, only used once” to “holy hell this rips my face apart” without enjoying anything in between.

Yeah, I read that and I was like, “Drew, haven’t you been married for like, a while? WTF man. Don’t touch your wife’s grooming stuff man.”

Allow me to contribute a girl perspective on the tweezer thing. Women use tweezers for primarily one function - plucking various hairs that are not where they should be (if I was on Jezebel I would say this is because of the patriarchy, so it’s basically your own fault!), with an occasional sideline of digging out…

This is going to get to him bigly.  She could have written that his presidency is the worst thing to happen to America since 9/11.  She could have written that his wife is hideous looking and braindead.  She could have written that he is a grade-A asshole and dumber than a nutless squirrel.  She could have called his…

It’s not that guy’s fault the level of overreaction to leaving his car where he did was what it was.

There are still a lot of design concessions to the need for the lift fan. There is near zero rear visibility and the fuselage is really wide. I don’t think it can even supercruise, which would be hugely important for the A and C.

It’ll never be used against Russia or China directly, ever. If relations degrade to the point where aircraft shooting at each other is allowed, then the nukes are out anyway. It is dumb prestige piece, especially the pointless version for the egregiously pointless marine corps. The Navy’s Army does not need its own…

The B-21 is an early development contract, which is about the same stage as the F-35 in the early 2000s. I don’t expect the costs to balloon to the same degree since they are intending to leverage existing or nearly ready technology, whereas the F-35 had a lot of new development. In an ideal world the B-21 leverages a…

As much as I want to believe that, the bandwidth to control a mass of UAVs just isn’t available, making deploying a ton of them unlikely. UAVs are great if you want an asset that can loiter for long periods of time. They allow a team of people to look at what the sensors are sending back and make better decisions. But…

The government needs to look at themselves and ask why things cost so much. They asked for a plane that’s a jack of all trades and master at everything, and then kept adding shit to it. The government holds design authority.

Literally no one is creating a “definitive take on the origin of the Joker”, as evidenced by two movies in quick succession featuring different takes on the Joker coming a decade after a movie that itself included several different takes on the Joker’s origin and concurrently with comics where there are three…

I’m just so glad Bernie Sanders is here to help the Root find out about black politicians they should have been supporting.