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Staff Writer at Jalopnik, learning pilot and does bus stuff. Smart Fortwo (x4), Honda Beat, Suzuki Every, VW Touareg V10, Passat TDI, Jetta TDI, Audi TT, Buell Lightning, Triumph Tiger, Genuine Stella

It’s better than what we currently do. Most readers of this site are likely well aware of how easy it is to get a license and then how much easier it is to keep it. Read more

Cody “WhistlinDiesel” has said a lot of things over the years and it’s best to take them with a grain of salt. He used to say he was poor as he destroyed vehicles most people couldn’t even afford to rent for a week. Cody’s current estimated net worth is close to $5 million. Read more

“It certainly seems that you do sometimes. Maybe cut back on the motorbike stuff...” Read more

I forgot to say, welcome to a thrilling way to travel! Looks like you picked up an INT 650, which is a killer machine. Vintage style is still great. Read more

I think the tank and shorts photos are hero shots, not what she actually wore for the course. In the second photo from the top, she’s wearing the long-sleeve shirt, long pants, and sturdy shoes that are required by the MSF. Read more

Yeah, that thing is absolutely spectacular in terms of condition. But there’s a reason it’s basically a glorified tour bus right now. Read more

I don’t really know what’s so flexible about a non-bendy bus, but maybe the name comes from the sheer volume of space inside.

Movies seem to make the fears of airline pilot incapacitation worse than reality. While a pilot dying en route is tragic, the bigger emergency is the health of the dying pilot, not the fact that the aircraft is still flying. The FAA stresses that these incidents are rare and passenger safety isn’t really compromised. Read more

LTT then should have used its own RTX 3090Ti or purchased one for independent testing.  Read more

I’m actually ok with the “roadable aircraft” that have been shown in recent years. If you think for more than a second about flying cars you’ll quickly be relieved that they do not exist as promised. Imagine all of the bad drivers you encounter daily, now imagine them being given three dimensions of space to command a Read more

Advanced search does work better! But it’s still weird in that I feel like searching for things was way better in like, 2018, as compared to now. I didn’t need to use advanced search, just the tools I learned years ago to drive Google, so to speak. Read more

I wish I could find it (oh, Google) but on Reddit there was someone claiming to be a Google engineer saying that Google’s search engine works the way it does because it’s more or less programmed to think it’s smarter than you are. Read more

My wife’s friend is a young widow with 3 kids whose Pacifica is on its last legs. An $8k 300ZX is not the answer to her problem, and I suspect that is going to be the case for 90-95% of the shoppers out there.
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I’ve owned many of these B5 Passats and a few months ago I bought another one. There is no reason you should pay $5k for one of these, even accounting for the fact that used car prices have gotten stupid. The engine isn’t special and neither is the transmission. If it doesn’t have any major problems, it’s a $3,500 car. Read more

What I find interesting is the fact that the show, apparently, continued on despite the first crash and fatalities. Read more

Plane crashes are not really in the scope of our coverage unless there’s enough information there that people can learn something. For example, there was a crash where a pilot used a ballistic parachute system; that was an opportunity to explain how those systems work. Read more

Great question! TCAS, or the Traffic Collision Avoidance System, is able to read the transponder signals of other aircraft and should a conflict arise, it’ll alert the pilots of the necessary action to take to maintain separation. The pilots of the other aircraft will receive an alert as well. Read more

Niagara On The Lake has a population of 19,000 and its residents have a median after-tax income of $86,000. Pictures show it to be quite a bustling town. Cute, but not really rural. Read more