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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

Way back when, American kids always got the funnies when they saw the ring around the ignition keyhole in a Volkswagen. The key positions were stamped START FAHRT. Read more

You should try the site with ad block.  It’s way more useable.   Read more

Edge case? Are you f’ing kidding me? A deer is by FAR the most common animal you could hit which could ruin your day (and your car). It’s way more likely to be in a road than a human (even homeless ones pushing bikes in Arizona). I have contacted precisely one thing in my 30+ years of driving over nearly 1 million Read more

You know it's fresh if you grille it. Read more

Hitting a deer isn’t an “edge” case in a lot of places, like a lot of the Midwest, I know far fewer people living there who haven’t hit a deer there than have hit one. I have taken out a coyote on the interstate once (only damage was front plate as it was a clean head to plate hit) and we had a deer total one of our Read more

Living in a rural area, and it being late October, I would hardly call a deer in the road an edge case. I’ve probably seen as many of them driving this week as I have red lights.
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The car did alert after hitting the deer, it just alerted RFK, Jr. to come pick up the carcass and dispose of it in Central Park. That’s the new protocol.  Read more

TIL that I am paid less than some North Koreans. Read more

If they’re literally sending their paychecks to the DPRK, they must have remained employed for a while, as getting fired immediately would send them back to square one. So it stands to reason that they actually did the work of a real employee. Read more

It’s funny how the extortion was only a secondary part of the scheme. Before that it’s just people working day jobs at a what’s probably 20x the pay they’d get at home and wondering why they can’t just leave and go work those jobs for real. Read more

Man, I remember the days before paying to check a bag when overhead bin space wasn’t a hot commodity. No one was in a rush to board, there wasn’t any chaos, and I did my best to be one of the last people on the plane. Now I get to be one of the first on most flights, and have the joy of sitting on a hot plane for 25 Read more

“Gate lice” exist because airlines created baggage fees outside of the normal ticket price. People are trying to get in early so they have a place to store all their shit because they don’t want to pay extra fees for an already terrible experience. Read more

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China outlaws drug use in other countries” Read more

Totally owning himself with a name that admits the last version was total shit just to use a childish acronym. Read more

“The last thing I would do is trust a computer program,” Elon Musk at a town hall hosted at a high school outside Philadelphia Read more