Cars
I saw the best license plate frame ever the other day when I was at the gym. I had left my phone in the car so I couldn’t take a picture, but figured I would see it again, or I could find it online. Well maybe the owner’s New Year’s resolution has already expired, since [...]
Your Flying Car Awaits: Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century is a look at our modern world through the not-always-so-prescient eyes of previous generations. Author Paul Milo explores the volumes of forward-looking texts to find the most outrageous, optimistic, revolutionary –and sometimes startlingly accurate– predictions about what the world [...]
The 2011 Chevrolet Volt is an electric car that also has a gasoline motor for extended trips. It is the first mass-market plug-in hybrid for sale in the US. I think the Volt is a pretty good-looking car. Will people buy it? Let’s take a look at the numbers. $1.50: The amount per day you [...]
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All the fog lights in the world aren’t going to help this van I found at Trader Joe’s. I’m guessing the aftermarket additions were cheaper than fixing the real headlights and were a worthy attempt at staying legal. Not sure if the cop would appreciate their MacGuyver-like wiring job though. Or maybe they weren’t installed [...]
I recently spotted this car at our local Costco. “Whoa!” I said, “Four Jesus fish on one car. I’ve never seen that before.” “One for everyone in the family?” Bryn postulated. “If Jesus is all-powerful, shouldn’t one be enough to protect the whole car?” Let’s discuss. First, a history lesson for those who, like me, [...]
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recently issued a $16.4 million fine to Toyota for their unintended acceleration issues. Toyota denies any wrongdoing, but has agreed to pay the fine. What I’m curious about is how impartial a regulator Uncle Sam can truly be, given their majority shareholder position in General Motors, one of Toyota’s [...]
