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17 hours ago, Gurgeh said:
I was slowing down, ready to stop when someone rear ends me so hard that it propelled my car into the rear end of the car in front of me (the last of the stopped cars).
Years ago, when Progressive still had the BOF Explorers with PROGRESSIVE written across the side, my old boss was coming out of the bank when he saw a wreck like that. He said the Progressive truck was stopped, the last vehicle in line at a red light, when this woman just plows right into it from behind.
Her car submarined under the rear of the Explorer, lifting its rear tires completely off the ground, and drove it into the rear end of the car in front of it.
The guy driving the car in front gets out, but from his vantage point, he can't see the car that caused the whole mess. He starts going on about the wreck loudly enough that my boss can clearly hear him from the entrance of the bank, then he sees the Progressive name on the Explorer and says, "well, at least you've got insurance!"
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On 4/12/2024 at 9:10 AM, akirby said:
If the fog lamps are on then brights can’t be on for factory lights at least.
That's why I usually keep the fogs lit on my truck, but it's amazing how many people can't figure it out and flash me anyway. It's worse when I'm towing heavy; I have a Roadmaster Active Suspension setup on my rear suspension, and that helps keep the rear from squatting as much as the stock springs, but she still squats some when the trailer is heavy.
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10 hours ago, DeluxeStang said:
I was screamed at about a week ago for not running a red light. I was waiting to make an unassisted left turn with a ton of stuff in the back of our maverick so I didn't want to accelerate aggressively to make it through the intersection. There was so much traffic that there was just no opening to turn while the light was green, and people in Utah run reds on a daily basis so I didn't trust turning once the light barely turned red. Not wanting to run the light apparently pissed the older gentleman behind me off. People have no patience behind the wheel.
Around here, you can't go on green or you're going to intersect with someone who once saw a left turn signal be green. And it's not like the light was yellow while they were entering the intersection to make that left turn--the light had been red long enough for the oncoming traffic's light to be solidly green.
God forbid that you try to stop on a stale yellow or even a fresh red, because you might end up with an extra vehicle as a passenger...
I grew up in a college town, so I thought I'd seen some shady driving; turns out those college kids weren't a stitch on these loons.
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1 hour ago, ice-capades said:
I never pull out because an oncoming car indicates with their turn signals that they're actually going to turn!
I have many stories that confirm why I don't trust turn signals, but my favorite was when I saw a half-ton truck hauling a 16' utility trailer signal for a left turn, move into the left turn lane, then cut across two lanes of traffic, making a right turn.
I'm pretty sure the folks who were coming down that highway off ramp were surprised to see him coming up it...
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1 hour ago, akirby said:
There are people who feel sorry for victims and want to help them even if the victim was 100% responsible for their own actions. Like people who jaywalk at night in dark clothing and get hit by a car and killed. Sorry that’s their fault not the driver. Empathy should not excuse liability or supercede the law.
A certain group of people want to outlaw or ban certain things simply because it’s an easy solution that requires them to do absolutely nothing personally just so they can say they tried something so they can sleep better. The problem with this approach is it never addresses the true root cause and therefore doesn’t solve the problem.
A simple example would be NYC banning large soft drinks. Does that stop people from overeating? Did it stop them from getting five refills? Of course not. But somebody slept better when that law was passed thinking they were improving people’s health.
What’s that old saying? “Never confuse motion with progress.”
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4 hours ago, silvrsvt said:
the US is more or less energy independent from the rest of the world at this point.
Although we're not technically energy independent, we are a net exporter, at least as of the last numbers published.
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23 hours ago, Bob Rosadini said:
But I would have to assume the weight of the hydrogen tank
The hydrogen tanks are, as I understand it, usually made of composites (IIRC, there are/were some fuel cell vehicles which use(d) exchangeable cells to speed up refueling), so I wouldn’t expect them to be particularly heavy. Lithium-based batteries sized for vehicles are usually quite heavy, so I’d expect a fuel cell vehicle to have a significant weight advantage.
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18 hours ago, silvrsvt said:
Yeah they'd be lucky to sell 500 of them a year too. A Mustang style car isn't on the radar of a luxury car buyer, esp. Lincolns demographics.
Based on the number of "M" BMWs is see, and how few of them are coupes, or even conventional sedans, I'd guess that the luxury/performance coupe is going to be a vanishingly small market. And that's a shame.
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On 3/30/2024 at 4:35 PM, Andrew L said:
I was in OK last year for work. Up in Bartlesville. Talk about the middle of no where. I wanted to drive over to Ames were it was but didn't have enough time.
Bartlesville isn't even in the same ZIP code as nowhere--that's out in west Texas, somewhere between Seymour and Ralls. I'm pretty sure the directions to get there are "go to the end of the Earth and hang a left."
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On 3/30/2024 at 1:08 PM, DeluxeStang said:
Sounds adventurous, but I'm gonna have to hold off until you get a third airport named after someone who died in a plane crash. Third time's the charm.
Does it help that they died in the same plane crash, and one of them was the pilot?
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5 hours ago, Andrew L said:
I know it's out in Oklahoma I want to go out there and see it in person one day.
Well, come on down. We gots roads (some of 'em are even paved) and gas stations and a city with two airports named after guys who died in a plane crash.
We're even getting the Intarwebz next week.
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9 hours ago, ice-capades said:
I used Microsoft Windows Phones for years and they were incredible. The phone market was another major blunder on Microsoft's part.
Yep. Even when my work phone was an iPhone, my personal phones were Windows phones. They were sooo much better than iPhone or Android that it wasn't even funny.
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1 hour ago, Roland said:
By what standard is Apple "dominant" in the smartphone segment?
The last numbers I heard put the iPhone at about 60% of the US cell phone market. That’s a pretty good chunk of the market, but I don’t think I’d call it dominant.
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On 3/22/2024 at 10:35 AM, akirby said:
Oh good grief. It’s 100% voluntary and the automakers have complete control over what is allowed. And what about Android Auto? Stupid lawsuit.
Hell, the gov't is still trying to continue the lawsuit to stop Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard after the court told them no, that's stupid, you can't do that, and let the acquisition go forward.
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Fill my eyes with that double vision...
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On 3/16/2024 at 11:27 PM, HotRunrGuy said:
OK, OK. I sure would have thought that F-150 usage alone would have beat the FWD numbers.
HRG
If you're just looking at the EB35, I would be surprised if the versions from the trucks weren't the majority. As I recall, for the 12th Gen F-150, the EB35 ran somewhere around 40-45% of production, with the Coyote having similar numbers and the 3.7 and 6.2 splitting the remaining 10%. That would put the number of RWD EB35s somewhere in the neighborhood of 250K units per year from 2011-2014. Plus, when Navigator and Expedition merged onto the F-150 platform, they went 100% EB35. (When Ford introduced the small EB to the F-150 lineup, the EB35's percentage went down a bit, but we're still talking more engines than some of the transverse models sold combined.)
The transverse EB35 was used in more models, for sure, but how many of them actually got delivered with an EB35 vs. the NA V6? It's not an insignificant number, but it can't be anywhere near the F-150's numbers just because you can combine the total sales of some of those FWD/AWD models and not reach 250K.
Now, if you want to talk the NA V6es, I'd wager that the transverse versions would win that by a country mile. Further, I would not be surprised if the margin was big enough to more than cover the RWD EB35's margin when you combine the 3.3/3.5/3.7 V6es with the EB35.
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On 2/27/2024 at 5:03 PM, DeluxeStang said:
requires the entire front axle to be replaced
Replacing the axle assemblies with failed/failing CV joints is normal; the CV joint itself is usually not field-replaceable. FWIW, the only CV joint-related reason you'd replace both front axle assemblies is if you had bad CV joints on both; they're independent parts.
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On 2/26/2024 at 9:08 PM, silvrsvt said:
I know I'm the outlier here, but I don't miss my keypad at all
I wouldn't go quite that far; I like having it, but I don't think I've ever used the keypad on the Flex. All I have to do is pull the handle to unlock or touch the pad on the handle to lock, so I don't really have a use for the keypad. My truck doesn't even have one; I could buy the door handle surround with the keypad and pair it like any other remote, but the juice isn't worth the squeeze to me.
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On 12/26/2023 at 7:20 AM, Rick73 said:
Punishment should be proportional to infraction, not depth of offender’s pockets.
I don't think his point is to match the fine to the depth of the pockets, it's just to make sure the fine is more than the profit they realized from the cheating. That doesn't mean that you take it as a percentage of the over-all business's profits, just the profits on that program--it's possible, and even likely, that the fine could make that particular engine program a money loser without affecting the position of Cummins as a whole.
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On 12/19/2023 at 11:33 AM, rmc523 said:
Lobbying should be illegal.
That's kind of impossible. It's right there in the First Amendment:
QuoteCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
That is, basically, lobbying.
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6 hours ago, Rick73 said:
However, more recently I’ve seen diesel fuel advertised as much as 50% higher per gallon than regular gasoline
Farmers aren’t using regular diesel, they’re using “off-road” diesel, which has no taxes applied, so it’s $0.30 or more cheaper than the diesel you buy at the “regular” diesel pump. (It’s also dyed red, so if the revenuers put their stick in your diesel truck’s tank and it comes out red, you’re in deep doo-doo.)
Personally, I don’t see much future for gaseous engines in ag. We went down that road with propane from the ‘50s to ‘80s, and diesel curb-stomped all the other fuel types.
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On 12/17/2023 at 10:14 AM, Joe771476 said:
So Ford lost the sedan police biz AND SUV sales as well!
Yeah, no, they didn't. I see a LOT more PIUs than Dodge SUVs wearing law enforcement livery, and a lot more PIUs than Chargers, too.
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10 minutes ago, silvrsvt said:
In light duty applications, yes, but there is still a market for heavy duty applications like military vehicles or generators.
And agriculture--I don't know if anyone is even making gasoline-powered tractors these days, not even in the compact or utility tractor lines. There's just no comparison between the burn rates of diesel and gasser tractors while they're working.
FORD MUSTANG V8 WILL PAY DIVIDENDS NOW THAT RIVALS ARE GONE
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On my morning commute, my exit is a lane that turns into an off ramp, so it's usually moving at highways speeds until it actually diverges from the highway itself. It never ceases to amaze me how many people will come screaming up in the lane next to it, then expect me to slow down so they can get in front of me, when there was literally a quarter mile of empty lane behind me THAT THEY JUST WENT SCREAMING PAST.
Year, sorry buddy, but poor planning on your part does not constitute emergency on my part.