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  1. The car is only the weapon - the texting phone is the assassin.

    "Cars don't kill. Phones do."

  2. Sounds like you understand. Why should an errand be mundane? If all you need is milk and buns, you actually have room in the two seater - no need to haul out the PC mini van.

    Sadly, though, there are those in this world who might begrudge you for the extra toll in gas and rubber usage that result from your antisocial driving habits.

    After all, who are you to have fun?

  3. Re:Defense: it was drunk on Tesla Model S Plows Into a Fire Truck While Using Autopilot (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Got that right. It's in name only no different as the one and only thing cruise control does is keep the throttle steady.

    Not quite so, at least not for cars with adaptive cruise control (including the Tesla). Such cars attempt to keep a steady distance from the next car, not a steady speed.

  4. Lower case 'farad' as in 'Michael faraday'?

  5. Re:ICEs and petroleum need to go away on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    According to this article a Tesla Model S only needs 15 pounds / 7 kg of lithium, about as much as a bowling ball;

    Bowling balls need lithium?

  6. Re:The Plan. on Turning Soybeans Into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Us Billions (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Also, check your assumption on how much liquor chooses corn, it is basically exclusively in some varieties of American whiskey where corn was the staple crop they had easily available, and even there it isn't usually straight corn.

    It is commonly found in most North American whisk[e]ys.

    They wouldn't have to specify that bourbon is 51% corn in the mash if corn was the best and cheapest option.

    Yes, they would. They specify it so that it will taste like bourbon - not because it is the best, worst, cheapest, or dearest option.

  7. Re: Executive Order 12770—Metric Usage in Fe on How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    That would depend on where you are. Interstate exits are now supposed to be mileage based, but many states have not yet converted - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....