You're confusing fundamental Christians with wackjob nutcases. A fundamental Christian goes by the Bible, which doesn't say anything like what the wackjob nutcases say.
I also dislike the larger and larger pick-up trucks that have shinier paint jobs than my car and never seem to carry anything in the back.
You obviously don't live near me, because all of the pickups I see have kids and a dog in the back. Either that, or a bunch of lawn equipment and some Mexicans.
Sure, until you get in an accident with one of the other two Lunar Rovers on the Moon. Then try calling the AAA for a tow!
Not a problem if you paid for the premium upgrade. No mileage limit.
Hmmm, if you own a boat or camper that weighs more than a standard passenger car can handle, you might want a vehicle that CAN pull it.
So sell the SUV, and buy a decent pickup truck. Problem solved.
My main issue with the SUVs are that they are neither S nor U. But at least they are V.
Yeah, most minivans suck at towing. Most of them come with a pathetic 4 cyclinder which makes it barely able to maintain highway speeds without a load. Also, most of them are too narrow to fit a 4X8 sheet of plywood in. I have a Safari myself, and it is much more powerful than a typical minivan, and it is still BARELY adequate at towing. I towed 5000 pounds from Chicago to Oklahoma, and it still slowed way down on the hills. Most people who have a minivan would have just as much room and just as much functionality in a sedan. It's a shame what happened to the station wagon, because that is what most people who have an SUV or minivan really need.
In college towns and big cities, pedestrians tend to ignore the rules which apply to them, as they represent the majority. Unfortuately, people in cars often get ticketed and/or sued for running into or being run into by someone disobeying the law. The same happens on the open roadways, where cars are the majority and tend to ignore the rules and the rights of pedestrians and cyclists.
Cars, cyclists and pedestrians all need to obey the rules to remain safe, and not take any stance on who is the majority or who is the heaviest or whatever.
Shoot, bankruptcy doesn't even get you out of paying UNSECURED debt anymore. Even if you become permanently disabled and lose your job, don't have any money, nor any means of getting any, you still have to pay back your debts.
I personally, will never carry a credit card again in my life. I really didn't want to have a car payment either, but I didn't have the money to buy one outright that would last me for any length of time.
WHy reserve that rule just for bicyclists? As a car driver, I always make the assumption that everyone else is going to attempt to hit me, and that has kept me accident free for most of my life (except once when I let my guard down and a lady successfully hit me).
Insurance for me (18yo Male, learning to drive) is phenominal even on a low power car.
Don't worry, it will get worse. I used to complain about what I had to pay for insurance back when I was an 18yo Male, but at no point has it ever been lower than when I was 18, not when I turned 25, not when I got married.
I now pay about 4 times as much per vehicle as when I was 18, and I have a multivehicle discount, good credit record (yes, that counts) and no accidents or tickets. Of course, my wife is on the policy, but she has had no accidents or tickets either. And we have no kids of driving age.
There have been some other morbidly entertaining SUV safety flaws over the last few years. I'm pretty sure one of the Honda SUVs was the first vehicle to ever cut the legs off a steel crash test dummy.
Consumer reports and other safety tests have shown repeatedly that occupants of an SUV are more likely to experience bodily damage during a collision as a traditional automobile in the same conditions. Due to the fact that SUVs usually have elevated floors, the passenger compartment is about the same size as a traditional car. Front seat passengers then have the shock towers and he engine to contend with, so quite often, leg breakage is a factor where it wouldn't be in a car. My Safari is one of the most dangerous in terms of likelihood of getting a broken leg in a head-on driver or passenger front side collission. But I guess it is technically a minivan (which have the same problem)
Without ABS he skids in a straight line towards the crash.
With ABS, he steers the car violently to the left and rolls it over
No. Physics and trigonometry will show that ABS has very little control over a wheel that is many degrees out of alignment with the direction of travel.
If ABS has any effect, it would be to give you sligtly more velocity in the intended direction when the sideways wheel does regain traction than you would have otherwise. In other words, you would have slightly LESS chance of a rollover.
I do not think vehicles with ABS are more likely to rollover. I think vehicles that rollover are more likely to have ABS.
So cars with ABS have more rollovers than cars without, and SUVs are more likely to rollover than normal cars. Could it be possible that SUVs are more likely to contain ABS since they are more expensive luxury vehicles. So the problems is probably not ABS, but SUVs?
I think it more likely that the number of fatal and non-fatal accidents in cars with ABS is more likely due to the fact that more cars now come with ABS.
More mass, the American Way,...your psyche demands you get a big honking chunk of ill-handling, ill-stopping, ill-steering Detroit Heavy Metal. To compensate, y'know.
Latest figures from Detroit seem to indicate that people are not all that interested in heavy metal anymore. Personally, I've always been more of an import guy. But that is probably because my first two cars were Fords.
Cars that I have owned:
'79 Ford Granada
'80 Ford Fairmont
'88 Toyota MR2
'90 Toyota Supra Turbo
'96 Toyota Camry
'98 Toyota Supra Turbo
'96 Lexus SC400
'00 GMC Safari (Still own)
'88 Mazda RX-7 Convertible
'88 Lotus Esprit (Still own)
'01 Lexus ES300 (Still own)
Don't get me started on Fox's cancellatino policies. I can't count how many times the Simpsons Halloween episode has not aired until after the TV season was already over, and of course by that time, they've already cut scenes and are running it as a rerun (even though it was never run before). It's always annoying when they show you a teaser clip to advertise the show, and that clip didn't make it through the rerun editing.
Or how about how they always pre-empt shows on Sunday evenings because of some dumb sports game that runs long. Hint, hint FOX. Sports games ALWAYS run long. Why don't you schedule some crap that nobody wants to watch so you can preempt that instead of the Simpsons.
Not only that, but the same faces of Pluto and Charon are always facing each other. The same thing will happen to Earth and our moon (technically we are a binary planet pair) eventually.
= -382.27 degrees Fahrenheit
= -230.15 degrees Celsius
Or -230 degrees Celsius, or -230.16 degrees Celcius or -230.18 degrees Celcius, depending on which conversion site I want to believe.
Interesting though, that I didn't find any precisions of greater than two decimal places.
I am 6'2" and I agree with you. If the person in front of me leans their seat back, it hits my knees. If they do it fast, I can get stuck and hurt before I can twist out of the way. Plus, you can't see a laptop or eat a meal on the tray or see the little displays built into the seat rest when the person in front of you reclines.
Luckily for me, both of the overseas trips I have taken have been less than half full and I was able to stretch out over two seats, but most of my trips within the U.S., if they are longer than about 45 minutes, are intolerable.
Luckily you already own the car, and didn't take into account wear and tear, which according to the IRS, is about 48.5 cents per mile (including gas). Substitute a rental van, and add in the cost of the gadgets for playing the movies and stuff, and meals, and the figures go up.
30 knots is higher than demonstrated crosswind component on most any airplane. That's not to say that some of them can't handle higher, but during testing, whatever is the maximum corsswind that they happened to land and not crash in is by definition the "maximum demonstrated crosswind" and that is what goes down in the books as that planes crosswind component. Since 30 knot winds, and particularly the perpendicular component of the wind which makes up the direct crosswind, is very rarely 30 knots, most planes are not certified for it. Even big jets land at speeds of 140 MPH or less and 30 knots is a fairly high percentage of that. The maximum demonstrated crosswind component of a 747 is 30 knots.
And guess who produces about 90% of the world's helium? Hey, maybe if we can sell the world on this blimp idea, the U.S. can earn back the trade deficit. In fact, my state is one of the leading producers. We could use another boom.
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Never went in for the cheat codes myself. Hard work and perseverance got me my cars in GTA...and in real life too.
You're confusing fundamental Christians with wackjob nutcases. A fundamental Christian goes by the Bible, which doesn't say anything like what the wackjob nutcases say.
I also dislike the larger and larger pick-up trucks that have shinier paint jobs than my car and never seem to carry anything in the back.
You obviously don't live near me, because all of the pickups I see have kids and a dog in the back. Either that, or a bunch of lawn equipment and some Mexicans.
Sure, until you get in an accident with one of the other two Lunar Rovers on the Moon. Then try calling the AAA for a tow!
Not a problem if you paid for the premium upgrade. No mileage limit.
Hmmm, if you own a boat or camper that weighs more than a standard passenger car can handle, you might want a vehicle that CAN pull it.
So sell the SUV, and buy a decent pickup truck. Problem solved.
My main issue with the SUVs are that they are neither S nor U. But at least they are V.
Yeah, most minivans suck at towing. Most of them come with a pathetic 4 cyclinder which makes it barely able to maintain highway speeds without a load. Also, most of them are too narrow to fit a 4X8 sheet of plywood in. I have a Safari myself, and it is much more powerful than a typical minivan, and it is still BARELY adequate at towing. I towed 5000 pounds from Chicago to Oklahoma, and it still slowed way down on the hills. Most people who have a minivan would have just as much room and just as much functionality in a sedan. It's a shame what happened to the station wagon, because that is what most people who have an SUV or minivan really need.
In college towns and big cities, pedestrians tend to ignore the rules which apply to them, as they represent the majority. Unfortuately, people in cars often get ticketed and/or sued for running into or being run into by someone disobeying the law. The same happens on the open roadways, where cars are the majority and tend to ignore the rules and the rights of pedestrians and cyclists.
Cars, cyclists and pedestrians all need to obey the rules to remain safe, and not take any stance on who is the majority or who is the heaviest or whatever.
Shoot, bankruptcy doesn't even get you out of paying UNSECURED debt anymore. Even if you become permanently disabled and lose your job, don't have any money, nor any means of getting any, you still have to pay back your debts.
I personally, will never carry a credit card again in my life. I really didn't want to have a car payment either, but I didn't have the money to buy one outright that would last me for any length of time.
WHy reserve that rule just for bicyclists? As a car driver, I always make the assumption that everyone else is going to attempt to hit me, and that has kept me accident free for most of my life (except once when I let my guard down and a lady successfully hit me).
Insurance for me (18yo Male, learning to drive) is phenominal even on a low power car.
Don't worry, it will get worse. I used to complain about what I had to pay for insurance back when I was an 18yo Male, but at no point has it ever been lower than when I was 18, not when I turned 25, not when I got married.
I now pay about 4 times as much per vehicle as when I was 18, and I have a multivehicle discount, good credit record (yes, that counts) and no accidents or tickets. Of course, my wife is on the policy, but she has had no accidents or tickets either. And we have no kids of driving age.
There have been some other morbidly entertaining SUV safety flaws over the last few years. I'm pretty sure one of the Honda SUVs was the first vehicle to ever cut the legs off a steel crash test dummy.
Consumer reports and other safety tests have shown repeatedly that occupants of an SUV are more likely to experience bodily damage during a collision as a traditional automobile in the same conditions. Due to the fact that SUVs usually have elevated floors, the passenger compartment is about the same size as a traditional car. Front seat passengers then have the shock towers and he engine to contend with, so quite often, leg breakage is a factor where it wouldn't be in a car. My Safari is one of the most dangerous in terms of likelihood of getting a broken leg in a head-on driver or passenger front side collission. But I guess it is technically a minivan (which have the same problem)
Without ABS he skids in a straight line towards the crash. With ABS, he steers the car violently to the left and rolls it over
No. Physics and trigonometry will show that ABS has very little control over a wheel that is many degrees out of alignment with the direction of travel.
If ABS has any effect, it would be to give you sligtly more velocity in the intended direction when the sideways wheel does regain traction than you would have otherwise. In other words, you would have slightly LESS chance of a rollover.
I do not think vehicles with ABS are more likely to rollover. I think vehicles that rollover are more likely to have ABS.
So cars with ABS have more rollovers than cars without, and SUVs are more likely to rollover than normal cars. Could it be possible that SUVs are more likely to contain ABS since they are more expensive luxury vehicles. So the problems is probably not ABS, but SUVs?
I think it more likely that the number of fatal and non-fatal accidents in cars with ABS is more likely due to the fact that more cars now come with ABS.
More mass, the American Way,...your psyche demands you get a big honking chunk of ill-handling, ill-stopping, ill-steering Detroit Heavy Metal. To compensate, y'know.
Latest figures from Detroit seem to indicate that people are not all that interested in heavy metal anymore. Personally, I've always been more of an import guy. But that is probably because my first two cars were Fords.
Cars that I have owned: '79 Ford Granada
'80 Ford Fairmont
'88 Toyota MR2
'90 Toyota Supra Turbo
'96 Toyota Camry
'98 Toyota Supra Turbo
'96 Lexus SC400
'00 GMC Safari (Still own)
'88 Mazda RX-7 Convertible
'88 Lotus Esprit (Still own)
'01 Lexus ES300 (Still own)
Don't get me started on Fox's cancellatino policies. I can't count how many times the Simpsons Halloween episode has not aired until after the TV season was already over, and of course by that time, they've already cut scenes and are running it as a rerun (even though it was never run before). It's always annoying when they show you a teaser clip to advertise the show, and that clip didn't make it through the rerun editing.
Or how about how they always pre-empt shows on Sunday evenings because of some dumb sports game that runs long. Hint, hint FOX. Sports games ALWAYS run long. Why don't you schedule some crap that nobody wants to watch so you can preempt that instead of the Simpsons.
Man, is logic that is colder, it's January! What would you expect?
How does it feel to have a whole hemisphere pissed off at you?
Quick, fill our atmosphere with nitrogen!
Wow, that was fast. I just checked, and somebody has already got us 78% of the way there.
Not only that, but the same faces of Pluto and Charon are always facing each other. The same thing will happen to Earth and our moon (technically we are a binary planet pair) eventually.
43 kelvin
= -382.27 degrees Fahrenheit
= -230.15 degrees Celsius
Or -230 degrees Celsius, or -230.16 degrees Celcius or -230.18 degrees Celcius, depending on which conversion site I want to believe.
Interesting though, that I didn't find any precisions of greater than two decimal places.
When I read about this last week, they also mentioned use for temporary cell phone towers or wifi hotspots.
I am 6'2" and I agree with you. If the person in front of me leans their seat back, it hits my knees. If they do it fast, I can get stuck and hurt before I can twist out of the way. Plus, you can't see a laptop or eat a meal on the tray or see the little displays built into the seat rest when the person in front of you reclines.
Luckily for me, both of the overseas trips I have taken have been less than half full and I was able to stretch out over two seats, but most of my trips within the U.S., if they are longer than about 45 minutes, are intolerable.
Luckily you already own the car, and didn't take into account wear and tear, which according to the IRS, is about 48.5 cents per mile (including gas).
Substitute a rental van, and add in the cost of the gadgets for playing the movies and stuff, and meals, and the figures go up.
30 knots is higher than demonstrated crosswind component on most any airplane. That's not to say that some of them can't handle higher, but during testing, whatever is the maximum corsswind that they happened to land and not crash in is by definition the "maximum demonstrated crosswind" and that is what goes down in the books as that planes crosswind component. Since 30 knot winds, and particularly the perpendicular component of the wind which makes up the direct crosswind, is very rarely 30 knots, most planes are not certified for it. Even big jets land at speeds of 140 MPH or less and 30 knots is a fairly high percentage of that. The maximum demonstrated crosswind component of a 747 is 30 knots.
And guess who produces about 90% of the world's helium? Hey, maybe if we can sell the world on this blimp idea, the U.S. can earn back the trade deficit. In fact, my state is one of the leading producers. We could use another boom.