 Below is everything (newest at top) with "culture OR humor OR transportation" in its title or subcategories. For a strict listing (matching all categories and subcats), click hereOUR CARSfrom 2022 in ( life / travel / transportation / auto )
Those who read my last story know I drive a Ford Escape. I love it but need to trade it in soon. The transmission shudders a bit at certain speeds, certain RPMs. I need to sell it before the transmission fails. It's got about 125K, 75K of which I put on it after I bought it used. I'm thinking of replacing it with the slightly larger Ford Ed... read more GAS BUDDY FINDS STATIONS THAT HAVE GASOLINE, DIESEL OR BOTHfrom 2021 in ( life / travel / transportation / fuel )
No mention of their snack supply. Here's the link: tracker.gasbuddy.com... read more AUTO-GYROSfrom 2020 in ( life / travel / transportation )
I've seen this gyrocopter taking off and landing from the John C. Tune Metro airport. Maybe he's doing sales demos or something. Pretty cool looking. autogyrousa.com/... read more EMISSIONS TESTfrom 2020 in ( culture / humor / transportation / auto )A mostly one-way text conversation (click image(s) below) I had with my wife yesterday while she worked and I tried to get her car emissions-tested. I was laughing at my own situation after a while, wondering what could possibly go wrong next. I never did get it tested because I really did have to leave and get gas. The day was not all bad, though.... read more THE TRUTH ABOUT ELECTRIC CARSfrom 2020 in ( education / research / transportation / auto )
: Electric-Cars...At a neighbourhood BBQ I was talking to a neighbour, a BC Hydro executive. I asked him how that renewable thing was doing. He laughed, then got serious. If you really intend to adopt electric vehicles, he pointed out, you had to face certain realities. For example, a home charging system for a Tesla requires 75 amp service. The ... read more ALTERNATE ROUTEfrom 2016 in ( life / travel / transportation / traffic )Don't you hate it when you take an alternate route to get away from a slow driver only to have them end up in front of you later? Yeah.That's all I wanted to say. But, since you're here, look at this: ... read more LIT MOTORS BUILDS A CAR THAT BREAKS THE RULESfrom 2012 in ( education / research / transportation / tech )
Right now, electric cars are not sustainable, he says. The average electric car battery pack is four times larger than ours, with one-third the range. If every car in the U.S. had that battery pack, we would need to produce four times more energy to compensate for that. Where is all that energy going to come from?The Lit Motors vehicle provide... read more 300,000 MILES, AND NOT ONE ACCIDENTfrom 2012 in ( education / research / transportation / tech )
Ever since Google began designing its self-driving cars, they've wanted to build cars that go beyond the capabilities of human-piloted vehicles, cars that are much, much safer. When Thrun announced the project in 2010, he wrote, According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million lives are lost every year in road traffic acciden... read more A DAY WITHOUT MY CARfrom 2009 in ( culture / humor / transportation / auto )
I'm just testing this Windows Live Writer software. UPDATE: There's now a newer, open-source version here. It was a dark and stormy night ... No, it was an unusually cold day ... yeah, that's it ... for the first week of December when I was forced to go without my beloved -- well, maybe not beloved, but much appreciated -- car. It... read more BILL AND TARA'S EXCELLENT ADVENTUREfrom 2000 in ( culture / movies-tv-video / transportation )
It started out as an innocent attempt at dinner and a movie on a Saturday night. It turned into... Tara's nightmare!We had dinner at Schlotzsky's, each of us ordering one of their 8 personal pizzas. Tara got her usual barbecue chicken. I tried something new: the so-called Thai chicken pizza. It was okay, but there was nothing particul... read more |
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