My Thursday night commute was rainy, so I was worried about driving 40 miles along a wet and slippery 101. Once I exited the freeway, I dreaded the nightly obstacle course of hipsters and homeless who jay-walk across the street that leads to our loft. But the street was empty – in ...
As much as self-driving fills me with white-knuckle terror, I think a self-driving car piloted by a goof in a VR headset is safer than a driver who is texting or a driver who is drunk, and we’ve accepted that those people are on the highway all the time. ...
Joke of the Week: A cop pulls Werner Heisenberg over and asks him: "Do you have any idea how fast you were driving?" Heisenberg replies: "No. But I DO know exactly where I am right now." The cop, exasperated, says: "You were driving 100 miles per hour!" And Heisenberg sighs and...
Usually, the driver gives the hitchhiker a free ride, telling the hitchhiker the drop-off point. It’s easy to imagine why truck drivers have a reputation for providing plenty of rides. Hitchhiking was most common in the United States after the Great Depression in the 30s and 40s. At the...
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What could driving a race car and pointing a camera at the Milky Way have in common? More than you might imagine. Race car driver Bubba Wallace and photographer Batak Tefreshi journeyed together to remote Gooseberry Mesa for an adventure aimed at capturing the night sky. Gooseberry Mesa, fa...
Quote of the Week: "With the rise of self-driving vehicles, it's only a matter of time before we get a country song where a guy's truck leaves him, too."— Reddit user NormanRB May 6, 2022 This handbook will teach you Python for beginners through a series of helpful code examples...
I wonder if he will trade his Truck in for the Cybertruck, It seems that the biggest complaints on the Cybertruck are the Headlights and range. Rivian R1T, that's the closest (by far). I routinely hit or exceed EPA on mine. Can't say that for the 3, Y or Plaid we own. ...
Driving up and down the city, buying kitchen appliances on Facebook Marketplace and reselling for twice the value. Some nobody starts making bad egg videos on YouTube, suddenly they’re pulling in six figures. Everything is collapsing, falling into mulch, but someone will always get rich ...
The most disturbing thing remains Trump’s enablers—the incense-burners, the bootlickers, the pursuivants who can ensure that his tyrannical ambitions are realized. That Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell truckled to Trump by endorsing him is further testament to the hollow men that are leadin...