Random Randomness.

[Hongbit]

I’ve seen 3 Corvettes on the road the last 2 days.    This is not an all season vehicle.   If you don’t have another car for winter then you shouldn’t buy a Vette. 

[Deleterious]

40 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

I’ve seen 3 Corvettes on the road the last 2 days.    This is not an all season vehicle.   If you don’t have another car for winter then you shouldn’t buy a Vette. 

Easy way to tell who is leasing.

Joking aside, they make an AWD model called the E-Ray that is probably fairly decent on snow.  Except for the low ground clearance.  

[CMRivdogs]

Cool story. Just learned about this a few days ago...

Surprised it took to the mid '80s for someone to recognize and actually do something relatively simple.

And the guy took no money for his idea. 

edit. I see the Journal story was paywalled. Here's another version

https://www.autoweek.com/news/a69889877/gas-guage-little-arrow-inventor-has-passed-away/

Edited Friday at 05:15 PM by CMRivdogs

[gehringer_2]

3 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Cool story. Just learned about this a few days ago...

Surprised it took to the mid '80s for someone to recognize and actually do something relatively simple.

And the guy took no money for his idea. 

edit. I see the Journal story was paywalled. Here's another version

https://www.autoweek.com/news/a69889877/gas-guage-little-arrow-inventor-has-passed-away/

when cars were cars and men were men, we didn't need no stinking arrows, you filled you tank from  right in th middle, behind your licence plate.

(that placement also made it convenient to get incinerated when you were rear-ended, but all in all a small price to pay for your constant confidence at the filling staion.)

Edited Friday at 08:24 PM by gehringer_2

[Dan Gilmore]

Many decades ago, my much older brother bought a old beater car, in this case a Caddy (maybe late 50s?) and then asked the family to find the gas fill nozzle. 🤔

It was behind the taillight assembly, you pushed on one of the lens circle to flip it up.

[Motor City Sonics]

This seems to be a Costco thing, because I don't see this happen anywhere else.   People that pull up to the gas tank on the wrong side and then struggle to get the nozzle in over the top of the car.  

Big Costco pet peeve is when you are in line for gas and it there is an opening on one or even two of the pumps ahead of you but the people won't go fill the gap because they might have to go around someone and back up to the pump.   If you can't do that - you have no business driving.  

 

 

[Hongbit]

8 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

This seems to be a Costco thing, because I don't see this happen anywhere else.   People that pull up to the gas tank on the wrong side and then struggle to get the nozzle in over the top of the car.  

Big Costco pet peeve is when you are in line for gas and it there is an opening on one or even two of the pumps ahead of you but the people won't go fill the gap because they might have to go around someone and back up to the pump.   If you can't do that - you have no business driving.  

 

 

I have almost the opposite pet peeve.   The extension cord on the Costco gas pump is one of the best inventions of recent times.  I hate people that wait in line instead of taking the open space and pulling across.

Not a fan of the people scared of the middle lane gap between cars either. 

All of it will be moot soon as they’ve be redoing all of the local stores into 50 bay monsters with wide lanes to make it so there’s never much a wait.  
 

[gehringer_2]

14 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

I have almost the opposite pet peeve.   The extension cord on the Costco gas pump is one of the best inventions of recent times.  I hate people that wait in line instead of taking the open space and pulling across.

Not a fan of the people scared of the middle lane gap between cars either. 

All of it will be moot soon as they’ve be redoing all of the local stores into 50 bay monsters with wide lanes to make it so there’s never much a wait.  
 

so are they putting charging outlets on both sides of cars as well? The only EV I've driven had its outlet on the left.

[Deleterious]

I know where I'm parking the next time we fly Delta.

Driver crashes into McNamara Terminal at Detroit Metro Airport

[oblong]

When I saw that I asked myself “why is someone filming the counter at Delta right before the car comes in?”

[CMRivdogs]

17 minutes ago, oblong said:

When I saw that I asked myself “why is someone filming the counter at Delta right before the car comes in?”

That was my thought as well. It's been a while since I hung out at the Mac, I was trying to figure out whether it came in thru the garage (not sure if Delta still uses the counters there anymore or on the main level). Security Cameras, maybe??

[chasfh]

10 hours ago, Deleterious said:

I know where I'm parking the next time we fly Delta.

Driver crashes into McNamara Terminal at Detroit Metro Airport

My god, a driver meant to crash through the terminal window? Like he was trying to send some kind of message to whoever runs the airport or something?

And the news crew that just happened to be there and filming at that very moment was from … CBS? 🤔🤔🤔😉

Edited 5 hours ago by chasfh