Well, fuck.
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Hambledon (noun)
The sound of a single-engined aircraft flying by, heard while lying in a summer field in England, which somehow concentrates the silence and sense of space and timelessness and leaves one with the feeling of something or other.
(Adams, Lloyd - The Deeper Meaning of Liff, 1990)
I get that from airships.
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Persuading your gullible sister that the sound of a burner on a hot air balloon is a dragon â priceless.
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I think I just saw one of those.
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Perfect for delivering a pope.
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thereâs no OTA patching your way out of faulty drive inverter MOSFETs
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Big-Baby Musk car that must be babiedâor else.
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That one from BoingBoing (2023). Your post re the blimp? I am diminsihed.
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Aww, I only ever intend to delight others with my stories!
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The sound of a single-engine aircraft reminds me of middle school, afternoons spent doing boring mathematics assignments in a trailer, and watching the second hand tick slowly around the clock. The sound (dopplering?) overhead was a welcome distractionâŚ
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No problem. 
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I think you misspelled brainfart. Surely the Cybertrick serves a useful purpose - to more easily identify those with no taste, judgement or discernment. Theyâd be hiding in plain sight, otherwise.
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âA vehicleâs size, weight, and height certainly play a part in its ability to protect passengers in a crash. But the biggest contributor to occupant safety is avoiding a crash, and the biggest factor in crash avoidance is driver behavior. A focused, alert driver, traveling at a legal or prudent speed, without being under the influence of drugs or alcohol, is the most likely to arrive safely regardless of the vehicle theyâre driving.â
In other words, theyâre driven by douchebags and douchebags arenât safe drivers. That said, that doesnât explain why Kia is second.
I also fear that these numbers will be used by the usual people to say âelectric cars have higher death ratesâ in the same way they used Teslaâs flagging sales numbers as a cudgel to beat the electric car market with.
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Iâm reminded of the 1980ies and what was then called âThe Quattro Effectâ. The short version is that the Audi Quattro had the highest insurance premiums of all contemporary cars due to an unprorortionally high number of crashes - because some men with more money than sense thought that buying the same car1) Walter RĂśhrl drove professionally would automatically make them an exceptionally good driver as he was.2) Physics somewhat frowned upon them.
The KIAs however⌠iSeeCars used data from between 2017 and 2022. At that time KIA (and, to some extent, Hyundai)3) had a massive theft problem because it was ridiculously easy to override the anti theft protections. I could imagine that anyone stealing a car for a joyride or as a getaway car wouldnât focus that much on defensive driving what for them would be a disposable vehicle. But thatâs just wild stab in the dark.
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1) The street legal version anyway.
2) To be fair, Audiâs marketing isnât entirely without blame here. âBuy the car that won the Rallye Monte Carloâ and all that jazz.
3) Pretty much the same company.
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