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Speaking of today's connected authoritatian connected surveillance world, lol imagine buying a Tesla car Just picture letting one near your home network
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wolrah posted:Yeah, anything older than 25 years by model year is fair game, so at this point you can import 1994 models of whatever you want and just drive them freely. so like, why exactly do we allow this? you can drive an old, unsafe, polluting junker on public roads, but only if it's old ENOUGH. because you see, a 1995 corolla is a piece of poo poo deathtrap, but a 1994 corolla is... ok? like who thinks this is a good idea aside from regular car reviews fans i know the answer is "boomer wants his 69 chevy" but how do we even pretend to justify this
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Feb 7, 2019 18:12
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cars older than 25yrs are classified as "classics" and the general assumption is that cars are disposable goods with a 10-15yr service life and if you're going to keep one going for 25 then you're babying it as a collectors item instead of a daily. this is largely true and the number of weird edge cases is no where near large enough to warrant changing the law. I mean sure you could go import a mexico air-cooled beetle if you really wanted to but those cars suck and everyone with a brain is just going to buy a 10yr old civic so let the weirdos have their fun
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Feb 7, 2019 18:15
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I would import the hell out of a 98 hilux though
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Feb 7, 2019 18:18
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yeah the unstated assumption about classic cars is that you're not using them as daily drivers (iirc, at least in some states, there's a maximum difference in odometer reports that are allowed between re-registrations), so that even though they predate catalytic converters and get five miles to the gallon they're only occasionally belching unburnt hydrocarbons into the air
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lol if u don't just sit in the driveway and rev your car instead of going to work. christ.
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President Beep posted:lol if u don't just sit in the driveway and rev your car instead of going to work. christ. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yjlEeRCrCQ get some rotation going instead of just revving, come on
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President Beep posted:lol if u don't just sit in the driveway and rev your car instead of going to work. christ. 
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President Beep posted:lol if u don't just sit in the driveway and rev your car instead of going to work. christ. "take that, al gore!"
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President Beep posted:lol if u don't just sit in the driveway and rev your car instead of going to work. christ.
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Feb 7, 2019 18:49
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:"take that, al gore!" i wonder if he's still friendly with joe lieberman
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Feb 7, 2019 18:53
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qirex posted:I had a friend who used to live next door to some guy with an old muscle car and he'd "warm it up" for like 10 minutes every morning [no matter the temperature] by mashing the throttle over and over there is an old handicapped man who likes to take up metered parking spaces near my work, one for his trash-filled van, the other for his corvette c3. he can just leave them there without paying, because he has handicapped plates. i suspect he may be homeless, or at least he has nowhere else to go during the day. mostly he likes to sit in his van and watch birds eat the entire loaves of bread he throws on the street for them. but once in a while he will sit in the c3 and rev its loudass engine until someone tells him to gently caress off. i'm sure that was a nice car in 1970 but here in 2019 it is truly a piece of poo poo
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Feb 7, 2019 19:01
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i wonder if he's still friendly with joe lieberman eh, owing to the CW of "balancing the ticket", the only recent pair of running mates i could believe had a private friendship was romney/ryan
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Feb 7, 2019 19:38
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infernal machines posted:let's not lose sight of the whole "odometer is software writable and resets if the firmware is applied incorrectly" part. The odometer being software writable was and still is pretty commonplace with many car brands. You just need the right tool (these are cheap and easy to get) to set arbitrary values. This is now changing due to new EU regulation forcing manufacturers to build secure odometers.
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Feb 7, 2019 19:41
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i wonder if he's still friendly with joe lieberman is anyone? Lambert posted:The odometer being software writable was and still is pretty commonplace with many car brands. You just need the right tool (these are cheap and easy to get) to set arbitrary values. This is now changing due to new EU regulation forcing manufacturers to build secure odometers. yeah, although even in the 80s anyone who cared had at least minimal tamper protection in place by just having the values set in two places and indicating a tamper warning if they didn't match.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:source: i used to live in one of them hillbilly state with lax registration requirements, and i used to work with a guy who did a lot of grey market unimog poo poo because he was insane
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Feb 7, 2019 21:49
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infernal machines posted:yeah, although even in the 80s anyone who cared had at least minimal tamper protection in place by just having the values set in two places and indicating a tamper warning if they didn't match. It also uses an EEPROM with incremental registers, so even if you directly connect a programmer the value can't be reduced. Of course it's not the hardest thing in the world for someone with sufficient soldering skills to replace the EEPROM altogether, but there's no way to do it from software alone.
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Combat Theory posted:Its the little things in life like this that make me smile. Yeah if you do the math the max wind speed ever achieved on Mars wouldn't even push you over
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President Beep posted:lol if u don't just sit in the driveway and rev your car instead of going to work. christ. I was working on my motorcycle in the driveway a few months ago, running the engine to check some numbers, and after like 10 minutes the neighbor came out with a very sour look on her face and told me that I was "gassing her" and I had to stop because she couldn't breathe.
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Sagebrush posted:I was working on my motorcycle in the driveway a few months ago, running the engine to check some numbers, and after like 10 minutes the neighbor came out with a very sour look on her face and told me that I was "gassing her" and I had to stop because she couldn't breathe. at least she didn't have a problem with you running the bike
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Plank Walker posted:at least she didn't have a problem with you running the bike 
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i'm just motorzykloning, ma'am.
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Plank Walker posted:at least she didn't have a problem with you running the bike
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Plank Walker posted:at least she didn't have a problem with you running the bike
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Plank Walker posted:at least she didn't have a problem with you running the bike
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Plank Walker posted:at least she didn't have a problem with you running the bike hehe. got em.
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Sagebrush posted:I was working on my motorcycle in the driveway a few months ago, running the engine to check some numbers, and after like 10 minutes the neighbor came out with a very sour look on her face and told me that I was "gassing her" and I had to stop because she couldn't breathe. my parents live next to a very nosy paranoid schizophrenic who's convinced my dad is trying to kill her through ~pollution~ her latest claim is that he had some kind of "exhaust blower" blowing toxic fumes that "make my son's autism worse". dad was very confused because he has nothing like that, so he asked what she was talking about and she said "that green box with the fan in it". dad went over to the "green box with a fan in it" and took a picture to send to her - it was the outdoor AC unit. she did not reply after that 
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she's also called the EPA on him before, who came out and inspected his little classic car repair hobby shop he's got set up and said he was doing everything right and that they're used to getting "these kinds" of calls, which i assume the guy said with audible air quotes
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GWBBQ posted:and that's how you ended up with people desperately scrambling to hide their R34 Skylines when the news broke that they had all been illegally imported. That's a little different: Service Member cars tend to get just a glance because SUPPORT OUR TROOPS stuff at the border. R34s were companies fudging the paperwork at the border and hoping nobody would notice, often hiding them in shipping containers mislabeled as other items that won't get inspected. Sagebrush posted:I was working on my motorcycle in the driveway a few months ago, running the engine to check some numbers, and after like 10 minutes the neighbor came out with a very sour look on her face and told me that I was "gassing her" and I had to stop because she couldn't breathe. We just moved from our old house, mostly because we needed the space, but also because we had some crazy old couple that would come out and film me anytime I worked on my cars, flip me off, and called the cops regularly on us while trying to cite country regs to us. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Feb 8, 2019 |
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DELETE CASCADE posted:i know the answer is "boomer wants his 69 chevy" but how do we even pretend to justify this a 69 Chevy isn't an import dumbass
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Chris Knight posted:a 69 Chevy isn't an import dumbass how very amerocentric of you
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My Ford car was made in Mexico and my Honda motorcycle was made in Ohio
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what about a 420 chevy? e: i have a feeling that would be a chevette.
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Chris Knight posted:a 69 Chevy isn't an import dumbass
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Chris Knight posted:a 69 Chevy isn't an import dumbass cuba has a thing or two to say about that... https://www.cnn.com/style/article/cuba-classic-american-cars-legacy/index.html
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what's context precious
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Chris Knight posted:what's context precious A miserable pile of secrets
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my toyota was made in glorious nippon
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lancemantis posted:my toyota was made in glorious nippon Nippon, Mississippi? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Motor_Manufacturing_Mississippi
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