Showing posts with label fail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fail. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

It's Simple. Car Vs Human, Car Will Always Win. Duh!

Why pedestrian death rate is shooting up, and how to save more lives 

IIHS says one vehicle type has an 81 percent spike in fatalities 

Pedestrian deaths in the U.S. are climbing at an alarming rate, jumping 46 percent since reaching a low point in 2009, according to federal data. Now, a new study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety identifies some trends behind the numbers and offers some recommendations.

Among the IIHS' findings: Pedestrian crashes have become not only more frequent, but deadlier, with deaths per 100 crashes with pedestrians rising 29 percent from 2010, when they reached their lowest point, to 2015. Unsurprisingly, the increase is happening mostly in urban and suburban areas, in the dark, and the fatalities are generally happening away from intersections, on busy main roads or arterial roads.

(AutoBlog.com)

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

P.S.A. - Please Learn To Order A Steak Properly!

77 Percent of Americans Order Their Steak Wrong 

Anything but medium-rare is a disgrace. 

Here's the ordering breakdown:
  • Rare: 2.5 percent
  • Medium-rare: 22.5 percent
  • Medium: 37.5 percent
  • Medium-well: 25.8 percent
  • Well-done: 11.7 percent
(Esquire.com)

Monday, August 7, 2017

This Is A Historical Crime Fail

Car Thief Suspect Caught Because Rattle-Canning A Rare Ford GT40 Replica Fooled Nobody


In what has to be one of the dumbest cases of car thefts I’ve ever heard of, police in Mashalltown, Iowa, caught a suspect driving a stolen Ford GT40 replica that had been painted black—likely to disguise what has to be the only example of such car in the small city of 30,000 residents. Who did this guy think he was fooling?

Steve Salasek, who works in Marshall County, Iowa, reported his bright yellow 1966 Ford GT40 replica stolen last Tuesday after noticing it missing from a storage locker, KCCI 8 News Des Moines reports. Upon hearing of the swiped supercar replica, Marshalltown police put out a public notice on the city’s Facebook page.

Within a day of reaching out to locals on Facebook, Marshalltown PD recovered the Ford GT40 Replica, finding the suspect driving the car—now painted black—on a residential street.

(Jalopnik.com)