Joe Handley

You don't have to be holding the phone, I've used mine as a GPS and have a suction cup mount to put it in when I am, also works as a hands free device, put it on Speaker and talk towards the phone!

From what I understand, once the game realizes that you're going that fast, it locks things up so you can really play the features while driving. I was reading on Gizmodo that there are a bunch of people that were either walking or cycling around to find the critters and other stuff, only to exhaust themselves. Apparently the players don't have the stamina to start walking a couple miles or more in one day.

Can you make it into the city? The Museum of Science and Industry had all sorts of interesting stuff, but you have to go into Downtown Chicago to get to it.

Not sure, I usually tried to say away from that whole area unless going to iHobby or the World of Wheels.

I'd have preferred that, these things are ugly.

Two shockingly clean mid 80's FWD Mopars?! A 4 headlight Daytona Turbo Z and a Non-Shelby 4 headlight L-Body Charger!

With the way some of the people I've shared the roads with are, I'm kinda looking forward to the robots. I don't still have full coverage on my 18 year old, rustbucket Jeep because it's just so cheap to insure that the extra cost doesn't matter to me.

It could, use the same basic operating system on everthing (like OBD2), so that all the codes match and the different cars understand what each other are talking about when the info is sent out to advise the rest of the autonomous cars (anf maybe those of us that are still driving) of weather and/or road conditions/obstructions, while each individual car would handle it's own basic needs as it's doing what we need them to do at that moment.

I guess director of the Nursing Home that Mom will be spending a couple weeks at again is buying the family a pizza from the little Italian place just down the road from the home!

Looks like Mom will have to go back into a nursing home for a week and a half, and it's going to be one she was in last summer for about a month. The drive will suck.since it's south of 75 in Naperville, but we're at least familiar with the area and know of an Italian place a block from there that makes a fantastic Pizza!

Thanks Ed!

I'll have to find out for you then!

Really?! That's cool!

I'm now a TruGreen Employee!

Last I heard, the taxes on my parents house was around $5k in West Chicago. Could be worse, I know somebody that almost moved into Wayne Township and while she could afford the house, the property tax was beyond reason. They had also been one of those communities that you didn't want to speed through, going all the way back into the early 70's when my parents moved here from Iowa the first time.

Hmmm, sounds like where I live in West Chicago, we've been there since '79, although my Sister did live in Carol Stream for a number of years, a few with her now ex-bf, right near the Carol Stream PD. She moved back home several years ago and has a new BF that also is from around here, and not only hispanic, but a really good kid too! CS cost her a bunch of money, which is some of why she's still at home even though her pay had been better than mine had been. Now that Mom has had medical issues, it's been really good that we're still living with Mom and Dad as extra hands, just in case.

Please tell me they aren't demanding the city builds them a new stadium, if so, they need ro not let the door hit them on the way out!

Thanks guys, she's doing better already!

Doesn't seem like it, although I haven't watched the local news over the last couple nights that Mom has been back in the hospital.

Well, so long as they aren't shooting each other like is going on in Chicago.

Dad has this fire extinguisher left over from his railroad days that you can pressurize and fill with what ever liquid you want, if you can find one, it might be very usable for such purposes, and wouldn't quite draw the kind of Police Intervention that could be detrimental to you as well.

Eh, I'd just get a garden hose for that last part, if it don't work on the hipsters, it'll at least work in the vomit!

That was one big question I've yet to see an answer to, how fast was that car moving at the time of impact! That could determine if the truck driver knowingly pulled out infront of the Tesla, how the car (which blew the safety bypass on the NHTSA roof crush test equipment) managed to lose the roof, then continue down the road through 2 fences, and then hit a power pole all 900' emerging from the wrong side of the trailer!

I think Tesla provides another Tesla as loaner, so that shouldn't be an issue, and if they are like me and have one "modern" car and one "dinosaur", it shouldn't take much to readapt to the older car.......unless it's a column shift auto, that always catches me out in my Parent's Town and Country..........too many years of driving console shift cars and Jeeps.

I believe that Teslas with the Autopilot systems will already have many of those features Tom, they've even been using info learned by the individual Teslas to teach each other how to do things better, this issue could cause Tesla to swap the optical sensors for more or a radar type system that the newer cars have. Still won't fix the whole "Watch the freakin' road, ya dummy!!!!!" Problem though.