What are the most common driving mistakes that can secretly damage your car over time?

This one will anger a lot of people. I was taught to drive like this and it took me a while to stop doing it because it is so wrong. When you are nearing intersection, or see that traffic has s…

Top stories for Long   What are the most common driving mistakes that can secretly damage your car over time? Trausti Thor Johannsson, Car enthusiastic, fan of electric cars • Answered March 27 This one will anger a lot of people. I was taught to drive like this and it took me a while to stop doing it because it is so wrong. When you are nearing intersection, or se... Read more » 2.4K 236   What are some stupid clichés in movies that wouldn't happen in real life? Evan Gadowski • Answered March 21 So many good answers already, and I may be repeating some. I'll stay away from the obvious like fights that last more than a couple minutes and where people keep getting ba... Read more » 72 37   Why do professional chefs prefer cast iron for certain dishes but not others? Martin Bayer, Chef (1994-present) • Answered March 30 Cast iron pans are great for searing meats, deep fat frying and baking things with a crispy crust, like pizzas and cornbread. Cast iron holds heat. They perform best when he... Read more » 350 9   Once Trump is gone, will the USA be able to regain the world standing it had during Obama, or has it been lost forever? Mats Andersson, Visited 18 US states • Answered March 22 Do you know what New Gingrich said was the most important lesson that the USA had learnt during the 20th century? He said it was "That we need to identify and neutralize our... Read more » 10.3K 1.9K   Does the SAT Physics test you about rotational motion concepts such as angular momentum, angular acceleration, angular velocity, angular displacement, and torque? Ron Brown, Decades of teaching physics to undergrads • Updated October 26, 2023 Professor of physics here (well, retired professor, at least). I've avoided chiming in on these repeated questions for months now. But the interesting thing about physicists... Read more » 168 34   Why are the number of bits in a computer system always an exponent of 2 (e.g., 16-bit)? David McCall, Developing software, one way or another, since 1978 • Updated March 31 Because in 1961 Gene Amdahl, Fred Brooks and Gerrit Blaauw made a decision. They were the lead architects for the revolutionary IBM System 360. IBM wanted a single system arc... Read more » 229 63   Why do you believe 3D graphics and grown-up titles like "Tomb Raider" and "Metal Gear Solid" were key to the success of the PlayStation? Erwin, Lifelong Gamer • Answered November 29 I don't. The reason the PSX succeeded and gave the N64 a severe shellacking isn't the 3D graphics or the "mature" games on it, although those certainly helped. The main reas... Read more » 74 23   What's your coolest Python code in 3 lines or less? Dave Wade-Stein, learned Pascal and C as an undergraduate CS major • Answered May 8, 2018 Assuming imports don't count as lines of code (I don't think they do), here's a cheap imitation of grep in 3 lines: from sys import argv import re for line in open(argv[1]):... Read more » 240 11   I want to start learning to play the drums. What is the most basic set I can start with? R J Holland, former Professional Drummer Session and Touring Bands • Answered December 22 Find a set of drums that are not too expensive because who knows if you're going to stay with it. You can find some nice drum kits on Marketplace and Kijiji for around $200... Read more » 118 21   I have carried a green card for 50+ years and always been gainfully employed. If I visit the UK this year, is it possible that under the current administration I could be denied re-entry? Matt P., lived in The United States of America • Answered March 25 Employment with a Green Card is irrelevant. One is not required to be employed to hold a Green Card. If you've been in the USA as a permanent resident for 50+ years, you ar... Read more » 895 320   Why are people adopting DeepSeek's AI when its answers are so obviously biased toward the Chinese worldview propaganda? Terry Lambert, former Senior Software Engineer at Century Software, Novell, Artisoft, IBM, Arra... • Updated February 1 DeepSeek is an Open Source LLM (Large Language Model). ChatGPT is not Open Source, even though its value is not really in the code used to implement, it's in the training da... Read more » 230 48   I'm studying English now. The captain's behaviour is beyond reproach. In this sentence is the captain's behaviour reproachable or not? David Osofsky, knows English • Answered March 19 "Beyond reproach" is an idiomatic phrase. All languages have idioms. You just have to learn them because they cannot always be parsed literally. English has many idiomatic p... Read more » 16 Read more in your feed

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