Slashdot comment thread:

• Very good point. I’ve run out of gas twice, which kills power steering — both times I’d have been stranded in the middle lane of a busy road had I not been able to coast the car long enough to pull over somewhere safe.
• Once is unlucky. Twice is incompetent.
• Not if your gas guage is broke, or if you are.
• Thrice is enemy action.