Lightning Strikes
Remember the Things telling us that electric vehicles would become more affordable? Ford just told us that its electric half-ton truck, the F-150 Lightning, will become 17 percent more expensive. The...
Stevie Behind the Wheel
I recently test drove a new car with an autopilot system. Turn on the cruise control and the car not only maintains whatever speed you set, it also steers itself through...
What’s the Plan, Stan?
A useful measure of intelligence is future-time orientation - i.e., thinking about what might happen tomorrow (and next year) and taking steps to prepare for it.
In the past, this meant making...
A Step in the Right Direction
Breaking - and good, for once - news!
The armed government worker who shot a man to death for the "crime" of being in his own apartment and not reacting with sufficient...
Hardly Able
People who ride motorcycles still care about motorcycles - as opposed to all-too-many-drivers, who view cars as appliances. Who have been conditioned to view them as such.
Evidence of this disparity in...
False Hopium and the Pompadoured Fail
Well, it's over - and now the time has come to sort through the debris. Where to start? How about with what is - as opposed to what was hoped for...
What to Expect
Selections have consequences and this one will especially. There was a more than a dime’s worth of difference between the one side and the other side this time when it comes...
Helmet Laws
If you ride a motorcycle, "the law" - that is to say, busybody people who write them - probably requires that you wear a helmet when you ride. If you don't,...
This Fiat Thing…
Well, what about this Fiat thing?
The Italian automaker now owns - well, controls - the remnant of Chrysler Corp., formerly the third of America's Big Three.
Is it a bad thing? A...
Government Assistance, Sort Of . . .
The government occasionally does us a service, but always inadvertently. One such being that modern vehicles can go longer in between oil changes, tune-ups, coolant changes and other basic maintenance. This...