The Pilot Car . . .
In the Before Time, when you encountered a crew working on the road, it was standard operating procedure to note where the workers and equipment were and proceed around them. There...
How Far You Won’t Go
While test driving the new Mercedes GLE 450 (you can read about that, here) I glanced down at the instrument cluster and noticed something you might be interested in.
The Benz is...
Air Bag Omelettes . . . and Eggs
Air bags - those government-mandated "safety" devices force-built into every new car made since the late 1990s - have killed again.
ARC Automotive - "pioneering safety since 1948" - says it "can't...
Some Thoughts on Rules for Thee But not for Them
I was thinking aloud the other day about how they can do whatever they like - while we are allowed to do what they say and are punished when we don't.
We...
Diaper Report: 06/24/2023
Before Hitler became Reich Chancellor (he was already the Fuhrer of the National Socialist German Worker's Party, the italics to clarify what "Nazi" actually stands for) the German government he was...
Latest Radio: Bill Meyer Show/KMED 06/23/2023
Here's the audio of this week's Wheels Up! segment with my friend Bill Meyer over at KMED FM in Medford, Oregon. We talked about the "winnowing" as well as some other...
$1,000 per Month
Could you afford to spend $1,000 or more each month on a car payment? Not counting the costs on top of that - such as insurance? Apparently, about 15 percent of...
Latest Radio: Real News With David Knight 06/22/2023
Here's the audio of my talk yesterday with David Knight. We got interrupted by a power outage about two-thirds of the way through the hour, but it's mostly intact! We discussed...
This Thing of Theirs
The old school Italian mafia as portrayed in The Godfather movies had some admirable attributes, among them its rule of omerta - or silence. If you were in the mafia, you...
When Assist Becomes Insist . . .
How long do you suppose it will be before "advanced driver assistance technology" goes from assisting to insisting?
The answer is probably to be divined in the fact that this "technology" isn't...