The Panopticon Expands
Precedent always becomes practice.
Having established as legitimate the use of cameras to robotically ticket people for “speeding” and “running” red lights - timed to go red quickly, so as to ensnare...
Restricting What’s Not Regulated . . .
Engineers are becoming like magicians - pulling improbable things out of their hats.
The difference is, it’s not a trick - and they haven’t got much choice.
Every car company has armies of...
The Good News About Automated Cars
Automated cars are being pushed on us harder than crystal meth in a West Virginia trailer park - by a tag team of the government apparat (which salivates at the prospect...
VW’s Politically Incorrect Chick Car…
There are men’s - and women’s - clothes. Different cut, different colors, different emphasis. No one sane complains that either derogates the other. If anything, the opposite. Women’s clothes make women...
Colorado Embraces EV Tar Baby
Colorado has become the 13th state - plus the District of Columbia - to embrace the fatuously titled "zero emissions" electric car tar baby.
This will " . . . protect the...
Riding Dirty Daydreams
Lately I have been giving serious thought to "riding dirty" - without insurance. Just cancelling all of it.
The savings would be considerable - equivalent to eliminating my monthly electric bill as...
A “Case” of Headache
I had a “case” of headache this morning - probably from reading (again) about all the new “cases” of WuFlu. What is it with this “cases” thing? Does the media really...
Virginia’s Automated Revenue Collectors
Speed cameras are like kudzu - they have to be beaten back every so often.
If, that is, the public has any idea they are about to get mulcted by them.
With almost...
Well, She Won… Now We May All Lose
Heather Peters (no relation to this writer) just won her lawsuit against Honda over what she argued were misleading claims about the gas mileage she'd get out of her then-new 2006...
“Driving”…
H.G. Wells wrote his novel, War of the Worlds, in 1898 - when a “driver” was someone who drove horses, as in commercially.
In italics for a reason.
Or rather, a definition.
Today, we...