Birth Control and Enstupidation
One of the things that shied me away from having kids when I could have had them was the knowledge that if I did have them, I would be forced by...
Two Wheeled Clovers and Amberlamps Chasers
I got an e-mail alerting me to an outfit - ostensibly, a biker outfit - that is agitating for a national "zero tolerance" standard for motorcycle riders. It is called MotorcycleAccident.org...
The Coming “Post-Car Era”
It’s not just the government that’s banning cars - or making it hard to own a car. Private developers are working toward the same thing - styled the “attrition of the...
Retro Interview with Bill Porter
About 20 years ago, I sat down with former Pontiac Chief Designer William “Bill” Porter in New York City. Over breakfast, he discussed his role at Pontiac during the early and...
“Drivers” Who Aren’t . . . Who Gets the Bill?
Another auto-piloted Tesla has crashed into another car - two cars, actually - over the weekend. The Tesla’s “driver” - in quotes to ironicize the obvious - was reportedly “checking on...
How They Used to Make ‘Em
They don’t make ‘em like they used to - and in many cases, not at all. Have you ever wondered what happened to them? And why?
Station wagons -
You can still buy...
2020 Cadillac XT6
Cadillac already has a three row SUV . . . so why make another one?
Probably because it needs a different kind of three-row SUV. One that’s almost as big - and...
Revenue Collection and Something Else
It used to be that roadside mulctings were primarily, even exclusively, motivated by simple money-lust. Traffic enforcement as a kind of random tax-raising effort.
Many towns and even cities in the United...
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...
2020 Fiat 124 Spider
People who buy economy cars don’t especially care that lots of other people are driving the same car; if anything, it’s confirmation that they bought the right car.
But people who by...