The Dangers of Saaaaaaaaaaaafety
Safety is getting pretty dangerous.
In particular, the driver “assists” (as they're styled) being added as part of the standard equipment suite in almost all new cars. These are really driver-pre-emption technologies...
Saw The Weirdest Thing …
Sunday evening, the wife and I went for a walk along the Blue Ridge Parkway. As we were leaving, a guy on a newish Harley rolled into the overlook parking lot....
Making Your Car (and Bike) Ethanol-Safe
I wrote recently about the damage done to older (carburetor-fed) vehicles by the alcohol-dosed "gas" that's pretty much replaced the real deal.
See here.
Alcohol, in addition to impairing your judgment and dulling...
How Desperate Is Elon?
Elon can't sell his cars - so he is suing to make people buy them.
Or at least, suing to compel the government to keep on paying people to buy them -...
Living in a Van, Down by the River. . .
Living in a van down by the river isn't such a bad idea - and not just because you can get away from the crazies, if that becomes necessary.
This Mercedes Sprinter...
The Browning of Green
One thing leads to another. It's the point of the thing you see.
The thing - or rather, the tactic - has been called (among other things) Fabian Socialism - after a...
The Not-DeLorean (or Tesla, Either)
The DeLorean isn’t coming back. And Mr. Fusion was never here.
The car that was the star of the Back to the Future movies was a stainless-steel-bodied gullwing coupe designed by John...
Definitions – Redefined
Things don't mean what they used to. The idea being to make you forget what they used to mean. In order to get you thinking of other things, in the meanwhile.
Vaccination...
2016 Hyundai Tucson
Why make another of what everyone else is making - and hope it'll sell?
Wouldn't it be smarter to offer something no one else is making instead?
That would probably sell.
This new Hyundai...
Today’s Thoughts . . . Oct. 15, 2013
Where are the "Justice for Miriam" marchers? The boycott of Washington, DC? The threat of an investigation by the Attorney General?
Instead, there is silence.
No, worse.
There is applause.
For the murderers.
Miriam Carey -...