Aiding and Abetting
People ask why car culture is dying. It is being helped along by car journalists. They have become not far removed from the vapid-in-the-background guitar-strumming infomercials for insurance companies that tell...
Corrupting the Youth
When you're facing a really big project - something like a total house remodel - it can be psychologically helpful to not look at the whole thing and instead concentrate on...
Abolish The Pretexts
One of the reasons so many traffic stops go "bad" is because there are so many pretexts for traffic stops. No harm done - but some law (that is, some authority)...
Kia Goes Clover
The acronym pretty much says it all. B.R.A.K.E.S.
Go slow, young man!
Slow is the only way to go. Velocity, quickness of reaction. Taking independent action (based on independent judgment) rather than waiting to...
A Conversation With a Friend
When you're in a foxhole facing enemy fire, it's probably sound policy to not badmouth the guy who's fighting the same enemy alongside you.
The National Motorists Association - which has been...
Jab Addled “Driving”?
We know the Jabs "warp-speeded" past the usual safeguards such as double blind clinical trials over a period of time long enough to establish with a high degree of confidence that...
Out of Towner Clover
One of the incongruities of our age is the gratuitous wastage of capability, as regards cars. The average late-model car has twice the horsepower of a typical '80s (or even early-mid...
Clovers, Revisited
The question comes up every now and then: What is a "Clover"?
It's living creature! Also an inside baseball term for them, used by EPautos regulars to denote passive-aggressive/oblivious/indifferent drivers who do...
More DWV (Driving While Vaccinated)
Here's another one!
Every day, there's another one. Every time I go for a drive I encounter one. Or more. Here's one more:
The Collectible Manual
Electric cars constitute a small fraction of all new car sales but they are outselling non-electric cars by a margin of something like ten to one. This being so because almost...