Won’t Pull Forward Clover
Here's some footage of the Won't Pull Forward Clover. This is the Clover who, when approaching a red light (or sidling into a turn lane at an intersection) leaves a huge gap...
When Speed Doesn’t Even Scratch The Paint
There are fast drivers and there are sloppy, incompetent drivers.
They are not necessarily the same drivers.
This is a distinction I have been trying to make for years in my writing about...
Why Just Sell You a Car When They Can Sell You?
There’s less and less money to be made selling you a car - the net profit earned on the sale of the average new car is only about 3 percent -...
Payin’ Paper and Payin’ Apps
The problem with traffic fines as for “speeding” is you pay serially. First for the fine itself and then again - and again - via the higher insurance premiums you’re compelled...
No Net Driving
Why take off the training wheels?
Ever?
Wouldn't it be "safer" to leave them on - even after the kid learned how to ride the bike without them? It would help prevent the...
The Passing Gear, Remembered
People used to mock bodybuilders for posing. All those mighty muscles - but what do you actually do with them? You show them off.
Well, inflatable muscles would serve just as well...
Ok To Speed… When You’re a Cop
Here's a video taken by me of a speeding cop:
This cop was on the median of I-581 (an Interstate spur) running radar when I passed him on my way to the...
Don’t Sweat The Cost of Gas
People worried about how much money they spend on gas ought to consider how much they spend on their cars.
Gas is among their smallest expenses - especially vs. the cost of a...
Unmarked Cop Cars: Making The Roads Less Safe
Wouldn't it be easier if they just hit us all with another once-annually additional "fee" (that is, another tax) that would be due Jan. 1 and otherwise left us alone on...
Snow Driving Etiquette . . . And Its Lack
Lots of advice goes out every year about how to drive in the snow. But the single most important piece of advice about snow-day driving is almost never mentioned - probably...