Your “Driver Safety Score”
One of the greatest - most pernicious - cons associated with car insurance (beyond people being forced to buy car insurance) is that you will “save money” by having the cost...
No More Cop Cars
Five years or so from now, there may be no more cop cars.
Vehicles used by cops, certainly. But not cars. These are being retired - in the Bladerunner taking-care-of-the-Replicants sense. Ford...
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...
FRED Says . . .
Imagine a red light that never goes green - unless you obey.
The speed limit. Whatever it is.
And sends you a ticket via mail if you don't.
Say hello to FRED - feu...
Video Rant: How to Avoid ASS
ASS - Automated Stop/Start - is becoming almost impossible to avoid in new cars . . . emphasis on almost.
One way to avoid it - even in cars that otherwise have...
Swine Sussing
The best way to not get what is blandly styled a “ticket” - i.e., a demand note for money backed by the implicit threat of violence for non-payment - is to...
Reader Question: Leaking Sunroof?
Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply!
Dianne asks: I have a Toyota RAV4 with a leaking sunroof. After a heavy rain, the headliner is damp and sometimes it actually...
Airstream Clover
Ah, the Airstream Clover... aka the RV Clover.
This is the Clover who loves to drive an oversized, underpowered house on wheels that struggles to keep moving on the mildest incline. If the rig can't...
Slower Is Safer!
Forget about getting there anytime soon . . . if you happen to be driving in New York City.
The new gauleiter - oops, mayor - Bill de Blasio - is a...
Labor Day Weekend Clover
Here's a Clover I encountered over the weekend. 55 MP speed limit - Clover's doing 40... and slowing for the "curves."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWN_Rc-um-A&feature=youtu.be
This Clover - clearly impaired (by slow-wittedness? fearfulness? Glaucoma?) will almost...