Perfect Isn’t Necessarily Better
The fact that a thing can be done doesn’t necessarily mean it ought to be be done.
Even if it can be done "better."
Put another way, functionality isn’t everything. If it were,...
Buying What They Can’t – or Don’t Want – to Sell
There are still at least a few affordable - and so, appealing - new cars on the market. Some with manual transmissions, like the base trim ’22 Subaru Crosstrek. Some that...
Insouciant Driving
There is bad driving. But insouciant driving is worse.
What's the difference?
Bad driving encompasses many things and opinions vary about them. Some people regard driving fast - or at any rate, faster...
Slow’s the Word
What is the common denominator that accounts for almost all bad driving? It is arguably the passivity-fearfulness that’s been drilled into so many American drivers - who were taught that “good...
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...
Why Traffic Sucks . . .
Traffic sucks - everyone who has to deal with it says it. But is it because of the traffic - i.e., because of the number of cars on the road?
Or is...
What They Don’t Teach About Snow Driving
The Safety Cult wants you to be afraid of driving in the snow. It wants you to rely on “technology” rather than skill to get through the snow. It’s why so...
America’s Other Cult
The single-minded obsession - in some small-minded quarters - with “speeding” is an interesting one. In part because it’s so bereft of any objective definition beyond what the person complaining about "speeders"...
The Right Speed Limit is Your Limit!
People will never agree what the speed limit should be - which you’d think would raise questions about why there are speed limits at all.
It’s an odd business - this top-down...
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...