Why Muscle Cars – The Original Ones – Still Rule
A new V-6 Mustang or Camaro gives you about 100 more hp than the V-8 in my Trans-Am put out when it left the Norwood, Ohio line back in the spring...
A Cop Responds
The following letter was received in response to my recent article about the arbitrariness of speed limits (The Speed Limit Cargo Cult; see here). The author is a deputy sheriff, currently...
Pay The Fine – Or Pay The Shyster
Why is it effectively impossible to contest a traffic ticket without a lawyer?
Emphasis on effectively.
Yes, it's possible to learn the legalisms and procedures; the dance steps that are required in order...
Road Clovers
Charles Darwin categorized the flora and fauna of the Galapagos Islands. My job is to provide a taxonomy of Cloveris Americanus - the various sub-species of atrocious "driver" who makes driving...
Manual Transmissions: Tomorrow’s 8-Tracks?
There are two things pushing the manual transmission off the stage - or at least, off to the sidelines:
First, there is government pressure - lots of it - that's got the...
Cypher’s Choice
In the original Matrix movie, there's a character named Cypher who decides that life is more comfortable for him within the confines of the false-reality programming that is the Matrix. He...
Bad Boy!
When I leave my gym, there's a red light at the intersection that literally takes five minutes to change. Often, it will skip the green arrow for people waiting to make...
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...
85 MPH: Almost a Speed Limit
On a stretch of road near Austin, Texas there is an actual speed limit. Or at least, close to one.
You can drive up to 85 MPH on Texas Highway 130 -...
Cycling vs. Driving and the Death of Car Culture
There's North and South, liberals and conservatives; Star Trek people and Star Wars people . . . but few divides are greater than that which exists between drivers and cyclists.
The etiology...