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,...
Double Clover!
Here, for your delectation, are two fine specimens of southwest Virginia Clover:
This Clover was gimping along at 10-15 MPH below the posted speed limit - and passed by two turn-outs, where...
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...
Measuring What We Can’t Do
Almost every new car I test drive - even the humblest hybrid - has a speedometer that reads to at least 120 mph.
140 is common; 160 not unusual. Some cars have...
SkyDiving Without a Parachute
Given how expensive traffic tickets are, it’s amazing so many people won’t buy a good radar detector. Unlike the car you’re driving, it actually is an investment - and not just...
Tactical Manual: When – and How – To Run
I wrote a couple week back (see here) about how increasingly Draconian punishments for relatively minor - and purely statutory (i.e., involving no harm to others) traffic offenses - for example,...
A Lever Long Enough . . .
You might be surprised to discover how few horsepower it takes to keep your car - or even a big SUV, for that matter - going.
Well, once it’s already going.
Last week,...
Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety First! . . . Again
If you've ever wondered why it was so easy to get so many people to Stay Home - and "mask up" - when ordered to by government Safety Nannies, go for...
Can an Affordable Radar Detector be an Effective Radar Detector?
Radar detectors make driving enjoyable again - by greatly reducing your vulnerability to being ticketed for "speeding," which is one of those made-up offenses that few of us feel moral guilt...
The Origins of Safetyism
Why the seemingly sudden obsession with "safety"? Placed within air fingers quotation marks because it's not really about safety - in the sense of reasonable aversion to excessive and unnecessary risk....