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...
The Pointless Flex
It's amazing what you can do in a three-row/eight passenger SUV . . . but not many people do it anymore.
This 2020 Kia Telluride I'm test-driving right now (reviewed here) can...
Crashworthiness vs. Avoiding the Crash
Running head-on into a tree isn't sound policy - even if you are wearing a helmet. Better to avoid running into the tree.
Then you won't need the helmet.
The government -...
The Me Too Camera
Brett Kavanaugh is lucky he didn’t get a red light camera ticket.
When you get one of these in the mail, you haven’t merely been accused. You’ve already been processed. There is...
Egg Meets Chicken
It is apparently a high-order skill to keep a car within its travel lane; to drive without swaying across the double yellow into the opposing lane (where there is hopefully no...
Avoiding Sharks
We are told - lectured - about the dangers of being an armed government worker (AGW). This is like the shark complaining about the danger posed by the scuba diver.
About 1,000...
Today’s Clover – a Good Clover!
Today, we have that rare animal - the good Clover! Who actually isn't a Clover at all. Because she (in this case) pulled off onto the shoulder to let the cars...
Just Because I Said So
A reader informs me that Pennsylvania is about to do what most other states already do: Empower local armed government workers to use radar to entrap "speeders." In PA - at...
Cosseted Cavemen
The Titanic could have used more lifeboats.
A current cruise liner, laser welded and multiply redundant, could probably do without any - because sinking is improbable and help isn’t hours away in...
The GPS Granny Nanny
America is slowing down. How long before it stops entirely?
Literally stops?
A reader who is a commercial driver wrote to tell me about how his work vehicle is monitored and controlled via...