Yes, it’s the Model T.  Now you can debate the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th slot.  OR you can redefine the question to “what is the most significant specific car, not model of car in history?”   Then you get to things like cars that won famous races, or JFK’s limo like what was pictured, or you know, Chitty-chitty Bang-bang (I…

Agree, unfortunately, while the county where I live has added a lot of roundabouts in recent years, they’ve not made the majority of them very pedestrian friendly.  

There is a massive longitudinal study from NHTSA that concluded that RTOR accidents are such a small percentage of accidents that they probably don’t warrant changing current laws.   The study you cite shows “an improvement” but IMO, it’s numbers that matter.   The NHTSA study showed similar but they warranted it to…

roundabouts for the win

The third chart is what you want:

This is a good article, especially to read on a car site. In truth, we need, and this is IMO, infrastructure to be completely balanced. Hybrid/EV bicycles/scooters/skateboards are their own thing, to wit:

Amazon’s losses were flat out undercutting their competition on purpose. They were deliberate. It was not reinvestment to any large extent. Even the AWS was largely an accident when they realized how it could be leveraged. Just like Rivian’s deal with Amazon was a nice happy thing to have happened.

I mean, I agree,…

Not really, you have to realize that a lot of this is startup costs and volume—Tesla currently ships literally 20x more vehicles than Rivian does. You see the problem? Now it’s true, Tesla has solved the problem by getting into lower ends of the market and so will Rivian solve that problem (note that Rivian is in part…

Amazon lost money for over a decade and now they are a monopoly.
Tesla? Not exactly a money maker either for quite awhile until more recently.
The modern approach to these things is to establish yourself and get out there for awhile then slowly bring yourself to profitability. Is it a bizarre approach? Absolutely. But…

Unlike the USPS monstrosity which showed that ICE vehicles can be just as awful. 

These Rivian vans run in my neighborhood...definitely not for rural routes, very suburban.   They have low ground clearance for a big van.  

Well, we didn’t expect Amazon to be angels did we?   I mean, doing one decent thing was plenty PR for the next few years.  Let’s not get carried away.  

Fortunately, the Biden administration convinced them to make some changes.  Not ideal, but better.

Yes, but honestly, Rivian is actually doing ok, and next year or so they are making their Model Y competitor, so... I think they have the best chance of surviving of the new EV companies besides Tesla.

These deliver in my neighborhood as of the last month or so. And I’ve seen the charging station—it is interesting seeing about a hundred or so of these things charging. That said, for all there is to complain about Amazon, this is def a plus one for them. That said, I’m sure they are using these because it’s cost…

You can hate her, but Pelosi is the fund raising engine for the Democratic Party with a capital P.  Google it... she raised > $1B when she was Speaker and $134M for OTHER Dem House members in 2022 alone.   So THAT’s why she’s running.    Find someone else who can raise that kind of money.   I realize that she’s not…

Some of that is airbags, strengthened A,B,C pillars for rollover crush resistance, and those bars added for side collision strength, but I only really notice the problem on the full size SUVs and trucks these days.     I mean, I did notice that the interior of my Mazda 6 was barely larger than that of a Mazda 3 but…

Honestly, not wrong.

to be found when lost in the woods.       Better than today.  Why do all car colors suck today except for Jeeps/Broncos?

Yes, the S2000 wears it well. The Prelude did too...I think it came in yellow for a bit.