A car going 15 mph can do a lot of damage to a little human being that might dart in front of it unpredictably. I am personally uncomfortable with the notion that there is nobody behind the wheel to stomp on the brakes if a kid jumps out from behind a parked car. These tests are presumably in part to hone the Waymo’s…

If the permitted area includes roads that go past schools, even I, Mild-Mannered Suburban Dad, would raise a stink at city council meetings, school board meetings, whatever, if I still lived in the South Bay. The thought of a 3000 pound vehicle conducting beta testing where little kids are sure to be present in large…

This is Cleveland we’re talking about, so you can dial it back a little:

Shows how much you know about bipedal avian mascot physiology.

Whatever. He’s just like every other starter in the playoffs these days - he gets yanked before the game is even half over.

After setting the family up with nice sedans and SUVs for everyday use, I would make like Marty McFly and, as Huey Lewis sang, go back in time.

He’s no Arjun Hustle.

It looks like a crossover designed by Street View.

Totally rad. And weird — in this one little snippet I can see three of my former cars.

I have never understood the arcane world of the Davis Cup. I didn’t realize the tournament discouraged the players from actually trying to win points.

The alpha and omega, beginning and the end.

My son (HS baseball player) and I watched that live last night, howling through that whole inning. Sanchez is an abysmal catcher. Everything about his positioning, footwork and movement is simply awful. After watching a replay of the third or fourth gaffe, my son and I both had the same thought at the same moment that…

They need one of these things:

Every once in a while I scan the usual websites to see if there is another one out there. When you can find them at all, they are usually a shell/stalled race car project, a non-running experiment in oxidation, or, most rarely, a radically overpriced (“I know what I have”) runner that has had an engine swap. A true…

It was a sunny Saturday morning in the summer before my last year of college, and I was out running some vaguely unimportant errands just because it was a nice day. At a signal-controlled left turn, I was the second car in line. I followed the first car into the turn as the light went green. Unfortunately, a guy…

As everybody knows, those GM pickups come standard with technology and stuff.

COTD will be a sadder, more clothed place now. 

I kind of enjoy the novelty of the position player pitching, too, but those guys in the bullpen do have a job to do. I’d be a little insulted if I were one of them.

He’s impressive on the mound. Good balance, smooth delivery, big league curveball and fastball.