Who remembers when it was still socially acceptable to just “drop by” somebody’s house if you were in the neighborhood? I mean, I’m not even that old... right?

Hm... what could have happened about a year ago to cause that? :-)

Everybody needs to pick up this skill now that tires are so ridiculously low-profile. My GTI is way more sensitive to potholes than my NA1 NSX.

I love taking my foot off the brake half a second before the light turns green because I’m already looking at the red signal for crossing traffic and confirming that they’ve all stopped. I feel like everybody who learns to drive in the Chicago area does this, and no place else.

Isn’t it fun to look like a wizard to other people? I feel like that’s a car-person superpower: “Watch out for that Mustang, gonna swerve soon. No wait, check the tailpipe, it’s a rental. They’re just lost.”

Just because it’s not the law in every state doesn’t mean it isn’t the courteous thing to do. Just like it’s not illegal to stand on the left side of a moving walkway - but it’s still a jerk move.

IMO, there’s one through lane. The rest are passing lanes.

That’s illegal in most states. Check out MIT’s table.

There’s a difference between humility and self-deprecation. You can acknowledge that you’re not perfect without needing to claim that you’re not good.

There’s a simpler version: if you’re going out with friends, you’re the only one that all of them want behind the wheel.

1. I care. Every time I go out, I’m actively invested in being the best driver that I can be. I want to push myself to be even better - better situational awareness, smoother, more precise, more predictive, listening more to what the tires are telling me.

Unless there are now six quarters in a year, I suppose this means the first fully-profitable calendar year?

It worked! Skeptics, just try it.

Driver’s education in this country is a joke, and most of our problems on the roads stem from this simple fact. We need to adopt the Finnish model.

Note to stream-of-consciousness text writers using ellipses: You are not Herb Caen. Make a note of it.

Put a 110VAC plug at every parking meter, load managed at a district level. Make charging free but slow so that you don't overwhelm the electrical supply infrastructure.

“Foci.” :-)

No love for LPS-1?

Have you read John Kenneth Galbraith’s The Economics of Innocent Fraud? I read it when it came out and picked it up again recently. Prescient. And quick, only 62 pages.

Exactly! That’s the problem for me: the tail begins to wag the dog.