Yeah, what was with that? The French Open I understand, but lacrosse?!?! 

Indeed. Personally, I'm more annoyed when Indy and F1 decide to take the exact same breaks... and then schedule three races on one weekend. 

On the bright side, melted butter was also plentiful.

It really stings that such a car exists and we can’t have it. Not going to blame anyone - it’s tempting to blame people for choosing crossovers and/or the government either for driving automakers into them or for making it too expensive to certify low-volume variants.

Throes, not throws.

I am in full support of more driver training. We should use the Finnish model. I fundamentally don’t understand why Vision Zero types don’t go down this road - instead, they just try to put safety bumpers on every corner and make it more expensive to drive - and yet the size of one’s pocketbook has no bearing on…

OK, the Indy 500 probably isn’t a great example because it’s one of the most dangerous closed course races. But in general, you’re right.

I think you mean, “...if a much larger vehicle.” That’s the OP’s point - speed itself can’t explain crash frequency - only severity once it’s happened.

I’m confused. Weaving is just caused by a lack of lane discipline - keep right, pass left. Lane discipline is actually what keeps us safer, not arbitrarily lowering speed limits.

That will be the driver’s Pleiades to the police.

I have a parking pass for work, which I always take down when I’m driving. I don’t want anything obstructing my view of the road ahead, and the State of California agrees with me.

On most freeways, everyone can pick their own speed and there’s no reason why you can’t do well over 100 safely. Keep right, pass left, and everybody can choose the speed at which they are comfortable.

Wrong. The safest thing would be the transporter from Star Trek. Because that is just as real as full autonomy.

It’s been studied constantly for the past 50 years, and that’s one of the reasons why the 85th percentile rule is still in effect in states which haven’t been taken over by anti-car forces.

These are not safety experts; they're politicians being misinformed by cycling extremists.

Nothing. As long as everybody keeps right except to pass.

Check out the research on crash frequency versus speed. Most crashes involve a large speed differential - either somebody going much faster or much slower than the flow of traffic.

I really wish the police would start enforcing that GPS law... Uber drivers with 30 phones covering their windshields are a dime a dozen again.

Statistically, the safest speed at which one can travel is 3-4 MPH above the general flow.

Thank you for being the only other person who seems to have gotten the joke rather than going to the knee-jerk “nuclear is crazy” reaction.