Negative equity isn’t a problem. You took out a loan and agreed to pay it off. The moment that happened, the extrinsic value of the car became irrelevant. Just keep paying.

Eh, I’d like to buy a brand-new 1991 NSX, but Acura doesn’t offer it. It is a two-way street.

Great, let’s do that. By increasing the difficulty of the driving test so that the least-skilled 33% of drivers fail.

It’s incredibly difficult to extract causation from correlation, so I don’t think that you can make that statement with any degree of certainty. I can tell you that most transportation models do not include vehicle efficiency in trip generation models, although operating cost does play into mode choice (assuming…

We are setting robust and rigorous standards that will aggressively reduce the pollution that is harming people and our planet

Just keep dragging the window thinner and thinner until the responsive design thinks you're on a phone screen :-)

Yet, they are incredibly efficient with their resources compared to local, small batch manufacturers. There’s no one right answer, alas.

Even in Chicago, I know very few people who swap out for winter tires every year. All-seasons work if you’re careful and because we salt the living hell out of our roads.

Agreed. I think it’s an impossible job, but Masi messed it up in about the worst way possible. I’m not sure that he has to go, but this isn’t the first time this season where he seems to have taken the race into his own hands. And I say this as a huge CART/IndyCar fan who watched TGBB ruin the IRL and IndyCar for years…

“Involuntary employees.” </s>

But that implies that one of the bedrooms is first in the order of importance. Same problem.

Nope, “major” still implies a power structure. Let’s go with Bedroom 1, Bedroom A, and Bedroom α [alpha]. And nobody needs more than three bedrooms. :-)

But what if you’re in Frankfurt and one of the other bedrooms faces the Main River? :-D

But the way I figure is that perception is reality

Conversely, why are you so adamant about protecting the term? It’s not like it’s even particularly accurate, you’re just used to saying it.

OK, here’s the problem:

Unless you live in a town with a good Samaritan law :-D

OK, so I’ll preface this by saying that the trolley problem is obviously unanswerable:

Humans are not inherently lazy. Humans are inherently bad at “monitoring” systems passively. It’s not something that we needed to learn to do to survive, and so our nervous system has never needed to evolve to becoming conducive to developing the skill.

The vast majority of road fatalities are people not wearing seatbelts and drunk drivers. Only about 6,900 fall outside of those two categories.