Carapult?

More like the automotive equivalent of playing Russian roulette with a full clip.

And yet... drunk driving deaths have fallen precipitously in the decades since it became socially unacceptable and the laws were changed - down over 50% since 1982 despite more than doubling vehicle miles traveled. Certainly we aren’t there yet, and progress seems to have stalled in recent years, but it’s not like we…

Maintenance nightmare, I would think. Those things are constantly at least partially broken, and that's in parking lots. They're just not built to take constant high-speed traffic.

Exactly - those are called four-quadrant gates because, well, they block all four quadrants of the crossing.

Of course there are.

Yes. In my cold heart, I say keep the train moving and clean it up later. It's not like the people in the car are going to get better.

Indeed. They also have better-maintained roads and four-quadrant crossing gates.

And our terrible driving license standards.

That sounds like blaming the victim to me... We should immediately limit all train speeds to 15 MPH #15isenough #visionzero #pleasepleaserecognizesarcasm

I got the impression that it was like the A Team: If you have a problem, if no other drink can help, and if you can find it....maybe you can buy Rich Energy.

That’s totally what I read it as, anyway.

“I don’t think it’ll ever take off as a means of powering personal transportation in any meaningful capacity.”

Killjoy comments should be suspended.

Perhaps why LFLs are perfect for the otherwise worthless book types listed above - versus truly donatable books.

Maybe this is the problem: there’s a huge difference between donating to a library or Goodwill, versus putting into a little free library or putting in a box on the street with “FREE” written in large, friendly letters on the side. I feel like this advice is only good for the former, not the latter.

I dunno, there are some crazy people (yes, like me) who love to find wildly outdated books in little free libraries. Seems like a Y2K survival guide would actually be perfect - something to pick up on a lark, read, laugh, and pass onto the next weirdo.

Still... Don’t crash.

Don’t crash.

Correct, both points are invalid. Only the statistics quoted above (20% of SUV crashes versus 10% of car crashes) matter.