Legalize the California stop!

Correct conclusion. HSR is too slow to serve anything but a few city pairs, which means it will always be politically unpopular (too few beneficiaries) and expensive (no economies of scale).

How could you possibly know if Indycar drivers could make it in F1? Like, seriously, what evidence of any kind do you have?

I mean, Newgarden essentially used Grosjean to make the turn.

So... Taco Bell enchiladas? Seems too easy.

Citation, please, on the odds thing? Otherwise you're right on, the Solomon curve has been proven right over and over again for the past 70 or so years. But most of the Solomon curve is about the frequency with which interactions happen at higher speed differentials.

That is most definitely not how our driving laws operate. If it were based on the “smallest chance of injury or loss of life,” as you suggest, then driving would probably be illegal. As would most things that we do. Certainly, alcohol, caffeine, and aspirin would be illegal.

There is a world of difference between driving rapidly and driving recklessly or with some other impairment. I would bitch about someone who drove the lap drunk at the speed limit.

Yeah, but the odds of that are comically low. Driving, even in normal circumstances, simply isn't particularly dangerous. It's just riskier than most other things we do on a daily basis.

Then he'll be publishing for a very long time.

There's a difference between driving fast and driving recklessly.

Fourth, dub the audio from a different car.

As a pansy ass left winger, I must say that I am in full support of these records and am tired of the moralizing nonsense.

Wrong. As NYC declares war on the car, these actions should be celebrated.

Because there actually is a difference between fast driving and reckless driving.

Enough with the performative finger-wagging. The point of these records, dating back to the Cannonball, was to prove how ridiculously conservative our traffic laws are. It's not surprising that the Cannonballs, or these records, ended safely because the drivers were actually paying attention. A lot of attention.

Yeah, this story really needs to mention that the cyclist was running a red. Not that it forgives the driver, but it is extremely important context.

On the other hand, they probably make a helluva lot more money now. Not good for fans of the original, but great for the people putting out the content.

Do farmers usually remove the little flow restrictor from their showerheads? Is that why California is out of water, not that it’s mostly a desert climate with virtually no rainfall?

Stop buying our water in the form of food and we’ll stop reclaiming it.