The window seat person.  But the middle and aisle seaters can request to have it open or closed.  As an aisle seater, I rarely care about the window unless there is blinding light coming in (usually a reflection of the sun from the wings).  This happened this past Sunday on a daytime east to west flight - I asked the…

Indeed, I would hypothesize that road construction lags so far behind demand that by the time a new road is built, the traffic to fill it already existed. I have always thought that if they ever decide to expand a highway by 1 lane, they should just go ahead and expand it by 2.

Latent and induced demand have different consequences in the bigger picture. Latent means that the demand exists but is suppressed by lack of infrastructure and thus means of conveyance. Induced implies that the demand is created by the roads itself, which doesn’t make as much sense. In Orlando, for instance, they…

Exactly, sick of all the guilty, anti-car, hand-wringing shit on a purported enthusiast blog.

Yeah, the “measure” was never really “average speeds over the Pass” which is what the vacuous writers at the Times first surfaced... and which this pieces barfs up again.

I have a feeling the author does not live in socal. Using public transportation in socal is a good way to double or triple your travel time. It works great in area that are not as spread out.

This is my one issue with cities -- I hate living in them. I like space and having room for things outdoors that are my property.

Exactly. That’s all I can say.

Sounds like Cervero is confirming a lot. People choose their means of commuting and where to live taking all available options into account. It doesn’t happen overnight, but widening a highway will add traffic as it makes living farther away/not using public transportation better options.

Thank you.

Thank you. Seriously. Saved me from typing that out.

When the government faces a deficit, it has two main options: cut costs or raise more money. 

This is horrendous advice. Given the massive increase in car break ins thanks to the opioid epidemic, all this article does to encourage that more. While the goal behind this idea is good, you are much more likely to encourage a break in doing this vs. not. Especially with this article now throwing that out there. 

Why are there even five defined levels, when at least one of them doesn’t even exist on this Earth? My car is level eleventy billion and four autonomous, btw.

Same with my Cadillac, dumb car thinks I’m about to crash every time I back out of my garage.  It’s a stupid system, I’m glad it isn’t linked to the brake lines.

God dammit, this shit is going to kill someone. Autonomous cars? Fine, as soon as the tech is sufficient. But this semi-autonomous shit is dangerous. Either I am driving a car, or I am not. I do not wish to have an argument over who is driving my automobile at highway speed, not with a human, and goddamn sure not with…

We better start building that giant dyson bag

I have to give Google credit, six years is probably the longest time Google has supported a hardware product. Hell, longer than some software products too.

So... we should invade USA to stop coal and oil burning right?
Looks reasonable.

But invading such a large country would require the use of vast amounts of fuel for the ships, planes, and tanks required to get warriors and equipment to the battlefield. Where is the break-even point?