It’s possible for things to be both bad and overly prosecuted.

Drunk driving is bad, sure, and it’s also been demonized to the point of parody.

At times and places America has been about pushing frontiers and boundaries at at other times it has been anti-science, anti-progress, puritanical and parochial. We swing both ways as a country. When we have a foreign enemy we seem to do better otherwise we eat ourselves. 

This is a great take, and it’s the part that bothers me about this.

Option 4: You hate the giant screens, lack of actual controls and shit build quality. Also, paying for a subscription for extra features. Also, also... dealing with a company that thinks regular OTA software updates for buggy software are a perfectly reasonable way to treat an auto customer. (Barely acceptable for a…

EVs are a great value proposition. I’d wager that the vast majority of 2 car households in the US could EASILY live their same lives with at least one of those cars being electric. Add in more charging infrastructure for apartments and condos, and you can greatly increase the number of families that could adopt…

I own 9 internal combustion vehicles. My next purchase will be electric, partly to do my part to cut emissions and partly because I like how they drive. And I support an escalating carbon tax to help capture the externalities of fossil fuel usage and make cleaner energy sources more competitive.

Can you imagine if we’d had your attitude back at the introduction of the internal combustion engine? If everyone said they were a “bad value proposition” (whatever that means) because we already had horse feeding troughs and people who cleared the sh*t from our streets?

Our transition to EV’s is infinitely easier,…

The clickbait headline is just an outright lie, and the assumption that DOT = bad is what I mainly take issue with. Also thinking that the double impact test was good? Bad? It’s shown as both in this article.

It depends on the prefix for Snell. There are certs that begin with “SA” for cars, and “M” for motorcycles. For example, SA2020 vs M2020.

Thank you for posting. I have been confused by the new ECE 06. I run a Bell Race Star Flex for the street and it conforms to both ECE 05 and SNELL M2020. I’m hoping that’s the best of all worlds.

Okay, I realize you mean well, but this post is significantly unhelpful in terms of providing useful information. It’s also flat-out wrong in some respects. Did you even trade emails with any helmet standards guys before posting this? I’ll try to address things in an orderly fashion.

Teachers and nurses are the biggest yin-yang of seemingly boring professionals who get absolutely wild off hours. 

GM fucked Saturn up by trying to “leverage” the name and the brand loyalty into more upscale cars. The thing is that those of us that bought those early GREAT ones either wanted those again or moved on to something else. I didn’t want a Saturn SUV or “nice” Sedan or a 2 seat convertible. There are people in the world…

They should’ve had Saturn buy GM instead of the other way around. Then they could use Saturn’s new systems across all of GM

If you are buying a collector/toy/old car, buy the best example you can find. It’s ALWAYS cheaper to spend extra up front on a great car, rather than the “needs work” example. You will spend more on repairs and time than you would if you just bought the good one. 

Brake pads.

NEVER buy cheap gaskets or seals. Buy the nicest felpro you can.

Tires, for the love of God do not get the cheapest tires, it’s the only thing connecting you to the ground. I’ve lived with them for years and the difference is night and day to the major label brands.

A poison.. that comes with a great tax break, special breaks at work and school, and big helpings of good ol’ cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy.