Most regulations are drafted by business, to raise barriers to entry for competitors. Here is an example where business is trying to create a regulation, that benefits themselves.

The drivers?

A perfect proposal for the Logan’s Run crowd who think the world is and should be made up of, people under 30.

What we have here is a failure of imagination. The first being that if people are actually shooting back at the government en masse, there’s an insurrection going on. Which would make those people terrorists.

For three years there were “sightings” of coyotes in my West Los Angeles area. But animal control didn’t believe them. They thought the attacks on cats and small dogs were feral dogs. Until they found one that was hit by a car by the Santa Monica Airport. The primary way we can track them, is when they get hit by a…

I don’t know why you bring up peregrine falcons in London, when we’ve had them in cities in the US since the 70s.

If there was ever a major insurrection against the government, this is the answer to people who say “The government has drones that can blow you and your pea shooter assault rifle up from hundreds of miles away.” They got drones, you can have drones, it’ll all look like a science fiction movie.

Or you can get one of these

If they were designed by an engineer, they’d be a lot more durable, and chemical and cancer resistant. And there should be better quality control.

There were some differences, not enough to make a European car fan happy, but I looked at Camaros before I bought the TA. The bloaty radio buttons on the TA were cartoonish, but easy to develop a feel for without looking at the dash, and I appreciated that.

Only if you buy one that is more than 3 years old. If you buy your European cars used, they’re all unreliable money pits that spend almost as much time in the shop as on the road. Mercedes stopped building the indestructable diesels used as cabs around the world, sometime in the 80s.

Two cupholders behind the shifter.

“Quality”: in European terms this means “soft materials in the interior” and “panels that fit perfectly” or a confident “whump” when closing a door. Not “low maintenance” or “engine and transmission need almost no attention for 20 years”.

Yeah, WRXes which had super antiquated 5 speed transmissions until the latest model. The F-Cars had 6 speeds in 1993.

I had a ‘95 Trans Am with a 6 speed manual I bought brand new in ‘95, and I kept it for 17 years. Great car, lots of fun, cheap to maintain, didn’t develop rattles until after 15 years. I realize that Jalopnik readers generally regard “reliability” as “how much your entertainment system works like an iPhone” or…

After we survive that, we’ll need to find a way to bail this galaxy. In 3 billion years, Andromeda collides with the Milky Way and destroys our galaxy. GRBs will be popping left and right until the really big GRB when the two supermassive singularities at the center of each universe, finally combine.

The Galactic Empire’s territory at its peak consisted of some one and a half million member and conquered worlds, as well as sixty-nine million colonies, protectorates and puppet states spread throughout the entire galaxy, stretching from the borders of the Deep Core to at least Wild Space.^[57]

Or robotic slaves, since the robots in the SW universe, seem to have free will.

Every major freeway in the Los Angeles area, handles about 300,000 cars a day, and probably more on weekdays and less on weekends. The highly traveled LA county portion of all of the freeways, handles over a million cars every single day. From all directions of the compass, and a radius of about 50 miles from downtown…

Interesting that you’re extrapolating a brief, two year trend, as a paradigm shift in transportation that should affect plans that span over decades. Or to base plans on a technology that is only in it’s demonstration phase.