Bikes are doing OK. These guys have options that are close to as practical as a lot of street bikes. http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/zero-ds/

Also, here’s a collection of production electric bikes. Now that you’re a moto-journalist, they’d probably love to have you ride their bikes. http://www.businessinsider.com/best-el…

It’s less a biological imperative, and is more like the nagging of parents, siblings, grandparents and friends with children.

I can think of several versions of the Stack Interchange in Los Angeles: 405/10, 105/110, modified with tunnels 105/405. Some of the ones listed are cooler looking, like the Turbo, but the simple and obvious Stack has the most reliably high flow. Los Angeles proves how irrelevant flow can be when your overall capacity…

Our birth rate is high enough, that we have surplus people we’re willing to leave on the streets. That we’re willing to let get there in the first place.

The fact that we don’t build housing to accommodate the next generation in every city, as the primary growth priority, says that we’re producing more people in cities…

The lasers are still short range. They have their uses.

The Navy is giving up on their railgun, but these guys don’t sound like they’re giving up. This video is pretty funny in its 80s cheesiness, and I’m still not convinced it isn’t satire.

The proper, big picture solution? Free birth control. Everywhere. Our society is obviously producing more people than the economy actually feels it needs to accommodate.

The economy certainly hasn’t been building housing like the current residents were going to have children and increase demand for housing for them…

Is the growth in homelessness on the West Coast, people who started out with homes in those locations who were driven out of homes? Or are they new arrivals from other localities reporting a decrease?

I know a lot of communities in red states gave homeless people a one way bus ticket to LA, San Francisco, Portland and…

Yeah, and it’s just the Navy version we’re aware of, too. Pretty sure they’re under development if not ready for deployment, as anti-ballistic missile weapons to knock out suborbital ballistic missiles that the other “on launch” systems miss. I’d assume the latest developments in that technology would be superior to…

I can’t find where I mentioned “OTHER weapons.” But, since you asked: laser, plasma, charged particle, and electromagnetic pulse weapons. Which I suppose are within the general weapons category, “pew-pew.”

Get used to it. This is the way the whole country is moving with education, medical coverage, and retirement, based on current state and federal government policies. The rich are entitled to whatever they want, everyone else can suck it. The notion of “Public Resources” will be as quaint as a hat with dodo feathers in…

I never really noticed that before, but now that you mention it...

Might be gone for now, but it’s definitely the future, and 4,500 mph is the first generation technology. Chemical propulsion has limitations. When the project is re-examined in a decade, there will be a considerable improvement inrelevant technologies. In particular, they need improvements in capacitors to make the…

We as a society don’t have too much horsepower. As with everything else, the horsepower seems to largely be in the hands of the same 1% who have all the money.

It is always fun to see those things stuck in bumper to bumper traffic and limited to the same speeds as someone with a Smart Fortwo.

0-60 on the Leaf is 8 seconds. On the Bolt it’s a hot-hatch like 6.3 seconds. They’re still not getting it.

Also, styling looks like a 2009 Subaru Impreza hatch.

Most companies wait for you to take the car to the dealer to get the defect fixed. Like mine, which didn’t have a t-clamp tightened on a large coolant hose, resulting in all the coolant leaking out and the car overheating.

If you told people in Africa that there was an Ice Age, they would have said “Get out of here! It’s hot as hell in the tropics.” Supervolcanoes can trigger an Ice Age, or they can trigger a Permian Extinction.

You realize that was complete bullshit, right? The utilitarian Prius-esque design of the first Volt was not the result of aerodynamics, which could have been resolved while maintaining the Volt’s sportier looks. He chickened out, because he felt anyone buying an electric car wasn’t really interested in “Sporty”.…

The original Volt concept car, looked like an electric Camaro. Chevy chickened out and felt that they had to make it look more Prius like.

Or...Chevy could have made the Volt look like the ELR in the first place. They would have sold a whole lot better. And the ELR should have been nothing less than a Tesla competitor from the get-go. It wouldn’t have been that difficult to spec a bigger battery and a bigger motor than the Volt, and if they were going to…

I drove a Chevy Bolt at the Seattle auto show.

I drive a Focus ST. The Bolt is nearly as quick and handles nearly as well. Mash the pedal, and that torque from a standing start really gets your attention. And also, you find yourself going way too fast in a hurry. Which I found astonishing. And it makes me wonder.

First,…