1. It’s 10 to 20 years too late to STOP USING ALL FOSSIL FUELS. That would have stopped climate change by 2035. Now, even if we stopped fossil fuels cold turkey, climate change will continue aggressively until at least 2070. Not cutting back on fossil fuels, STOPPING COMPLETELY TODAY.

2. We need scientists to really be…

1. It’s 10 to 20 years too late to STOP USING ALL FOSSIL FUELS. That would have stopped climate change by 2035. Now, even if we stopped fossil fuels cold turkey, climate change will continue aggressively until at least 2070. Not cutting back on fossil fuels, STOPPING COMPLETELY TODAY.

2. We need scientists to really be…

Yeah, we’ll have to get it eventually, but we have shade from 200 foot Doug Firs and can get by with fans and shorts so far. Still prefer the cold.

Where we live near Tacoma, we probably can get away without air conditioning for at least 3 more years. But I sure made sure that the new furnace we got last year, was air…

It’s like a tombstone now. A tombstone to travel of the past, when you could leave the terminal and get a meal there. A tombstone to Googie architecture, which until the last decade or two was considered garbage and LA couldn’t get rid of its Googie buildings fast enough. A tombstone to the original, centralized…

Imagine how much fun Miatas will be when they finally poke their heads above 200 horsepower. Which really makes me feel like, we know they’ll get there eventually, so why is Mazda wasting our time? And really, 200 hp is still kind of weak in an NA car.

Mazda is just arbitrarily picking a horsepower number to achieve…

Don’t ever anthropomorphize a car. It makes them cranky.

But let it hit 85 degrees, and everyone will complain that they’re melting and “It’s not supposed to be this hot in Washington!”

Gimme the cold. Like nearly everyone in Washington, we don’t have central air conditioning.

Lamborghini will be true to ICE cars, until their ICE cars are slugs in comparison to the 4 independent hub motor, 2000 horsepower electric exotics with 500 kWh batteries that weigh less than a full tank of gas.

Electric motors are vastly superior to ICE engines in every single way, except for sound (which is…

4th Gear: look at the last 4 recessions. Every one of them was preceded by a massive increase in fuel prices for cars and planes.

This is typically an indication that large amounts of money are moving from equities to oil. So are massive increases in home values that go way beyond inflation.

If the Fed talks about…

I thought the Genesis was supposed to be the halo car. Also, the N sounds fun, and will make a nice replacement for the Ford Focus ST, since Ford apparently will stop making cars like that forever in a few years.

The back end of a Cruze is really nice for a hatchback. They should graft that.

An ATS hot hatch would get my attention.

I’ll buy “ideally”, because it isn’t remotely possible. Because railed rapid transit requires population density to make it economically feasible. That means modern big city center level density.

The real world is richer and richer people living in cities with great public transit, while the middle class and poor are…

Was just throwing a workable technology out there. RFID or something tailor made that is a similar concept, reflectors, whatever. Something that could be an identifier at a distance.

And yeah, that level of dumb is hard to rationalize. We’ll see if they survive.

I think what Musk is really saying, is cheap fares make public transit crowded. While a private company would raise fares until everyone gets a seat, and offering a luxury experience for the added price. The public good, employer good, economic good, good to drivers...those are non-factors. All those people who can’t…

As noted in another article, the crash would have occurred whether a human was at the wheel or autonomous.

The laws of physics make a “zero traffic death” goal unrealistic, to say the least.

What we have is a situation where our minimum expectation should be, “At worst the accident would have happened even if the most…

In the 80s, I got out of my car after driving from LA to Mammoth, and discovered a gas pump handle and part of a hose, still in the tank filler on the right side of my 82 Celica.

Setting a standard capacity where people are essentially regarded as cattle, tends to be the sort of thing aristocrats think is appropriate for peasants. It is not a sign of respect toward paying passengers, to make them pay to stand for a 45 minute or longer commute.

Autonomous cars will not be equal to human driven cars, until the robot drivers can emit a constant narrative of obscenity laced heckling of other drivers and their skills in heavy commuter traffic.

The crowding Musk hates is actually a side-effect...