It will be interesting to see if taxis actually become a thing again. I would rather use them anyway in a big city, where you just wave one down, rather than screwing around on the phone. 

Seems like it’ll keep dodging the blame, though.

“the Gig Economy” and “the side hustle” are marketing terms for exploiting the uneducated and underemployed and underpaid by paying them less than market rate for the perceived benefit of “freedom from 9-5"

all the “Gig Economy” has done is destroy the lives of actual cab owners and drivers (who made decent money prior…

I have two tractors. Wife and I will occasionally do some tandem mowing. We only mow about 3 acres of the 10. The rest is left to the wild animals.

Stop it with your calm, reasonable take ;)

Lol and some of us are not afraid to be responsible for ourselves instead of letting others make decisions for us.

IMO, the rural life on acres is pretty sweet, and being within walking distance of your needs is pretty sweet, it’s the in-between suburbs of 8000sqft lots and needing to take a car to go anywhere further than the mailbox that makes no sense in retrospect.

I have a personal hot take on 3rd gear. Here’s the thing with me - I support all the usual Transit Memes for New Urbanist Teens measures. Cities should serve their citizens. Walkability and density should be prioritized over roads and parking. Resources and entertainment should be well-distributed into the urban…

Or they just put different ring and pinion gears in it to compensate

Lowering a 80's F350 is really easy. Just new springs at most. It also makes a huge difference when you look at %. Going from 8 to 9mpg is just 1mpg but 3x the gain of 24 to 25mpg.

Is this real life? STANCEWORKS

I mean, that would just make me want to see how fast I could corner.

I’m thinking a volunteer with half a heart and a backhoe, everybody’s security cameras “fail” just after sundown, dig a shallow trench across the road, and install a “bump” sign.

No no no, stagger them on each side to create a set of chicanes.

Detroit patch potholes?  You must be new here. 

And if they did actually go to patch it, they would have overfilled the hell out of it and then he would have had his speed bumps!

Cops have better things to do than get killed*. As long as you don’t shoot at them in Detroit, they pretty much don’t care.

*That’s from Big Trouble in Little China, but it works for Detroit.

This is funny because when I first saw a bunch of bollards in front of a grocery store, my initial thought was that cart theft was a serious problem and they went a bit overboard. Then I noticed the bollard spacing was too great to retain the carts and I realized they were there to stop smash-and-grabs.

On an entry to…

I need to learn how to do a star.

This was what all of Detroit was like when I went to school there. Back then, it was old malaise land yachts instead of trucks, but the potential effect is about the same when they blow a cross-street red light fast enough to completely unload the suspension (if not leave the ground altogether) on the crown of the…