Any state that features lettering on a simple, solid background. Delaware, Vermont and maybe Connecticut are the standouts. Most other plates look like shit created by hack amateurs in Office 95. They’re so poorly designed that they actually hinder legibility.

I’ve always heard family in Europe say they favor manuals because they’re cheaper than automatics and more fuel efficient. People do also raise practical concerns but they’re largely based on antiquated ideas about automatics. Even the fuel economy argument doesn’t hold much water anymore.

Just because a couple of scummy shops are scalping tests doesn’t mean it’s impossible to get tests. Big box retailers are still selling them at MSRP, the only caveat is that you might have to wait a few weeks for delivery. Plus, the department of education in my state just announced that they were going to start…

Same here. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if the next time I get on the highway I’ll discover a bunch of trucks using these strips.

BeamNG. Once you’ve discovered the pleasure of obliterating your car against a concrete wall it’s difficult to go back to anything else. It also helps that the driving mechanics are excellent and there’s a thriving mod community.

4th gear: I give it about a decade before American automakers malign vertical integration as wasteful. They’ll grow complacent and profits will slip outside their unrealistic projections because they’ve mismanaged a product line or chased yet another fad. Of course the first thing they’re going to do is lay people off…

Anti-vaxxers are idiots, but people seriously need to stop using them as a scapegoat. Omicron isn’t running rampant because a relatively small percentage of the population hasn’t gotten vaccinated. It’s become a problem because society has a whole has gotten complacent. To some extent, I get it. People are doing the…

I assume that the point with these kites is that they can be retrofitted to existing ships. This leads me to wonder if we won’t eventually see the return of sailing ships.

Christ, this article reads like a press release. Of course this thing has presence; what luxury SUV doesn’t? Isn’t that a basic requirement?

NY state government worker cheating the system? Color me shocked.

This has nothing to do with their programmers. German reliability has been a problem for decades.

I agree that this thing is cute and there’s something to be said for an offroader that isn’t dripping in toxic masculinity However, let’s be honest here: this thing is meant for tropical resorts. It’s a golf cart designed for well-maintained dirt paths to access secluded beaches so that vacationers can pretend they’re…

I assume the speed was too low for emergency braking to kick in. Beyond that, driving is too unpredictable to effectively impose such rigid rules. AI tech is very far from being able to assess a situation like that with enough fidelity to effectively override the driver.

Any car movie that relies on shaky cam video to disguise the fact that the director’s car is being used in a 15mph chase sequence.

That MR2 coupe thing has a cute eyes-closed anime smile which I quite like.

The real surprise is that anyone actually believed that concept car would ever make it to production. At the end of the day, this is still a compact economy car.

If society were full of mature, educated and responsible individuals you could get away with very few regulations; video games while driving, misleading names for self-driving tech and even mask mandates. Unfortunately, American society is full of self-centered fuckwits.

The fact that someone thought this was interesting enough to share on TikTok bothers me more than anything the guy did.

Those crash tests are not what I’d expect of a car with a zero star rating, even if it’s a downgrade from the last gen. If that Renault earns a zero, then what would a 20-year-old car earn? A negative score?

We’d have more cheap cars if the cost of ownership was more on par with other countries. Unlike most of the world, Americans enjoy the luxury of bigger, higher end used cars being a viable alternative to a cheap economy cars. They don’t have to worry about high gas prices, high registration fees or heavy taxes on…