Also, the combined metro areas for the big (blue-er) cities of Houston, Austin, San Antonio and Dallas comprise around 20 million of Texas’ 30 million total people.

Is this where I point out that Texas is also larger than Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania combined?  Context could possibly matter.

So we spend millions in tax dollars to build and maintain our roads, and now we spend more money to damage them on purpose.

You picked about the most flattering pic for the ‘Yota. Whatever trim has the grill surround in silver.. oof.

I drive a 2013. I will drive it until it dies. Car prices are absurd. EV prices are worse.

Basically, no. All cars sold here must be tested/certified to comply with regulations, including those for crash performance. Those are typically FMVSS regulatory standards, and either you comply or you don’t. The NHTSA testing here largely compares crash safety performance among different vehicles to provide insight…

I know this is a crazy thought but can we find a way to get law enforcement to actually enforce based on the threat vs revenue. I drive about 1000 miles a month...so average miles...and running red lights has become a completely normal thing because there is no enforcement. Better get that dude on the 6 lane wide…

I have literally never been frustrated by the rotary gear selector in our Explorer. Having Park at the full left position, and Drive at the full right position, allows for you to quickly spin the dial to the end stop in either direction to put in P or D. It’s really not that hard to find R. 99% of the time you are…

Imposter syndrome is where you feel like you’re underqualified in a situation where you’re actually perfectly competent. This is more like the Dunning Kruger effect. You’re not competent enough to understand that you’re underqualified.

Funny - the Hornet, which was designed and built in Europe, is dead last...while the Ram, which was designed and is built in the US is first...

So they’re trying to stop oil by spraying what is presumed to be a petroleum derived product on something and that will require more petroleum derived products to clean up? 🤔

I encounter the opposite problem. My little neighborhood has essentially one way out, to a traffic light. The road out of my neighborhood has a thick white stripe in the road with a sign stating, “STOP HERE ON RED”.  Yet my neighbors will stop beyond the line and become frustrated when they must sit through several…

I mean if you like the car and it works for you, who cares. Stop buying cars for other people’s perceptions =)

The most obvious answer is the Corvette, right? Chevy’s answer to the Nash-Healey.

What you want and what Porsche wants, are two completely different things.

And rich people have been buying fully mechanic, less precise watches rather than cheap electronic ones for fifty years now.

bit stereotypical,  did he also have a Cervelo bicycle?

I am failing to see how the cop did not do *exactly* the right thing here. If moron was going too fast to stop in time to not hit a very plainly visible cop car, he was going too fast to not hit a pedestrian. Not like he came around a blind corner and there was the cop.

If you were going too fast to avoid a stopped car, you were going too fast to avoid a pedestrian. I’m good with this one.

Well I don’t disagree. It’s also not fair to label something unsafe that has not been tested or proven to be unsafe. Regardless the company is out of business so no you shouldn’t buy or use. But for argument sake just saying something is unsafe cause the money wasn’t shelled out for the certification is also a no-no…