We do, but we forget every summer, then have to re-learn.

"On snow, you'll stop better if the wheels lock up and snow piles up in front of the tires." And on gravel, too. The first time I tried to stop an ABS car on a PA backcountry mountain road, I was terrified how long it took.

...AND you will need a very, VERY long distance to stop.

Many VW owners love Volkswagens, and hate Volkswagen.

Watch out for falling Hispano-Suizas.

"Also, are we in the Thursday Next-iverse or the Shades of Grey-iverse?"

Jasper Fforde: the Nostradamus of the twenty first century. As WE are all full-spectral, I expect we will come out on top. Unless "Something Happens".

I heard he has/had/will have/is going to have had/ an "existence problem".

Somebody should alert the Cheese Enforcement Agency.

I dread that soon I may end up having no choice but to buy a car with touch screen controls. any control which must be looked at while you use it is just.... AAARRRGH!

Clever.

Just tonight, while driving 10 kph over the speed limit, about half an hour past sunset I was rapidly overtaken by a black, dirty Sprinter van, with NO lights on. Even the mandatory-in-Canada daytime running lights had been disabled. This vehicle was not seeable.

Serious question: How can it tell? Does it optically sense the lane markings? If so, it will be seriously useless in any northern state or Canada, where the lane markings are pretty much obliterated every winter by salt and plowing.

No beetle ever had a three speed manual. Even in 1950 they had four speeds.

If this design followed VW practice from the sixties, the windshield washer would have been part of the spare tire assembly, since it would have been powered by tire pressure. (Which argues against that lump under the front seats being the spare, I guess.)

Fuel tank is the blue thing at the base of the windscreen? Spare is under the front seats, intersecting with the rear passengers' feet?

Hood ornament? That's just wrong.

Well, driving your car into a tree IS pretty careless.

I would have guessed the first day of hunting season. Maybe that's just Pennsylvania.

Vulcans.