Have you ever had an engine or transmission blow up, or had a car totaled in an accident?

Especially when the ‘solution’ is carrying around a five inch phone instead of a two inch key fob.

Mazda’s redesigned touchscreen placement is almost perfect. Just needs a way to fold it down or retract it (and with a simple mechanical lever, not a failure-prone electric motor).

I don’t think you understand the argument. You want people to move over, and (at least some of the time), there’s a reason they do not.  At the heart of it, either you believe the laws have should dictate how you drive or you do not.

So it’s more likely the person obeying the law will start breaking it than the people breaking it will stop?

If only they sold a fixed hardtop...  I guess you could by a folding hardtop and a welder.

Mileage, age, and hardtop are all pretty important too, especially as your only car.

Yes, many other states are cheaper. NY, LA, and a few other major cities are drastically more expensive than just about everywhere else.

$5k is insane. I’ve spent less than that on the past ten years COMBINED.

Guess it depends on the state. Nowhere around here could you do more than ten over and not get pulled over by the first cop you pass.

There’s another answer here too though: Raise the speed limits and/or add more lanes.

If you’re quickly gaining on someone who’s already ten over, yes, you’re massively breaking the speed limit, whether that limit is set too low or not.

Commenters  here are a weird bunch as a whole. Yesterday an article giving some background information on a popular story from the 90s was ripped apart because it ‘glorified’ speeding, today, massively exceeding the speed limit is A-OK, and both seem to be the majority opinion.

There are equivalently important ‘Through traffic keep left’ signs all over Ohio (typically in places where there’s not enough highway for the volume of traffic).

This was an extremely popular story in it’s time. There’s nothing inherently wrong with reporting on a well known story, even if it’s about twenty years late. Even without the history it’s still an interesting story.

There’s a really big difference between racing another car in a residential neighborhood (or anywhere there could be pedestrians, for that matter) and going very fast on a limited access highway with little traffic by yourself.

Just because that seemed strange to me, I looked it up:

Isn’t the Mazda5 also very similar to this? I’ve never actually been in one so not sure how big they really are inside, but it’s basically a ‘mini’ minivan that still has three rows of seats.

I think there’s really two sides to this.

You’re kind of missing my point. No, a few thousand a year isn’t insignificant. However, we’re talking a $50k car. The insurance/service differences are just part of the price, and even a rather insane difference of $5k over four years is still only 10%. There’s more variation than that by driving across town to a…