Imagine the microbiome living on the breathalyzer in a rental Camry...

Apart from stricter driver licensing and better public transport, Germany also has stricter vehicle safety checks, and also road design explicitly includes safety, and also enforcement of the existing rules is stricter. These all emerge from a broader culture of regulation for public safety.

This is just an excuse to pull some body over to justify getting a look-see in the car.

With this magic auto-breathalyzer tech, what happens when it’s my passenger that’s drunk and not me? You know, I’m trying to drive someone home, and the car detects booze on their breath?

YES fix mass transit FIRST before we require everyone to blow into a tube in their car to drive!

UK / Nordics are even lower than Germany.  Better training, better roads, better enforcement. 

But what you listed had nothing to do with speed itself, but everything to do with poor behavior (tailgating), and distractions (cell phone use). Speeding increases the forces which increases fatalities. However, I believe we can definitely move the speed limits to 60mph on most non residential, and 90mph on most…

The simplest way to control something does not always mean the best.

Sorry but I don’t get it, surely it’s the look of the license plate that ruins the front end, right? I don’t see how this wrap changes that. FWIW, I’ve never had a front plate on the 5 cars I’ve owned here in California. Most car people here consider it a $25 beauty tax if you get a front plate ticket.

To be fair, you can buy an album once and listen to it forever on any modern smartphone. Streaming services are just more convenient, so that will always appeal to a wider range of people

Young man, there was a time before phones had the capability of holding music.

I didn’t have a problem with the fake marina. I had a problem with them not making it Florida enough. Where were the fake gators infesting the fake water? Where’s the clapped out fishing boat owned by tweakers?

Good summary here:

Part of the larger jump for diesel vs gas is a loss of refining capacity. Refining capacity dropped from covid, along with issues even before the pandemic. Diesel requires additional refining for reducing the sulfur content, and some of the supplies for those processes are feeling the effects of the supply change…

if you find a lotus under 15... you probably should skip that one

MR2 Spyder

Yep, even at the cost of the car’s health, people will skimp on Premium.

I love the vertical stab on these SP’s. So ridiculous.

There are no maintenance-free systems

Counterpoint: It’s good actually