Lol. What’s that law about the inevitability of internet arguments devolving into comparing things to the Holocaust?

Really, man? An ugly old car is in the same discussion. Gtfo, already.

Ugh, would people stfu about this thing by now. This design hasn’t been in production for about a decade now, and even its redesign isn’t made anymore.

Saying this genuinely, make sure you get out and move around on those 12-hour-drive days! Blood clots in the legs are a real thing; working in hospitals for 7-ish years now, they do send people to us! I’ll save the diatribes about car dependence making us less healthy (I’ve had long-driving days in my life, too); take…

I don’t doubt that such systems will get better over time, but they don’t currently work all that well per testing by a lot of different places, and that doesn’t touch on them not being maintained and repaired as they fail over the years. Despite the proliferation of these safety systems, traffic fatalities have risen…

...Yes, it matters. If you’re not also in something that ways 9,000lbs, you’re much less safe with hoardes of these things flying down the road. It’s one thing with actual commercial vehicles (although better rail freight could take a lot of semis off the road), but when someone’s buying something that size because…

Looking REALLY HARD at the gas guzzler tax.

They are, but you’re talking about avoiding (or not) accidents in the first place. As this article is talking about road deaths, it’s safe to assume we’re talking about accidents that’ve already happened. Heavier vehicles, with higher hoods causing chest or head as opposed to abdominal or leg impacts, are inherently…

Growing vehicle weight and height play a role, too.

I don’t see where I said this is a set of problems that are easily solved, just that they mostly are solved. Nor can I say that I consider our various issues entirely moral failings. At some point in our history, our imagination simply became completely stunted and status quo became preferred even when it’s very…

In transit planning circles, we have a term for this kind of BS—gadgetbahn: a techy, innovative-sounding solution to an already solved problem. Every country seems susceptible to this kind of stuff, but the U.S. in particular is in part because just doing things the way other countries do—especially regarding…

(I’m thinking [hoping] he was being sarcastic)

2nd Gear: Well, maybe they shouldn’t have built cities such that you need to use a car to get around them, anyway? I’m only in my 30's, but I’m almost definitely going to die before this country gets its head out of its ass about not essentially requiring people to spend tens of thousands a year on a car just to go…

It’s a great way to get people used to the idea that tens of thousands of people dying in traffic accidents is “normal” and should just be accepted, from an early age. Would be nice if we had the cultural/governmental maturity for a strong contingent of people to say, “this is disgusting, and we should give people…

Agreed. There can definitely be a positive capacity-ridership spiral, but the ceiling’s low in a rural town of <10,000 people. Buy a handful of big vans to serve higher demand locations and call it a day.

Oh, oh, won’t someone think of the consumer?

See, that was a new experience for me moving from New Hampshire to Oregon. Of course, in most of OR, the speed limit is 70 and not 55, but back east, that’d just be license to go 80-85 down 93. Oh, and the left lane sitting here is truly awful. I abhor passing on the right, but there’s often no choice, here.

Seriously, though. I don’t think even the most dyed-in-the-wool Chicago school economist would say “like the laws of physics”. Also, OP has apparently never heard of the naturalistic fallacy--or market socialism.

So Genesis triples sales--16,384 to 49,630--and no mention? Ok.

I think it’s a bit of a barrier to entry still, yes. Honda, Nissan, Kia, Toyota, Mazda, Subaru, even Mitsubishi, are all pretty straight-forward to pronounce. But Hyundai ran that ad campaign about “rhyming with Sunday” for ages. A name that starts with two s’s? Or hell, give Americans any unfamiliar Japanese or…

Anyone else think that the name is not going to help? VinFast? Really? I understand the concern that Westerners won’t respond well to native East Asian names, but there’s gotta be something better than “VinFast”. Almost as bad as China’s “Human Horizons”.