Better rail?  That some communist,socialism tank there. /s

Not to mention that trucks & SUVs in the US get to skirt some regulations due to how the laws were written when cars were the primary passenger vehicles.

You can still get one by going with:

It’s the “good times will never end” of low gas prices that happens every decade or so. I got premium for less than a dollar in the late 90s and it regularly stayed between $1-2 on average and creeped up to $4-6 in 2008. It’s how you got V10 Ford Excursions with 10mpg and no one blinked. Then the small car boom in…

I walked to the train station once. Just once. It’s in an incredibly pedestrian-unfriendly area because of how it’s set back from the rest of the city. Hopefully they put some thought into it and tying it in with the rest of the Mt Vernon / Belvedere neighborhood.

And decreased visibility. One of the ways cars have gotten safer in crashes is more metal and less window. Visibility out of most vehicles these days is pretty poor.

Cars may be safer from a crash test point of view...but there are also a lot of huge cars and trucks, and cars that are obscenely fast, and some that are both huge and insanely fast.  Combine that with a low point of entry to get/keep a drivers license and a lot of people who drive like selfish, reckless idiots, and…

Maybe it’s time we start increasing our driving standards?

Good thing it’s sarcasm.

1st Gear:

Kind of amazed this is first time I’ve seen analogy to shopping malls. It’s a good one for people to contemplate when they cannot conceptualize the idea of a “car free” downtown zone.

Jalopnik has always been transportation, broseph. And being interested in cars doesn’t mean you have to be a fan of them in all cases.

Nah, I like Jalopnik. It’s all y’all complainers that should take a hike finally instead of whining in the comments of every article that offends your fee-fees.

It’s an article about cars. What makes no sense is sitting alone in your 4000 lbs steel, sound-isolated living room in bumper to bumper traffic spewing toxic fumes and endangering anyone not encased in steel so that you can avoid the terrible inhumanity of perhaps walking, biking or taking public transport. I love…

Vehicle bans are pretty easy to enforce with physical restrictions - concrete barriers etc. They’d probably go and clog up a freeway instead of a downtown area.

why wait, you have clearly already made up your mind

Ever been to a European City? They are insanely cool, even the little ones. In every city, there is a walking area, which is many blocks long where there are tons of things to do, places to go, and places to eat. Not uncommon for these areas to be super old too, with timberframed buildings or inside walls or the like.

pretty much every city in europe does this.  they allow delivery trucks between midnight and 6am usually.  construction and repair vehicles (like plumbers etc) get permits for daytime access which are strictly enforced.

Do they store the gel in the freezer like the doctor’s office does?

The EV Hummer, like all Hummers, is stupid.