Before 2006 there were no diesel emissions standards. Other carmakers could’ve entered the US market; they chose not to sell diesels here.

VW is on the hook for up to $14.7B. People went to jail. The VW diesel is dead in the US. How does that add up to getting off easy?

I have full confidence that the transportation network companies and the insurance companies are hard at work on answering your question. Here’s a glimpse of that future (which looks much like the present): Create a legal mandate to buy their product and when shit happens blame the victim/deny all claims/pay only at a…

Neutral: What Would You Do With A $700,000 Bonus From Work?

If you want to have kids and if you want to own a home those things are a lot harder in a dense affluent city. The ‘burbs have (relatively) less expensive housing and (usually) much better public schools.

Sounds like you missed the sermon about doing your part to grow the economy by taking on massive debt. Same here & I’m also a Gen X.

Autonomous vehicle proliferation will be spotty and messy. It won’t be utopian or dystopian. We simply don’t know what it will mean for congestion, travel speeds and other modes of transportation (public transit, freight, walking, biking) when we mix level 0 with level 3 (Telsa) with level 5 (fully autonomous).

I’ve got family members who are so angry about Cadillac Welfare Queens that they want to cut the social safety net. Of course they don’t personally know anyone who fits that description, just like they don’t know any self-made Scrooge McDucks who are straight out of Ayn Rand novel.

I have to wonder how many cars could recovery from an evasive maneuver like that at highway speed. He’s damn lucky no one was next to him.

We (Americans) simply can’t keep driving 3.2T miles annually no matter what’s under the hood or in the fuel tank/cell. Our roads will still be falling to pieces, traffic congestion will still exist, and — until robots drive for us — people will still be dying on our roads.

Well that sums it up nicely. Fine I’ll take my moral hazard argument elsewhere.

While we’re changing the world can we also explore the consequences of ending no-fault insurance? Or at least call we call it by a different name? I’m thinking ‘Aggregate Recidivist Dumbfuck Driver Surcharge’ but I’m open to suggestions.

It matters to the rider, the team and the sponsors. They want exposure for their brands. For the next 24 hours a pic of Kittel in his Quickstep jersey will be the lead for cycling blogs, twitter feeds and promotional emails. Winners get prize money, occasional time bonuses and points towards the overall sprinter…

I’m sure it did embrace mathematics... at $2k/credit hour please (does not include room and board). I’ve know more than a few very smart individuals who were steered wrong by their institution’s financial aid officer. Unsubsidized private loans at nearly double digit annual interest rates.

Fuck Portland. The sympathetic and concerned citizens of Portland even found reasons to hate on bike share.

Minnesota isn’t ‘dumping’ money in transit. It may seem that way now but remember that the state spent 50+ years dumping money into highway projects that really haven’t solved congestion. The congestion in the Twin Cities area is driven by the Met Council’s awful land use policies which have enabled the region to…

$57k to be more precise. On the plus side, for the DIY types who want to test their marriages and miss their kids’ birthdays, this guy has blazed a trail http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/buying-maintenance/a9949059/mercedes-r63-amg-owner-completes-diy-engine-rebuild-dealer-said-it-would-cost-dollar57000/

From EPA.gov: “On March 15, 2017 Administrator Scott Pruitt and Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced that EPA intends to reconsider the final determination, issued on January 12, 2017, that recommended no change to the greenhouse gas standards for light duty vehicles for model years 2022- 2025.…

We do, but that is under review because Bill Ford whispered in the President ear that CAFE standards were costing jobs.

The cities you mentioned have great, inexpensive and convenient public transportation which is probably cleaner (except for NYC) and safer than whatever cab you are taking. I suspect if your dollars were more precious and your time less so, then you’d either walk, take a bike share or navigate via public transit.