Many years ago, I took a long train journey across Russia, and met people in the buffet-car who had bottles of vodka. At breakfast. It must have been quite a trip for them.

I had a similar experience with van hire in Belgium. The damage sheet was an old-fashioned photocopy of a photocopy. However, looking closely, there were very faint shadows on parts of the sheet. Somebody had Tipp-Ex’d areas of an original damage sheet, and then photocopied it. I walked around the van and found dents…

Charging reduced congestion: https://theconversation.com/london-congestion-charge-what-worked-what-didnt-what-next-92478

FFS Kinja just stripped out all the links to traffic statistics and budgets and so on. But what’s the point? This is the internet, evidence-based policy is passé, you can believe what you want to believe.

Can’t speak for Stockholm but in London it has absolutely ZERO effect on relieving congestion; it’s a money grab, pure and simple

This isn’t a new phenomenon, but it’s definitely been turbocharged by widespread availability of trading apps that are easily accessed by random members of the public.

Imagine living in a jurisdiction where riders are expected to get their own insurance against the risk that another driver knocks them down but that driver’s third-party insurance won’t pay for the harm.

The criteria are:

#neverforget

The used car purveyor Carvana makes less than half of its profits from selling cars, according to The Wall Street Journal, with the rest of its profits coming from selling loans and other types of income.

Debt, deferred maintenance, and failed projects: It’s like owning any boat, except on a bigger scale.

Modernise it if you must, electrify it if you can, but the 21st century needs a sleek 3-door Volvo longroof.

It’s good engineering practice.

Everybody’s talking about FWD and solar panels, and those are good points, but what worries me is saltwater. I doubt any modern car could withstand salty spray for long.

The only problem is where to put the thirty square feet of grille. If Nissan could figure out how to put an enormous gaping maw on a small pickup, millions of Americans would buy one. 

Yes, because every vehicle that those auto execs/sales forecasters have put out have sold like hotcakes. Not once have they release a vehicle that just sat on the lots without much customer interest. There’s no way that there’s a disconnect from announcing a vehicle as a sub $20k hybrid and not giving customers easy…

Every car is a tradeöff between looking cool, being new, having a prestigious badge, having extra features &c. If all you want is maximum reliability then strip away all the other things and seek out a newish Kia or Hyundai hatchback, 3-5 years old. They’re even cheaper than Toyotas. Preferably ex-fleet so you know…

Street circuits are meant to be bumpy and awkward. Racetracks aren’t.

A few years ago, I made a similar but much smaller mistake: