Honestly, my experience has been that most people, regardless of car, drive normally and like the rest of traffic. But from actual experience, driving with traffic in a Prius will get you some insane reactions that are 100% not justified and not ok.

OK, I just have to disagree with the Prius hate. My girlfriend has a Prius. And I’ve driven it quite a few times in various types of driving- traffic, freeway, alone, with her, etc. And you know what? It’s fine. Does it take a little getting used to the fact that the throttle response is tuned to prevent you from…

So, about 2 weeks ago, Air Force 1 landed President Biden at my local airport in Madison, Wisconsin, (which is not a big city) for a quick speech in a local suburb. I know AF1 pretty much maxes out the runway there. Can’t imagine that a supersonic jet would need less room for landing. Which means, the president would…

OK, Kei trucks, 100% yes. But swap out those min bikes with a couple actual fat tire bikes and have a lot more fun with a lot less weight and fumes.

I understand the reactions of some that actions like this mean that we need more dedicated infrastructure, more hardened and protected bike lanes, more separation. But I really have to ask, do we need that? Why isn’t the fact that there is a HUMAN BEING right there not enough? Why is it so hard to convince people that…

Did you miss the entire point of the question or just some of it?

Because in a couple years, that’s not going to be an option is my guess.

If I remember correctly, stainless steel is not immune from corrosion/staining, just a lot more resistant. And it will scratch. Boy will it scratch. And everyone says “that’s easy. just hit it with a scotch-brite pad” but that never looks right... I mean, there’s multiple reasons we coat steel and not all of them are…

Any basic pickup. There’s millions of these things- fleet work trucks- that are gonna get scrapped and they deserve better than that. Find a way to switch them over to battery power and let them roll on forever. Figure fleet trucks don’t need a lot of power (most of them have warnings on the dash about driving too…

Oh look, it’s another supercar getting tested despite the fact that the number that will actually ever see more than 1000 miles on their odometer can probably be counted on the fingers of a clumsy shop teacher’s hand.

They’ll flog a couple test mules around the nurburgring so they can have some pointless numbers for…

He’s who I learned about FCs! Been in love with them ever since.

A jeep M677 Truck- basically a military variant of the jeep FC-170 with a crew cab. So cool, so weird. I want this to haul my mountain bikes and go camping with even though it’s probably too loud to get over 50 miles an hour and less safe than just riding my mountain bike on the freeway.

I mean, did it though?

2% of anything is niche.

I love cars! Cars are awesome! but wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to drive everywhere? Like, “oh, the weather sucks, I’d rather not risk my cool car, I’d rather take the bus” or, “sitting in traffic sucks and it’s not the reason I bought a car that can corner like it’s on rails”. I want to enjoy my driving…

What could possibly go wrong?

Oooooof. that sucks.

Nope, and if you read what I wrote, I’m not asking anyone to give up their car. Just use it less. Which is what I’m doing. When I can, I ride my bike, when I need to go into the office I take the bus. My neighborhood is reasonably walkable in the summer, less so in the winter but it’s still doable.

You don’t have to…

Right. But one bus carrying 40 people makes less tire dust than 35 cars carrying 40 people.

Part of the reason that’s the case is that it’s often so hard to build infill that the only projects that get built are pricey.