Can I offer a counter proposal that it be possible in 2024 to buy a car with nothing but a bluetooth receiver, amplifier and decent speakers with a mag safe iphone mount on the dash where the screen would go?

He literally said bikes on the trailer hitch, so, yeah.

My experience is if you can keep it on the car, it’s a lot easier than dealing with a trailer, especially if you are putting in in wilder areas that don’t have trailer parking or paved roads and all that. And if you have standard roof rails, you can easily stack…

Outbacks would be great if they didn’t have the stupid rack built in- there’s not a lot of spread for 2 boats. If they just sold the outback with the same standard roof rails as the Forrester, Crosstrek or Ascent, it’d be awesome but, well, no.

Trailers are a total PITA for small boats AND they remove the option of hitch mounted bike racks.

Confusion only works if you’re paying attention.

I love the fact that 20 years ago, Monona actively discouraged cyclists from riding through their community and are only now realizing that, hey, those folks on 3k bikes probably have money... Meanwhile fitchburg was like “count us in”...

You are missing the point here- in your scenario, you had to deal with a startled pedestrian who got mad and caused you to brake harder than you would have liked. And that’s it. No one died. Because you were being a responsible driver and knew that you were in a very congested/confused traffic area. So you got…

OK, so some thoughts- a lot of what you are saying seems based on the idea that collisions are accidents, not incidents. Accident implies... accidental. “it just happened.” or “they came out of nowhere.” As opposed to, you hit a pedestrian/cyclist/other car because you were not fully in control of your 4000lb metal…

Drivers: argle bargle I saw a bike that wasn’t paying attention once so now I think they all deserve to die And why can’t I park on sidewalks argle bargle.

There’s a really, really simple technique for drivers that stops you from dooring anyone, from cyclists to other cars called the Dutch Reach- Instead of opening the door with your left hand (for cars with left hand drive), you reach across your body and open with your right hand, forcing you to look over your shoulder.

OK, now this is crazy but, instead of getting people to learn a whole bunch of proprietary signals, maybe instead make a light that flashes inside the car, for the driver to let them know that something is coming. Like a blindspot monitor or something.

UGH. One of the communities near me did a similar thing where they had sidewalks that would alternate between bike path + curb and then 50 foot section of sidewalk on both sides of the road to “calm traffic.” The sidewalk would be in the same place as the bike path was for the last couple hundred yards. And since, as…

Right, and I’ve seen Amazon selling Rapha bike jerseys for $25 with matching bibs but those aren’t actually Rapha... Chances are if you bought it on prime day off Amazon, it’s not actually a class 1 ebike.

OK, other than the color, this is awesome. This was the most attractive of the outback/legacy wagons- good size but not too big, reasonably sleek, side rails that work with actual aftermarket racks, not a lot of plastic and the dash was in retrospect, gorgeously simple.  NP.

So, you can be the good guy. Vote for more public transit, walkable suburbs and ways to make driving less of a thing you have to do and more of a thing you can do if you want. Less cars is the actual answer, which seems like it sucks but consider that most of the boring “appliance” cars on the road today would be…

Orrrr, and this will sound crazy, but hear me out... maybe the problem isn’t EVs or Fossil fuels, it’s the fact that we’ve built a country where there is no way to get around unless you own a 4,000lb personal transportation unit.

Y’know, you can love cars and want to see less of them.

So our options are, maybe drive less, invest in public transportation and walkable cities, make it so you don’t actually have to own a car to survive, or strip mine the world until it won’t support anything but cars.

If EVs are simpler than ICEs, it stands that they would need less engineers once one has figured out the initial build issues. This is also how businesses work- you let go staff you no longer need. So, you no longer need an entire engine assembly line at the factory, you no longer need all the engineers who were…

I feel like investors think that EVs are going to be like CDs- a technology that, once the initial equipment investment was made, was far cheaper to produce than it’s predecessor but whose price never came down because producers realized they could just make more money selling music this way. Which led to impressive…