Some of those programs are needed, or needed to some extent (we need light rail, but we need it in the right places and going to the right destinations) but we don’t need to build them with transportation funds that were supposed to go to roads.

I’m surprised that St. Louis isn’t on this list. We have shitty roads, a DOT that does little about fixing problems and can’t fix the roads it does have, and a state that doesn’t seem to realize that it needs to actually spend money to fix the roads.

I think Missouri is actually starting to implement RealID precisely because our leaders (I live here too) had citizens complaining about not being able to fly, etc. Even though they were warned years ago that this would happen, they waited until the last minute.

Unfortunately. It’s an example of a regulation not keeping up with technology... like the “must have distinct high and low beams” crap that keeps improved headlamps from being sold even though the whole point is that they don’t create glare for other drivers.

I don’t think those cameras/screens meet safety standards. You have to have two rear view mirrors and an internal rearview mirror unless you’re classed as a truck — if you are, you can skip the internal mirror.

Our travel system went for about $300; we also have a basic $40 umbrella stroller that’s always in the car and works just fine, especially when we don’t think we’ll have a lot of room to use or store the Britax. But if a sibling comes along, I’ll probably pick up a decent tandem stroller.

I’d be curious to know. Spotify uses some service that actually checks to see if you’re a student, so I can’t get a lot of the edu deals even though I am not rich but I do work for an accredited university.

I’m sorry you’re offended by the existence of a vehicle with a ton of cargo room with a flat cargo floor without having to deal with origami back seat folds, gets 30mpg around town without much effort on regular gas, has all kinds of safety and convenience features and LED lighting all around (save, inexplicably, for…

I just got a 2017 CR-V. It’ll do the same thing. I wondered how it worked and did some digging. Turns out it’s actually not looking at your face. It’s looking at how often there are steering inputs. If there aren’t any in a while, or they don’t follow the pattern of an alert driver, you get the “maybe you should rest…

No, not available. Not for decades due to our outdated import laws.

Taking delivery tomorrow of a 2017 CR-V. I owned nothing but VWs since 2000 (through the window regulator mess and the coilpack mess, though I didn’t have a 1.8T). My MkIVs weren’t all that bad and the MkV didn’t have serious issues until the turbo started going out.

The original post here is almost two years old, but in case anyone comes through later (like I just did), it turns out that those safety systems are very much worth it, according to an IIHS study:

MoDOT doesn’t install them at all. They think reflective striping is good enough.

Me, I’m sitting pretty in the path of totality with 5 pairs of glasses ordered back in March.

They barely advertise, at least around here. Predictable result: it’s rare when I see them on the road.

Hey, at least the Ghia has a Beetle engine and was actually intended to be an upmarket vehicle for those who didn’t want the Beetle. It’s still largely a Beetle mechanically, though.

Don’t remember which one it was but I know I saw an R8 in one of the movies.

And that’s worse than people writing passwords on post-its how?

That’s actually also how the transporter probably works in Star Trek. Dr. McCoy famously griped more than once (in novels, at least) that he didn’t like being reconstituted every time he used one, which is why he would take a shuttle whenever he could. The first TNG episode poked fun at that.

It wasn’t even her airbag, nor was she even driving a car. That’s what really sucks.