I’m pretty much just giving you shit dude. I’ve just been through the whole “cut taxes a shit load and magically everything is good!”, and it just doesn’t seem to work. I’d rather pay higher taxes and have a stable economy and functioning government, and I’ve got quite a few friends who bailed to California and they…

Nearly every headline about a train vs pedestrian accident uses similar language.

Those have as much of a place as these. Someone’s having fun with that, and that’s what I like to see.

I meant people with an unhealthy obsession for guns, and the typical behaviors that tend to go along with that. Don’t mind me if you want to be in a huff, however.

Nope, I’ll take the Prius.

While I don’t think that it would be reasonable for the car to have not hit the pedestrian, it should have braked. It’s not outlandish to think that the computer could have reacted in nanoseconds of seeing the obstacle and taken some action, ie, any braking at all. Instead, the system took zero action whatsoever.…

Dude, if you can’t come up with a good comeback, just don’t say anything at all. It’s painful and we all deserve better.

3rd Gear: More Diesel Probes

My first thought is the eyelashes that I occasionally saw on VW Beetles a few years back.

As opposed to anywhere else? Sure, butt hurt people come in all stripes, so why single out Californians in regards to gun stickers? If anything, gun stickers seem about the 294th item that will make you a target, even in California. I have plenty of gun owning friends, but none of them have been harassed. Meanwhile my…

BMW Diesels are dumb. Everybody knows if you have a diesel, it’s gotta be 4wd all the time, jacked up, desmogged, tuned to roll coal, and have twin smoke stacks.

These guys have been hanging testicles from the back of their trucks for decades. A face seems downright reasonable.

Meh. You want tough, try being an Aetheist in the Bible Belt (Texas in my particular case).

1st/2nd Gear - ARGH. The woman stepped out in front of the car! How many human drivers would have been able to react that fast?

Overall automotive design has kinda gone 180.

Because if you’re gonna assert that people will behave in a way (or really, any assertion) you better bring some evidence to back it up. Otherwise, you’re just engaging in fearmongering and assuming the worst of some “other” group of people.

The world has enough anger, we need to make cars look happier. You can’t look at the face of a NC Miata and not feel a little bit better.

I should mention, though, on one level, I am delighted there’s a market for accessories that play up the anthropomorphization of cars, and ascribe emotion to the car’s face. I just think if this is going to be a thing, they should hit emotions other than pissed-off.

Nope, ugly.

Why are you being so mean?