The lights at railroad crossings are all red.

What’s confusing about flashing red lights? They don’t mean “go.”

Almost no chance it would crack your windhield. It would scratch the paint, but you’d stilL have a car and wouldnt have endangered anyon else’s life.

Personally, I wait for the flashing red lights to stop. And I would never dream of stopping ON the tracks just because some silly gate was in my way. Any car can do to those gates what that train did to the idiot’s car.

1. The red lights were blinking when she drove on the tracks.

It’s very hard for a car to get off the tracks when nobody is driving it off the tracks. Very easy if the driver just drives forwards or backwards.

The arms wouldn’t stop a determined motorcyclist. Thykre warnings, not inpenetrable barriers.

 Why the hell didn’t the driver just drive through the gate? They’re specifically designed to not stop cars.

I hate to say this in defense of these odious people, but this actually is “fake news,” as well as being odious clickbait.

Did the NHTSA claim a causal relationship somewhere that I didn’t know about? If not, why the talk about confounds. As I understand it, NHTSA only compared the rates S before and after the installation of the feature. I have no clue if the data is accurate, but if they’re reporting raw data, why would there be any…

Looks pretty new-fangled to me. I remember upgrading my first PC with a huge 20MB hard drive.

Politicians enable rent-seekers because rent-seekers pay them well. Think of all the professional organizations erecting barriers to entry around their business, inane licensing requirements, dealer franchise laws, no-bid contracts, etc.

Yeah. No. They sell the cars for much less than MSRP to dealers. They give dealers bonuses and incentives to help sell cars. If they sell direct, they’re going to jack up prices and suddenly stop caring whether anybody is willing to pay those prices?

Because the dealerships have paid state legislatures to make that illegal. If you sell through dealers, you cannot also sell directly. Dealers didn’t buy these laws because they offer great prices.

Dealers will eventually lose their parasitic role on new car sales, but they will survive in used car sales. They already make more money on used cars than new ones.

They actually employ fewer people. Set pricing means that you don’t have to employ flocks of commissioned sales people to descend on potential customers, pretend that their boss is horrified by the price they’re offering, waste a few hours with each customer and eventually annoy half of them so much that they walk…

Sorry. That’s just a stupid thing to assert without evidence. There are huge differences between what dealers charge different customers for the same cars.

That only works when prices are transparent (said differently, when price discovery is inexpensive). Transparent pricing is exactly what automobile dealers don’t offer.

MSRP is kept so high to help the dealers. Without them, with transparent pricing, manufacturers could compete directly on (final) price.

He works for a dealer, clearly. But he probably does believe what he says. Believing that nonsense makes it easier for him to do his job well.