This is an awful way to go.

I think the issue is when such tech will arrive and subsequently be adopted on a mass scale. It’s not unreasonable to say that eventuality (such as it is) shouldn’t be used as a reason to keep from expanding and streamlining public transit. 

I mean.... You can also say literally the same thing about multiple Japanese cities, multiple Chinese cities, multiple Taiwanese cities, NYC (ok, not that many massive rain events, and it’s completely failed when there was one), Manila is building one, and etc....

Dangerous, time and time again studies show the driverless cars are far safer.

“If pricing were more straightforward people wouldn’t resort to these methods” EXACTLY. When I was living in Detroit 20 years ago, for some reason it was often cheaper for me to drive to Lansing or Toledo and then fly back to the Detroit Airport, and then fly non-stop to my actual destination. How an extra flight on…

If he had payed the higher one-way direct flight fare, would he have been on the same flight at the same time, to the same destination?

An empty seat is a ticket unsold to the money minds who make air travel tick.

We need to convince the robber barons of the New Gilded Age that private railroad cars are the schizznit and should replace their luxury cars and private jets

Agree.  I’m stacking the odds in my favor damn it.

Here is the source report that isn’t behind an Automotive News paywall:

Near me a few years back a family in a Honda Civic was rear ended by a drunk in a work zone. When I got to the head of the backup, the helicopter had just left with the parents while their kids dead bodies were still pinned in the flattened car. The cops and EMTs were just standing there with the heads down. It was…

Cages are only safer if you’re wearing an SA rated helmet. SA rated helmets are designed for roll bar/cage impacts. Your bare head is not.

I know when I drove a Kia Optima, I drove it like Kurt Russell in Death Proof.

The original IIHS article has lots of interesting tables

I have a better idea for your headline: “Driving a smaller vehicle has a higher likely hood of death in the event you get in a collision with a larger one”

My kids ride in a 9000 pound battering ram.  The crumple zone is everything else.  And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

He sent the cops paperwork about his crimes, with his name and address as the owner, which goes into the same database as stolen cars, and it still took them 3 months to find him?

Found David Tracy’s Nemesis.