Every single day I am at an intersection, waiting on pedestrians to cross, almost every single one of them is glued to their phone.

A pedestrian who isn’t paying attention steps in front of a car/truck/bus?

A pedestrian staring into his phone steps out into the street without looking and it’s the driver’s fault? False. I blame the pedestrian.

I suppose walking out into traffic, or, some distracted Yahoo driving through a crosswalk.

Fun fact: no, they don’t. Bikes are a moving vehicle in most localities and subject to the same laws and restrictions (except license and registration requirements) as a motorcycle.

I’ve seen plenty of cyclists run through stop signs, run through red lights, or stop at a red and then do anyway. And considering how few bike commuters I see in general it sticks out as a significant percentage. Denver checking in 

They won’t look up from their phones.

Agreed, it probably has more to do with people stepping into the road without looking or distracted driving, than the shift in demand for types of vehicles. Both are thanks to screens. 

Pretty sure? Or is there, you know, an actual, proven correlation? And is it the primary reason? Or a lesser factor, acting on the margins?

Where I live they decided it would be a great idea to pave over travel lanes and put in bike lanes. They also have a trail system, some of which runs alongside the roads. “Real” cyclists don’t use the bike lanes, preferring to ride in the roadway, sometimes alongside the bikers using the bike paths. They also fail to…

So you’re saying that for the first time in history, my slow viewing self is gaining on the production schedule?

A wagon or shooting brake cannot tow my boat or my horse trailer. Nor can they take our off-road trailer deep into a trail on anything that requires a high ground ceiling.

Take the blinders off and understand that “driving dynamics” are not the only way to appreciate a vehicle.

A donked Porsche is not an enthusiast either. A practically modified square body chevy, on the other hand, definitely is an enthusiast. Those are neat trucks

That is also a video game. 

Seriously. I don’t get it. Maybe it’s the fact that the voices of this website are in the big cities where trucks are mostly obsolete. In the rest of the country, here is why trucks are so popular:

That $65k truck has a nice comfy interior and rides pretty damn well for a truck so why not? Trucks are nice now. They’re Not bench-seat stripped-down work trucks anymore. They can easily do doubly duty for work and daily so why not? Why buy a truck to sit and rot except for when you need it (weekend camping, boating,…

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GMG: willing to bitch about everyone else’s money

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