Underrated point, re: car/driver combo. Sometimes it’s not just the car’s or the driver’s net goodness but how well the car’s strengths and limitations mesh with the driver’s. It’s especially true with a pursuit as technical and nuanced as modern F1.

I can imagine a scenario where I wouldn’t mind being notified that I’m creeping over the limit. Now can we add a system that shocks people on the ass when they’re cruising in the passing lane?

Somehow I never knew the GTC got the VNT. That’s actually pretty cool. I’m not sure I would be the one, but that price seems pretty good for something that interesting in this condition.  Plus I always thought these were decent-looking cars for the day.  If the underpinnings were as good as the looks and the go, the…

As someone who drove and loved 3 K-adjacent Chrysler turbo cars, CP all the way.  They were fun for what they were at the time.  I don’t think it translates, and they all fall apart.  Plus the Turbo with the slushbox is a terrible combo.

Spent a week after work replacing the clutch on my Vibe GT.  Got everything bolted up, dropped the car off the lift, and there was the new throwout bearing staring me in the face.

Trying to imagine a tree that is both strong enough and thin enough to do this.  Also glancing nervously toward the C-Max in my garage...

If I had enough Drammamine in me to read pace notes without completely decorating the inside of that car, I would sound chopped and screwed.

Almost like PHEVs make a sensible compromise for some of us.

Cool, you can do your part by paying way more for your gas. Make sure you seek out the most expensive gas prices so you can help push wages higher for the drivers.

This is interesting. I heard the same thing from my in-laws, but I got online and found them plenty of good options nearby in low-mileage certified cars well below their target range. Maybe mid-size SUVs are the one cold spot?

Exactly. Our goal is to reduce net carbon emissions. Let a thousand flowers bloom to solve that problem, don’t decide arbitrarily that the answer is to eliminate IC engines. Crank up the expense of fossil fuels and let everyone come up with their own solutions to the problem.

Mighty Car Mods.

I am by no means an F1 stan, but as I general rule I love to see what people can do by concentrating as much money as possible into a technological exercise.  I like to see the achievement, and I don’t care that much about the sporting aspects.

I don’t get having a visceral negative response to PHEVs. I’m happy to have a full electric once the infrastructure or battery is there for much longer trips, but for now I can have one car that lets me do my local roundtrips without running the gas engine, and I don’t have to buy or rent another entire vehicle when…

I don’t really care what takes your attention away from the road in the simulation, I only care that you aren’t the one choosing when it happens and for how long. As with anything that takes your attention away from the road ahead (checking mirrors, checking guages, checking a text), you can plan ahead, judge the time…

Accidents can also happen when you check your mirrors, check your speed, look for a lane change, or have a violent sneeze. It makes perfect sense for device use to have a bearing on fault in an accident, I am even open to adding extra punishment for an accident during device use in order to add a disincentive for…

So I know my view isn’t going to be popular in the current safetyist culture, but there is a key difference between this scenario and reality—in reality you choose when to take your attention away from the road, which means you can pick a straight stretch when you have thoroughly checked for any potential dangers. It…

Great point.  Smells a bit like companies switching to disposable packaging and then running PSAs against littering to deflect any blame to the consumer.

Pretty sure those are the actual MR2 Spyder taillights, no?  Or at least pretty close.