I’m guessing it’ll be lighter than a Jeep Cherokee, and people take those things into the dunes all the time. It’ll be more fun if it’s light, of course.

Cool idea! There are a lot of adapter plate kits for Beetles so that should be a pretty straightforward project.

The original Manx was pretty eensy — it was a Beetle chassis with 14 inches cut out of the middle to shorten the wheelbase. So that would track.

Yeah, there are street-legal Manxes but they’re not the kind of thing you’d drive 100 miles up to Oceano. The flat windshield and lack of side windows is not a recipe for fun highway driving.  In reality almost everyone trailers the things.

I was thinking the same thing. The old school Manxes could be made street legal -- there’s an example a couple blocks from here.

Me either, and guys who lane split are riding right where the dots are for miles at a time.

Nah, they’re not that slippery and they’re usually spaced out enough that a motorcycle can drive right between them if you prefer. They stick up maybe an inch. In California they’re routinely used to create rumble strips and mark lanes; as lane markers they have the advantage of creating an audible warning if you…

Doing it on a drag strip won’t make you YouTube famous.

I deal with it by flying in and out of small airports whenever possible. Sure, I might still have to change planes at a big airport, but I get to park and go through security at a small one. The airport I usually fly from has six gates total and security has never taken me more than 5 minutes.

Amtrak does not mess around with drunks. Their contract of carriage says that if you create a disturbance you can be put off at “the next civilized place,” and they interpret that pretty broadly. I was on the Coast Starlight in the middle of January when they hustled a guy off at Klamath Falls. It was the middle of…

We’ve got e-bikes with a theoretical 20 mph limit, although no one actually goes that slow; 30-35 is more typical. One of my coworkers complained recently that they’re afraid to use the bike paths anymore because the closing speed with oncoming traffic is getting so high.

Yeah, I’ve been to Santa Catalina, where golf carts are used almost exclusively (along with kei trucks.) The exhaust fumes are pungent. Sitting at a sidewalk cafe there is like sitting next to the road in a 1970s city. They don’t have to meet any real emissions standards and a lot of them trail visible smoke plumes.

My 1990 Ford E-250 also has nozzles on the wipers. Not new at all.

One of Kari Lake’s biggest supporters says that if elected Arizona governor, she’ll round up all the LGBTQ people and put them in quarantine to protect people from monkeypox. So this slope seems quite slippery, indeed.

This. If there’s no one already on the scene helping, that’s one thing. But at a certain point you’re just standing there staring at someone during the worst day of their life, and that’s tacky.

In most modern cars the brakes CAN override the engine, but often only barely. During the Prius stuck accelerator issues one news organization tested it and found it was kind of counter-intuitive; if you pressed on the brake firmly and held it down, you could get the car to a stop, but pumping the brake would use up…

One of the problems with modern cars is they can accelerate to high speeds extremely quickly, whether intentionally or not.

What’re the odds this thing actually goes anywhere under sail power? It seems like most yachts I see end up just motoring around.

As someone who routinely flies out of a smaller airport: It’s less stressful, but you still get delayed. Either because your plane is stuck at a big airport, or because there’s no traffic control slot available at the big airport you’re supposed to fly through. I had a three hour delay for an evening flight out of…

I feel the same way about LAX. ;)