Braking, not breaking. Put as has been pointed out, the power part of the steering stops, not the steering, and the same with the brakes. The brakes have a power stop or two left in them before pedal pressure goes up. Cars have been this way forever - there was always a vacuum reservoir on the power brakes.

There will always be an England.

You forget that most people have no idea what is going on mechanically in their car, but only know how to push one pedal or the other and steer.

Yes, minivans are worse than station wagons, unless you want three times the cubic feet on a smaller footprint with better fuel economy and seats for eight people that aren't backwards or tiny.

As do others, and more all the time.

I can manage the manual HVAC system in my car just fine. But I've been in MANY cars, particularly driven by women (sorry, but it's true) who don't understand the need to put fresh air into a small metal box with people inside it, or when it gets hot or cold enough just turn the whole system off instead of adjusting…

Nooo, those were dead cool. Just ask LBJ.

Particularly if you count the increased price of corn for food all over the world and the extra acreage of formerly natural areas now plowed up to grow it.

Smarter cars have memory power seats so several drivers have their own combination. Most people think power seats are great, particularly anyone who isn't exactly the same height and proportions as whatever they based the normal seat on. The advantages are too many to list.

After doing the bow and string thing to light the dried leaves kindling.

If you have they deal where the car knows you have the keys in your pocket, then it does make sense.

Where's the antistar button?

Hey you could always switch to a Mitsubushi Mirage.

Too bad you aren't paying for the freeways you are driving on until the gas part of the Volt drive. This is another problem with increasing fuel economy in general and electric or the rare CNG cars.

They should be required to sign up for all-renewable electricity. I did in NYC and it isn't even noticeably more expensive anyway. (It's mostly hydro plus wind and solar).

I think the point is that you have a mostly electric car and mostly gas ones qualify.

Like I said, High Occupancy Vehicle.

That is of course the original idea, hence HOV.

On the other hand if the HOV lane was full of gas guzzlers it would be more crowded and slower than the regular lanes. The answer is light rail/subways.

Federal government and probably other levels of government as well as probably the tragically hip companies with the ping pong tables and themed areas and sandboxes and free organic food and things pay all or most of employee's mass transit costs.