The biggest problem with the BMW blinker stalk design is as follows. If you are driving in a straight line, and think your blinker might be on (e.g., because maybe it didn’t auto-cancel after an on-ramp), there is no action you can take that would would definitely cancel that would not also turn it on in the opposite…

so a McLaren F1? My memory is foggy, but aren’t there a few mr3 supercars from that era?

Google et al., should be required to hold some form of public trials in which their vehicles will drive autonomously for 16 hours or a couple of days over a few well-defined city blocks. During that period, the public—people like you—are allowed to freely seed the road with any hazards you can think of. No real…

That is exactly what happened. It’s a perfectly defensible surmise to state the BRZ driver’s subjective mental intention, because we all do it, and it is totally obvious what he was doing. Had he not closed the gap, he was at risk of getting stuck behind a slow-ass Camry/ SUV pair holding up the entire road. i would…

that was pretty painful to watch. I sincerely hope that the Camry’s insurance company takes proper car of the guy who was hit. I also sincerely hope that the Camry driver does not get behind the wheel again for a long time.

Honestly, myself being a lawyer and having driven and ridden in countless cars, I suggest an approx. 2013 Acura TL—it ticks all the boxes. I got an uber ride in a 2017 Accord the other day, and it was really, really nice. Super comfortable. I dd a 2009 bmw 328i, and it’s kind of a dud, but nice enough. But the last…

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Another vote for San Andreas. It got out enough mechanical and graphical kinks to be playable over time. You can play it today, and it doesn’t feel bass-ackwards or old-timey. It had a great balance of grit and lunacy, from being poor in LA to flying by jetback. It was *fun*, whereas IV wasn’t so much.

I put NP . How else do you get 8 flat cylinders w 50/50 distribution?

Uhm, can’t talk about it on a public website? I think for a lot of folk, the “most memorable date in a car” is going to be NSFW.

Yep. Go into a corner too hot? Well, that sucks. But here’s what you do. Look where you want to go. Literally, point your eyeballs at the place where you want your car or bike to end up in a moment. Simultaneously with that, do not add to brake or throttle. Essentially try to keep your throttle, wherever it is, the…

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I just watched ‘The Secret Life of Pets’. Decent animated movie, and most adult couples would probably enjoy it. However, I was intensely focussed on the cars. I swear it was deliberate, but any given car was on-screen for only a moment (except for a couple of plot-specific ones (mini) or NY specific ones (P71)). But…

cool story time. When I was a teen in the ‘80s, my dad got remarried. My step-mom’s dad had been some high-up mucky-muck in engineering at Chrysler. So everybody in her family had Chrysler products and everyone got a new one every year. Everyone in that family was a company man, so to speak. My dad even joined the…

I wish there were a way to slap new riders in the head and make the absorb teh concept of hyper-vigilance.

Agreed. I was grossly oversimplifying. My qualification was that Honda’s cb500-something bikes out since about 2013 are probably great starter bikes. They will last longer into your riding career than a 250 cc rebel, but much less likely to get you in trouble than a 1200 cc Bandit. Again, I agree with you. It is much…

1. By small displacement. Honda’s had a line of 500 cc cb bikes lately, e.g., cb500f or something like that.

I (mostly) agree. (Only “mostly” because sometimes I listen to NPR news in the am commute.)

All of those bad puns just flank the issue.

Lol, but wait, I wasn’t going all Hunter S. Thompson, I was recounting my own experiences! Sure, in very different cars at very different life stages. But have you seen some of the motels in Rawlins, Wyoming? It’s nuts. In my mind, those motels and jugs of Carlo Rossi are what road trips are all about. As well as…