Yeah, I mean, what’s more likely? Someone forgot to turn on their lights, or that minivan is full of violent gang initiates who are going to murder you?

In the Netherlands when an accident happens between a car and cyclist/pedestrians, the cyclist/pedestrian is by default right. The (car)driver has to proof that he is not to blame. Besides the fact that all drivers in NL were cyclists once (very little schoolbuses or car-lines at elementary) this helps to protect the…

That applies to construction zones where a normally two lane road is cut down to one lane. Yes, use the zipper merge there.

Mk1 Panda. The new one is just too darn big.

I’m sticking with Mk1 Fiat Panda as my choice. Easy, economical, boxy, and fun. and it even had a decent 4x4 variant. Turn it from a small van into a small car, and with the upright seating in it, it actually could fit four reasonably comfortably (although you wouldn’t want to do a coast to coast road trip in it that…

FIAT Panda.

Cool and all but there is something gutturally unsettling about asymmetry in things that require balance to work, like bikes. That one sided front is just disquieting.

I’m backing this up. The radical clean sheet design will make it a future classic at a time when more conventional electric cars have all the intrigue of used vacuum cleaners. The interior still looks better than most new cars, especially if you avoid inside-of-a-goat spec get it in the lighter tones that really show…

I’m in the minority but I liked a lot about the i3, and frankly it’s the only BMW of recent vintage I liked at all. They’ve all gotten too big and porky.

Tesla even warned us about this years ago. I mean, there were signs, signs. Everywhere signs. Blocking out the scenery. Breaking my mind.

In the great Freaks and Geeks, there a bit where lead geek Sam gets snookered by some guy in one of the mall shops. He buys a “Parisian night suit” and wears it proudly to school.

A white coal-roller in Texas is part of an in-group with police, and not to be bound by the law. Cyclists are “environmentalists”, an out-group not be afforded protection by the law.

The Tesla Model S.

It’s hilarious - reading about Tesla’s business practices, the way they treat their employees, the blatant untruths and misdirections they employ in advertising - hell, I’m PROUD that Musk doesn’t find California a good place to do business.

I don’t get this article. The summary (or whatever it is called) under the title says:

What are the ‘family connections’ ?

Sad Vamos.

Everyone saying “I need more mileage” or “I’d need two cars”...

The numbers came from the video I linked, the math I did on a calculator.

Oh, and you’re right, there are no ill effects at all to getting crude oil out of the ground.