I’m the guy who wrote the comment, and all I’m saying is that in a perfect, non-corrupt world (which we will never live in), red light cameras working perfectly without any of the suspicious “too short/rigged” stuff is a dream for safety. Also, there’s a huge difference between “ah shoot I think it may have turned red…

it begs the question who does Trump think will buy these more expensive electric models?

3rd: I kinda feel bad for Austin drivers and pedestrians. They’re going to be beta testers against their will for Leon’s half assed self driving shit.

Bingo. Plus this gives Honda the thing they don’t have but need to compete - volume. They have current gen EVs thanks to the GM tie-up (selling quite nicely, but of course at low margins because they’re buying them), they have next gen EVs in the pipeline that look promising, they have a nice array of vehicles in all…

Why would we bring back Mean Astronauts?  Leave them up there until they’re nice again.

I would much rather drive one of these adorable little guys than the massive monster trucks that have far less actual utility that are currently clogging up US roadways.

Kansas, Nebraska, Utah, Nevada, Texas, yes, I’ve driven across them all. I do 16-hour days behind the wheel somewhat regularly. At 75mph I’m covering 1150 miles in a day. At 55 it’s still about 900 miles. I would gladly add a few hours on to my trip the next day if it meant I was more relaxed when I got there and…

What does Nissan bring to the table? Millions drivers with credit scores of < 500 who don’t know where the DMV is.

My house was built in the 40's, I have a fairly narrow driveway that runs between my house and the one next door. With something 72in wide, I can just get my bins or a bike or something past. Too many new cars are maxing out the allowable ~80in. The cars are too damn wide.

Towing more than 5,000 lbs should require a special license endorsement. 

The US should require behind the wheel driving tests every 10 years. With a written test every 5.

Most driving should be made illegal. basically i do bellieve big citys should outlaw all cars from their city centers and then build big parking structures at the edge of the citys where people can park their cars for free or close to free.

The US needs a car inspection program like TUV

We should have pretty strict size restrictions on how big civilian vehicles can be. Trucks these days can’t even fit to established parking spaces. They block other vehicles’ sight lines on the road, they are unable to see pedestrians or other obstacles and hazards over their massive hoods, and their overcompensating…

In the context of this hemisphere: 1) Nissan has established plant capacity in lower cost locations (i.e. south, non-UAW). 2) These could be valuable in a future economy challenged by tariffs and trade wars. 3) Honda hybrids are great, Nissan has none. 4) Honda doesn’t really do trucks, Nissan has some. 5) CVTs aside,…

Physics says no.
Higher speed -> less time.
Higher speed -> more space needed to stop
Higher speed -> more blood

slower speed = more time to react to whatever might cause a crash. 

NYC has data available for location of collisions and fault. Something like 66% of all collisions between vehicles and pedestrians are with the pedestrians in crosswalks, and 75% of the time the fault is 50% or more on the driver.

I’ll catch heat for this, no doubt, but I’d definitely be in favor of only allowing trucks that are legit commercial vehicles in city centers--like construction and the like--not Bob driving his Ford Super Duty 350 dually to his office job.

We really should be talking about why we would need larger vehicles like cars and pick-ups in crowded city centers in the first place. Cities globally are moving to eliminate cars in the most crowded areas and it makes sense considering they are incompatible with every other piece of city center existence.