Imagine doing this instead of just not shooting innocent people.

No hard data, but when I think back to my more-or-less middle class 70s/80s upbringing I feel like things were more basic. I mean it’s silly, but not every house had an electric can opener on the counter and that $19 kitchen accessory from the Sears catalog seemed like a bit of an extravagance. I can still hear my dad…

Aw, the nonsense. My sister has four kids, and when they were all young and required car seats she bought a vehicle that holds more than five people comfortably, which is something that anyone wanting a large family will, and can, do.

Pretty sure it’s not peer-reviewed. And after reading as much of the paper as I could, I can see why. The part where they said Minivans have class and lifestyle connotations that may not appeal to everyone was particularly funny, but their “rich data” is essentially based on how many people have their third kid while…

“The paper crudely calculated that car seat mandates lowered the annual probability of a woman giving birth to a third child by 0.73 percent.”

I’m confused. How are car seats driving down birthrates?

THIS, there is no BETTER contraception that having to deal with screaming terrible kids lol.

Car seats aren’t the problem, it’s the screaming little monsters that sit in them.

which, of course, I want kids to drive in car seats

They are caught in a doom spiral that is the inevitable result of cost cutting. Cost cutting leads to less R&D and cheaper feeling vehicles, which leads to needing to tap subprime and fleet sales to move metal (upmarket buyers don’t want dated cheap-feeling vehicles). The subprime and fleet sales keep the cash coming…

This is an appropriate response.  Along with looking for jobs with better working conditions.  (Not because they’d be fired, but because they should if the workplace is toxic.)

This comment that cars are shit today has been said by every generation of old man going back to the 50s.

The concept of what makes a care “soulful” is as subjective as people’s taste in cars. 

Thierig also noted that temporary workers in the same conditions only had a 2% sickness rate, suggesting that permanent workers were taking advantage of the German labor protections.

Peak Dodge design was in the 80s, i think Ford was in the late 70s, Chevy was 70s & 80s, although they had some good-lookin’ trucks in the 60s.

Whatever is newest. Truck design peaked in the 1980s and then held pretty nice until the 1997 F150. Trucks have gotten progressively uglier since then, culminating in the modern Silverado.

Any of the full size trucks made in the last few years.  It’s as if the only design concept is ‘make it way too big.’

And with decent sized boot. The 7th gen accord was great car and very popular atleast here in Nordics. And the boot in wagon was magnificient. For 8th gen they basically halved the size (I admit that it was pretty though) and sales went to zero.

The new Jetta. It would be great to see a new version of the Alltrack as well.