Meanwhile the old school Taxi companies here in DC used to have one person manning the phones (and BTW that person could not GIVE A FUCK that the taxi you pre-scheduled yesterday to pick you up before your 645am work flight is now 1.5 hours late) and zero people maintaining their fleet of POS clunkers... Guess it…

You are missing something. In fact it just happens that “The Daily” did a dive into this yesterday, but there are many articles talking about this (you’ll have to leave the Gawker family sites for this sort of analysis. Articles here are more meant to stoke the fury of commenters, not necessarily to inform). Uber is…

This sucks. But it’s not nearly as awful as how the taxi industry bilked life savings out of so many drivers for outrageously priced and poorly regulated medallions. That shit wrecked a lot of drivers lives (present and future) in a way far more insidious than what Uber and Lyft do.

Exactly! I’m less likely to rear end someone now, but more likely be shot in a road rage incident. Trade offs 

If you leave a 5 car length gap in moderate traffic where I live, you’ll have about 7 sec before 3 cars have inserted themselves in there. One sec is more than needed if you are not staring down the bumper in front of you like a sheep. You have to look beyond the car in front of you so you know they are going to have…

This. There is no way to disable the ACC cruise and just use it like normal cruise control, so I literally cannot use cruise control on our 16' Outback.

This is literally what happens to me in the city occasionally in our 16' Outback! I’m on the aggressive side of drivers as a whole, I must admit. But like you I’ve been clear of a car that is no longer in my lane and actually getting back on the gas to accelerate away and the car SLAMS the brakes on me. It’s shocking…

I friggin hate the automatic braking in my wifes 16' Outback. It SLAMS on the brakes in low speed city driving situations far too hard and far too long. It is going to get me rear ended one day. HATE

THANK YOU! The FD was the driver’s car, the Supra was a mid-pack GT car that didn’t stand out from anything else in that price range, let alone specifically its Japanese competition (and the Supra was spensive in mid-90s money for what it was). I remember reading all the big in-period comparisons in MotorTrend, Car…

If you’re in BMW marketing and you have no control over the hideous BMW design language, then vantablack paint is a stroke of genius. Hats off to them

“Road course racing” is also waaaaay to broad. “Track days” are not racing. And these things do fine at track days. Hell, most tracks are putting in EV charging stations. Even Summit Point has them.

This has actually been a pretty entertaining season with some great races. It may not look like so if you just check in on the results. 

Mercedes also is just a better TEAM. They make better decisions pre/mid race. They rarely blunder strategies. When an opportunity opens up, they act quickly and decisively. Ferrari is the polar opposite of that. Indecisive, blundering, self-sabotadging. They need the TEAM to be a match for the raw pace of the car if…

Don’t be mad at Mercedes. Be mat at Ferrari for not getting their shit together. Every weekend it looks like they have a car that could take pole or win a race, they find a creative way to screw it up. They are a bad team with a car that’s pretty good a large percentage of the time. Mattiaci has shown zero ability to…

GT40 vs 906? That’ll never happen, unfortunately. Those cars looked great because they were built according to what people thought aero should be (which is aggressive and streamlined and just wonderful), not what wind tunnels actually tell us it should be. As long as downforce is allowed to dominate car design, it’ll…

The result of your solution sounds a lot like what everyone complains about with today’s F1: The same team wins everything.

Obviously. Enlighten us, oh wise one

This is how it works when there is no alternative to gasoline powered transportation. We are now in a world of viable electric cars. This complicates matters hugely. Rises in gas price can affect overall demand as it may very well accelerate consumer adoption of electric cars. Economists don’t have good data to…

Yes and no. You presuppose a world in which electric cars are not a viable alternative and gas is the fuel for any car no matter how efficient or not. In the current automotive marketplace, large price increases to offset slowing gasoline sale will have the knock on-effect of driving more people out of internal…