Yeah, if there’s one thing I know, it’s that you always start at the bottom of hills. Luckily, there definitely aren’t any major cities way up in the mountains. And even if there were, no one would ever want to drive down them to get somewhere else.

Kinja done ate your photos

Ever hear of Denver, CO?

If you want to visit the Arctic Circle, Scandinavia is a great place to do it.  They’ve got pretty good infrastructure up there.  Heck, Hammerfest (one of the northernmost “real towns” in the world) has it’s own airport!

OUT! NOW!

Here in Durham, we have developers tearing down dilapidated, but salvageable, old mill houses from the late 19th/early 20th century houses and putting up ultra-modern, shoebox-looking, mostly-windowless, million-plus townhouses. It’s ugly as hell.

Oh my god I want it. It’s equal parts goofy and rad. I’m honestly considering driving up to DC this weekend.

Wow, given that I looked up the census data for that town (holy shit it’s rich!) I really should have considered the possibility that the guy owned the construction company...

That looks like a great place to contract hepatitis.

Are those pictures cribbed from old David Tracy articles?!

When ordinary folks play that game with the government, it tends to go quite badly for them. But if you’re rich, whatever fines you get slapped with are typically minor annoyances. Example: Someone bought a burned-out shell of a (~100 year old) house a few blocks from me. They wanted to knock it down and build…

I’m kind of surprised whatever company he hired to build the track did so without seeing the appropriate permits, honestly.  Because this probably exposes them to some sort of legal repercussions.

The idea is great, but the name needs some work. It just doesn’t roll off the tongue like, say, Utopicar does.

Okay! How much ya got?

The older ones *are* less cramped, I think. I know the ND is lighter than the NC, and possibly the NB too, despite the increased crash safety and other tech stuff. So it sorta makes sense that there’s less room for humans in a car that has more “stuff” in it, but has the same dimensions and also weighs the same.

Why, that sounds like some sort of automotive journalism utopia!

Not any one in particular, but I loved the Torch’s Taillights series. A glorious flirtation with madness, with some interesting bits of trivia sprinkled liberally throughout. I also enjoy the internecine bickering of What Car Should You Buy? Honestly, I just really like it when Jalopnik gets weird with it. That’s when…

Yeah, it’s a really thorny issue, not only because of the “explainability” issue, but also, as you point out, what parts of the system are, and are not, explainable.

Also, the “confederate flag” that everyone flies nowadays wasn’t even one of the *three* national flags the Confederacy used during it’s *five* years of existence. It also wasn’t one of the many Army flags they used. It was the navy flag, and it was only used for about two years at that.

Yeah, I knew some lights had sensors to let emergency vehicles through, but I also kind of assumed they wouldn’t be triggered by *any and every car’s headlights.*