They let him sit in the cockpit. How much money was spent to upgrade cockpits into impenetrable fortresses after 9/11? Airlines should have a policy for sobriety-checking anyone who’s sitting in the cockpit while the plane is in flight. If someone doesn’t want to take the drug test, they can skip the flight or sit in…

We were only able to convince my grandma to give up her license (at age 90!) after she totaled her almost-brand-new car. Her neuropathy had gotten so bad that she couldn’t feel her legs past her knees, and therefore hit the gas instead of the brake. Fortunately no one else was injured, but I feel like healthcare…

Or to be in Vegas at all, for any reason, ever. I had to go earlier this year for a work thing and I found all of it (except the OG Taco Bell Cantina) to be awful.

A couple months ago I was running errands with my windows down when a wasp or hornet approached while I was stopped at a red light. I was in such a panic to roll up my windows without trapping it inside that I inadvertently took my foot off the brake for a split second - I’m so thankful that I left an unusual amount…

Public education, sure, but not a public consult. You need to be educated before you can act as a consultant and have your opinion taken seriously.

This was my first thought. I’ve read too many stories from train engineers about what they go through mentally/emotionally when someone throws themselves on the tracks. And to add insult to injury, I can’t imagine the semi truck driver got paid for that time he had to sit there and wait for the police report, etc.

In my opinion, that’s a silly reason not to return to NYC, but you do you.

I lived in NYC for a decade and my favorite pedestrian-vs-cars story was when I almost got run over by an SUV with diplomatic plates during UN Week. I was limping back to my office after a 12-hour day running an event in high heels, and I definitely had the light (not only the green traffic signal but also a Walk…

I was thinking about control knobs during my commute this morning. I have a 2022 car, but it’s a low-end model so I still have all the buttons I need. In order to justify getting rid of them, we would need a much better voice assistant than we currently have on our phones/smart-home gadgets, and non-gearheads would…

Sold or made? I’m not convinced there are 200,000 buyers of this monstrosity.

Can you please explain more about left-foot braking? This was how I instinctually approached driving when I was starting out in driver’s ed and got reamed out for it, had to retrain to right-foot braking. Which, you know, I’m fine with now, but I’m so interested as to the reasons behind why you think left-foot is…

To be pedantic: A collection of 137 islands, and yeah, that probably does help a lot. But I can’t imagine this sort of law would face serious opposition in any of the other 49 states, and regional clusters will start to grow as states start passing similar bills.

My car (a 2022 Buick) automatically turns the lights on if my windshield wipers are on, which is great. In a couple decades most people will have this in their cars and we’ll all be safer for it.

My best friend’s minivan has blind spot cameras and it’s such a game changer. She has a live feed of either camera (I bet we’ll get split-screen soon) on her nav screen, which is great because one of her biggest flaws is that she drives like an absolute maniac.

I truly do not understand why people dawdle along at 45 mph when they have less than half a mile before they hit a major interstate with a 70mph speed limit (which means most people are going closer to 75-85). 

It’d be so easy, too, if cops ever came knocking about it: “I was just firing bullets straight up in the air to see how long they would take to fall. Couldn’t have guessed that the psycho neighbor would’ve flown over my house at that exact moment. Oopsie.”

I would absolutely buy an EV sedan if it came standard with AWD. Seems like only Subaru is doing that these days, every other brand limits AWD to vehicles classed as CRVs and bigger. I’m 5'0" and have crashed an Escalade into a bollard because I literally can’t see over the hood. I have a Buick Encore (CRV) and it’s…

Completely agree. I was a pedestrian in NYC for ten years and it really is a skill that needs to be cultivated. I see where the other guy who called your original comment “victim-blaming” is coming from, and not all casualties of right-on-red accidents involved people using their phones, but people need to be way more…

Well a lot of them are coming in from kinda far away, like NJ or CT or Pleasantville, and parking near their local train stations and commuting in on a rail line (or in many cases, the bus) can take so much longer than driving in. Or maybe they’re dropping their kid off at daycare somewhere between their hometown and…

Isn’t it equally possible that most people could take back roads, but back roads are a hassle in a car so they just stick to the highway? Those back roads generally aren’t set up with bike lanes either, but speed limit is usually lower so it’s a somewhat more viable option for bicyclists.