I wish that were true, but I’ve given up hope that shifting the cost of roads and carbon to drivers will change behavior. I live in Boston, a city that froze parking space totals in the 70s, is actively tearing down garages, and is terrible to drive in in the first place. Driving there is time consuming, expensive,…

Iinfotainment systems are replaced by a USB-C phone dock. That'd solve a bunch of problems in one fell swoop.

Toyota really took a table corner to the crotch on this one, at least in New England. You're right, it's fine, but if you want an EV and you want it relatively cheap it's a steal.

Toyota must be so pissed that their EV which they marketed in a way that's, like, quarter-assed at best to kill it is instead doing well.

So why, precisely, do you think the people who build solar facilities are unaware of this?

Nah they all love it. A lot of them work in the renewables industry. Your typical renewables pissbaby is an office guy who drives a lifted Avalanche.

This is why I’m convinced we’re watching the auto industry immolate itself in real time. New cars are overwhelmingly bought by consumers 55 and older who want smog belching shitboxes that are utterly useless for anybody else, because they’re cheap to build and can be sold at a huge markup. Meanwhile their future…

Correction: Racing on a bicycle and downhill mountain biking CAN be dangerous, but are different from the vast majority of how people ride bikes.

A lot of people only need a small hatchback.

Cybersecurity/"infotainment" systems are a big one for me. Untested software in a unit so poorly designed the radio breaking can technically brick the vehicle? Thanks! I hate it!

There’s excellent reason to be upset. People seem to think we’re still in the touchy feely everyone wins phase of adapting to climate change. We are not. We are in the “Fucking around has officially ended and now it’s finding out time” phase.

“Nobody can see ten years into the future.”

This is why I bought a used car from Hertz. 

“All they do is slow down traffic.”

No, we should replace them with lights and actually enforce the laws. I cannot tell you how many times I've nearly been hit by some stupid asshole who can't count to three.

I hate the "rolling stop" and if you do it, you're an asshole. But this is completely unethical and gross, and the authority should be dissolved.

Most Vision Zero stuff is dirt cheap by design and can be cheaply incorporated into standard road maintenance. So even if $18 million was the only savings here (which it decidedly isn't) it'd probably still be cost effective.

My favorite example was the misogynists celebrating their “win” over “The Last Jedi,” which made literally a billion dollars just at the box office.

Range anxiety is an excuse. “This one trip a year I can easily anticipate and plan for, it might take longer with an EV or I might have to rent a car, so therefore it’s not practical.” If you’re buying a new car, at all, you’re not making a practical decision.

The reason productivity drops like a stone in a white collar environment is all the time spent in meetings and calls. The research is pretty clear that when you take eight hours out of the week, what you’re actually doing is shutting down the kind of person who needs to call you about every little thing and spend…