When I started traveling a lot again a few years back, I signed up for CLEAR, and it was as most a mixed bag. At the time, the only airport near me that went where I needed to go and had CLEAR was LGA, and often because of the times I was flying back, if my return airport had CLEAR, it was often closed.

I like cheerleading for the police.

Taller, upright vehicles that were able to traverse rougher terrain and were easier to get into and out of dominated from the beginning of the mass-produced automobile (the legacy of the horse-drawn buggy) until after World War II, which low and sleek became the style. When SUVs started becoming mainstream, consumers…

I wasn’t drag racing. The car to my left didn’t even move with any particular urgency.

I remember going with a friend to test drive one of these back in the day while he was car shopping. Had to sit sideways in the back seat because there is literally ZERO leg room back there. He eventually ended up with a Mustang LX 5.0.

I like this idea of all traffic stopping, and as someone who walks my downtown multiple times a week, I’d be all for it if there were enough pedestrian traffic to support it. In my little suburb with a town green, the crosswalks that get the vast majority of traffic are not signal controlled. The perimeter, where the…

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Had one of these for a year (nice car, just not the right car for us) and it made me feel a bit tingly every time we crested our driveway and it was sitting there.

7ish on a Friday in mid August, so I feel you. I saw the flash as I rolled off the throttle, so I knew I was getting something. When the ticket showed up and it mentioned school zone, I went Googling and found the new camera policy adoption.

I think the Venn diagram between “Snapchat filter user” and “MGB restorer and seller” has zero overlap.

Nothing says a car is being sold by an old guy who can’t drive it anymore like 1) Florida and 2) a time stamp on the pictures. Somebody spent some money getting this car to look like this, and some small details aside they did a good job (not a fan of the bumper delete). I owned a ‘74 MGB convertible about…

It was a good show. First concert I had been to in a long time. It was totally worth the speeding ticket.

Said it numerous times - here and elsewhere - that sedans, coupes, and wagons were a bubble and the automobile is returning to their historic form factor. It took a few decades, but once the jet age ran its course, we were going back.

A little less than a year ago I got my most recent speeding ticket, the first one I’ve had in several years, on a Friday evening while driving down to Coney Island for an Anthrax concert. Turns out that whatever county covers New York City decided to turn on the school zone cameras 24/7/365, and my accelerating from a…

You have to be good - and Max is - but having a car under you that is suiting to your driving style helps. Adrian Newey is as responsible for this as anyone.

I’m not saying he’s a stiff. Drivers at this level aren’t, and you don’t win on team debut - like Verstappen did when he replaced Kvyat - being a stiff.

And it helps when the car is built from the ground up around your driving style. When you don’t have to make the car work for two different drivers, you don’t have to compromise. Add in the reliability, and...

So nothing to do with this.

They’re not, but let’s not let that get in the way of a good screed.

The challenge is that the regulations and budget caps severely limit the ability for teams to act boldly to try and catch up. Meanwhile the status quo is never seriously challenged (2009 being the exception) and it’s been even longer since a team joined the championship from square one and had an impact (think 1998…