Modern cars can have modern solutions. Cars can self report their odometer to the state with the same tech used in toll roads right now. Whenever you drive around in a new car, the state could simply get a record of your latest odometer reading.

Most states / counties charge you more in property taxes the further you ‘improve’ your land. Here in Seattle the difference between ‘forest’ and ‘fully improved’ is ~125x. I’m down for adding a rider for ‘idle improvements’ that bumps it up a bit.

Distance x weight x carbon/mile would be my addition to the multivariable formula. Every car would have its ‘MPG’ carbon accounted for and those who produce less carbon per mile would pay proportionally less in taxes.

Oy.

I was going to say I've seen horizontal wipers on ships with flat windows. How they solve the curve problem with be interesting. 

My FIL has said he wants a new walk behind after this season. His 20 year old Honda is just a little too worse for wear to make it another season.He only has ~1/3 acre to mow, but he likes his self-propelled machine since the walking is enough exercise on its own. I’ve been pushing him to consider an electric mower so…

Oh right - two batteries! Duh. Neat!

They grind it right up. The take full-sized lightning bolts and grind those down in to bite-size iPhone lightning connector sparks.

I read your original statement as the crash was unavoidable in the configuration of people + car - which I take as correct. It works either way for me.

An acre with a 22" walk behind takes what, 2 hours to mow? My initial thought is that you wouldn’t be able to mow the whole lawn in a single day due to recharge time on the mower, but I guess you could mow once in the morning and once later in the evening.

Wind turbines. Windmills are a old-skool Dutch thing.

The lighter unsprung mass and the minor change in spring stiffness / damping within the tire will have an unknown effect on the overall handling without knowing the current system parameters and running it on a track. The launch tests are just one of many.

I think they could combine some of their sensors to make it a bit better. Watch the side of the car and light up the blind spot indicator in the mirror if anything exists in the current area. But, only sound the alarm if I move across the lane lines and something is in the blind spot.

I understand ya.

I have all of my settings as dulled and late as they can be and it's perfect. 

Yeah, the blind spot monitors definitely include a car length or two behind the car in addition just the blind spot. Pretty annoying in bumper to bumper traffic.

Well it’s good that you’re still here to talk about it.

I applaud your honesty. If that turning vehicle in front of you had stopped, then your car may have mitigated or avoided an accident.

Have you fiddled with the aggressiveness of the AEB in the settings. Kiyundai does let you tune all of that stuff.

My Hyundai works just fine. I think they got their system pretty well tuned in the Genesis lines and then copy pasta-ed in to their cheap cars.