This has impacts on other infrastructure too. Animal feces are the reason that many older cities have storm water systems that combine with sanitary sewers. When there was a lot of poo in the streets, all the runoff was sewage.

In my extensive new car buying experience, I’ve gotten good deals as a repeat customer of a particular salesperson, but just being a repeat customer of a dealership hasn’t meant jack shit. 

(Source: just built a manure bin).

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When there were no sidewalks in NYC, there were also no horses. Sidewalks existed so people didn’t fall into the mud and horsepoop in the street.

Great article, and provides a lot of good examples of why the AV dreams are so overblown. There are so many edge-use cases that would completely bewilder an AV that my mind boggles to imagine a world where they would even be remotely feasible outside of a controlled-access highway. How do you program an AV to approach…

That’s awesome! If you have a need for it, I’m totally behind you! I’d buy her a tank of gas just for being awesome!

Geez. where do you find the “perfect pic for every situation”?

I feel like the whole BEV advocacy movement has nothing to do with the environment or giving the market better choices.

That’s not how premium fuel works... Octane as nothing to do with cleanliness and is simply a measure of at what compression the fuel will detonate.

Yeah, but timing and boost are reduced = less power.

Oh wow, two vehicles (ram and wrangler) that are their cash cows got redesigns over the past two years. Lets look at the rest of the lineup shall we?

Yeah, our ability to not-learn from near-misses and systems saving our dumb asses is INCREDIBLE. “Well my buddy Jim got thrown clear so why I should I wear a seat belt!” Because Jim was lucky?

Nissan needs to put the extended range Leaf platform under a CUV and bring it to the USA as a new "brand" (let's just say Renault) to reset the $7500 tax credit. I think that might fix it. 

The PR challenge for autonomous driving continues to be that the fatalities are big news while the lives saved are literally invisible.

First Gear:

Well Nissan needs to stop selling cars from 2010 to have sort of chance.

Thats a pretty interesting use. I never thought about how it would be easier for a handicapped person to put their own mobility-assistance-device into the back

Before you can buy one of these penis extenders, you should have to take a parking test. If you can’t park the penis extender between 2 white lines on the first try, NO TRUCK FOR YOU!!!

No, people who drive things we don’t specifically like are all idiots who are compensating for something.