EVification of three-row crossovers and pickups is just the most monumentally stupid use for battery tech. Take an already giant heavy vehicle and make it doubly so by adding enough batteries to get it 300 miles. It’s just bonkers and I’m frankly happy to see them cutting back on this. Six figure SUVs are similarly…

Who cares? I drove some BMW EV that let you pick themes for the car. Each one had a unique acceleration synthesized sound. I thought it was pretty cool. If people want it to sound like an ICE, who TF cares?

As long as it’s an option that can be turned off, I’m all for it. Let your freak flag fly.

Let me spoil it for you: she won’t do SHIT, because Democrats don’t actually WANT change, they just want to dangle the possibility of change in front of everyone in order to get reelected. Remember when HMOs drove healthcare costs to the moon under Bush, and Clinton ran on socialized medicine? Then did nothing? How…

There is also the case of Jodie Edwards.

For a long while I was of the “how could you?” mindset. And certainly there must still be those out there.

I think some of it has to do with perhaps after a longer drive, with a child asleep, the parent might forget they’re still back there. I can see this happening if you are a new parent that is used to a certain lifestyle. I know I would be posting stickies to myself all over the car to remind me to check the back seats.

More aggressive driving, distracted driving and larger vehicles not tested with pedestrian safety in mind seem to be the culprits in this rising tide of death.

I am not anti-car. I am anti-traffic. 

I have been lucky enough to have lived in multiple parts of the US. I’ve lived in big cities where a car was more of a hassle than not, and I’ve lived in rural communities where not having a car is simply not feasible. I’ve also lived in small cities which combined neighborhoods with local watering holes, and…

If you truly believe that, it’s probably for the best that you don’t go out. We don’t want to put up with you, either. 

Weird direction to take this in, but this is why I’m probably going back to being practicing catholic once me and the missus have kids, at least assuming there’s nothing intensely off putting about the nearby church. In hindsight, going and seeing all of the people from our neighborhood once a week and going to get…

That’s why we need to get back to more local/walkable neighborhoods with mixed use land instead of great swaths of residential only versus commercial only. You could actually have a local bar that you could walk to, have a few drinks, and stumble home!

You’ve gotten a couple of log responses to this, but the TL;DR is basically that how we got here was a very long process that wasn’t really under the microscope until recently. And heck, you can’t really blame people at the time for not realizing how the white-picket-fence revolution that started in the 50's would…

8 lane 45 MPH roadways that cut through cities certainly weren’t the norm for a lot of that time. The number of cars on the road, requirements for added parking, and number of paved lanes has continued to grow every year across the century. Our car-centric society may have just spent the last decade hitting a…

You don’t think the push in the Greenspan era culminating now in aggressive house-building and suburban sprawl that is worse than prior decades? Houses are bigger than ever, and the average property for new construction creeps ever upwards. We are building and buying our own castles to get away from people and the…

It is hard to find 3rd places that do not cost a lot of money to go to. Places like brew pubs are awkward when you go alone and I do not like to drive after even having one drink. Community building is hard. 

For fuck’s sake, proofread your headline.

I think a Porsche Panamera GTS Sport Turismo would be the vehicle I could be happy driving forever. Sports car power, wagon space for the family and looks amazing. #wagonlife

There should be no way they can just rest on “but we said they need to stay attentive”. And yet they are.