The points you and I are making are NOT Victim Blaming because in those situations the person walking or riding a bike is the perpetrator - NOT the victim.

I will let you in on a little secret. I ride a 2003 Yamaha FZ1 as my commuter. I have 137k miles on the bike. It has 4 carbs and is much more sensitive to the quality of gas than my other 3 vehicles that have EFI.

Agreed. What was the $700 repair bill for exactly?

Clarkson’s Farm is all about him being old and out of shape doing Clarkson things - it is great.

While I agree that no one needs to travel over 100 miles per hour on busy roads with a high volume of traffic.... there is something special about running at 120mph on an empty desert highway in the middle of the night with no other cars around at all.

The same thing happened to a friend of mine in his F250 Long Bed 4x4. He drove into a field last year that was much softer than anticipate. Sank to the frame.

I am guessing you have not had people run into the street right in front of traffic and expect cars to stop? Happens all the time where I live - more so since the state stopped prosecuting jaywalking.

That is exactly what we need to know to make the information about vehicle size more relevant. We all know Semi-trucks are big and harder to see out of than any SUV or Truck and getting hit by one is more dangerous than getting hit by a smaller car at any speed.....

you are missing the point - they did not investigate where the person was when being hit. Are we talking about people on the sidewalk? People Jaywalking? People in parking lots? I am not refuting that bigger is worse for humans - just curious as to how many are being hit and where they are being hit? Perhaps 50% of…

Is there any data that shows that? None of these studies address the cause of the incident - only the results.

Walking into traffic without right of way is also a great for a human to get hurt or killed.

That is not why people keep old cars in their yard - especially with NPR and other Non-profits willing to come pick them up and recycle them without cost to the owner as a donation. But perhaps that is the case with boats..... that article linked did not say how many boats we are talking about here.

Why are there so many abandoned boats down there?

Sooo, EV’s have a much higher purchase price than an equivalent ICE vehicle. They are more expensive to insure and are more expensive to maintain.....

But not in California where we are protected from Insurance Price gouging.

These studies always point to Drinking and Speeding - but never to the Elephant in the room - Texting/phone use while driving.

I am saying the inflation of the last 3 years is BS and 3 row SUV’s should be $30k.

Yeah, this data is misleading, this vehicle should only Cost $30k at most for the Size and Brand. The transition to EV’s was due for this to happen once the Early Adopters all got their EV’s - by Early Adopters I mean people with disposable income to afford an extra vehicle that is an EV.... The average household that…

That is what the Officer was insinuating to me.

I once saw a cop using their phone while driving, he had his window down and I was walking on the sidewalk. I called him out on it and he told me flat out he was allowed to do it for work......