When I was taught to drive, I was taught that when you did emergency stops, you didn’t depress the clutch because:

Buggy, yes, and I think that’s excellent, although anyone with a young’un would have the car seat out of the frame and strapped into the vehicle and the actual buggy collapsed. They’d then carry the buggy out collapsed and deal with it on the sidewalk.

There’s actually a Lyft equivalent to Uber Pool called Lyft Line, and I’ve actually driven a few Lyft shifts if one of my rental cars is available and spare. My feeling is that people will only use Lyft Line rides if they believe that they can use one for no other reason than to suppress the cost of the (already…

My sister traded in her failing Hillman Imp for a brand new bright red one. The rust holes started appearing about 90 minutes after she left the dealership. So if anyone has thought they they had ever made consecutive bad car choices, just compare it to that....

All hail the denver A-line, a brand new rail service to the airport, which has had manual flaggers at *every* crossing 24/7 for the last 2 years , at a cost of millions of dollars, because the software to shut the gates correctly doesn’t work.

Same with me, my XC70 has 148,000 and I’ve not yet had an electronics failure, just wear and tear like you

So, instead of sending a Tesla up on a heavy lifter, like Elon Musk, we can 3-d print a Porsche at the ISS and push it out the hatch. Much cheaper!

I’m originally from Southampton, and I remember that back in the 60's we would collect live rounds off the ground in an abandoned WW2 navy base and sell them to collectors for pennies. Also, I remember mines coming untethered and washing ashore along the Solent, where they would be blown up.

It’s true, having lived here in Colorado for 20+ years, I had literally forgotten that cars rust. Comparing that to a 2007 Toyota that I have thats got 180000 Colorado miles on it, it’s as if the Toyota isn’t made from sheet steel.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - Aren’t humans brilliant!

People might be surprised to know how important Amtrak long-distance service is out in the mid-west. It’s such that cities fight to get service, and even in strong right-wing areas, people will happily pay local taxes to subsidize the service. The Southwest Chief service (Chicago - LA via Albuquerque) passes through…

An interesting thought about mobility funding, but there’s a couple of issues with that:

It’s not a car I’d DD but my business owns and rents Toyota Prii to aspiring Uber drivers and I’ve got nothing but praise for how these cars perform, both from a economy and reliability perspective. I don’t buy them until they’ve got at least 90,000 miles on them, then they average 3000 miles a month. The car that…

It’s a car that everyone’s dad bought, and it’s a car that my dad bought. But after a lifetime of shitty GM and Rootes products, it was a miracle of quality and design. Dull, sure , but dad-focused and designed, and ultimately a winner

Just Car Play? no Android Auto? I really think we are getting to the point where connectivity options are influencing vehicle purchasing decisions. When Android holds 85% of the market ,why cut yourself off from that?

Only sometimes, but when it fails it will automatically return to base, where it will sit in it’s garage for 3 hours eating fruit roll-ups and watching “Adventure Time”

He’ll have to add a “British mode” override:

Both Mrs holbay and I are British, and she has a 2016 countryman that she is extraordinarily fond of, and when I showed her the pictures of the LED tail lamps, she said “YES! time to upgrade...”

Hah! That’s nothing, yesterday afternoon I poked a badger with a spoon

Well, if you read it backwards, you’ve pretty much nailed it