We came so close for one of them last week. Sigh. Like Mark David Chapman, a couple inches to the right (or left, whatever) and that kid would have been a hero.

Nobody employs enough people in an organization that large with an outage this large “quickly”. 999.99% of the time they would be sitting around playing Solitaire.

I wish we had the equivalent of the German TUV. This abomination would never be allowed on the roads over there, and rightly so.

I said in one of my comments that I am all for per-mile taxation. Keep up yourself. Of course it’s a political non-starter in the US due to “mah privacy”.

We don’t tax electricity enough to bother with, and certainly not enough to make up for the fuel taxes lost to the brave new world of EVs. So if you are going to drive an EV on public roads, that cost needs to be recaptured. I don’t particularly care how. We basically charge NOTHING in the US for driving a car…

Supposedly the Russians have one.

If I had one, I would. It came with the K&Ns, and for the 500-800 miles a year I drive it these days, it’s fine just the way it is. Makes ~75whp on a good day, which is cracking on a 1296cc small-bearing motor that isn’t a race motor. Bored out to about 1350cc, upped compression, with a fast road cam and the early…

Emissions taxes are the same thing as fuel taxes. X hydrocarbons in = Y emissions out, assuming the emissions you are talking about are primarily C02. Though within narrow margins, that is true for everything that spews from an ICE. Tax the electricity used to refuel EVs. Or just tax by the damned mile and call it a…

So fuel taxes plus weight taxes, or value taxes, or whatever that riegns in the current stupidity while. I don’t care, but CAFE is an abject failure in too many ways.

So don’t be a dumbass and lose your license. <shrug> My sympathy for anyone in this situation is *severely* lacking.

Not the same thing. A Shooting Brake was to transport the dogs and the guns. Hunting cars are literally vehicles you sit in and shoot *from*, which is why they always have retractable roofs of some kind (or in some cases a chair  that elevates through a hatch in the roof). That was not a done thing in the day of the…

Doesn’t NYS have inspections??

That doesn’t look like the engine from my Spitfire. Maybe I need an upgrade?

You’d have my vote.

Even more so - enforce them on MOTORCYCLES. So many Harleys are absolutely fucking obnoxious.

Uber is nearly everywhere. If you want to drive, respect the privilege of driving and don’t be a dumbass. Or live with the consequences of your actions.

And then you get what I saw outside of Paris the last time I was there. Lane splitting is perfectly legal there, and it is done AT SPEED. In heavy slow moving rush hour traffic a few cars ahead of me, two cars got a touch closer than usual just as a big BMW bike with big paniers came ripping up the middle. The bike…

It’s another case where there is no right answer. At intersections that are that busy, there should be a traffic light for the right turn. But at sleepy intersections, why not allow it?

It’s one of those things where you need to use your head for more than a hat rack. I-295 past downtown Portland, Maine is signed “thru traffic keep left”. As it should be, because there are exits every 1/4-1/2 mile and it’s only two lanes with SHORT merge and exit lanes. But it’s also either 45 or 50mph (can’t…

80? The Cryptkeepers around here get in the left lane with the cruise set at 5 under the speed limit.