Personal opinion: anybody who pays up-front for a piece of software which has no contractually obligated deliverables or timeframes, is a sucker.

Roundabouts are great. They’re becoming increasingly popular in BC and they work really well. The only disadvantage of them is they take a lot more space. Easy to implement with new construction, a lot harder with old existing construction. 

Ah, so they’ve gone “2016 Honda volume controls” with the gear lever. I’m glad this will forever be somebody else’s problem and not mine. 

If you’d like INFINITE spam mail, that’s how you get it. You have to charge something, or else it would be accepted practice to just mail anything and everything, regardless of if it makes any sense to do so. 

It’s the only car I can think of where the radio software (just the basic radio - no navigation!) would often crash. "Oh none of the knobs or buttons are responding? Yeah it does that. Turn the car off and back on again and it will work.".

Had a bunch of these in the fleet at work. If you’re looking for a car with a lack of power, lousy seats, poor NVH, poor braking, poor handling, a dead steering feel, lousy reliability, so-so resale value, worse than promised fuel economy, staggering oil consumption and a shit interior — all while having similar…

Whack ‘em full of hydrogen tanks and fuel cells, and use motors which are electric driven. It’s a long way out, but it’s feasible.

Very bothered! That one piece of training seriously saved my ass when I was rear-ended by a transit bus which couldn’t brake on an icy hill. I got a second or so worth of notice when the driver of the bus hit the horn, followed by _bang_. I was pushed forward into the intersection, rather into very active oncoming…

Oh, and to answer your question: if you're in the Vancouver BC area, of course you can take it for a spin!

It’s a 2012 Smart Fortwo - a stubby little thing for sure! I had a Scion iQ before it. Having a tiny car in a dense city is great. 

Small, perky, easy to park in dense cities, great on fuel, fits four adults comfortably, fits anything inside, is quirky and has a ton of personality. For a daily driver, what’s not to like?

73.7" here, and love it.

I think it’s easy to say that Volvo knows it’s customers very well.

Americans have a habit of being completely unable to see more than three years ahead of time. They treat their finances this way (let’s buy it now, we will figure out how to pay for it later), their assets and infrastructure this way (if it ain’t broke then don’t fix it!), their healthcare this way (I’m fine! I don’t…

Cool. I wish them the best of luck.

CPC has more or less proven that the Transit Connect is entirely too “consumer use” focused to be a serious mail truck. They’re broken about as often as they’re on the road. They just aren’t well suited to the duty cycles that package delivery puts on them. 

If the Tesla crazies had their way... 

Solder splices are really common in general aviation. They work well, are easy to use, are reliable. You see them everywhere.

There’s one for all of British Columbia. Want a Tesla and live in Victoria? Better be cool with having to take a ferry ride to the mainland to have anything done that their roadside contractors can’t fix. 

For 99.5% of my use cases, about 250km is enough. For the other 0.5%, a rental car will fill in the gap.