I have doubts he even owns a car. I will never understand people who are so principled about something so inconsequential. 

This take is so boring. You don’t eat in your car, good for you, you probably don’t do anything else fun in it either because why, “smells”?  

ROFLMAO, I am dying here.

Yeah but we have those in CA too and we don’t have night time speed limits. My point is more that CA gets ragged on for being a nanny state by people living in states with “nanny laws”. 

The thing my in laws told me had to do with breaking down and having to walk or something. I dunno, I never drove (far) without shoes somewhere in the car... 

Here is a list of article ideas I had in 2016, only one of which I actually made a rough draft of, I share them with you for inspiration (and laughs). You can tell my thinking had a lot to do with the upcoming birth of my son. I have no idea what my thoughts were beyond these titles at this point.

What the fork? I love how Nevadans like to shame CA for being a nanny state, meanwhile they can’t even eat while driving. Same thing with Texas and their “Night time speed limits”.

But where does the “driving barefoot is illegal” thing come from?!

Holy shit Michael, this is amazing reporting. Anyone who says investigative reporting is dead hasn’t been reading The Root.

Having owned a 1st Gen Versa (6MT), and rented a newer CVT versa, I can say hands down, the worst Nissan is: A rental Altima (CVT) in Hawaii.

I feel a weird bit of shame that I didn’t recognize her name...I have seen both “The OC” and “Hart of Dixie”. :/ 

I am not really seeing your point. A 1 series/3 series is still a much more practical, and much less fun car, than a 911 or Cayman.

Claims to be a tiny house pack, shows a bunch of stuff well over 500 sq feet. Okay Sims, nice try.

Not disagreeing, just adding that the causal link is broken both ways, because some SUVs can’t baby.

The point is that we need a shift in mentality, where drivers understand the danger they pose to meatbag pedestrians instead of thinking that meatbag pedestrians should solely protect themselves.

I have curly butt hairs on my feet too, and I never had any skin graft.. :/

Hey Michael, I guess I have been out of the loop on this whole Baby Ballaban situation. Congratulations, and thank you for writing this article. You made an interesting piece out of an otherwise dreadful car (I assume, I won’t get close enough to find out).

Except some SUVs suck at babying. Our friends bought an Explorer, assuming it could baby, but because Ford had to crap a 3rd row in there, the 2nd row (where the baby went) was uncomfortably close to the first row when a rear facing seat was installed.

You can still drive a fun car, but your examples of a 2+2 and a 2 seater aren’t good ones. The “make my wife drive the kids around” solution isn’t really an equitable one. And if you are driving your wife’s car more than your fun car, guess what....you drive a boring dad car.

Jalopnik does a good job of covering a variety of topics, and for those of us who have kids and care that they have a place to sit in our cars, articles like this are a way to explore the intersections of car enthusiasm and parenthood.