An old chicago street light pole where the street sign was. That will kill the occupants of any vehicle that hit it.

“I’ve always agreed that was the original intention even though it didn’t work. That’s not the intention of it any more.”

It was always the intention of CAFE to control what we may buy, from day one.

I didn’t write a damn thing about comparative reliability, I wrote about economic viability for the long haul. Do you really think these cars with overwrought engines are going to be economically viable for decades?

I didn’t take it as disagreement, I was expanding from what you brought up. I agree there are useless rural bicycle lanes, but it’s the one place they can be something other than useless if done well.

In other words you didn’t know why CAFE was created and you weren’t around to experience the malaise era so you have absolutely no clue but you’re going to tell me what your teachers told you anyway.

That’s why I wrote they can work on rural roads. If there’s a way to make something useless people putting in bicycle lanes usually can find it. I used bike lanes in a few places and they can be poorly executed. The question is would good execution make them work, and yes when bike lanes are properly done and…

Indeed, the roads are for general traffic. The reserved spaces, the protected bike lanes, and so on add complexity and danger, especially those who go more than 8mph. Putting bicyclists off to the side puts them out of sight and out of mind. It makes everything more complex. It makes left turns for the bicyclist a…

As a vehicular cyclist I’ve found that obeying the vehicle code to the letter angers motorists the most. I’ve had motorists get angry for things such as I was in the queue at a red signal ahead of them. They expected me to illegally pass the queue in the gutter to the front. (Illinois has since changed the law to…

Critical mass are just a bunch of assholes IMO. If they wouldn’t obey a red signal and I was using a bicycle and persisted in my right of way on a green signal I am 99% sure they would attempt to beat me up.

Were you even alive in 1976? Did you even live through the malaize era? Please, spare me the modern revisionism.

I stopped once. The guy flew across from the oncoming lanes in front of me and off the road and down an embankment into a swampy area. So I went up the road a bit to a side street, parked there, and by the time I walked back the rest of the way a cop had arrived and other people stopped but most of them in the way and…

CAFE was designed to eliminate large passenger cars from the market. That was the intent. But like I wrote, it has been a disaster on all fronts except achieving that. There is practically nothing the size of what were ordinary cars in the mid 1970s when CAFE was passed today. What comes close are expensive luxury…

Regardless the 3000 mile change is from relatively ancient times.

It’s great that it doesn’t bite him but he’s the kind of customer that is common in my present employer’s industry. They buy equipment and do nothing to care for it. If it survives what they consider long enough they stick with the brand. If not they switch to the major competitor then back again when the competitor’s…

These overworked small turbo engines are the result of CAFE. It is the worst or close to the worst major government regulations of the automotive industry in the world. It brought about the SUV when automakers could no longer offer people the big passenger cars they wanted. It’s been a disaster every way it is judged.…

The 3000ish oil change is promoted by those who do oil changes to make money. It was based on worst case situations from back in the 1930s or before. By the 1990s it was long since dead. Even turbo cars in the 80s had higher intervals.

“decided that since the rest of the truck is trashed so fast that it’s worth the money he saves on oil changes to never change the oil”

Brake cooling for an 80s car or before is not going to be worse that the stock steel wheels or even most of the alloy designs of the era.

That’s just another day on the job for TJ Hooker:

He should have sold this car a long time ago or started driving it. Or keep it a good while longer.