ahh the right hook, that’s why I take the lane.

20 year old Hyundais practically do not exist on the market in Chicago. They dissolved. 

The last time Mazda made a 2 door in that class I think it was still called the 323 or even the GLC.

The protege was built to be a driver’s car. At least as good as that price point allowed for.

16 year old me: Korean cars dissolve in the rain.

Yes indeed, they must pass at all costs, including the cops. If it means going 40 in 25 they’ll do it. I hasn’t happened recently but used to be frequent on an old route of mine before I moved to my present place, but they would rush to pass me before a stop sign. I was going fast enough and close enough to the stop…

I don’t think cops look that far if all the conditions plus magic words are present. Now if there’s a fumbling of procedure by the motorist, a witness, a civil case, then there might be more digging to that point. But most of the evidence in the car’s data could be spun one way or another. ‘He tried to avoid the…

On a bicycle the view of things is much better and the green left turn arrow cycle already caught those rushing the end of the yellow from the cross street.

Intent? They are all forms of recklessness, disregard, incompetence, and so on. Do you really think someone driving a 100mph in a 40mph zone intended to kill someone? No, of course not. It’s just another idiotic behavior. But we’re told it’s ok to be an idiot some ways but others. There are many expressions of idiocy.…

So you’re just going to insult because you can’t actually explain why one form of disregard for other people is just fine and another should be punished severely. You’re probably one of those people who believe that driving badly while having a BAC below an arbitrary threshold is different than driving equally badly,…

In bicycling there was this term, “the magic words”. All a motorist had to do to murder a bicyclist was be sober, stay at the scene, and say the magic words. The magic words are phrases such as “I didn’t see him”, “He swerved right in front of me”, and so on. Now if a motorist is drunk or flees he’s going to get…

If the goal is deterrence, then just execute him and save us from paying for his upkeep and the huge salaries and pensions of the government employees or the profits of corporate prisons. Or put the guy into some sort of indentured servitude. Punishing the innocent taxpayer as an attempt at deterrence really isn’t…

Maybe that’s it, the slow car fast thing. My formative years were in an era where cars were just starting to get kind of fast again and only a few rich kids had access to these 200hp cars and a few more to something from the 60s.

Races like what? Acceleration to the PSL? That’s how I understood it, but I learned to drive in the 1980s when teenagers usually drove cars with 80-90hp. Anyway, if there isn’t a stop point then I can see why people end up doing a 100mph in 40mph zone, because neither is willing to back off. Is that even a ‘race’?…

It does happen more often than people think but in a wide variety of forms. Some years ago near me a woman drove up on the sidewalk for no apparent reason beyond inattention to the task of operating a motor vehicle and killed a child and injured those with the child. When it dropped out of the media all she had to…

How is burdening tax payers with those costs for six or seven decades going to help anything?

I was under the impression that when accelerating from a stop signal swiftly alongside someone else the first one to reach the posted speed limit was the “winner”. Apparently that isn’t so any longer. Not only because I have seen it, but also stories like this one.

It is normal for me to accelerate at brisk pace. Be…

“The car hadn’t been messed with or vandalized at all,”

What government wants to do is create an expensive tracking system for tax by mile. This is their excuse. The tax per mile system will most likely be in addition to the taxes on gasoline.

“because having no regulations to level the playing field always results in monopoly”