I pull over immediately and if they get smeared by a truck, oh well. When cops ‘pit’ and beat up or kill people who don’t obey immediately I really don’t give a damn about their safety from traffic. If he wanted me pull over somewhere safer he will either tell me after I’ve stopped or he would have waited to turn on…

“How sad the founding fathers lacked vision to the point of omitting to add cars as a right in the constitution.”

I’ve been deliberately put at risk (and delayed most every time I go somewhere) by someone who is explicitly following things that are taught as part of driving safety courses. Now these things are not in the law, they are misteachings.

“Probably find 3 of them made out of pieces of the original”

If the new urbanists get their way it will be impossibly expensive for anyone but the very wealthy to own a personal motor vehicle let alone a garage and your commute will be a painfully slow experience on a bus.And even if you manage to retain an automobile your journey on the tail of the dragon will be…

You don’t find it odd that a website that considers itself one for automobile enthusiasts carried articles from someone who writes things like this:

Again, there’s no reason for them to do so given the current partnership with government. Government picks up the downside risk and limits competition. Government patches this effect when it acts against banks and other corporations when they don’t lend or serve people they wouldn’t in a free market.

Also in lending…

There’s the point I was going to make. If the battery goes dead you can’t even push the car. What is the point of this needless complexity? To achieve an extra cup holder?

Now add rust.

According to some beliefs we don’t get out of here at all. Just get recycled into another body.

“What’s....what’s the point of a parking brake, with an auto/CVT?”

“If men were angels there would be no need for government.”

I don’t know who you are replying to, but I didn’t write what you quoted.

Why should some corporation be decider of what our best interests would be?

“I am not calling for more government or laws or oversight at all.”

But the american mentality shifted away from prudence once the political process got involved. According to politicians and the media, you, like me are a horrible person for saving and living under your means. You’re “lucky” and your deferring of pleasure for security means nothing because things happen to people. So…

“All dealer finance offices should be required to be a fiduciary.”

The lack of parts for this long of a time period is because TM won’t sell them or supply them or doesn’t have the cash to pay suppliers to get them. I get it if there is a shortage of parts for a few weeks or even a couple months but over a span of years that’s because they simply choose not to make them or make them…

Idea is fair, execution however is terrible.

Keep demanding that more be done to keep people safe and the more vehicles will be designed for ever narrower use ranges. As the demands become more extreme it becomes less and less possible to engineer the vehicle for a wide range of uses. Various uses outside of going to and from work and such are going to be simply…

More absolute cluelessness from the writers of this site. “Industry Standards” or private standards govern most everything you buy. See that UL label on stuff? That means the product meets a set of private standards. UL also tests to those standards. ISO, ANSI, etc also have a wide variety of standards of what has…