I would probably take that position in return for that paycheck. Can’t promise that I would perform much better than Yaccarino, though... all my dials would be turned up to 3 out of 10.

Agreed. I have always been defending Brundle when there are discussions about him, but those statements are downright ignorant.

The problem in NYC is that when the light turns green, the Walk light also comes on for pedestrians. Every day I see the “no turn on red” causing additional car/pedestrian issues here.

As someone who drives, walks, and bicycles in NYC, 100% this. If drivers had any sense at all we should let them/us turn right on red, so as to avoid having to slowly push through all the pedestrians who are walking on green.

If people were at all responsible, I would expect them to always act as if they were the other person in a situation. There are absolutely times and places when your bike has to go on the sidewalk, there are times when they mustn’t. There are times when someone in a car decides to be Minnesota Nice and stop to let me…

Or we could just enforce the existing rules, making sure that drivers suffer repercussions when they run over pedestrians or get close to.

My only-ever new car was an ‘03 Mazda Protege5. I am still looking for another one. I don’t know if it’s a case of sour grapes, but I genuinely dislike new cars and wouldn’t want one.

Same here. It’s not fantastic, but it feels less stupid than the alternatives.

I second all of that. Although I was looking forward to all of the tax cuts homeowners supposedly receive when we bought our first house last year (at 45 years of age), and they have not yet materialized. My tax bill was higher than what it was when I rented. Not complaining, even though we are the definition of house…

Yeah, sure, I come at this from an urban location. But I am remembering the sidewalks along roads in suburban Colorado and I see your point. 

I feel like this guy will be getting plenty of “justice”. I think I would consider it a closed chapter, as soon as he has paid for the repairs.

Those are often the ones that are dangerous in the end - they try so hard to prove themselves that they end up doing something spastic.

Polish people can put away a pile of paschal poppyseed cake.

JDM Toyota Crown. Available from stripped out taxi-specs to corrupt politician-level of luxe, very reliable - or at least reliable enough to last you as a daily well past a year.

Even successful L5 would be a disaster. Everyone would send their self-driving cars on errands while they are at work, they’d have them drive around the city for eight hours rather than pay for parking, traffic would increase exponentially and emissions and resource use along with it.

Avid bicyclist here, and no bicyclist over twelve years of age should be on the sidewalks. Of course, that also means that there has to be a safe option in the roadway. One guy in a pickup truck mowing down a bicyclist will naturally push a few hundred to ride on the sidewalks, and it is understandable.

A quick search shows that this is a pretty good price. Discounting clapped out examples and a VR6-converted one at €31K, asking prices in Germany seem to cluster around €14,000 ($14,700). Add 3-4K for shipping and handling, haggle it down a thousand, and this is not a bad deal. Importing one will take months and is…

There is a Turkish folktale about an angel who visits a farmer who says “I will give you anything you want, riches, land, animals - but whatever you wish for, your neighbor will be granted double.” The farmer thinks a moment and says “put out one of my eyes.”
It’s not uncommon, sadly.

Yup. Same thinking that makes my illegally immigrated (overstayed visa) father-in-law want to pull up the ladder behind him now that he got his citizenship.

Does it, though? I imagine that $33K loss includes a large amount of fixed cost. Not sure how much, but I guess we will know if it’s possible to overcome within a few years.