And I think the “forgetting the baby” happens more often than we realize because a lot of places you can forget a baby are not the car and don’t lead to tragedy.

Pushing in the clutch is more difficult without a shoe, I’ve found.

I get that some reminder is better than no reminder and would probably at least cut down on these tragedies, but it’s crazy how even big cues can disappear when a person is distracted. I think a lot of us go on autopilot a lot more often than we realize.

Maybe if they charged an annual fee to access the convertible top, it would make it profitable enough to keep.

I just repeatedly whisper “It’s only a lease” to myself every time it catches my eye. Fortunately, it’s not really, really far off, so if you’re not looking straight at it, it’s harder to notice.

Back when I went to college straight out of high school, they would consider a kid independent of his parents if he hadn’t been claimed as a dependent for two years preceding enrollment. I had always filed my own returns because of various tax schemes my father was involved in that were worth more than the exemption…

When I lived up in Amarillo, I used to get stopped for stuff like “running a yellow light” or “suspicion of too-dark window tinting” or “leaving a parking lot where there is a restaurant that serves alcohol”. I would say that they’d be all over a no-front-plate violation up there, but when my Dad had a Corvette…

Traffic laws, especially in the bigger cities, seem to be very selectively enforced. The no-front-plate one probably not seeing a lot of enforcement overall.

The worst part of my current front plate is that the dealer idiot who installed the bracket had no interest or ability in centering the bracket on the bumper.

I said they were from Arkansas. I thought the “not very bright” part was implied.

I wouldn’t mind that in Texas, assuming the sticker wasn’t too intrusive.

Back when I was a kid, my Arkansas relatives would all put stupid Confederate Battle Flags in the place where the front plate would go had Arkansas required it at the time.

I remember in the late ‘90s, my Dad was talking about picking up an XJ220 on the (relative) cheap, The worry about parts availability and the like finally knocked some sense into him, and he ultimately passed and poured more money into his ultimately money-losing classic car collection.

The Yugo is the most reliable car there.

Well now I want it.

And my 1998 Audi A4 was largely bulletproof.

I never drove it, but my dad briefly had a 560SL from roughly that era, and what I remember about it is the carpet being the nicest carpet I’d seen in a car to that point (and we’d had Jags and Porsches and even the big SEL boat Mercedes)

My only car insurance claims in the past decade or so were weather-related and happened when the car was unoccupied.

My house doesn’t move at all, but I still have insurance for it. Surely the same would be true in this mythical future where cars are virtually unwreckable.

Shouldn’t have to work very hard to be better than an EcoSport.