Had the government not forced domestic auto makers to build more efficient, safer cars in the 70s, would we even be where we are today? Safety and efficiency were not really driven by consumers. Consumers were mostly fine with the big ol’ leaded fuel barges they’d been buying for years. Consumers were mostly fine with…

make a car that doesnt take longer to fuel than gas, goes the same distance or further than gas and that we have the infrastructure for.

A Telsa Model S weighs about as much as an F150 or an E-class, a Model 3 weighs about as much as your average CUV. So they’re really not heavier. Yes, they don’t use gas but using gasoline taxes an essential source of infrastructure funding is what lead the US to the mess it is in.

Not a big deal but gasoline taxes are mostly diverted to other non-road expenses already. And damage to roads is primarily a result of temperature cycling, poor initial foundations, and heavy trucks. Making a small change to passenger vehicle weight won’t make a difference.

It’s not bad, it’s good. Cyclists are really just people that haven’t bought a Tesla to save the world.

As a cyclist, I’ve actually been excited about self-driving cars because how could they be as bad as human motorists? And now I see: just as bad, with their own cheerleading squad.

The scariest part is how quickly the driver turns to justifying what happened. That level of blind support for anything is a commentary on so much of what is happening around us... on either side of any issue.

Texas Mode engaged: Attack Cyclists

I’m pretty convinced that Pitbull is a huge social experiment to see how long people can be convinced that something awful deserves to be in the public eye.

NBA wasn’t doing games in China because of diversity. They were doing it because China is a huge market that makes the NBA a lot of money. The streaming deal with Tencent alone is worth $1.5Bn (and the company has unceremoniously dropped both the 76ers and Celtics games after each team’s separate controversy). The NBA…

And here I was thinking that Ice Cube would be a perfect fit for the NASCAR demographic. I guess every single country, country-rock and anodyne FM-rock act in the country was already booked.

It shocked me to learn that “more timid” is grammatically incorrect. It was the most interesting part of the race for me.

Ice Cube signed over his right to be cool when he started playing a cop in film.

And Pit Bull? Seriously? Two kinds of people like Pit Bull. Music producers who are panicking and trying to find something to fight online streaming services so they can continue fueling their cocaine habit, and trainers at Planet Fitness…

Just put in rails on bus lines and bring back trolleys. No excess road wear on rails.

Right, but we can still work at getting better instead of kvetching.

Charge people per mile based on weight and fuel economy? You mean threaten the propagation of gargantuan pickups and SUVs? Not a chance.

Exactly. You always get this comment when a country that isn’t the US succeeds at something. In most cases, it’s utterly irrelevant.

There’s nothing stopping us from doing it. Those same idiots would revolt over the higher taxes Norway collects as well as putting away the oil money sales instead of spending it right away.

That’s what the fifth paragraph was all about. Also, what does population size have to do with it other than there probably would be enough supply for the US to do it yet? Getting 84% of a population to buy EVs is an impressive feat whether it’s 6 million or 350 million people.

Any of the discussions regarding Norway’s oil exports aside, part of the reason why so many individuals & companies in Norway are buying EVs is because the nation is incentivizing it’s population to actually do so. Buyers of EVs receive all sorts of registration & tax breaks, key of which include no purchase/import…