It’s also hard to come back from being hit by a Camry going 50 mph.

Literally every single line is different.
The only similarity is the high gear lever.

Well, while we’re asking.....

Well, you’re wrong, I don’t know what to tell you.

Sure, but they recommend that BECAUSE car companies don’t offer good value cars here. It’s not car companies not selling good value cars because of the Jalopnik comment section. 

I think you may have confused the chicken and the egg in your analogy. 

It doesn’t bother me too much but the Fit does indeed have a very tiny armrest

Frankly put, this makes me think that they pulled him over for speeding, he didn’t comply, took off, and once they flipped his truck and killed his child, they came up with the additional caveat that maybe he was drunk or high and it was that, not the PIT maneuver, that precipitated if not caused his own son’s…

It’s like they want poor people to aspire to an unattainable or unaffordable lifestyle instead of giving them functional, attractive items that can meet their needs and financial situation.

It’d never fly in the “aspirational” US car market, but I’d like to see a cheap car that embraces its cheapness. Skip the door panels and lets see a painted door frame. Let’s get more creative with materials. Cork for flooring and sound insulation.

Not even sure the cops initiated the chase in this instance.

Nope. The Milwaukee cops stopped chasing and the number of car jackings and associated deaths skyrocketed. They still don’t have a handle on it.

First off - the car was driven by the NEIGHBOR. So that sucks. Leden wasn’t with a family member in the car. The other child was the neighbor’s son; that child survived. I suspect Leden was not in a seatbelt and shoulder harness.

“Some” responsibility? He wasn’t being pursued because of a speeding violation, he was pursued because he was suspected DUI running from the cops. Yes, I know there are too many bad cops out there, but if you have kids in the car at 1am, maybe just stay stopped and not try to flee?

maybe speeding isn’t bad enough to pursue a car....

This is a relatively “new” concept in LA. In “new” I mean from when I left LA for the high-desert/inland empire in 1990 to when I started working in the metro area in 2012.

the process of forcing a consistent 0-on-red would be a massive undertaking.

By way of apology, I donated $20 in your name to the Greater Chicago Food Depository.

I did say “to some degree.” That includes zero degrees.

Ignoring the three-cars-on-a-red rule in LA ... would cause more traffic problems