They only enforce rules that a) they themselves agree with - and they hate bicyclists - and b) that are sure to create revenue, preferably without a cop having to show up in court. Oh, and c) only if there is no risk to themselves in enforcing said rule. I.e., looking dangerous WILL protect you from the police,…

Ok you just scared me off of using Turo forever. I’ll stick with the major rental companies and renting a boring Altima, and have my only stress being the potential of later being jailed for not turning in car that I in fact dropped back off on time.

Yeah, I had an issue recently with Turo. Found an awesome brand new 2022 GR86 while in the Canadian Rockies for a long weekend. Perfect car for the area and bonus points for being a 6 speed. Not 5 minutes after getting the car noticed the TPS light came on. Pulled over to check out the offending tire and noticed a…

I rented a Boxster on Turo and I’d had it 15 minutes and the owner rang me telling me he’d noted I’d broken the speed limit several times and I should keep the car under the speed limit where possible (I’d gone from LAX to the 405 and hadn’t gone over 40mph). I told him I’d return the car as this was unreasonable. He…

“...also came with smaller 18-inch wheels compared to the rest of the lineup”

Oh look, another vaguely-outdoorsy family CUV. It’s like an overweight dad with a scruffy beard who wears North Face jackets and Merrells but never goes outside.

...And I just described myself, so that’s probably why I want this.

You do realize that China is installing more renewable energy sources than anywhere else right lol.

While it’s nice that a very specific study was done for cars, a quick look into a textbook I keep in my office with the title “Fitting The Task To The Human” (Kroemer and Grandjean, 5th edition, 2001) in the chapter Human-Machine Systems reads “There is abundant literature dealing with the ergonomic design and layout…

The only thing worse than touch screens in cars is screens in cars that look like they should be touch screens, but aren’t.

Braking distances increase exponentially with speed.

I’ve been hit by a number of cars. Just because the speeds were low enough to make the collisions survivable doesn’t mean any of them were a good time.

Eh, they’re dropping speed limits to points where a pedestrian collision is much more survivable, so getting drivers down to that speed is a good thing. Mind you, it’d probably do a lot more good to add traffic calming measures that bring everyone’s speeds down, rather than a handful of city-owned vehicles.

I don’t understand why would you drive a car in NYC.

they should just ban anything but electric golf carts within city limits.

I am a (lapsed) private pilot, but my real job is I design airports. I also administer an FAA program called Safety Risk Management for planning, design, and construction projects at airports, including one top-5 busiest in the US. This is a process to basically figure out what could go wrong with proposed airfield…

Does armed robbery carry a life sentence?

Just cut em off. There is no time to fuck around with this.

Curiously, the main thing that makes bike riding feel vulnerable is cars...

As someone who just moved to the suburban wasteland of Henderson, NV, I often struggle with this idea. How could we meaningfully impact the dependence of cars in the cities that are already built for cars. We’re not going to raze these “master planned” communities and install beautiful, walkable and livable…

> They can apply to urban centers such as NYC, but how do they work in areas where walking a few city blocks isn’t as short a jaunt, or as rich an experience as NYC? For example, NYC is densely populated with bodegas and other conveniences on almost every block. That contrasts with other cities where such…