Volvo’s in the right headspace

This, Audi says, will be great at warning cyclists when you open your door into a bike lane without looking.

This. It’s not that we aren’t able to drive as fast as Germany, it’s that the piss-poor checklist we call driver education and license tests wouldn’t fly in Germany. Most notably, in this case, Germans have a far better awareness and strict adherence to the “keep right except to pass” rules of the road that makes it…

[75] may not seem nearly as absurd as 85 mph, but when you consider that some drivers give themselves a tolerance of about five miles faster than posted limits, we’re talking about Texas motorists routinely driving between 80 and 90 mph on any give stretch of road.

Speed wasn’t responsible for accidents, but speed differentials were!

It even went so far as to invent the fan and heated seat icons, and ignore the one that literally spells “BRAKE.”

Even so, the freaking manual has all the icons and explanations grouped together on a handful of pages. Anyone should be able to intuit that if yellow/orange warning light is bad, a red version of the same light is worse.

People from Long Island should be able to get a one seat ride to EWR.

I spied the bridge of a museum Voyager, complete with Tom Paris mannequin...

To be clear: I’m so in favor of the congestion charge that I actually spoke at the community outreach meetings about it, because IMHO it’s been easier to have and make use of a car in NYC vs other cities I’ve lived like SF. Manhattan absolutely needs to increase friction to car use. I only took issue with the “it…

Right? Why is driving from NJ into NYC the preferred option to begin with? That sounds like New Jersey’s got some of its own things to figure out.

True, you don’t pay on FDR or Westside, but only Battery Tunnel puts you on the FDR. Brooklyn Bridge gives you a choice to take it, but otherwise all the bridges and the Midtown Tunnel dump you into the core street grid of Manhattan where the toll applies.

driving a vehicle into an area compromising Manhattan south of 60th Street.

I’m always shocked by how far the Toyota Venza came. I have no idea if the new one’s any good, but it’s leaps and bounds sharper and more eye catching than the sort of fat CUV/minivan the old one was.

That’s honestly fine for me. Standard formats like AAs are widely available, but imagine how hard it’ll be to find a battery for something a GBA SP in 15 years?

I’d bet that percentage of “one car” families has grown over time as cars became less and less affordable due to that upward push from the industry into more and more expensive vehicles.

I think this might be why I’m seeing more and more recent model year (22 and 23), extremely low mileage cars (<10k) show up on used car lots. Want to get a new car but don’t want to take that initial depreciation hit? Great news, someone else already did, realized they couldn’t afford the car, and sold it back to a…

IMO, one thing Twitter did right was give you the split timeline: “For You” which was algorithm suggestions in topics or people they thought you might be interested in, and “Following”, which only showed you the people you actually came to follow and hear from. They also remembered which one you last clicked on, so it…

On the Corvette - I blame Chevy design for making their $66K sports car look nearly identical from the rear as their $27K Camaro, so Chevy’s halo performance car reads as the much more common bro-mobile/rental car until you pass them.

I’ve driven plenty of turbo cars and always hated how the turbo lag in the mk7 GTI and base Golf. Eventually you get power way up in the RPMs but every time I got out of one I was left wishing I just had an NA car where you didn’t have to wait so long