I wouldn’t want to be in the dentist chair when he sees his bike getting carried away. That’s the stuff nightmares are made of.

I think the criticism is the road network and manufacturing of vehicles are so damaging that it is inaccurate to call any vehicular transportation “clean”.

I was eying a mid sized truck back in 2018. I got a new F150 for about $6,000 less than I could find a crew cab Tacoma.

Almost sad I missed this one. I don’t have anything as dangerous as most of these stories but a plethora of storied that are just dumb. Not deadly dumb, just regular stupid dumb.

COTD! That was perfect

There is a notable overlap. I suppose if you are talented at networking and sales, it is a natural progression.

I was introduced to the term JRPG around 99/2000. It was used pretty commonly around high school to separate the very different styles of a Final Fantasy/Star Ocean from Planescape/Fallout. The main separation between them usually being if the player has a fixed role in a story verses the player character having…

This happens with any popular term. Something causes a word to hit popular consciousness and it starts being used frequently. In the case of gaslighting, it put a common occurrence into a simple phrase. It was brought to mainstream attention a few years back as it was useful to describe political denial. A few people…

Good to know. I think a lot of us consider our home regions to have winter, but we thing of vastly different things when we hear the word “winter”. I usually consider Buffalo to have winter weather, but our main concern is getting stuck. Or having terrible tires and sliding through an intersection.

France invented the Diverging Diamond Interchanges and they have over 300 million roundabouts. Though the French roundabout rules work differently than most other places I have been.

I am going to disagree on the rear cameras and emergency breaking. I think they are great for tools for any driver.

When I first saw this I thought it might be the next Hummer. It was absurd, large and ostentatious. But then the electric Hummer came out and checked all those boxes perfectly.

To many people a truck is a tool. Some people love ornamental versions of tools, which look good and are functionally useless. Decorative swords and rifles are a great example, or chinaware that isn’t used for eating. 

I live near a large retirement home that is full of Encores and Trax.  In 10 years those cars will start to be inherited by the grandkids.  

The main test here seems to be lost hours of productivity. So if people are walking or using the subway to get to work they aren’t getting caught in this test. According to Wikipedia some 57% of New Yorkers rely on public transit while its only 28% in Chicago. I would think the number of walkers is also much higher in…

All reasonable suggestions... Largely sensible ones at that. I was expecting to see something like an Oldsmobile Aurora with an attempt to show how high tech it was in 2001. A mention about The NorthStar engine and keyless entry. Reminding the buyer to make sure the car includes the CD based navigation system

My Grandmothers retirement home is full of Buick Encore’s. Its a smaller town and Buick/GMC is the only dealership. I’m curious what the next old person car will be. They seem to like smaller vehicles that are slightly raised up. Probably the Encore GX or the Trax. But I could also see them jumping brands and getting…

The Prius just became something I might have to keep my eye on. As someone who has been driving a Prius V for over 10 years, I’m not afraid of the stigma that comes with being a Prius driver. I would appreciate the nicer styling and quicker acceleration.

Space sure fills up quick. Especially if you leave enough room to actually use/move your things.

The shed is only 12 by 8 feet (city ordinance required a permit for sheds over 100 sqft). The Kayaks are 12 to 16 feet long so they just don’t fit. I could build a lean-to but the kayaks fit nicely on the garage ceiling.