@jodark: A bicycle can be driven on the sidewalk, but doesn't count as a pedestrian when ridden with traffic (or even when in the crosswalk some places).

IANAL, but since he was using a public facility (the road), I guess the the Americans with Disabilities Act says he can't be discriminated against based on his disability.

Cognitive dissonance is seeing cars that look kinda like F1 cars except they're passing each other.

@Average-Joe: $50 says you don't last long enough to get past the foreplay.

@jodark: I'd love to hear it recorded with better audio gear. Even so, it's enough to make me wonder whether I'd wear ear plugs while driving it, or if I'd just sacrifice my hearing to the racing gods.

I thought shooting brakes were, by definition, cool. I am adult enough to admit I was wrong.

I dunno what happened, so it's hard to cast judgement here.

@Turbineguy - now with Ash78-less dispersant: MOST Ferrari drivers would have suffocated on their own cologne as soon as the air stopped circulating in the car.

@Slowlane: Did you read the (favorable) review in Grassroots Motorsports?

@Flathead Smith and the Screaming Straight Pipes: Everyone buys the car that makes them feel best. You think the Volt is more arrogant than a Camaro or a Hummer (RIP)?

@slyman928: How about people stop being selfish and start dying? Increasing lifespan is just as problematic.

My kid and I ran to Lowes yesterday in The Most Obvious Answer To This Question. I keep thinking I'm about to put it away for the winter, but it's so damn convenient for transporting oddly shaped cargo, and if you dress right it's kinda fun to drive in cold weather.

Am I the only northerner here who sees that and gets a bit jealous?

@JalopJeff: Reliability of a New Beetle, maybe. MAYBE.

@wkiernan: Hear, hear.

@AndiC: Yes that is obvious the more you eat the more likely you are to gain weight, however, food eaten after 5pm is harder to burn off than food eaten during the day (even if it was the same amounts per day eaten at different times). Also sleep has been proven to help calorie burn off.

@RB26Skyline- big bore envy: Or someone unlucky enough to be traveling on a road you thought was deserted.

I remember going out with my parents to test drive cars back in ~1990. We went to the VW dealership and drove a Jetta. The salesman convinced my parents that VW didn't put airbags in any of their cars because in an accident your eyeglasses would first come off your face, then get shot back at you by the airbag and…

@The Hoon Dynasty (RexMaximus): But GM *did* kill the streetcar.

@LordLicorice: We don't do that because we have the 4th and 14th Amendment. Also, we're not Israel and hopefully never will be. Do you really want to go into Israel's human rights record? For a country a fraction the size of the United States, Israel does a damn good job keeping up with our ability to inflict…