Anybody notice an overall increase in bad driving lately? At least in my area, people seem to be even worse than normal these past few weeks. More red light runners, more jumping out of driveways into traffic, more aggressive merging... heck, more aggression in general. Think the election season has anything to do…

I disagree with absolutely every assertion Erik writes here, and hope that AB5 dies the miserable death it so richly deserves.

All the people who keep ragging on Uber and Lyft are going to wake up one day in CA to no ridesharing services at all - and all the people that were making SOME money off their side gig will now be making NO money off their side gig. Like the old saying goes, “Be careful what you ask for”.

You should check the CA laws for how much the “Franchise Fee and Filing Fees” are before you shoot your mouth off too much more.  $750 is a bargain.

Jalopnik: We need safer cars!

Replying to a comment from the live thread:

I think you are why we the non-married ones off...

You need a name change - Eric THUNDER.

“All my friends moved away and don’t talk to me anymore, it must be them!”

I READ THE DAMN ARTICLE JASON.

Don’t forget that car companies should only be selling slightly upfitted versions of the Changli.  

Baking supplies. . . Canned soups . . . Soda pop . . . Snacks . . . Spam

Correct, yes, I hate the color scheme. I can live with the yellow exterior on a Mustang, but doubling down on the seats and the shifter? You lost me.

Backing a dictator to stick it to Elon? Bold journalistic endeavor!

Why do you think that? Morales is no Dalai Lama, but he is also not a Chavez. Maybe a Lula, probably. Not perfect, but not a deluded dictator either.

Bolivia just voted to become the next Venezuela.

It’s absurd that both driver and manufacturer think that the Tuatara can go FASTER. There are airplanes SLOWER than that thing.

An Engineer (me): Yeah, yeah 335/316mph, uh huh, uh huh, ok...what about the tires, did they use specially engineered compounds...I’m assuming they just didn’t use an off the shelf street tire and crossed fingers...maybe talked to Bugatti’s supplier, etc...I NEED to know.  It tends to be the least appreciated aspect…

So we’re using anti-woman slurs in an article concerning someone not being sufficiently against anti-black slurs?

Different parts of the Constitution were ratified at different times. Despite all the comments here suggesting otherwise, no “originalist” interpretation of the Constitution somehow ignores amendments to the Constitution.