If there is anything that I have learned from Top Gear and Grand Tour it is that the everyday vehicle is far more capable than any of us really believe.

I 100% agree with you. I like tinted windows and understand them to a point. Once they become so dark that people outside of the car can’t see the driver I feel like it is a safety issue, as it’s impossible to have that non-verbal communication with the other driver that can be important at times. 

Not a violation per se, but it’s one I experienced this morning which really grinds my gears: 20-30 cars are lined up to make a right turn, all waiting behind one oblivious person without a care who is not turning right

When I picture in my mind what kind of Sales Manager from my past life as a hawker of four wheeled metal boxes wrote this deal, I get conflicting images. Was it Sal, the shifty greaseball with the long leather coat whose beady eyes were constantly scanning you for ways to take your first born child’s kidney from the…

Pacer only because the Aztec does not haunt my childhood nightmares. 

I’d argue that the whole shadow banking industry (payday loans, pawn shops, those “FinTech” lenders used in ecommerce for installment plans, ‘rent to own’ anything, etc.) would give car dealers a good run for it when it comes to deceptive/exploitative assholery around fees/pricing/fair disclosure of effective…

Or just include an actual spare wheel and not donuts.

This is more a story about how serious England takes traffic safety and enforcement. Two years suspension and 200 hours community serivce? In the US you don’t even get that if you kill a pedestrian.

Doolan lost his license for the next two years, has 200 hours community service to wrap up and faces fines of £250.

Again, a better analogy would be:

Any day you can work in a Morris dancing reference is a good day. You have done good work for the day. Take the rest of the day off to bask in glory.

If he was in Texas, he’d be the one driving the F350.

Remember that dude in New York using his Range Rover appropriately when faced such harassment and danger? Yeah, more of that please.

Yeah and the article mentions that they don’t have airbags and the like, skipping over the fact that they don’t even have seatbelts

Lots of those beach retirement community towns are invariably built out of four-lane divided roads that connect individual country clubs to one another. If people want to drive golf carts behind the gates of their particular country club, that’s fine, as those are private roads. But outside, it’s just asking for…

No but it does make you at least 15, which is better than middle schoolers driving around.

Having seen the wreckage of a golf cart (and it’s unfortunate occupants) crossing a road from one private drive to another and being t-boned by a car: this is largely a law we need to protect ourselves from our younger selves.

It is dependent on the age of the child, very young children can only drive a mini minor, although there are some exceptional circumstance rules. For example one of England’s rugby union players received a special dispensation to drive a different marque from the age of 4.

My question is, why the hell are golf carts legal on public roads at all? They’re unable to keep up with traffic and wildly unsafe in an accident.  I can’t imagine what would happen if one got hit by an F150 or the like.

Did you know there’s an obscure English law allowing minors to get behind the wheel of a Morris Minor — but only if they are registered members of a Morris dancing troupe.