San Francisco is a hilly city and on some lines the spacing of stops is appropriately not determined by distance, but rather by elevation gain/loss.

Agreed. In cities if they follow the map route, you are usually doomed. If they don’t head you right to a construction zone backup, they stick to elevated highways and major arterials that are always gridlocked because everyone depending on a map app is there too.

Of course, before Uber/Lyft I once got into a cab in San Francisco and said I wanted to go to the airport. A cheery french-african accented voice responded with “and where is that kind sir?”. 

No, they create traffic.

You quickly come to know every gas station in a 100 mile radius where you do not bottom out crossing the curb cut.

The vote to proceed with military parade funding passed in the house subcommittee today after a compromise that assures that the Dykes on Bikes would lead the parade.

I’ll take that with a Tesla drivetrain conversion.

Before 168,000 gas stations, there were probably an equal number of stables for horses. What happened there?

After satisfying the need for charging stations in urban areas, the EV manufacturers should team up with the various state’s highway rest stop programs. On interstates, the rest stops already have the engineered access ramps, parking layouts, restrooms and signage in place. More importantly, in middle of nowhere…

Way back, 1970 or so, Road and Track did an article about how the average family in England kept their Rolls-Royce for 27 years. The point of the article is how this made the Rolls cost less over time than someone in the US who traded in an up-market US car every 2-3 years for a new one.

Talk about Weird:

Someone needs to put a Ferrari engine in a Tesla to prove cross compatibility.

What progress! I remember driving my mother’s car around with friends in high school. We would hold the button down on the mid-60's garage door remote control as we drove down suburban streets and every so often a garage door would pop open like magic.

Buy it. Ship it to ICON, LA. See what happens next.

I have lived in San Francisco since 1979, and every time I see a link to this film, I watch it all the way through.

My cousin bought one of these when they first came out in the US.

As an Architect, I know that spontaneous failures of heat strengthened/tempered glass products in building glazing usually are caused by impurities in the glass. And to cut to the chase, these occur 95% of the time in glass manufactured in China.

I have been riding Chariot in San Francisco for more than 2 years and I will miss it.

I am waiting for the first car fire caused by someone trying to clean all their touchscreens with Isopropyl alcohol while driving.

Ketchikan is one of those Alaska places that isn’t actually attached to anywhere else by road. The main road ends five miles north of town and five mile south of town. So everything about vehicles and roads will be sort of half baked. Sort of like a sushi restaurant in a small Wyoming town.