Nope, it didn’t. It started way before carbon fiber or even “tuning”.
During WWII they found that the polished aluminum fuselage of the P51D reflected massive amounts of glare into the pilot’s eyes so they blacked out the nose:

You’re missing one factor, lives saved. As an earlier poster stated, running lights save lives even during the day. If you factor the number of lives saved vs the increased costs, your argument becomes moot...

It goes back a bit further than school buses & carbon fibre.

The problem is that the “auto” function doesn’t know to turn the lights on when your wipers are on.

I was in an Acura TLX and it actually had an ingenious solution where the headlights reset to “auto” every time the car is turned off.

Headlight switches.

I’m not sure if it’s a “trend”, and it’s petty as all hell, but I don’t like brake light / turn signal combinations. When I see that red light come on, part of me wonders: “Is this guy slowing down with two of his brake lights burned out? (In a state without inspection requirements, this is a common occurrence), or…

Oh, I don’t know.. humans aren’t always so good at that, either. Like this Accord driver who swerved into oncoming traffic to avoid one car, and hit another.

So what you are saying is a van got slammed into by an out of control Honda and autonomous controls had nothing to do with the wreck. So I guess Jalopnik is just reporting on local accidents now. Ok, got it.

“If you don’t mind, I just conditioned the leather back there.”

I’m not much of a fan of drifting but I LOVE the fact that there is a venue for people to build and run ridiculous things like this. AFAIK, it’s pretty much just drifting and hillclimbs that still have fairly open rules to allow/encourage delightfully crazy builds like this.

I found this a while ago and thought I should leave it here.

Am I the only one that LOVES lumpy cams? Especially on an old muscle car. That, or the sound of straight cut gears at low speed.

Super sad but let me say this. THIS is the reason the auto community needs to come together and be LESS judgmental and MORE welcoming. This idea isn’t “stupid” it’s just that this individual didn’t know what he didn’t know. You can’t just “make up” physics... there are reasons cages are designed the way they are.…

“The kids want good racing and good cars.”

don’t worry, mexico will pay for it.

As long as you realize that the XJ Cherokee that off-roaders love so much was unibody. Also the Grand Cherokee was unibody from day one. Most consider those as SUV’s.

People still bought the Corolla because it is a Corolla it had a reputation for being pretty much bulletproof (and still does).

I find it much easier to use the chassis code. “Sir, I like your 1996 to 2000 Honda Civic.” “Nice EK!” We’re not trying to be cool. We’re just lazy.

Nope. For a car that was already then too obviously “retro” being vertical was too much. I prefer the original SN95 horizontal ones.