Good luck getting a the hybrid without a markup or waitlist though. The gas equivalent is easier to get.

Google maps has a little icon you tap when in nav mode that lets you report hazards, including radar traps. If enough people tap to let google know, or google sees enough people suddenly braking at one specific spot as they track you, it updates google maps to give a warning to navigation users. Al hail the almighty…

The information is crowd sourced via the popular mapping apps.

This discussion seems quaint in a world in which most automotive mapping applications warn you of speed traps long before you are in range.

The smog was my first thought. I remember as a kid that California seemed to be covered in perpetual fog, but their strict emissions laws helped clean the air tremendously. California still seems to have the best car culture in the country despite the regulations. I guess it helps to be able to enjoy your cars when…

California makes every vehicle sold in the US more expensive. The regulations they are trying to force on the overall transportation industry do not make any real difference outside of the aforementioned cost increase.

15gal * 26 fillups/yr = 390gal.  5500 gal / 390 gal = 14.1 years.  But it doesnt matter since there are millions of scenarios.  Wanting a grand up front doesnt seem like the right way to do it.  Especially since I bet they will find new ways to tax over that decade plus to break even.

No, that’s still bad. I can drive to my office on surface streets and completely avoid highways, even if it adds to my commute time by 5-10 minutes. This, then, would be completely unfair to those who can not avoid highways in their daily driving. There's lots of places where avoiding highways, just... isn't possible. 

At 18.4 cents per gallon, it would take nearly 5500 gallons of fuel to equal the $1000 tax on EVs. An average fill up of 15 gallons would be 366 fill ups. Every other week would be 14(!!!!) years of gas.

I mean, the “road tax” isn’t exactly wrong. If everyone went electric like some people want then how are we going to pay for road maintenance? You could be taxed by the mile, but that’s going to be harder to track for people that might have older vehicles without just straight up slapping GPS trackers on every car,…

Hertz really did get shafted by Tesla lowering the prices.

The sad thing is, I think the majority of rental car customers would get by just fine with an EV. In fact, since most rental car companies don’t make you recharge before returning the car, dropping it off is easier than ICE cars because you don’t have to worry…

BMW BMW BMW BMW BMW BMW BMW BMW BMW BMW BMW. Use the damn blinkers!

You clearly always headed west once you hit I-80/94. It’s going east that things really get bad when the lake effect snow dump kicks in. I’ve lived in MI and IL, travelling back and forth countless times, and some of the worst conditions I’ve driven in happened there. It’s also where the worst multi-vehicle pileups…

BMW. End of discussion.

Nissan Altima. Just type in Big Altima Energy.

10+ years ago I would have said German luxury brands, but not anymore.

Pretty difficult to say. There are a few standouts in my mind like Teslas, most German cars, fucking scooters (Hawaii problems...), but I think we’re focusing on the worst people in a group that is steadily getting worse and I think the overall quality of drivers here in the US getting worse is a bigger problem.…

The cars I see most often weaving in and out of traffic, tailgating, and otherwise creating mischief tend to be Ram trucks and 10 year old Nissan Altimas with tattered temp tags that have probably been invalid for over a year.

Bad is subjective, but I do know with a high level of certainty what make and model of car will likely be holding me up under the speed limit with no clue of what traffic is doing around them.

Honestly, it’s not a single incident, it’s a lifetime of Hoosier nonsense, driving on I-65 between Indianapolis and Chicago. For being a great lakes state, Indiana has the storm handling abilities of it’s southern neighbors. Indiana has always wanted to be a southern state and it tries to manifest that wish by being…