I grew up in the UK, where everyone learns to drive using stick, and there isn’t any organized “Driver’s Ed” at high school. Yet somehow it works and cars don’t fail, catastrophically or otherwise.

Interested to know how you find out. I bought a dark tinted Puig touring windshield for my Kawi Versys, and it was just too damned dark. Like, unless it was super sunny, I couldn’t see the road.

Yes, it’s more complicated than that, but no need to sound so snarky. A number of car companies, including Tesla, do over-the-air (OTA) updates just fine. It’s complex and sensitive and needs to be well designed, especially around security, but it’s not brain surgery.

I’ve done that EXACT same trip several times on an assortment of bikes (2000 Triumph Sprint ST, 2002 Aprilia Futura, 2015 Kawasaki Versys 1000LT). It really is a fantastic ride, but ideally during the week and ‘off-season’ when the traffic’s not too bad. Ideally you come back through Ojai and Hwy 33...

I’m an expat Brit living in California. In 1998, I showed up to my test in a friend’s car, but they wouldn’t let me do the test because the windscreen was cracked. So I rescheduled for the following Saturday, and during the week I bought myself a 1967 Porsche 912 for $3500, so I showed up for the rescheduled test in…

No Youabian Puma for comparison?

I see no flames. Clearly no Ferrari looks.

Wasn’t it Tesla that also opened up all their patents for free? Maybe Elon Musk isn’t the complete ass we all took him for?

“From the 1910s through the 1930s, he became a fairly prominent public figure in Chicago high society...”

Can’t they get a foam windsock on that microphone? Dashcam video is good. Audio...is not.

Ok, I’ll give it a try next time. But it had better be REALLY good to make up for my ill feelings. Is normally just go up to Crescent and eat there ...

A few things:

I’m buying a 2002 Aprilia Futura next week! Pretty much the same price, but with a recent inspection and new tires and starter. I've ridden a friend's, and it's such a great bike...

Dinorwig pump storage power station in Snowdonia (North Wales). I used to vacation nearby for years as a kid, and was OBSESSED with it. Had books, videos etc. You could hike near the upper lake (but not TOO near!)

I have a VV Golf AllTrak. It has a single CD player in the glove box, and in the center console drawer below the A/C controls, it has an SD Card slot, so I can store pictures to display as the background to SOME of the infotainment screens.

The Volkswagen Beetle in the Bay Area with FEATURE (from the techie phrase “it’s not a bug, it’s a feature”)

That speed sign next to the road? It's a LIMIT, not a TARGET.

On a motorcycle, it doesn’t matter if you’re right (e.g. you have the right of way)... You’re dead if they hit you. Always yield and live to ride another day.

People who don’t get up to freeway speed when merging - nothing worse than driving in the right lane at 60mph and someone decides to merge at 45mph - causing me to have to slow down and risking being rear-ended by the person behind me.

I own 4 bikes (well, 3 bikes and a 150cc scooter), all of which I bought used and COMBINED they cost less than 14K.