“all using the same car”

This is genuinely what I hate about Nascar and modern racing in general. Let’s run stock cars with homologation requirements. Maybe one specific car dominates, maybe it doesn’t, but I want to see some mechanical ingenuity on the track. Driver skill is very important, yes, but what if we had…

Robby Gordon started something like this about 8 years ago and it’s a crowd pleaser.

Kevin Ward killed Kevin Ward.  If you get high and walk out onto a hot track, that’s about what you get.  Stewart didn’t kill anyone.  He was driving his car on a track when a hot head charged him on foot.  

A real point! No matter how many airbags, automatic braking, blind spot awareness, whatever gadgetry, people still find a way to undo just about everything with their own commitment to stupidity. Part of my national mandate for standard transmissions is that you can’t steer, shift, and hold the phone at the same…

Still safer that having mom drive holding a cell phone like a walkie talkie. 

As opposed to the mountains of green Jeep has been printing for years?  Nahh. 

Money laundering and/or inventory control makes sense just fine.

Or drug deals. 

I don’t think it’s child trafficking, but I don’t think money laundering is out of the question.

I think what you really mean is To Really Cut Carbon Emissions, Stop Living.

It sure seems to fit “unlawful imprisonment.”

When the crowd surrounds the vehicle, and refuses to move, those inside are being detained against their will. Whether the crowd is “peaceful” or means no harm is irrelevant - they have still detained those in the car against their will.

I thought Jalopnik might be the one hold out where I could get somewhat of a break from the shit that is going on in our world now and just focus on car articles. Guess that’s over now. 

There are more than two sides to this, and 66 instances of cars hitting protesters does not mean 66 sets of identical circumstances. The 19 and 4 determinations about malicious intent is testament to this.

Is it an open, public road? Why do the protestors have more of a right to use it than anyone else?

So at what point is someone actually allowed to feel threatened?

Based on recent history I expect this post will be deleted, but while it’s up:

Ugh. Guess what happens when you protest in the street? Hmmm. I wonder?  

People who dont stand in the middle of the road get hit 0% of the time. True story.

I worked at a Hyundai dealer almost 20 years ago where the “negative equity + no down payment + had bankruptcy 3 years ago” customer was a common occurrence in the show room (maybe it still is).