See me after class.

Car companies are pricing themselves out of business. They’re only trying to build and sell high end/high profit vehicles and ignoring the vast majority of potential customers. Is it any wonder that Hyundai and KIA have been able to take such big shares of the market? I was visiting my mom in Texas last week and…

This is one thing I have to admit that Tesla is doing right by having front, rear, and side cameras on their cars.

She was confused about what, exactly went down. In the heat of the moment few people act the way they like to think they would.

It will just be a link to whichever dashcams the Inventory is shilling, there will be no testing or any sort of reviews.

I can’t count the number of times where something mildly insane happened to me and I later on wondered why the hell I didn’t do X, because obviously X would have been clear and reasonable thing to do, rather than Y, which was either somewhat useless or completely counter-productive. Things like this put us in weird…

That is a common problem with Toyotas of this era. I had a Corrolla which shares many of the interior components and layout with this and leaning an elbow on the console was the only way to get in.

This. When you can afford the relatively costly maintenance, it’s less about money and more about time. There’s a reason why the luxury German dealers need fully stocked loaners and time-saving service.

Wish I could remember who brought it up, but someone else on the internet recently shared a report that showed high-anxiety people perform better in emergency situations, and their interpretation was that anxious people have already thought through every possible scenario. My counter to that would be that I couldn’t…

I used to think that too but someone pointed out I also wouldn’t trust a lawyer running surplus office equipment driving a 1990s beater Civic. I think there is a happy medium in there somewhere in the region of Camry to 5 series.

I couldn’t agree more. Something that really resonated with me recently was an interview with Alex Honnold where he was speaking about anxiety and some of its possible causes. The one that really struck me was that we all generally live very ‘safe’ lives. We don’t face true fear or danger (outside of driving) on a…

Exactly- the tradesman who shows up in the bro-dozer f-350 king bullshit edition is gonna cost you cost you, the humble contractor in the beat up 90's truck is going to do it right, himself, and save you a pretty penny.

Definitely didn’t want to freak anybody out, but let’s just say I metaphoricallly touched the veil between the worlds, and while I’m in no immediate danger anymore, feeling like everything from here on out is just bonus time definitely puts a lot of things into perspective. So much stuff really just doesn’t matter. At…

I think it’s bigger than that though. I have friends in high end banking / law (I’m but a humble public servant) - and it’s not just a self perception thing for them.

I think it’s bigger than that though. I have friends in high end banking / law (I’m but a humble public servant) - and it’s not just a self perception thing for them. The idea that a car (and a suit / watch / shoes / pen / drink / house / etc) form an integral part of your marketed image bit is foisted on them by…

From personal experience, I can say that acutely confronting and accepting your own mortality does change you. Hold on to that feeling, because it’s real.

When people say that they need material things like a car to boost their “image”, what they are really talking about is their own perception of themselves. It’s not really about how other people actually feel about them, it’s about how they think other people feel about them. It’s ultimately about self worth. 

I mean, if you just need it for “image” then just rent it on the few occasions you need the image.

The world is flooded with these supposed halo cars from exotic manufacturers. The press talks ‘em up a few weeks, Youtubers get ‘em for yet another acceleration challenge (yadda yadda), and then the spotlight moves on. Rinse and repeat. It’s obnoxious.

Sam Walton drove a late 70s F-150 while Wal-Mart was expanding. Walton’s image wasn’t in his vehicle; it was in the business of his stores.