Also, why are my posts always grey?

The Peninsula/South Bay regions near SF have removed nearly all of their red-light cameras. Only a few remain. I recommend using Google to seek out articles on this topic to see the reasoning various cities had for discontinuing their contracts with red-light-camera companies. Come to your own conclusions.

Aside from what people said about asking about the pedals:

I had a similar experience recently. It seemed like everyone on my commute to and from work was driving awfully fast. If I wanted to keep up with traffic from red lights, I had to get into the boost a little bit.

I'm not entirely unsympathetic to the future apartment-dwellers. Even with my windows closed, the guys who drag race their straight-piped S-line Audis and M cars down the street right outside my window at night make it pretty damn hard to sleep.

That would actually be reasonable, if speed limits were reasonable in the first place. Pretty much all roads in the USA have speed limits, and cops have demonstrated they're happy to enforce those limits. So, given that we have the technology to limit vehicular speed, why can vehicles still exceed those limits? I'll…

If you aren't at least in the 100-150K USD bracket by age 30 as an engineer, you're probably being underpaid. I wish decent houses around here were as cheap as 800K, too, but you're fortunate to live in a less expensive area.

This ("My spouse drives auto only") was always the deal with my parents. Father only wanted to drive sticks, but mother wouldn't touch them. It's a reality for some folks.

The Toyota Corolla of South Bay.

I am technically one of them, having spent my first 31 years there, but as I said in the last thread, McKinnon is not the right kind of road to open up your new P1. If you must peacock on public roads — please take it to the track instead — at least do it on a highway.

In addition to the possibility that the driver still had summer tires on the car, and the chance that the driver had turned all the electronic nannies off, then speaking as an ex-Dallasite, McKinnon is not a smart road on which to floor your new P1's throttle, particularly not when the broken-ass concrete is wet.

Also, texting while driving is incredibly dangerous, and I don't hear anyone griping about those sponsorships.

Because if he's going to use what is arguably archaic English he should also be using subjunctive mood. For example, "Would that there were [...]"