I’ve been in older cars that do it and newer cars that don’t. I think in many cases, it depends on the speed as well.

“Staring at your phone to talk” via texting. I guess I wasn’t really clear. I was just making the point that not only are you concentrating on the conversation itself, but also the movements and coordination required to hit the buttons (virtual or otherwise).

That is a much more concise way of describing what I attempted to.

Yes, talking on speakerphone or bluetooth mics is distracting. It is, however, no more distracting than talking to the person next to you, and significantly less distracting then taking your eyes off of the road to look at your phone every other second. There is no way that you can convince me that talking, while…

People don’t realize how far they travel each second that they are looking away. If you asked someone to close their eyes and drive for 100 feet with their eyes closed, they be terrified. But then they’d have no problem texting on the way home and doing essentially just that.

No, there is no inbetween. Either Every citizen crashes and dies or they become a rally champion. There is no middle ground in America.

I’m not disagreeing at all, but I’d wager that there are far more Rap and hip hop songs encouraging stupidity, specifically while driving, than country songs. A certain “riding dirty” comes to mind as an extremely popular example.

And if you get a bigger car for “more safety and visibility” then the next guy needs a bigger one, and so on and so on. People just don’t understand that these things are relative to the average, so as they push the average up, their relative advantage deminishes.

This has been nothering me so much lately. I keep hearing “I need an SUV because they are bigger, safer, and provide better visibility”. These people don’t realize that for every additional “bigger, safer, etc” SUV that enters the road, they are at a decreasing advantage. They are just escalating the average size of…

I don’t, either. But I do feel bad for their friends and families, as well as the rest of the insurance paying population who’s premiums continue to rise because of these idiots.

Additionally, the NHTSA claims that half of traffic fatalities are related to passengers not buckling their seatbelts, and around a third of estimated fatalities involved alcohol or drug impairment,

And far too many punctuation marks.

It looks like what I imagine would be the spawn of a Compass and a Grand Cherokee. (Missing a few “teeth” in the front grille due to the inbreeding, of course)

...that looks like a Jeep

So then, tell me how to “take proper care” of a car that sees constant salt during the winter to prevent the underside from corroding in under 20 years? As I said, you can only wash so much of the car. You can’t wash every bit of salt off, and salt is the enemy here.

I, too, love wagons and I love the IS, but together they did not work well. I think they didn’t commit enough to a proper wagon shape, and left the car somewhere inbetween wagon and hatch, as others have stated. The Malibu Maxx and Lancer sportback are other examples of cars that went too far, but not far enough with…

This is what I figured

I can’t imagine that, regardless of how well it is cared for, a car would hlold up “just as well” in a salt using area as a car in an area that does not salt. You can only clean a car so well, and the underside is not an easy thing to clean. Salt can and WILL find it’s way into places that you cannot clean and it will…

It isn’t but he was generalizing, and he likely isn’t wrong. Source: Look at the world around you, mainly the youtube.

What would the Tesla driver’s insurance have to say about the damages, at least in the US? This seems like one of those times that they would not give 1 or 2 shits that he likely saved much more money in damages and health bills than if the VW would have had a bad crash, and will place full liability on him anyway.…