They also need to be better about enforcing traffic laws for both motor vehicles and bicycles. I live in the greater Boston area where traffic laws are treated as guidelines for everyone. Even the pedestrians will jump out in front of your car to cross the street when you’re driving through downtown Boston. For every…

It’s all built around fear-mongering issues that don’t actually exist. It’s the same thing with CRT. People (most who are woefully ignorant) actually believe that graduate school-level material on systemic racism is being taught in elementary schools all across the country when in reality, the teachers barely have…

I don’t understand this thinking at all. Every other person I talk to seems to want either a Bronco, Maverick, Lightning or Mach-E but few people can actually get one without paying some ridiculous dealer or second-hand mark-up. The engineers and designers were the ones who made those models happen. Everything else…

Things I learned from reading part 1 of this incredible analysis:

They do that here in Boston too but our road network is complicated and always busy so half the time the funeral processions are merging on and off major highways and put other motorists in super-dangerous situations where they’re expected to suddenly stop in the middle of a highway where everyone behind them is travel…

Are you telling me that my large collection of Todd Van Poppel rookie cards *might* be worthless?

PHEV is the way to go right now. I have an X5 45e - it’s the best of both worlds. I can spend the whole week driving around the city and commuting on electric-only (32 miles of electric range) and then use the gas engine to take long road trips on the weekends without worrying about charging stations. It can also tow…

Rich Rebuilds did a similar video when he bought his Rivian. He was scouring random neighborhoods during a road trip trying to find chargers only to learn that too many of them didn’t actually work when he got there. In some cases, there were chargers at hotels but they were usually reserved only for guests, even if…

Infrastructure is a huge deal. As someone who owns a PHEV, the dearth of charging stations in certain areas of the country makes me really thankful that I have a gas engine to fall back on when I need it. I live in Boston where there are lots of charging stations. Drive 100 miles north to the middle of NH and there’s…

I think you’re being a bit dramatic here. Nobody is expecting EV’s to be substantially better than ICE vehicles if they’re doing a reasonable comparison. They’re just looking for something that is going to be similar/comparable without making it a huge inconvenience on their part. People do need to occasionally (or…

The last movie to win Best Picture that was wildly popular and well-liked by most people was Gladiator. Everybody I talked to at the time loved that movie and nearly everyone was surprised that it won best picture because the Academy usually never chooses movies with mass appeal. Top Gun Maverick has the same vibes. 

My biggest issues with this are the dash and the price tag. The giant screen is going to age like milk and the lack of physical buttons is really annoying. BMW is throwing this in all of their cars now, including the upcoming M2, and they need to stop.

The tax laws in the US are really bizarre. My father-in-law owns a construction business and he was faced with the choice of either leasing a new car that he doesn’t need or paying that money in taxes. He chose to get the car. This has happened to him a few times so he just keeps on leasing new cars every other year.

I think many people could benefit from financial literacy classes in high school but there are also a lot of people in our country who take pride in being woefully ignorant even if it hurts them in the end. We just spent the last three years watching half of America intentionally ignore the guidance of nearly every…

Chris Evans, who has a track record of dating women his own age or even older, reveals that he’s dating someone much younger and you automatically lump him in with Leo. What a terrible take.

Spot on. There are lots of regular cars like the Camry and the Accord that are just as nice, if not nicer than nearly everything in Tesla’s line-up. The Model S hasn’t really changed anything amenity and styling-wise in the last 11 years. Adding a gigantic tablet in the middle of the console, labeling it as a “Full…

Tesla isn’t the only car company that does this. My local BMW dealership offers to pick up your car, work on it, and then bring it back to you. My neighbor has been taking advantage of this service with his Lexus for the last 16 years.  

C’mon with the “following too close” BS. If you’re traveling 50+mph and there’s something at a dead stop unexpectedly up ahead in front of you, you have very little time to A) recognize that the object in front of you isn’t moving with the flow of traffic and B) stop the fucking the car. There’s a reason why people…

I’ve ridden/driven through upstate NY along I-90 a few times a year ever since I was old enough to remember and the rest stops in NY state were always far better than those in MA. I haven’t made the trip in the last few years and haven’t seen the updates but as far as rest stops go, they were always really nice (except…

Thanks. I looked at their comment history after my last post and realized that they’re just fighting and spouting nonsense with anyone willing to interact with them.