This car certainly looks to be in good shape, and a similar condition 944 might bring that kind of money, or at least close to it—in stock condition. The mods, though reversible, don’t add to the price they detract a bit. I can’t quite nice price this.

Those Scheel shoulder harnesses are tied in a loose knot behind the rollbar instead of, like, actually bolting them down solid?

You have an example.

Took my dad down to the local GM dealer to take a peek at a C8. Sitting next to the C8 in the showroom was a new Silverado 2500 (my dad owned one about 15 years ago). My dad (6 ft tall) stood in front of the truck, looked at me and said: “how do they see a kid playing in the street?” I flatly replied: “they don’t.” 

This has been know for a long time but our regulators are a bunch of industry shills, so trucks and SUVs have gotten even bigger and taller.

I just don’t buy that weight is any real factor. It just doesn’t make sense. Whether its 4,000 or 6,000lbs, the disparity between the sedan/truck and 200lbs of rider/bike make it all academic. It’s like saying Arnold Schwarzenegger swatting a mosquito is much deadlier than me. Ok, sure. By the numbers, Arnold can…

Everybody blames the drivers because the drivers are at fault. There have been two fatalities this month in Cambridge because some jackass in a UHaul didn’t check his mirrors or use his turn signal.

Non-scientific hypothesis, but the personalities attracted to these kind of trucks are also more likely to antagonize cyclists, thereby increasing the risks for an accident to occur.

Drivers in the machines capable of causing death bear a greater responsibly to drive carefully.  They misbehave, they hurt others.

I’m currently at the second International Road Safety Conference in Orlando. While trucks specifically haven’t been brought up, the focus is increasingly becoming that a user making a mistake shouldn’t be a death sentence. Regardless of who makes the error, the entire system should be forgiving and have redundancies.

Just require CDLs for vehicles over a certain size/weight.

Wrong. The safest thing would be the transporter from Star Trek. Because that is just as real as full autonomy.

Somebody will shoot their dash.

Can confirm, Vermont makes you drink a coffee, cinch your belt, and adjust your steering wheel grip before you pedal it. Driving there as a flat-lander was...exhilarating

Unless you know German, you won’t know if they are reprimanding you are telling you are a good driver.

My driving in “Europe” is limited to a few days in England, a few days in Iceland, and a week in the Azores.

Personally, I’ll fight it until the day I die. I try to drive slightly faster than the cars around me because I don’t want to sit next to Karen trying to text her best friend Becky at 70mph for 5 miles, barely keeping the car in her lane.

I don’t see local police municipalities supporting this at all.

About as well as gun control. 

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