It’s amazing the mental contortions they’ll do to support anyone who’s anti-woke. For example, they view Russia as good and “traditional conservative” because despite having divorce and abortion rates twice that of the USA, and church attendance rates 20% of the USA, Russia hates gays and immigrants as much as they…

Wow, look at all those strawmen you’re building to counter common sense: it’s more dangerous to walk or drive at night: https://huntlaw.com/2024/09/26/are-pedestrian-accidents-more-likely-to-occur-at-night/

10% still walk to school, another 1% bike to school in the USA. Yes, they walk on sidewalks, but they do need to cross roads too.

I loved using these things with shared mobility operators when I traveled to Austin, Cologne, Berlin. At home I prefer a regular bicycle for similar trips, but I can see how an e-scooter would be more preferable to some: so much easier to get on and off and safer too.

‘For example, some workers said they were told to ignore “No Turn on Red”’ - A lot of cyclists and pedestrians rely for on those “no turn on red” signs when they have a green and the cars driving parallel to them have a red. How good are Teslas at noticing a cyclist on a path behind them to the right, moving at about…

But they didn’t seriously inconvenience the owners by temporarily confiscating the buildings.

But we ARE slowing down our population growth; pretty much all of the “first world” has fertility rates below the replacement level (2.3 kids per couple), most are below 2. The growth rate of the earth’s population has been dropping since the sixties, and the population is expected to top out at around 10 billion…

No, that was another Tesla Truck owner in New England, Nantucket I think? Can’t be bothered to look now, but that was also profiled on Jalopnik recently.

I’m not against converting sports cars to drive on rougher roads, see the Porsche 911 Dakar or even some of its better home-made imitations. But chunky big tires without 4x4 make little sense.

I don’t hitchhike anymore, but I make it a point to stop and pick a hitcher up on the rare occasion that I see one and have a seat to spare. It’s almost always a positive experience, and the rare time it’s not is simply because the hitcher is boring and doesn’t say much.

Yeah, IF you’re in an area where you might consider to not own a car then rideshare is not an economical alternative. Carshare, however, might be; I did the calculations for where I live and it’s a wash, I’m seriously considering trying to go without a car for half a year at least. If it works then later I might…

Maybe she learned it from another famous exception to the “Canadians are nice” rule; a cop who was involved in a high-profile police killing later had two shots of vodka AFTER he killed another person while driving, probably drunk: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/court-denies-rcmp-officer-s-claim-he-dra…

Yes.

Sure, let’s go with something a little smaller then: sports equipment stores. They often don’t deliver, and you won’t strap skis or hockey goalie pads to your bike.

It makes sense. It’s so much easier to pull over and park a bike on a whim because you saw something cool in a store window. Also, a single car parking spot can be converted into what, 6-10 spots for customers on bikes?

This is a really cool, grounded way to look at it. I think too often we focus too much about the equipment for our hobbies, and not enough about doing the hobbies themselves.

Yes, it was straight for better aerodynamics when flying, bent down for better downward visibility of the runway when taking off and landing.

The car would have sold more with this version of the commercial:

Surprised capybara