Oh, I thought it’s because you needed to make a quick escape sometimes:

We should go back to horses for the soul.

“But while the KA-30 was functionally superior to the Sever-2, it never managed to look quite as good as that original GAZ chassis.”

I’m with you, it’s great to not have to figure out traffic patterns and parking in a new city. Renting cars is fun, but these days I like carshare (or moped share/e-bike share/scooter share) even more; such a great way to get around cities that offer them.

I had this truck 22 years ago. It had 150,000 miles on it, it was in similar shape but it didn’t have the trailer hitches or the winch. I paid $2000 for it; given inflation, the still crazy used car prices, and maybe a bit of nostalgia, $5900 is not far off the mark but maybe a bit high. It was, and probably still is…

I don’t know about California, but here in British Columbia in December we can get a permit to cut down one tree that’s growing on Crown land under powerlines, since those trees will need to be cleared eventually anyway.

OK boomer.

I got a little wind-up toy version of the Renault 5 Turbo when I was 6, and I thought that was the coolest car ever for the next few years, reinforced by the time I actually saw one in the wild. One of the first hot-hatches ever, only the Golf GTI preceded it in large numbers sold, but it didn’t look nearly as cool as…

As someone who gets airsick once about every twenty of flights or so, I noticed two things: the air-sickness bags are thinner now than ten years ago, made of paper, and they WILL eventually leak, about 5-10 minutes after use. Second, (and perhaps related to point #1), the flight attendants are a lot less helpful to…

Whatever EFI car that’s been modified to sound like it has a back-firing carbureted engine.

If they’re doing it correctly, they’re driving on roads or trails. “Off-road” is a misnomer, around here those who do it prefer the term “4x4ing” and they drive on old, deactivated mining, logging, and forestry roads.

Goddamn that’s a bleak article. 

You’re not picturing correctly. Let’s say the author was at the southeast corner, crossing to the west on a green light; the Lincoln driver was northbound, trying to make a right turn to the east on a red.

The different way is no right turn except on a green right arrow at very busy crosswalks; the pedestrians will…

It doesn’t rain in the Netherlands and Denmark, and the Dutch and the Danish don’t sweat? Like the article says, even Canadians and Australians with their extreme weathers ride to work more often than Americans.

Lots, maybe even most Americans live within biking distance to work. The median one-way distance to work in half of the States is 7 miles or less, which is 30 minutes at a very leisurely pace on a bicycle. (Source, page 7 here: https://www.streetlightdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Commutes-Across-America_180201.pd…

Agreed, the freedom to not have to find parking, not worry about switching lanes in traffic almost at all, not have to make split second decisions about whether to brake or go through that yellow light, not worry about fuel levels or blind spots, and not worry about many other things that make city driving suck is…

That’s why car-sharing is taking off in Singapore, GetGo is doing well there. For some locals it’s the only car they’ll get to drive in years.

Yeah, “Didulo chased out of Kamsack” has some real funny autocorrect potential.

He was a great songwriter but he didn’t write “Hey Joe.” It’s very interesting to see how his version of Hey Joe, which came out within two years of two other versions of that song including one by early Deep Purple, is so much better.

By the way, does anyone know why all the comments sections under The Root articles have disappeared? They had an article about this BS there too, but no place to comment.