Cool, so we’re going to have way more expensive, heavy, flaky cars with more distracted drivers “in control” of them. Swell. Just swell.

Agreed. Had a Sienna as my rental a couple weeks ago in Florida. If you’d told me it was made in 2008, I’d have believed you. But then my husband realized it had adaptive cruise control, and I found the manual that showed it to be a 2020.

Bonus points if they’re Galactics. They’re fantastic, and cute! 

So pray tell, what are you doing here as an author for a car enthusiast site? How do you enforce such nonsense; with complete abandonment of privacy and Big Brother state control?  Where does it stop then?  Going around curves can be dangerous.  Do you also support cars stopping people from going around curves at more…

So it’s not useful as a regular vehicle. Someone with a mobility impairment can’t drive it. So this only works for the super-small cohort that a) are of such limited mobility that they have a caretaker to drive them places, b) that caretaker likes to drive manual, and c) don’t care about the structure of the car, and…

That same “Oh, these calls really are recorded” thing got me sorted with my local utility company at one point. I was working on a vacant house I’d bought (that I now live in) and trying to get the gas turned on. Utility and I went back and forth because they said there was no service to the house, I told them there’s…

Honestly, it wouldn’t have taken much: Recompense for the Uber ride he had to book plus the extra time and inconvenience, plus the “coupon” probably would have done it.

As for my own Avis story...

This was Avis’ stock response to someone that was unhappy with them, not the response of a company that actually felt it had done anything wrong. I worked for the (very well-regarded at the time) PR arm of a Fortune 500 company for several years, so I recognize it right away. This response was a “please go the fuck…

The bumps Detroit’s been installing will slow you down, I promise.  Many of the streets near me have had them installed, which sucks for me because now all the speeders just use my street instead.  

“I’m just thinking about the emergency workers who have to scrape seatbelt skeptics off the pavement though.”

Up above, they worked out that, yes, the Accord driver had his signal on.  Even if he hadn’t, truck driver’s 110 percent at fault.  

“That pick up driver should be sued to within an inch of insolvency, and lose the right to drive for the rest of his days, though.”

I’ve decried the lack of enforcement of neighborhood speed limits for years now. Cops are keen to sit on the freeway writing tickets for a few mph over, a relatively harmless margin on a road designed specifically for high speed driving. Meanwhile, shit like this happens daily on my own street in Detroit, and it…

Bullshit. The dude was turning into his driveway and the dude in the truck tried to pass him on the left to shoot the gap. That was 110% the fault of the truck because he was driving entirely too fast for the situation and tried to make an illegal pass on a neighborhood street.  Fuck him, and I hope they throw the…

So my parents’ car in the 1980s when I was a kid effectively had an interlock. They just wouldn’t start it until I had my belt bucked. That good habit’s carried through into adulthood, and I always wear my seatbelt.

Also, I’d wager the bulk of people that don’t belt up are larger.  A friend of mine never wore a seatbelt the 15 years I knew him because he weighed 425 pounds and couldn’t physically buckle it.  (as a sad post-script, he passed away at age 38 from a massive blood-pressure-related aneurism.)

What does it matter to you if someone else is or is not wearing a seatbelt? Does the asshole fucking around on TikTok at freeway speeds running you out of your lane do so more dramatically if they’re not wearing a seatbelt?

“Okay, but the point is that road safety and lowering a death toll is probably just a smidge more important than a little bit of inconvenience.”

Cool, so who gets to define “unreasonable risk?” Do rock climbers get treatment, or were they being unreasonable? Cyclists? Motorists going 10 over? What the people that add too much salt to their food or eat too much Chinese takeout?  Come on, you stupid motherfuckers.  Like many, I want to live in a society where I…