The Best Reason to Not Buy Any New Car
There's one very persuasive reason arguing against the purchase of any new car - regardless of make or model:
The property tax you'll be forced to pay . . . forever.
Ot at...
Safety vs. Saaaaaaafety
Driving a car that has loose lug nuts is always unsafe.
No one in their right mind would knowingly do it.
Driving a car that might not hold up as well as a...
Video Rant: How to Avoid ASS
ASS - Automated Stop/Start - is becoming almost impossible to avoid in new cars . . . emphasis on almost.
One way to avoid it - even in cars that otherwise have...
Virginia’s Automated Revenue Collectors
Speed cameras are like kudzu - they have to be beaten back every so often.
If, that is, the public has any idea they are about to get mulcted by them.
With almost...
Don’t Sweat The Cost of Gas
People worried about how much money they spend on gas ought to consider how much they spend on their cars.
Gas is among their smallest expenses - especially vs. the cost of a...
Saaaaaaaaaaaaaafe New Cars?
If cars are so much saaaaaaaaaaaafer than they used to be - courtesy of the beneficence of the federal government - how come fatalities are increasing rather than decreasing?
It’s another one...
They Can’t Drive . . . 50
It’s not just obnoxiously high fuel taxes the French are rioting over. It’s also obnoxiously low speed limits.
Last year, the government of Emmanuel Macron decreed the equivalent of America’s ’70s-era Drive...
No Roads For You!
One of the arguments deployed by those opposed to a free society - you know, those "unrealistic," pie-in-the-sky Libertarians - is that there'd be no roads. But what happens when the...
Radar Invisibility, Kinda-Sorta . . .
Some of you may remember the ‘80s movie adaptation of the epic (and excellent) sci-fi novel Dune by Frank Herbert. The characters in this far-distant future wear defensive shield belts that,...
Presumptive vs. Actual Impairment
Yesterday, my buddy got into an accident. An actual accident - because it was one he could not have avoided. A minivan pulled out in front of him, struck his Jeep...