Passivity in Passing
Oner of the reasons why traffic is so bad has to do with so many drivers being so bad at passing it.
Passing used to involve something called acceleration - a thing...
Aiding and Abetting
People ask why car culture is dying. It is being helped along by car journalists. They have become not far removed from the vapid-in-the-background guitar-strumming infomercials for insurance companies that tell...
Corrupting the Youth
When you're facing a really big project - something like a total house remodel - it can be psychologically helpful to not look at the whole thing and instead concentrate on...
Counterprogramming . . .
There is a saying credited to the founder of the Jesuit order, Ignatius Loyola, about the impressionability of children. "Give me a child till he is seven years old and I...
How We Used to Drive
When you put your car in reverse, do you look back - or look down? The answer will date you.
If you look back, it is probable you learned to drive before...
What to Know About Going Old . . . Before You Do!
Really old cars are becoming popular again - not so much because they are collectible but rather because they are practical.
Some are capable of exceeding the highest-mileage figures posted by any...
Elon’s Yoke
They say - well, some point out - that Teslas are dangerous (in addition to being fatuous) because they are suspiciously fire-prone in accidents - and sometimes, while sitting in your...
Jab Addled “Driving”?
We know the Jabs "warp-speeded" past the usual safeguards such as double blind clinical trials over a period of time long enough to establish with a high degree of confidence that...
Perfect Isn’t Necessarily Better
The fact that a thing can be done doesn’t necessarily mean it ought to be be done.
Even if it can be done "better."
Put another way, functionality isn’t everything. If it were,...
Buying What They Can’t – or Don’t Want – to Sell
There are still at least a few affordable - and so, appealing - new cars on the market. Some with manual transmissions, like the base trim ’22 Subaru Crosstrek. Some that...