How does anyone make money using their car as a taxi? Well, we’re not supposed to use that word, for openers. It’s ride-sharing. That’s just a dodge, of course. And there’s nothing wrong with dodging laws outlawing the free exchange of goods of services between consenting adults. If I have a car and am willing […]
Report from The Future of the Automobile Conference held at the Petersen Museum, Los Angeles, May 3, 2018
• June 3, 2018 • 0 Comments • Auto Industry, DRIVERLESS CARS, Infrastructure, Insurance Companies, NMA, PRIVACY, Ridesharing, SAFETY, Technology, Traffic Congestion
I volunteered to attend The Future of the Automobile Conference, sponsored by the Petersen Automotive Museum and the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, so that I could report to NMA on what technological and political schemes are being cooked up for drivers. I walked in bright and early to avoid Los Angeles’s notorious traffic congestion. […]
The Electric Cars That Might Have Been
Mandates and subsidies have not only distorted the market for electric cars, they’ve distorted the design of electric cars. Instead of being designed to emphasize their natural strengths vs. IC-engined cars — which we’ll get into shortly — they’ve been offered up as cost-no-object economic and functional absurdities whose limitations and failings everyone is supposed […]
Vehicle Emissions Intersect with the Car of the Future
In terms of a car of the future, what do we want? What can we afford to buy and to drive? Should we buy a hybrid, gasoline, or all-electric engine? Truck, SUV or fuel economy all the way? Do vehicle emissions even come into play when we are thinking about buying a car? Ten years […]
Is an Infrastructure Apocalypse on the Horizon?
• April 29, 2018 • 0 Comments • Gas Tax, Infrastructure, Mass Transit, PPP, Public Private Partnership, Ridesharing, TOLL, Toll Roads, Traffic Congestion, VMT, VMT Tax, WHEEL TAX
The US’s aging Infrastructure seems to be falling apart but what is worse is no one knows how to fund infrastructure. How much more can motorists pay before they can no longer pay any more? Motorists already pay a state and federal gas tax. Motorists already pay special wheel taxes or additional vehicle registration fees. […]
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