There is a way out. Of half a dozen (or more) air bags and seat belt buzzers and back-up cameras and narc-you-out black boxes and automatic braking (soon to be a mandatory “feature” in all new cars). Just don’t buy a car. Buy a “motorcycle” that just happens to be a car… or close enough […]
Tough Love Harley
Cue Borat voice… great success! The ’80 Hardley appears to be functional. Possibly, ridable. Probably for not very long. But, still. I gimped the electrics to a state of “well, it works” … battlefield medicine, so to speak. The bike’s wiring harness was cut and re-routed and shorted out to such a Byzantine extent I […]
Automated Braking to Be Made Mandatory
Well, that didn’t take long. The car companies have decided — on their own — to install automated braking in all the cars they make by the 2022 model year, just six years from now. They have come to love Big Brother. No, they have become Big Brother. Anticipating a federal mandate, they have decided […]
Don’t Buy New!
• March 14, 2016 • 0 Comments • Auto Industry, Car Care, Eric Peters, Insurance Companies, Tips, Traffic Tickets
Whatever you do, don’t buy new. It no longer makes sense — and can be very bad for your wallet. I advise this as an automotive journalist, a guy who writes about new cars for a living. This is probably not a good idea. I am not supposed to advise people against buying the new […]
The Glaucomic Google Car
Old people tend not to drive fast. Or even the speed limit. They sometimes drive into things, too. This is understandable. They are, after all, old. One day — if we’re lucky — we’ll all be old. What grates is the deliberate obliviousness of some older drivers. Nothing like getting caught behind an old coot […]
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