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[Decoupling parking from development is a great idea.] In January, I wrote about how too many Americans need a car and how the mammoth size of those cars is killing us. There are some signs of progress, however. In the Culdesac Tempe rental complex, in Arizona, hundreds of families are living withou...

[The movement against car bloat is nascent, but it has righteousness on its side.] In recent decades, the size of cars in America has ballooned. These oversized cars increase risks for everyone else on the road, a negative externality similar to secondhand smoke. At Vox, David Zipper suggests that t...

[Maybe he can sue them for not buying his cars.] For several years, I’ve theorized the Elon Musk’s prominent embrace of right-wing conspiracy nonsense would be bad for Tesla. The market for electric cars surely leans environmentalist, so Musk cozying up to moronic climate change deniers seems quite ...

[Will we accept imperfect improvements?] While on a brief visit to San Francisco last month, I saw several of Waymo’s autonomously driven taxis. It really felt like the future. Sure, most everyone now carries a magic glass rectangle that can tell them just about anything, but smartphones simply aren...

[Still, we’ll take it.] Back in April, I wrote about the Googly Eyes on the MBTA movement. This effort aimed to have googly eyes placed on Boston’s subway and train cars, and included a demonstration in downtown Boston. Though the cause was righteous, I had little hope we’d see results. How wrong I ...

[OK, great, but where’s my centaur?] New Yorker writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus recently investigated the current status of “flying cars”. As his article notes, most past designs were “jury-rigged compromises between a lousy automobile and a stupid airplane”. But now, thanks to advances in electric motors...

[I’m not sure why they have a “Taxi” light though.] Earlier in the month, I wrote about rats driving cars. Thanks to friend-of-the-site Drew S., I can now point you to additional rodent driver content. [Still frame via @EmperorsofMischief] These are some sweet rides. Link: https://boingboing.net/202...

[Imagine a rat flipping you a tiny bird. Adorable!] Down at the University of Richmond, they’re teaching rats to drive cars. It turns out, the rats enjoy it, even when they don’t get treats for doing so. Self-driving cars have been 10 years away for at least 20 years. Perhaps we ought to shift our e...

[“As if a computer render infiltrated the real world”] For the past year or two, I’ve found myself noticing some cars looking…weird. Though it was very difficult to elucidate, the paint jobs on more and more cars seemed somehow unfinished to me, or just otherwise wrong. These vehicles weren’t matte....

[And so can you.] Many years ago, I read a wonderful little story on Reddit. So I was riding home from class on the bus through the mall parking lot. At my mall, there is an exit where the incoming cars have no stop signs, but the cars exiting the mall do. As you may have heard, there is a hefty bit...

[Owners of 2023 model year cars also don’t want a new car right now.] For several years, I’ve taken part in Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Program which e enables me to move to a new iPhone once a year, if I wish. I last bought a new phone in September of 2022. This morning, I received an email with the sub...

[🦄]Out in San Francisco, driverless cars from Waymo and Cruise have been providing taxi services for some time. Now, ahead of a meeting where the companies may be authorized to start charging for the service, a group of activists have started fighting back with a delightful orange weapon: tr...

The city of Salem, Massachusetts, is infamous for the 17th century Salem witch trials. In modern times, this shameful series of events has been sanitized. The city now revels in its status as a spooktacular tourist destination, one that’s focused on Halloween and all things witchy. They even go so f...

In America, cars that fail to meet minimum fuel efficiency standards are subject to additional taxation. Though inefficient automobiles are still permitted, a Gas Guzzler Tax is levied on them. This surcharge is intended to dampen the demand for these vehicles.1 I’ve always liked both the idea, and ...

Speaking of missing chips, Ford is apparently going to start selling Ford Explorers without the chips that power rear air conditioning and heating controls. Ford spokesperson Said Deep told The Verge that heating and air condition will still be controllable from the front seats, and that customers ...

If you've got any cars just sitting around, now's the time to cash in.

Still, they'd probably be better off with a decent multi-vitamin.

I'll go on record (in this sharing text) to predict that flying cars will never be anything beyond a curiosity in my lifetime.