Speed limit 45mph, two lane urban road with the lanes
separated by a double yellow lane. Noone ever passes there.
Ahead,  a traffic light just turns green at a *very* congested
intersection. Miraculously, there are very few cars stopped

It's Sunday afternoon. A geezer is stopped at a red light in his 1994
Mustang convertible (his license plate even says so). When the light
turns green, the geezer takes his foot off the brake but doesn't touch
the gas pedal. The car begins creeping forward, but the geezer's eyes

I gotta say "thanks!" to the Sloth Creeper who, for whatever reason
these creepers do it, had stopped several car lengths away from the
stop line at the intersection. I approached in the lane next to him
and, seeing the enormous gap, deftly merged into his lane in front of

Weren't we just talking about this?  And all this time I thought the point
of being a lead-foot was to get out in front!
I'm driving down a freeway in the left lane, doing 63 in the 55, passing a
car doing 50.  We cross a slight hill and go around a curve.  Dead ahead I

Yesterday I entered the leftmost lane of a double-left-turn pocket;
both left turn lanes led onto a two-lane on-ramp to the 5 freeway.
From the street below, there is no indication that one of the two
on-ramp lanes is marked "carpool only" so I blithely made the turn and

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050426lsd,1,1399060.story?coll=chi-
newslocal-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
A 22-year-old man was thrown from his car and killed early this
morning when the vehicle rolled over and crashed on Lake Shore Drive
on Chicago's North Side, authorities ...

...while driving south in the northbound lanes of US 1.
http://tinyurl.com/89rlf
Yet another example of why we need (IMO) periodic testing of *all*
drivers instead of just handing out licenses to keep the revenue flowing

Has anyone tried the new GE NIGHTHAWK Headlights?  Are they brighter and
better than Sylvania SilverStar Headlights?
http://www.ge.com/stories/en/20287.html?category=Product_Home
http://www.sylvania.com/ConsumerProducts/AutomotiveLighting/HighPerformance/Silv
erstar/default.htm

I live in western Canada, and do a lot of highway driving.  Am considering
getting AWD for improved ability to handle winter highways.
Are there advantages to getting an all wheel drive vehicle (of some variety)
versus staying with a FWD vehicle with Traction/ABS/ESC.  The reason I ...

I'm getting better at shooting out headlights.
I rigged up a rifle mount on my side view mirror.  Everytime someone
approaches my car with those goddamn blue headlights I set my rifle
and fire a few shots.  Last week I knocked out one light and blew a

Coming back from lunch this afternoon, I was in the left lane of a
4-lane road (posted limit: 60 MPH) passing some dump trucks and an
OCTA bus. Ahead of me was a Sloth in a tab Mercedes driving about 45
MPH. There was plenty of room in the right lane for this fucktard, but

Suppose you're stopped at a traffic light. In your rear-view mirror,
you see a car approaching - FAST. You realize he's not going to be
able to stop before hitting you.
There is another car stopped in front of you, but you stopped far

Remember my idea for equipping every car with a GPS receiver and a
communications link to identify traffic congestion? The one people
like BrentP said nobody would ever use because of the privacy
implications? Well, looks like at least 200 people are using something

Oil to Stay Over $40, says BP CEO
Oil to Stay Over $40 This Year
By Christopher Hope (Filed: 27/04/2005)
Lord Browne of Madingley, chief executive of BP,

How does driving a convertible with the top down at 155mph affect aerodynamics? I haven't shorn my head off but am wondering how
this affects the stability of the car, if at all...
kristoff