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Category Archives: Driving it Today

AN EXCEPTIONAL CAR, SORTA

AFTER 33 YEARS OF DRIVING the world’s most exotic cars, my current car continues to be exceptional, by several measures at least. This 2012 Honda Crosstour is some 2.6 years … Continue reading

May 17, 2023 · 2 Comments

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS TIDBITS PART 2

YESTERDAY, I GLEANED TIDBITS FROM Automotive News concerning BEV repairability and FCEV Class 8 trucking. Today, this authoritative journal changes pace to discuss Formula 1 research, Britain’s aging car parks, … Continue reading

May 12, 2023 · Leave a comment

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS TIDBITS PART 1

THESE DAYS, MORE THAN A DECADE INTO MY blissful retirement fun of SimanaitisSays and GMax time gobbling, I look to the authoritative Automotive News for tidbits, not for incremental details … Continue reading

May 11, 2023 · 1 Comment

HURRAH FOR BUTTONS!

I TAKE ERASMUS-LIKE SATISFACTION in reading David Zipper’s “The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature” in Slate, April 26, 2023. Indeed, it was way back on August 31, 2012, … Continue reading

May 6, 2023 · 5 Comments

THE LIMOS’ DEMISE, BUT….

“ONCE THE SYMBOL OF AFFLUENCE, the stretch limo has largely fallen out of favor…,” writes Jesus Jiménez in “The Long Demise of the Stretch Limo,” The New York Times, April … Continue reading

May 2, 2023 · Leave a comment

“HOW SAFE IS SAFE ENOUGH FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES?”

THIS MOST COGENT QUESTION is addressed by a Carnegie Mellon associate professor who has written a book on this crucial topic.  Professor Philip Koopman has also written an article in … Continue reading

April 7, 2023 · 1 Comment

A PATH TO AUTO AUTONOMY’S LEVEL 3

I’VE RECENTLY SEEN TV ADS for GM Super Cruise which show the driver playing patty-cake with passengers. A confessed Luddite, I’m late in learning about this enhanced driver assistance (it … Continue reading

March 19, 2023 · Leave a comment

NORWAY—A BEV PARADISE PART 2

YESTERDAY IN PART 1, we learned what Ward, Lock & Co., c. 1930, had to say about Norway. Today, we discuss this Scandinavian country’s love affair with Battery Electric Vehicles.  … Continue reading

March 14, 2023 · 3 Comments

TIME FOR HYDROGEN (AND NOW WE MEAN IT)

“NO LONGER ’20 YEARS IN THE FUTURE,’ ” writes Lindsay Brooke, Editor-in-Chief, in SAE International Automotive Engineering, February 2023. “Hydrogen and fuel cells are a vital, high-growth solution for carbon … Continue reading

February 25, 2023 · 9 Comments

ENOUGH ELECTRON GUZZLERS?

IN SAE AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING, February 2023, Editor-in-Chief Lindsay Brooke addresses “electron guzzlers,” what he calls today’s equivalent of muscle cars of an earlier era. Lindsay writes, “It’s time to acknowledge … Continue reading

February 21, 2023 · 8 Comments