Cue Black Hawk Down style “this is my speed assist, sir”.

Oh, but they aren’t staying out of it.

I love this new trend of “you don’t need it” becoming “therefore you can’t have it”.

Bro, there’s like zero legitimate purpose for a shoulder thing that goes up.

Please tell me you didn’t paint it black.

Reddit is full of young, anxious people. Just like Slate.

And just like Slate journalists, redditors are try to fix their own anxieties by reducing the autonomy of those around them.

They’re stuck on the “Intelligent Author” prerequisite.

Seriously, I can infer each and every one of the author’s unoriginal political opinions from this single bad take.

Jesus, someone is bringing gun-legislation levels of stupidity to car regulations.

Reddit is fully of young, anxious people, some of whom will even grow up to be rich. I honestly think that what we’re witnessing here is exactly what the eggheads refer to as “atomization” and “free-floating anxiety”. Everyone’s so insecure all the time (sometimes, but not always because of material poverty) that they latch on to the first thing they see that passes for a villain.

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(I’m probably doing a bit of that too, right here, right now.)

It’ll be heaps of fun, too.

Really, that’s all you gleaned from this?

When the measure becomes the target, it ceases to be a good measure.

I’m with you. I got a 2022 wrx a year ago, and it’s the perfect balance of utility (4 doors, a trunk, awd) and fun.

And it’s so easy to work on!

I’d love to own some kind of Miata someday, but as long as Subaru makes cars like the current-gen WRX, I’ll probably own one.

Institutional logic at its finest: if we do X, we reduce deaths by Y.

Repeat this logic enough times and you eventually get to a speed limit of zero, with zero automobile deaths! Tada! 🎉

Because the audience is overwhelmingly American.

Miata or Alpine A110. Reason: nothing is more fun to drive than a lightweight car.

You mean to tell me that additional mass, poor near-range visibility and the sense of invincibility that comes from driving a humongous vehicle results in more fatalities?!

I’m in shock. I need to sit down…