To be fair, CAFE needs to be massively redesigned or ripped up entirely. The way it currently works is by tying the required fuel economy with the footprint of the vehicle. The bigger the vehicle, the less efficient it has to be. But the curve is so steep that it makes it virtually impossible to build small compact cars that fall within these regulations. Notice how cars keep getting bigger and bigger with every redesign? This is the main reason why. The Honda Civic of today is massive compared to 20 years ago. Sure, crash safety plays a part, but CAFE is the main reason. Many automakers aren’t even selling cars in the US anymore, it’s all SUVs and pickup trucks, because these are easier to design for CAFE standards.

It’s also making cars less reliable. Gone are the days of robust, 500,000 mile engines. Most vehicles have downsized engines with turbochargers for better efficiency, but turbos are finicky and delicate machines that are expensive when they fail. Basically all engines use EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) to improve efficiency, but that introduces dirty air into the intake. Direct injection instead of port injection is commonplace now too, where fuel is sprayed directly into the cylinder rather than just before the intake valve where it can wash over the valves and keep them clean. Combine EGR with direct injection and you have a recipe for fouled valves that don’t seal and can potentially require an engine tear down to clean by hand. Add finicky electronic control for fuel injection, valve timing, ignition timing, etc. and you have a recipe for unreliable engines, everywhere.

Vehicles that are less reliable get scrapped earlier, but this doesn’t get factored in when discussing reducing CO2 emissions. The emissions of producing cars isn’t exactly negligible. There has to be a middle ground between efficiency and reliability, it just doesn’t make sense to squeeze out minuscule increases in economy at the cost of halving an engine’s lifespan. And it doesn’t make sense to deny us the small and efficient cars that the rest of the world gets to have, because CAFE says they’re too inefficient, while a gas guzzling monster pickup truck is perfectly okay.

Why not both?

Ackshyually, aluminum is a relatively light metal

That’s what good pussy sound like

Is this available anywhere? I absolutely love it

But it’s i before e, except after… oh.

I thought that was the lululemon guy.

Maybe it was both.

It was probably both.

I’ve tried, believe me, nothing works. Therapy doesn’t do shit, medication doesn’t do shit, I’ve been like this for ten years now and it just keeps getting worse. Seems like there’s no way out but the easy way out.

I’ve been leaning more towards the “not” side for a while. A frequent thought is “I don’t want to live like this anymore, and if this is the only way I get to live, maybe I don’t want to live.”

You’re right, it’s intended to compensate for extra sag of the rear suspension, but if I don’t need them aimed up then I might as well keep them down so as not to dazzle any oncoming drivers

I fucking wish, we rarely get that here in North America. I had that on my old Mazda 3, and fucking loved it. I’d always keep them angled all the way down in the city with well-lit streets and only angle them up on the highway

A mirror? How about a licence

From what I’ve read, some cars do have movement/shock sensors, but they can be defeated by breaking the window in such a way as to cause minimal vibration to the vehicle, like a spring-loaded glass breaker. The guy who broke into my neighbour’s car took a metal rod or something, stuck it down between the glass and the dew wiper, and pulled back, putting pressure on the bit of tempered glass inside the door and causing it to shatter.

Not necessarily true, most alarms only go off when a door is opened. If they break a window to open the door from the inside the alarm will sound, but if they break the window and leave the door shut: silence.

Source: multiple cars broken into this way outside my apartment building, not one alarm went off

WAP

I was so confused about what the heck b& meant, I’ve never seen it written that way before. My dumb brain was like “Huh? B ampersand?”

I love how the millennial has a beard and man bun lol

Fuck that was good

Right on man, that sounds awesome!

Firefighter?