Comments on: Time for more SUV regulation

By: Thar be danger on the roads « west north

Thar be danger on the roads « west north — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:33:50 +0000

[...] this also demonstrates that cars today are much more dangerous weapons than they used to be. Faster, heavier cars have more momentum, and when they hit someone who isn’t armored (a [...]

By: Oh, please. « west north

Oh, please. « west north — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:33:44 +0000

[...] users into outlaws, while rewarding dangerous behavior (like zooming between stop signs, something today’s cars do with ease). Street regulations — like laws about, say, marriage — should change to [...]

By: Quick links « west north

Quick links « west north — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:38:47 +0000

[...] of vehicles on the road. (Engines tuned for efficiency rather than power should also dampen the deadly horsepower race.) “The SUV craze was a bubble and now it is bursting,” said George Hoffer, an economics [...]

By: paytonc

paytonc — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:03:33 +0000

Clark Williams-Derry from Sightline dug up an amazing graph (blogged here at Gristmill) that shows how horsepower spiked upwards the instant that fuel economy "hit a wall" -- i.e., CAFE standards settled into their holding pattern in the late 1980s.

By: Pluto, car-free prizes… « west north

Pluto, car-free prizes… « west north — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:14:55 +0000

[...] Gregg Easterbrook in an LA Times op-ed about his horsepower argument: Please don’t counter that “no one can tell me what I can drive.” The [...]