...and with ever-more-ridiculous amounts of horsepower. There's a time and a place and a purpose for fast cars, for sure, but nobody needs 200 horsepower to commute to work or go to the grocery or take the kids to karate. Let alone 250 or 300 or 375.
I live in a city infested with bad drivers. It all began with the first wave of taxi drivers from countries where there are no traffic rules and cars share the roads with assorted pack animals. Those cabbies drove as if they were back in Stanstanistan, and so everybody else had to drive the same way or else be run off the road. I've long thought that what we need is taxicabs with adequate but slow acceleration, manual transmissions, slow-ratio steering, and adequate brakes. Cars that would force the driver to hang up the celphone, be thoughtful, plan ahead, and be considerate of everyone else on the road.
Anyone else here ever experienced the cabs they use in England? They're smaller than a Civic on the outside, bigger than a Caprice on the inside, get amazing fuel mileage, and have such a small turning radius they practically pivot about their own vertical axis. And yet we're still dumb enough to be using V8 Clown Victorias as taxicabs.
