Going No Faster in Cars That Can, Safely

Cars have changed a lot over the past 50 years. Speed limits and how people drive haven’t. Fifty years ago, most cars still had drum brakes in the back and marginal disc brakes up front. None had ABS. It took them longer to stop. Unless you knew how to brake, they would go into a skid if […]

Semantics: 4WD is not AWD

When language is misused, people tend to get confused and misled. One example of this is the way “4WD” is now being regularly used to describe that which isn’t. Or rather, wasn’t historically speaking. Before the rise of the Universal Transportation Appliance or UTA, the car-based crossover “SUV” (in air fingers quotes because that’s another example […]