OT: Why are 3 door cars allowed on the road?

If you're stating something exists, you don't have to except things which don't stop it existing. You might aswell have said the rather ludicrous "except for the red cars, there are blue cars on the road".

Which can be a good thing to remove unnecessary words like fewer.

Is that why Glaswegians say "burrrglarrr alarrrum"?

If you referring to adults not wearing of seat belts and saying that "the only risk is to themselves" then you are wrong, again.

Seat belts keep the driver and passengers in their seats. The driver can't safely control the vehicle if he's not seated behind the wheel or if the passenger is in his lap.

If the driver can't control the vehicle, he is putting others at risk.

Goes beyond that. If injured and not insured, guess who pays the bills? We all do. Seems like people that don't wear belts are more likely to fall in the uninsured category too.

On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 09:32:20 +0100, Steve Walker posted for all of us to digest...

Figure in that vehicles are much safer. Totaling a vehicle today is normal. Not so much before. Air bags and crumple zones & rescue personnel.

On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 02:20:57 -0700 (PDT), snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com posted for all of us to digest...

Don't forget when you violate one of their 'points' they get an excuse to get more money to get more 'points'

On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 07:49:56 -0600, rbowman posted for all of us to digest...

Where did you read that? ;-)

That's Charlotte Brontë's fault:

Same with Clare

We had a Sidney like that as a PM for a while. Since she had a wife I assume she leaned toward the masculine side.

One of our clients recently had a person I had worked with retire and a Kelly moved up to his position. I approached that with care, asking one of our support people that had talked to them about gender. She's a she.

I've been cautious since a state criminal justice IT person by the name of Shawn showed up at our shop. Not quite the burly Mick I expected.

My favorite was the novelist Evelyn Waugh. His first wife was Evelyn Gardner. Supposedly their friends referred to them as He-Evelyn and She-Evelyn.

I knew a couple, Chris and Ray, that could confuse people. Ray was the birthing unit.

I have a cousin by that name. Given her age I assumed it had more to do with Shirley Temple than Bronte.

The NYT, by example. My high school English teacher would have worn out her red pen grading most of today's 'journalists'.

The someone is usually themselves. I've done more damage to myself as far as broken bones and scars with bicycles than motorcycles.

Looking at 2018, there were 36,385 deaths, say 100 per day. Scrolling down

"All holidays are generally a time of increased travel and traffic deaths. In 2018, Memorial Day was the holiday period with the most motor vehicle deaths (389), followed by Thanksgiving Day (385), Christmas Day (380), Labor Day (375), New Year?s Day (304) and Independence Day (152). See chart below."

The fine print under the chart says

"Thanksgiving is always 4.25 days;" Seems Thanksgiving is under performing.

"New Year?s Day, Independence Day, and Christmas are 3.25 days if the holiday falls on Friday through Monday, 4.25 days if on Tuesday"

Dec 25 2018 was a Tuesday as was 1 Jan 2019.

A couple of the others are a little higher than average but not in the OMG we're all going to die! range.

When a kid with a snowplow turned into my Yaris, it was totaled. I was going about 25 mph, the airbags did not deploy, and I drove the car back home, about a mile and a half, with no major parts falling off.

They don't make cars like they used to. Plastic 5 mph bumpers, crush zones, and so forth make write off inevitable.

The second Yaris did survive a deer collision with minor hood customization but the deer was basically riding on the hood for a while. He left the scene of the accident. Too bad since in this state if you kill it you take it home and grill it. The whole enchilada tht is, no gut piles by the side of the road thank you.

On the third Yaris. I hope this one lasts because they don't make them any more.

Thank f*ck for that. I test drove one once. Ghastly dashboard like a disco. Nosy as f*ck . Barely made it to 70mph, handled like a drunk hippotamus, and held the road like a Glaswegian alcoholic in a frozen gutter..

That model name covered a variety of very different cars

In the US it was actually a rebranded Mazda.

I wouldn't call it ghastly but the Yaris dash does resemble the star of Alien Song.