“Today’s standards do not allow automakers to deploy the latest safety-improving lighting technologies, so we are bringing key experts and stakeholders together to modernize our standards and address potential causes of glare,” said NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison.

In before industry reps convince the government to mandate some new high-intensity headlights that are three times as bright while also being ten times more expensive.

For what it’s worth, that’s how my youth in New England was. I would walk/hitchike to the bus station, to catch a Greyhound to Boston, to then hop on the subway to head out of the city to Quincy, then walk or take the local bus to my cousin’s house to visit. Roughly 100km of travel, unaccompanied, starting around age 11-12. Everyone walked/bussed/subwayed around the city.

Still no where near long enough of a sentence.

Wow, this nutter again? I’d never heard of her or seen her face until this week, but she’s popped up in more than one compilation of talking heads pearl-clutching about Mamdani (before his election), and I wasn’t impressed.