On 19 Jul 2025 at 19:11, Bobby Keeland via EV wrote: > There are a lot of vehicles that I do not like the look of, but they > are not my vehicles so it is very OK.
Agreed. That works for other objects too. Even for people. :-\ I've also owned some vehicles that I thought were somewhere between "eh" and hideous. But to me, function is more important than looks. YMMV. > Your thoughts about what you drive is really all that matters. Now that I'm not so sure I entirely agree with. None of us lives in isolation. Every vehicle choice you make has a cost to the people around you. Not to beat on the Cybertruck, or to criticize your choice, but if the universe aligns so that some guy in a Fiat 500 runs a light in front of you, or a retired teacher steps off the sidewalk into your path, either one is going to be worse off for your CT than if you were driving a Model 3 or a Nissan Leaf at that instant. You may still decide for good reasons that the CT is right for you, but - annoying goodietwoshoes that I am sometimes - I think that it's right and proper to look at the whole picture when you make up your mind. You can't put a dollar value on a human life, though some economists try to, but that's one reason that CT drivers almost certainly pay more for their insurance than drivers of less aggressive vehicles do. You could think of it as partial compensation to their fellow humans for the CT's larger "public footprint." David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = I learned "sesquipedalian" from Mark Twain, who used it as an adjective to describe a long word. Sesquipedalian is a sesqui- pedalian word. In a world where phonetically is not spelled the way it sounds, and Gary Oldman was a young man when Henny Youngman was an old man, it was nice to have a word that actually described itself. -- found on the internet = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
