Then it got car companies to sign on to its own tough emission standards. “It’s incredibly boring to get on the 101 and drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco and maybe see three cars that don’t look like every other car. And it makes it harder to catch speeders, because all the cars look the same." “Car companies developed a couple of basic designs in the 1990s, and they’ve stuck with them. “Short of adding Nifty Fifties fins or running boards or some kind of weird sunroof or turret, there’s just no way to make one car look different from every other car."

Source: Mint January 01, 2021 04:38 UTC