One of her themes is the establishment of the Nanny State with the concurrent loss of ambition and drive in the young. Why learn to do anything for yourself when Mom ‘n’ Dad, the Police, and the Gov’t will “protect you”? Not so different from all you self-righteous folks, eh?

Stephan Wilkinson is dead-on, as usual.

I use google everytime I come to TTAC because I don’t bookmark TTAC (or anything not work related) on my work computer. While I certainly don’t believe everyone is as paranoid as I am, it could account for some percentage of the traffic from search engines. Especially since most of the comments are posted during working hours, so I gather that a good portion of the folks that visit TTAC do so from work.

But the reason for my comment was that I thought TTAC was a site for piston heads. By giving craptastic articles like the one in NYT, I think TTAC is giving credit where none is deserved, and thus, straying from the focus of this site.

You must mean: “couldn’t care less”?

Sort of reverses your argument…

Though I think she was grasping for content a bit, but we all have days like that.

Not all kids are the same, but letting many of them wait two or three years to get a license will prevent a lot of damage and heartache.

My family is poor and can’t afford a car for me and just now was able to afford insurance on my Mom’s minivan (I’m 20…just started “legally” driving a few months ago) so I’m a slacker?

People like her just need to shut up and go away. Spare us the stupidity.

I like the idea of L plates, and think there should also be O plates, for old. I’d happily use when when my reflexes start slowing down.

Hate for environmentalists, liberals, the New York Times (same thing, actually), attractive and intelligent female reporters (ditto), people who can’t drive as well as “we” can, the popular press (as though ttac is somehow at the summit of intellectualism), people who’ve achieved something that “we” haven’t, anybody who knows less about cars than “we” do even though they’ve actually got lives…let it all out, people, bust a gut, have a coronary.

They can get around on bikes and rollerblades for all I care.

I like what the do in Australia with the “L” and “P” plates on cars. I wish some US states would start that too.

We should care, IMHO, because as dangerous as teen drivers are on average, inexperienced adult drivers aren’t much better. And today’s non-driving teen is tomorrow’s inexperienced driving adult. I’d rather people learn to drive with SOME kind of adult supervision (even if only part-time) as teenagers than with no supervision at all in their 20’s. But that’s just an opinion, of course.

Anyone that cares at all about cars would realize newspapers are not the place to get car info, and probably nobody who visits TTAC regularly gives a flying rat’s ass about what the popular press thinks about anything automotive.

Statistically, search engines account for 57.18 percent of TTAC’s traffic. So I’m thinking that a lot of our visitors are newbies and occasional visitors. I bet they’re interested in more than OUR opinion of car-related news.

And TTAC’s Best and Brightest have proven time and time again that they’re engaged in– and fascinated by– the wider world of politics, fashion, economics, media, etc.

Oh, and “anti-branding” is one of the best ways for a non-leading brand to promote and reinforce itself. (Thank you Al Reis.) So we’ll continue the media blogging.

So some self righteous dimwit writes a laughable piece on teenage (non)driving…great, they are dime a dozen, why do we care?

If we get enough teens without licenses, then maybe the environmentalists will get their wish and we’ll see less cars and less traffic on the road.

Of course, it would be a problem if that happens for local municipalities since that means less people they can collect revenue issue tickets to.