<![CDATA[Jalopnik: meta]]> http://tags.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: meta]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/meta http://jalopnik.com/tag/meta <![CDATA[Captain Obvious Of The Day: ABC News Says Speed Cameras Work]]> Two years after the first speed-limit enforcement cameras were installed in the Arizona hamlet of Scottsdale, ABC News decided to send three of its crack journalists on a mission to aggressively investigate whether they work. The answer? Yes! Wow—Lisa Stark, John Parkinson and Imaeyen Ibanga, your dedication and attention to detail should be celebrated with some kind of award.

I don't want to set myself up as some kind of law-enforcement pundit, but speed-limit cameras will deter speeders, period. There is no argument against it. An automatic system that will ticket persons exceeding the speed limit will slow people down. And the data backs this up.

Speeding violations dropped from 13 percent percent after the installation of the cameras. The cameras will automatically ticket anyone going 11 mph over the speed limit or more. Now, let me tell you want kind of bullshit ABC should be investigating? Those speed-limit enforcing planes.[ABC News]

]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=351253&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ever Wonder What a Non-Auto Blogger Drives? Me Neither, But Here You Go]]> David Pitlyuk, of davepit.com, decided to venture out into the dark and dangerous blogosphere to ask the top non-auto bloggers what they drive. The answers were even more anti-climatic than you might imagine. The majority of the bloggers drive four-door sedans: Camrys, Maximas, Corollas, CRVs, RLs, etc. There were a few highlights on the list I found particularly entertaining. However, I do have a rant.

Jeremy Schoemaker of Shoemoney seems to be a stereotypical dotcom kid. He drives an H2 Hummer. In his profile picture, he's wearing sandals, which makes no sense whatsoever.

Then there's John Biggs. Biggs is a former editor of Jalopnik's brother blog Gizmodo and current editor of CrunchGear. He was my editor at Gizmodo for quite some time and I respected him a lot—until I discovered that he drives a lime green VW Bug. Come on, Biggs, man up.

Now for the rant: I wish Dave would have considered contacting some auto bloggers, who you'd think would provide some more interesting responses. When I signed on to Jalopnik, one of my favorite questions was asking the other Jalops what they drove.

For the record, I drive a 2006 Civic Si. [DaveP]

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