If you define looking at the pretty pictures as "reading" then sure I did!
Of course it is very small, even as a production car it is unfair to compare it to a regular multi-seated car. This is more of a personal vehicle, it has a different use. What it does show is possibility. It is possible to build an extremely efficient car if you put your mind to it. A smart car sized version would probably not get the same mileage but if it got even close, that would be fantastic!
I, and many others live in a city where parking space is expensive and hard to find. If there was cars like this we could have miniature parking spaces, maybe even put the cars standing up. In the same space for one normal car you can park four or five like this. I don't really need a bigger car for almost any trip. If it had place for two then it would cover 99% of my needs, the rest i can rent a car or borrow one for. It is much cheaper than to pay a lot of money for parking, gas and of course finding space for it.
It is time for small cheap cars. In cities and in developing countries they WILL sell like crazy soon.
We don't have that problem in Europe, especially in the richer countries. In Holland it is very popular with cars in sizes from smart cars and a bit larger. Then again fuel here cost about $6.5/gallon. And even while driving much smaller cars than north Americans do we still have less people killed in traffic here in Europe. You are doing something wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate
You are referring to an adult woman making her own decisions as "Top shelf pussy, just ruined by porn.".
AND THEN you go on arguing about how porn is degrading towards women? Mind bending!
Do you also refer to your mother as Top Shelf Pussy or does she not live up to that quality standard?
I would like to propose that it is not porn or sexist commercials that degrades women. It is our (both mens and womens) attitudes that does. You just gave us a great illustration of this. Women are not body part nor decorations.
I find it pretty interesting to read about these debates about the "poor" ISPs that have to put up with people using their "high speed" connections to much and that is some how reasonable for them to charge high prices for little delivered. I am sure most people have heard abot how the new law here in Sweden (IPRED) has made the internet traffic drop by 40%. By you logic the ISPs here should be ecstatic. Right?
The president of Banhof (one of our major ISPs), Jon Karlung wrote in a response to this "If the traffic is permanently decreased by 50% a whole sector is in jeopardy" (my translation, in no way an exaggeration). I believe this is because we have a healthy competition in this sector and they know that they cant get away with an expensive but slow service. If people need less traffic they will pay less. This is a _normal_ situation. yours is not normal.
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.