Lars Wilderäng is a Swedish author and blogger. Quick overview: his topics generally revolve around defence policies (Russia bad, moar defence), economics (low interest rates bad, housing market speculation bad) and since the war started, the war in Ukraine (send Ukraine moar weapons). He hates Elon Musk but loves his Tesla. He hates ICE cars.
He's unfortunately one of the "EVs will solve everything" people, which annoys me greatly, but today I saw a small car-related comment on his blog that actually made me laugh.
Oh and sorry for the misspelled "cyclists".
If you think Vermont is "a little more developed" than the "wild" parts of Tennessee and North Carolina you've obviously never been to Vermont. Or maybe you were only there in the summer.
Vermont and New Hampshire have literally the most brutal weather in the US as far as roads go. You've got four full seasons, complete with scorching heat and subzero (F) temperatures with roads that go from below sea level to ~3,000ft and regular, 100MPH gusts of wind (due to all the mountains) which take out road signs. Then there's rockslides/random boulders, endless organic debris that needs to be removed/cleaned up (e.g. those red and golden leaves in autumn and lots of random branches that get blown down by the random winds), blizzards, occasional hurricanes, random out-of-season lake effect freezes, occasional ridiculous heavy rains, and tourists mixed in with New England drivers.
People have seriously steep driveways in Vermont which they intentionally don't pave because otherwise they'd never get up them in the winter. Not because of snow but because of the regular freezing rain. At the top of those seriously steep driveways you'll see plenty of regular cars (not just Subarus).
Um yeah I've been to Vermont. Maybe I haven't found my roads there yet though, I love rough roads. I wish it was closer. But there is a lot more money in Vermont than rural NC so yeah even with the weather the roads get more attention.