Tara Goddard
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Tara Goddard
@drtaragoddard.com
Transportation engineering professor. Road safety, planning, behavior, & culture; wildfire planning and response; inclusive disaster evacuation; ethics of tech in transportation; planning in the Petropyrocene. She/her.
friend, there is a big difference between dead inside and emotional self-preservation. 🫂
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
That isn't a parody quote? I feel ill.
November 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I felt the same way on both your podcasts! And I could listen to y'all talk for days. :)
November 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I would feel like Pixar characters were staring at me in my own house 😄
November 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I saw someone say she is getting herself up for a run in 2028 and my soul left my body
November 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I thought about trying to make the LA event tomorrow (if you can go, you have to! @awalkerinla.bsky.social will be there!!) but I have a 6 am flight out of SLO on Tuesday. If only we had high speed rail between the central coast and LA ...
November 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
that is helpful framing and advice, thank you! I'll probably be reaching out to ask for your syllabus if that's ok. :)
November 15, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I can't imagine that most people could spend even a week in there (especially May through October) without seriously changing how they talk about it.

If you believe in incarceration as punishment, then that *is* the punishment, not inhumane conditions.
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
if cancel culture was real, Megyn Kelly would not be able to show her face in public for several lifetimes.
November 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
really bugs me that these people cannot understand that woke and totalitarianism are mutually exclusive. They don't actually mean woke, they just mean having to share anything, power or otherwise.
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
hell yes great-grandpa Darren is going to have all the street cred
November 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Really, the near-perfect vehicle. If it was a diesel adapted to run on fryer oil, it would be undefeated.
November 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
which was also a manual transmission hatchback 🥰
November 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Wish I'd kept my 2007 Toyota Matrix and made it off-road capable 😁
November 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
😂 I really need to see that next to other vehicles for perspective 😁
November 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM