Bold Robot posted:

NYPD does not give a gently caress about bike lane violations or even really traffic enforcement in general. They're some of the worst offenders in terms of obstructing bike lanes. My wife recently got doored by a car parked in the bike lane, someone called the cops and when they showed up they were just like well what do you want us to do about it .

mazzi Chart Czar posted:

5 severely injured. An Suv drove through a bunch of Law Enforcement Recruits when they were out running


https://abc7.com/whittier-los-angeles-county-sheriffs-department-accident-recruits/12458907/

gradenko_2000 posted:

rode my bike today. 13 kilometers. january weather is nice

Loucks posted:

You want the bitch about cyclists thread. There’s probably one in gbs.

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Cars, Debt, and Police Violence with Andrew Ross and Julie Livingston

Our dependency on cars isn’t just bad for traffic and the environment; it also forces many Americans to take on debt, or interact with our dangerous and deadly criminal justice system. Today on the show, Andrew Ross and Julie Livingston join Adam to talk about why cars, famously a symbol of freedom, actually consign many to imprisonment and death.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

good

BonHair posted:

Copenhagen had a few centimetres of snow today. All the car commuters were very late and annoyed. But the bike paths on the major road part of my commute were fine and cleared.

Ensign Expendable posted:

I assume that if I posted that in a driving group a bunch of them would have a heart attack out of anger.

Electro-Boogie Jack posted:

like, dudes, just take the metro if having to slow down for five minutes is going to turn you into a homicidal freak screaming at a driver who cannot move forward because the entire intersection is gridlocked

AnimeIsTrash posted:

cars are cool

Groda posted:

All bikes without fenders and a rack are car brained.

actionjackson posted:

I like how there's nothing in this pic that would indicate it's not the late 1980s, except maybe that fancy new black and yellow sign on the right

hailthefish posted:

my local city subreddit also mostly proposes the final solution to the homeless problem

AnimeIsTrash posted:

jackhunter64 posted:

https://twitter.com/ohshidt/status/1646561230344028180

More of this please

Mystic Mongol posted:

but they're out there protecting you from lime disease in the ticks

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Acouple of years ago Jake Morgan, a farmer who lives just outside Raleigh, in North Carolina, realised he needed a new vehicle to get around his property. At first he was looking at “side-by-sides”—a sort of off-road utility vehicle. But watching a review on YouTube of one that costs around $30,000 made by John Deere, he saw a comment that said something like “Why don’t you just get a minitruck instead?” That is, a tiny four-wheel drive pickup truck, sometimes known as a “Kei” truck, mostly made in Japan to take advantage of laws there which tax smaller vehicles less.

Intrigued, Mr Morgan started researching. Within a few months, he drove to Newport, Virginia to pick up a 1997 Honda Acty, having spent a total of just $2,000 on importing it. He was delighted. Not only was it “dirt cheap”, but the Acty is less than five feet wide, and so can get into tight spaces a normal pickup cannot, like Mr Morgan’s barn. And unlike a side-by-side, it can also be driven legally on local roads. “They’re amazingly useful,” he says. Not long after importing his first, he sold it and bought another. The new one is even better—it has air-conditioning and a button which activates a dumper.

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webcams for christ posted:

apparently South Carolina banned lifted non-commercial vehicles? lol

https://twitter.com/usingcigarettes/status/1659328802785198080

Clark Nova posted:

advertising "unlimited mental health benefits for employees" is some hellworld poo poo

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F150 drivers pleased to learn electric version even deadlier to pedestrians

CALGARY – Ford F150 pickup drivers across Canada were pleased and relieved to learn that the electric version of the vehicle is even better at annihilating unsuspecting pedestrians than the traditional gas-powered model.

For years the pickup driver community has been concerned that electric models will be less of a danger to small children, the elderly, and basically anyone who flouts the natural order of the world by walking where only massive hunks of self-propelled metal should roam.

Fortunately, specifications show that the new pickups are just as huge as the old ones and will also prevent drivers from seeing anyone over the hood who is less than eight feet tall. Plus, the electric versions have the advantages of faster acceleration, being heavier due to the weight of the batteries, and – best of all – are much less noisy so pedestrians aren’t as likely to hear them coming.

“Look, there’s only one thing I hate more than hearing about the fake climate catastrophe caused by fossil fuels,” said F150 driver Gary Russell, pausing to cough up ashes from local forest fires, “and that’s people who walk on sidewalks in that hostile, anti-truck way that they do. So, yeah, I’m willing to buy a quiet electric version so I can sneak up on those bastards!”

Pedestrian crush-tests performed by the manufacturers showed the electric models had a higher kill vs disable ratio, and were just as effective in side-swiping pedestrians when taking a corner too fast in a crowded city.

Some drivers have taken a different view by questioning whether pedestrian deaths even happen in the first place.

“Pedestrians are another hoax invented by car-hating liberals!” asserted Floyd Minster from Lethbridge. “I’ve been driving F150s for 15 years and I haven’t seen a single pedestrian. I might hear an occasional scream and a thud, but for sure I never see anyone.”

“The only people I see when I drive are workers in second-storey offices.”

At press time, Tesla has confirmed that their new electric truck’s self-drive function will automate the pedestrian killing process.