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much like guns, cars are deadly weapns and so to own a personal automobile you should have to keep it in a safe with a lock on the ignition at all times and sometimes you can get it towed to a closed driving course where you can drive it as fast as you want in a safe controlled environment before locking it away again to prevent daily misuse
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Dolphin posted:this defeats the only good purpose of cars which is sending rich people into poles at 200 loving miles per hour, disintegrating them in a raging conflagration i prefer the old Roller Coaster Tycoon standby of “this track ends abruptly several stories up in the air” for the kind of disposal but as long as we have leftover cars I see no reason not to use them e: ^^^ carefully lining up the sight post on top of my car before dropping the brick on the accelerator and sending it directly at a deer I’m hunting
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Norton posted:you are trolling right? No. Also there should be a graduated system of licensing where trucks/suvs are commercial licenses only. Yugo's are the general driving appliance cars for people who only drive cause they have to, also limited to the right lane only. (This works better then a governor because a yugo can only go like 60mph anyway). Then for people who actually know how to drive and treat it responsibly and have demonstrated proficiency by placing in the top 10% of a sanctioned racing event, they can drive any kind of car they want, and are allowed to use the full road.
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Oct 4, 2021 19:01
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I like the 2021 F150s but I'm gonna hold out for the maglev version
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People can barely handle those dumb electric scooters that are everywhere in cities now. As James may says, the craziest part of driving is that we are allowed to do it.
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Had to drive to a work event last week and I got into an accident, loving hate cars my neck is so sore
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Mayor Dave posted:Had to drive to a work event last week and I got into an accident, loving hate cars my neck is so sore you need a bigger car so you can not even feel an accident when you plow through/runover whatever makes driving a lot smoother
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i say swears online posted:I live right next to the fastest road in the US with a limit of 85mph. It was cool for about a year but at only two lanes per side it's been destroyed by trucks and has thousands of potholes patched over and over where is there an 85mph road, one of the dakotas?
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Oct 4, 2021 19:15
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mastershakeman posted:where is there an 85mph road, one of the dakotas? never been up there, but it’s 85 on the interstates all over the southwestern desert areas, between towns
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Oct 4, 2021 19:20
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cool av posted:you could get shot for not driving aggressively enough sounds like a win to me on hell earth
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Saw an 85 mph road near Boulder and I was like yeah this is dumb poo poo
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ArmZ posted:that's a great idea. i bet you could even connect the cars together for people who were going to the same destination to make it easier. you can sdd steel wheels for less friction and higher efficiency, then just make simple steel tracks instead of complicated magnetic strips and lidar
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Oct 4, 2021 19:31
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Dolphin posted:the really stupid thing about this was it was done to satisfy CAFE fuel standard regulations, ostensibly to help save the environment. basically small trucks are still pretty dang heavy compared to cars due to the utilitarian nature of their construction, but the fuel economy regulations go by square feet of vehicle footprint. that means big fuckoff trucks get to have lower mpgs than itty bitty trucks, and it's easier and cheaper to just make a big fuckoff truck with low mpgs and pass the cost on to the consumer and americans don't give a gently caress because they're dumber than dogshit lmao. Is that seriously how the law was written? Goddamn that's loving trash.
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Oct 4, 2021 19:32
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Dolphin posted:and it's easier and cheaper to just make a big fuckoff truck with low mpgs and pass the cost on to the consumer and americans don't give a gently caress because they're dumber than dogshit i would also say americans are not just dumb as poo poo, but they absolutely love it. big = safer.
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Oct 4, 2021 19:50
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SKULL.GIF posted:what do you need to go 100 mph for Look, if you know of a better way to occupy all points of time and space simultaneously and evolve into a space iguana, let me know.
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ArmZ posted:that's a great idea. i bet you could even connect the cars together for people who were going to the same destination to make it easier. Everybody in the world comes up with ideas to make cars better. "Oh poo poo I accidentally built a train. "
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:Everybody in the world comes up with ideas to make cars better. Elon Musk's "What if trains but it's actually just cars in a tunnel and also if it breaks down everyone inside is hosed" idea has a terrible beauty to it.
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Oct 4, 2021 20:14
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Xaris posted:lol some dude did a market analysis and it basically broke down to not only big = safer but suburban-americans select vehicles based on how well they look like they’d handle being driven into a crowd of protestors (actually specifically that) which is why everything looks like a pillbox with weenie widdle gunslits for windows
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Oct 4, 2021 20:24
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mastershakeman posted:where is there an 85mph road, one of the dakotas? suburban austin lol, it was built as a truck bypass to get them to avoid downtown but sprawl has reached it and now anyone that buys a house there is cornered into using an expensive and dangerous toll road lol I rode my bike on it once just to say gently caress you and it was cool and scary
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Dr. VooDoo posted:car companies conspired to literally make public transportation hell to make people buy cars in the streetcar conspiracy, were caught, and the powers in charge just shrugged their shoulders and it’s the reason to this day we have the lovely bus systems we have this is from many pages ago but it rules that car companies didn't even have to conspire to do this, all you need is for something like 15 percent of workers to start using cars and then any streetcar lane that isn't separated from car traffic will get bogged down, stuck behind drivers 'just running in for a minute' or waiting behind a car waiting for pedestrians to clear the intersection to make a right turn. cars are such voracious and inefficient users of space that they immediately make everything else worse if you don't build in serious protections against them
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Oct 4, 2021 20:29
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Lastgirl posted:because the faster you drive, the less time you have to drive yeah basically. if I could cruise at 90 the whole way my work commute would be cut in half. or if there were a subway system to get me there
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indigi posted:yeah basically. if I could cruise at 90 the whole way my work commute would be cut in half. or if there were a subway system to get me there you should cruise at 270 then
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actionjackson posted:thanks, that was the pic I was looking for! That's actually just a tiny segment outside of downtown to make things nicer for the single family rich people neighborhoods outside of downtown (north cap hill and montlake), not the huge scar through the middle of downtown itself.
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Oct 4, 2021 20:39
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The Oldest Man posted:That's actually just a tiny segment outside of downtown to make things nicer for the single family rich people neighborhoods outside of downtown (north cap hill and montlake), not the huge scar through the middle of downtown itself. lol you just reminded me of when howard schultz got bullied out of montlake for trying to eminent domain a city park into being his personal driveway. anyways they should just extend the existing freeway park to cover the entire interstate through the seattle area and turn it into a massive combination brutalist nature conservatory / safe injection zone
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Mr. Sharps posted:lol you just reminded me of when howard schultz got bullied out of montlake for trying to eminent domain a city park into being his personal driveway. 50x larger brutalist freeway park labyrinth would be amazing, real shadowrun vibes+
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LonsomeSon posted:what if every bridge was also a tunnel every bridge is a tunnel through the air
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LonsomeSon posted:what if every bridge was also a tunnel i think this was part of the master plan of Moria
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mind = double blown now I love cars (send help (via blunt-force trauma))
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I love this especially the title https://www.cnu.org/sites/default/files/FreewaysWithoutFutures_2021.pdf
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actionjackson posted:thanks, that was the pic I was looking for! nice
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:No. Also there should be a graduated system of licensing where trucks/suvs are commercial licenses only. Yugo's are the general driving appliance cars for people who only drive cause they have to, also limited to the right lane only. (This works better then a governor because a yugo can only go like 60mph anyway). Then for people who actually know how to drive and treat it responsibly and have demonstrated proficiency by placing in the top 10% of a sanctioned racing event, they can drive any kind of car they want, and are allowed to use the full road. there shouldn’t be cars
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send this to the guy earlier in the thread who complained that his large dog requires the US to be enslaved to Moloch, ie the Car, which I hate
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LonsomeSon posted:it’s not like I was unaware of size creep in pickups over the years, that’s just hilariously stark with the bed-size fact laid out the average american is also 300% larger so it makes sense
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Dolphin posted:the really stupid thing about this was it was done to satisfy CAFE fuel standard regulations, ostensibly to help save the environment. basically small trucks are still pretty dang heavy compared to cars due to the utilitarian nature of their construction, but the fuel economy regulations go by square feet of vehicle footprint. that means big fuckoff trucks get to have lower mpgs than itty bitty trucks, and it's easier and cheaper to just make a big fuckoff truck with low mpgs and pass the cost on to the consumer and americans don't give a gently caress because they're dumber than dogshit i think a 2021 f150 has way better mpg than a 1996 ford ranger oh yeah it does 5 more mpg. in fact that v8 96 ford ranger gets worse mpg than a raptor
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