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actionjackson posted:who is ready for our green new future whoa the canyonero is real
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actionjackson posted:who is ready for our green new future Wow this is so over the top and cartoonish it's actually cool Horseshoe theory is real
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Fitzy Fitz posted:mind boggling that there are countless regulations on vehicles but apparently none of them say you can't build them unnecessarily large the opposite actually, the regulations say they have to be enormous then since everything's enormous the regulations say everything has to be stronger to survive getting hit by a 2020 ram overcompensator doing 75 down a residential street. which means everything's heavier with all the extra metal, which makes emissions worse, which means more of the fleet have to be extra-large to not be part of the emissions pool which means...
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Nov 13, 2021 05:55
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this looks like a parody commercial lmao
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Nov 13, 2021 06:23
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actionjackson posted:who is ready for our green new future there’s a house near where I work with one of every iteration of the consumer grade humvee all decked out in aloha gear and Hawaii themed vanity plates can’t wait to see this in person
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Nov 13, 2021 06:43
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lol that’s 60% of the weight of a m1151 up-armored Humvee, the most common vehicle used by the US in Iraq, with all of its armor and its powered turret, but no weapons or ammunition i hope these throw half-shafts with the same frequency lmao
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Nov 13, 2021 07:59
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Blackhawk posted:At what point do you say that the pissweak drivers license training and testing in most countries just isn't enough for somebody to be able to safely drive some of these cars? I mean the time for this was the 50s, at the latest, if it was ever going to happen. our assumptions about necessary driver safety haven’t significantly evolved since the Model T. it’s like boiling a frog except actually you’re giving the frog a cute toy gun and then a cap gun then a mini crossbow and eventually the frog has a loaded .45 magnum and you still act like it’s a funny novelty frog
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Nov 13, 2021 12:00
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Sports cars have gotten real crazy in the past 10 years, you can buy 600-1000 hp cars stock and get yourself into a whole new dimension of trouble really quickly. The cars are all so fast it's not really practical anymore, you can't actually use all that power on roads or even the smaller tracks so they are resorting to gimmicks like removing the windshield to give you more driving feel and stand out from all the other fast cars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD-4teTIBXw&t=400s
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Nov 13, 2021 13:15
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actionjackson posted:who is ready for our green new futureh Lol it has 11,500ft-lbs of torque... I kept thinking it was towing capacity but no literally 100x the torque of a regular car. ALso some bullshit four wheel steering they call CRABWALK mode and cameras for the undercarriage so you can look at the pedestrians you run over. Oh yeah, and "hands free driving" so this monstrosity will be let loose on the very streets you travel on  I'm cackling w gleeful anticipation
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Nov 13, 2021 13:32
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Have to admit to owning a Honda Fit when commuting to a previous job, as there was literally no public transit or carpooling options available. It was ridiculous, would take the train out as far as the line would go but still needed to drive the car the last few dozen miles from the train garage to my job. Was super happy to switch jobs and sell the thing. Anyway I saw a Honda Fit in traffic the other day and it looked like a tiny toy car wedged in between all the SUVs, incongruous and something that clearly didn't belong on the same road. All cars should be destroyed obvs so distinguishing between them is irrelevant, but North American consumers aren't making the best auto choices overall.
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Nov 13, 2021 14:33
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actionjackson posted:who is ready for our green new future this kind of dipshittery is what destroys roads and if we had a functioning democracy, taxpayers would end up paying more to get the potholes fixed, but taxpayers already pay and get stiffed on public maintenance the free market sure seems to have a way of complicating and putting stress on the taxpayer for some insecure special needs to get their validation fix in a country that intentionally deprives you of it to sell you crap like this the pandemic has been so illuminating in this regard
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Nov 13, 2021 14:37
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gently caress cars but just from a design perspective this thing is pretty badass looking, it's pretty much vaporwave the car https://twitter.com/slate_akita/status/1458822858122088452
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remember the cadillac truck lol https://www.cars.com/research/cadillac-escalade_ext/ who is this thing marketed at again?
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Nov 13, 2021 15:07
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Oh cool, nostalgia vibes garbage is moving from large headed toys into the field of 10,000 pound child pulpers. I bet it doesnt even have a cigarette lighter and an ash tray, just absolute Disney poo poo
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actionjackson posted:gently caress cars but just from a design perspective this thing is pretty badass looking, it's pretty much vaporwave the car wrong, its loving sad
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Epic High Five posted:Oh cool, nostalgia vibes garbage is moving from large headed toys into the field of 10,000 pound child pulpers. I bet it doesnt even have a cigarette lighter and an ash tray, just absolute Disney poo poo concept cars are virtually never actually made. there's another concept that has this intriguing feature https://twitter.com/Bulldonezer/status/1459152561836015617
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Nov 13, 2021 15:27
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Its snowed for days now wonder if the city plowed any of the sidewalks, if not time to walk on the road and do battle with cars.
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Nov 13, 2021 15:44
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surely it counts if they plowed the roads and covered the sidewalks with snow
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an arsonist destroying a concept car is a million times cooler than a concept car
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Arson is well known to be among the coolest crimes though
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Milo and POTUS posted:Arson is well known to be among the coolest crimes though The coolest is regicide but arson is like 2nd or 3rd
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Animal Friend posted:The coolest is regicide but arson is like 2nd or 3rd arson is the seasoning that flavors other crimes. yeah regicide is great - but have you tried regicide AND arson??
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Nov 13, 2021 17:33
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how many royals have to die in car crashes before we do something??
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Nocturtle posted:Have to admit to owning a Honda Fit when commuting to a previous job, as there was literally no public transit or carpooling options available. It was ridiculous, would take the train out as far as the line would go but still needed to drive the car the last few dozen miles from the train garage to my job. Was super happy to switch jobs and sell the thing. The fit has been discontinued in the US. Small-ish cars will not be tolerated by the invisible hand.
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Nov 13, 2021 18:39
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I cant stop laughing about that electric Hummer, satire is dead w content like this
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Nov 13, 2021 18:46
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vyelkin posted:i hate cars I saw a guy assume test driving an suv (still had the dealer price tag in the window) but he parked it in a bike lane on a major road to look at it from the outside
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Literally just turn the steering wheel
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Nov 13, 2021 18:52
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reducing evidence left behind by strafing by the child’s body rather than tracking blood on your tires
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Nov 13, 2021 18:52
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Vomik posted:reducing evidence left behind by strafing by the child’s body rather than tracking blood on your tires yes, and you can watch them die in real time 
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Nov 13, 2021 18:59
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actionjackson posted:who is ready for our green new future i wonder how a couple-decade-old multi-story parking garage will take a few of these parked in there at once
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Nov 13, 2021 18:59
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https://twitter.com/siropsalot/status/1458882991795675147?s=21 nothing means anything. car culture is built upon a foundation of sand
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Nov 13, 2021 19:30
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Blackhawk posted:No joke a lot of people have been saying that cars have been getting too fast for a while now. It's bad enough with ICE cars, which have been getting more and more powerful for decades now but EV's are even worse because it's extremely easy to make them accelerate insanely fast in a straight line but very difficult to make them handle well around corners due to the weight, so manufacturers just push the straight-line acceleration as hard as possible as the selling point. Tesla makes garbage cars and has a garbage founder.
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Nov 13, 2021 19:31
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This owns. And reminds me of the story of the drivers of the corvette chassis's that are driven in Mexico since a selling point is for all the Corvettes to be "built" in Bowling Green. So capitalism dictates that the mechanicals are all built for cheap in Mexico, then "final assembly" occurs in bowling green where they "legally" become cars. They drive the chassis to a warehouse where they are loaded onto trucks to ship them across the border.
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Nov 13, 2021 19:37
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Tesla makes garbage cars and has a garbage founder. please, elong didn't start tesla, he just bought the founder's edition
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Nov 13, 2021 19:42
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lil poopendorfer posted:yes, and you can watch them die in real time Ahahhhahah why are they pretending that even more than 1% of these will ever go off-road for longer than it takes to test it out the week after somebody bought it? Nobody buys this poo poo to go off road, just like the billion other gigantic trucks and SUV's rolling around to the shops or work filled with fast food bags and children. I remember reading somewhere that the rate of road surface damage goes up proportional to the weight of the vehicle to the fourth power, so uhhh yeah good luck with keeping the roads in usable condition once everyone transitions to EV trucks and SUVs that weigh twice as much as they already do. Also vehicle taxation/registration an licensing fees should absolutely scale by the mass of the vehicle to offset the disproportional amount of damage larger vehicles do to the road. I weep at how hosed and stupid everything is, I used to work in the rail industry (for a huge global company making train components) and it was so clear how at least in places like Australia and New Zealand public transport decisions were being insanely hosed up because of our garbage democratic system of governance. Basically a city like Sydney would want to put in some new addition to its train network (Sydney already has a pretty decent heavy-rail network) but heavy-rail is expensive and takes a long time to build, and whichever government currently in power wants it done in a few years max so that they can show the voters something before election time. And so in comes 'light-rail' which is basically taking a tram, which is a perfectly fine mode of transport in the right circumstance, and stretching it to be the length of a normal train and pretending that it is a train. This is because 'light-rail' is cheaper and faster to build, so you get to show off how quickly and cheaply you added this new infrastructure within one election cycle. Unfortunately trams are designed to move people relatively short distances, they're supposed to be small but frequent so you can have high throughput, they're typically limited to low speeds like ~50 kph and have very minimal seating because they're supposed to be crammed full of people who are only riding them a few minutes at a time. Sydney 'light-rail' trams are between 33 and 45 meters long (about 150 feet) which at one point I think was the longest tram in the world, have a top speed of 70 kph but are often much slower than that and are operated just like a regular train with limited linear lines and fairly infrequent services. They run almost exclusively on dedicated off-road tracks built specifically for the system but because they're trams and not heavy-rail they can't operate on any of the existing heavy-rail infrastructure. Also for whatever reason out of the three existing light-rail lines built one of them follows different track and platform specifications to the other two, so vehicles can't even be shared between the light-rail lines on the same network. Sydney also has -another- metro rail system recently built which is also incompatible with both the existing heavy AND light-rail systems, and the three largest Australian states all operate different heavy-rail track gauges and so none can share vehicles or a common rail network...
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Blackhawk posted:I weep at how hosed and stupid everything is
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The city of Adelaide electrified their passenger train network a while ago as it was previously all diesel trains. Except the last time I was there for whatever reason they didn't electrify the section of track from the main network to the maintenance depot, and so every electric train going into or out of the depot had to be pushed in and out by a diesel locomotive... This is the same city that for the longest time had the worlds longest tidal-flow highway, that is the entire highway was one-direction one way in the morning, and then changed to one-direction the other way in the afternoon. We as a species (and many other species, and basically the entire biosphere) are hosed as long as we're under capitalist liberal democracies, anything just fiddling around the edges of that as a fundamental system is ultimately a waste of time.
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Blackhawk posted:I weep at how hosed and stupid everything is, I used to work in the rail industry (for a huge global company making train components) and it was so clear how at least in places like Australia and New Zealand public transport decisions were being insanely hosed up because of our garbage democratic system of governance. Basically a city like Sydney would want to put in some new addition to its train network (Sydney already has a pretty decent heavy-rail network) but heavy-rail is expensive and takes a long time to build, and whichever government currently in power wants it done in a few years max so that they can show the voters something before election time. This is the biggest issue in Toronto as well, every incoming government completely scraps the outgoing government's plans and starts anew because they want to be the ones who Did The Thing, and then they get a quarter of the way through the process before being ousted and it all starts over again.
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