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Leroy Diplowski posted:I read it as sight distance. Ie if a kid was in that zone the driver wouldn't even know to brake. They would probably just hear a small thump. Modern cars have too much baffling for that
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goon homework: watch who framed roger rabbit
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Gonna be more freeway than housing soon. Is probably already more road than housing https://twitter.com/jawshv/status/1478141643777712129?t=YlKoSVBhN4IW7dZ0v0hYYg&s=19
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icymi, War on Cars did an interview with the journalist who took this pic. He was given the car to test drive and hated every second of it. He was able to talk to some of the design engineers, and when he brought up the "front blind spot" the engineers had no idea he could possibly be referring to. ban cars
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NoU posted:icymi, War on Cars did an interview with the journalist who took this pic. He was given the car to test drive and hated every second of it. He was able to talk to some of the design engineers, and when he brought up the "front blind spot" the engineers had no idea he could possibly be referring to. Can you link it? I'd love to listen to it. edit: to be clear im as lazy as a motorist who doesn't want to park anywhere but the first two spots in the lot.
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pointsofdata posted:Gonna be more freeway than housing soon. Is probably already more road than housing if you count garages and parking lots....lol
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for every public housing we build for a car let's also build public housing for a person
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Boywhiz88 posted:Can you link it? I'd love to listen to it. https://thewaroncars.org/2021/01/27/test-driving-the-2021-cadillac-escalade-with-andrew-hawkins/
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cool av posted:for every public housing we build for a car let's also build public housing for a person We did that and they even have communal dining facilities and work stations on premises Makes bikes seem super awesome iyam
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Update to this 1979 question is yes
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NoU posted:icymi, War on Cars did an interview with the journalist who took this pic. He was given the car to test drive and hated every second of it. He was able to talk to some of the design engineers, and when he brought up the "front blind spot" the engineers had no idea he could possibly be referring to. How about we install a front facing camera with a projector on the roof beaming the precious images of mangled toddlers everyone is so desperate to see onto the hood? Maybe the camera will have captured the lovely parenting(or lack thereof) that led to the child being in the road in the first place.
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Kicked Throat posted:How about we install a front facing camera with a projector on the roof beaming the precious images of mangled toddlers everyone is so desperate to see onto the hood? Maybe the camera will have captured the lovely parenting(or lack thereof) that led to the child being in the road in the first place. Rather than blaming the parents, you know what would be really awesome? Not having a deadly no-go zone in front of every urban/suburban house.
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Yeah the journalist brings that up too; basically the car is huge, and the only reason it has a bunch of other "safety" features is because of its size. If it was just smaller, those wouldn't be needed. But if the car was smaller, macho shitheads and soccer moms wouldn't be feel superior to everyone else on the road! I live right by an elementary school, and I think the first 20-30 seconds of my bike ride are the most harrowing. Tons of huge SUVs going 30mph on tiny side streets to drop their kids off at school. I love focusing on not dying in those 30 seconds! And also the rest of my bike ride!
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Kicked Throat posted:How about we install a front facing camera with a projector on the roof beaming the precious images of mangled toddlers everyone is so desperate to see onto the hood? Maybe the camera will have captured the lovely parenting(or lack thereof) that led to the child being in the road in the first place. How about you go play in traffic?
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NoU posted:Yeah the journalist brings that up too; basically the car is huge, and the only reason it has a bunch of other "safety" features is because of its size. If it was just smaller, those wouldn't be needed. But if the car was smaller, macho shitheads and soccer moms wouldn't be feel superior to everyone else on the road! more More MORE I live by an elementary school as well. It's a waldorf school so a lot of parents drive from God knows how far. At pickup time there is a school security/crossing guard who stands in the street guiding parents in an orderly fashion. He dances and spins and twirls and makes a big show of it in high vis and traffic wands. People say it looks like he's having fun but I know the truth is you have put on a loving circus performance if you expect cars to notice you standing in the street.
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Shamelessly stealing from the bazinga thread but I can't believe the thing everyone predicted would happen to MomJeans420 posted:I like the solution for getting out of problems when the tunnel has a traffic jam an actual frog has issued a correction as of 21:28 on Jan 6, 2022 |
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oh BTW, the 12ft of usable tunnel diameter in these musktunnels would be theoretically big enough to run london Victoria Line undergound trains (11'3") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8QKPgRa7sM
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Kicked Throat posted:How about we install a front facing camera with a projector on the roof beaming the precious images of mangled toddlers everyone is so desperate to see onto the hood? Maybe the camera will have captured the lovely parenting(or lack thereof) that led to the child being in the road in the first place. 
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Kicked Throat posted:How about we install a front facing camera with a projector on the roof beaming the precious images of mangled toddlers everyone is so desperate to see onto the hood? Maybe the camera will have captured the lovely parenting(or lack thereof) that led to the child being in the road in the first place. shut up nerd
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its kind of wild that 20-30 feet from everyones front door is a broad strip of horrible death that must be avoided at all costs and many people will die for their right to access the death strip
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General interest youtuber Julian O'Shea raises a good point I'd never really considered about streets, maps and their relationship to cars in his latest video. Melbourne's Swanson Street is one of the city's busiest and most important but is closed to car traffic. How do maps represent it? I'm sure you can guess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DgZbEPFF6w an actual frog has issued a correction as of 22:48 on Jan 6, 2022 |
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the bitcoin of weed posted:its kind of wild that 20-30 feet from everyones front door is a broad strip of horrible death that must be avoided at all costs and many people will die for their right to access the death strip i used to describe traffic as the blood price we are willing to pay for transportation, when i delivered pizza it weirded the other drivers out but it wasn’t the only thing i did which had that effect
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zegermans posted:Update to this 1979 question is yes lol love how that could be any city in the US
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the bitcoin of weed posted:its kind of wild that 20-30 feet from everyones front door is a broad strip of horrible death that must be avoided at all costs and many people will die for their right to access the death strip for a moment i thought you were talking about covid but i realized this was just the prevalent cultural attitude all along
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an actual frog posted:General interest youtuber Julian O'Shea raises a good point I'd never really considered about streets, maps and their relationship to cars in his latest video. Melbourne's Swanson Street is one of the city's busiest and most important but is closed to car traffic. How do maps represent it? I'm sure you can guess SO THAT'S WHY my first time in melbourne i was confused why this giant road was so tiny on google maps melbourne seems to be a great city for no cars (in the inner city at least), i enjoyed getting around drunk as hell on trams
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good content in the replies to this reddit post with people reminiscing on how they and their family members came inches from death or were unaccountably maimed or killed by objects coming through their windshields while driving their cars https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/rxycae/what_is_this_steel_object_that_flew_through_my/ abolish the automobile
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I really enjoy the few weeks of the year when university classes aren't in session and the streets are completely empty. It's crazy that so many of them drive to class every day. You're here for four years. It's probably your only opportunity to use a functional bus system. Take advantage of it!
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I really enjoy the few weeks of the year when university classes aren't in session and the streets are completely empty. It's crazy that so many of them drive to class every day. You're here for four years. It's probably your only opportunity to use a functional bus system. Take advantage of it! American carbrain rot starts before these kids even know how to talk, taking the bus just doesn't occur to them. It usually takes being forced into it (study abroad, poor, dui) for someone to appreciate the benefits of good public transit.
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Mayor Dave posted:American carbrain rot starts before these kids even know how to talk, taking the bus just doesn't occur to them. It usually takes being forced into it (study abroad, poor, dui) for someone to appreciate the benefits of good public transit. Most of them come from wealthy suburbs that don't even have buses. They drive very nice
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I really enjoy the few weeks of the year when university classes aren't in session and the streets are completely empty. It's crazy that so many of them drive to class every day. You're here for four years. It's probably your only opportunity to use a functional bus system. Take advantage of it! They can't afford to live on campus so they commute from elsewhere.
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Has anyone noticed the anti car sentiment increasing recently? I was on a discord chat yesterday where folks are sort of all over the geographical and politely spectrum and I was like "hey guys cars might be bad" and everyone was like "hell yeah". Was a little odd seeing as I've been given the weirdo treatment most times I bring this up. I wonder how long if ever it would take for public opinion to sway enough to get real infrastructure built.
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skooma512 posted:They can't afford to live on campus so they commute from elsewhere. That describes a good number of them. I think most students want to live off campus for the freedom. Most are coming from luxury gated condo communities on the edge of town or student-oriented 4br/4b houses. Another pool is lower-income students who rent older apartments that don't have good bus access (this was me in college).
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Leroy Diplowski posted:Has anyone noticed the anti car sentiment increasing recently? I was on a discord chat yesterday where folks are sort of all over the geographical and politely spectrum and I was like "hey guys cars might be bad" and everyone was like "hell yeah". Was a little odd seeing as I've been given the weirdo treatment most times I bring this up. I think the pandemic WFH has gotten a lot of people to realize how much they hate driving and traffic
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we should take this thread on a fieldtrip to AI and see how it does
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