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the most important thing is to never be affected and especially inconvenienced by the rest of the world
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SKULL.GIF posted:I am Deaf and I have never been in a car crash/accident in my life and I regularly and actively point out potential accidents as they develop. Ears are useless in cars because they are soundproofed to poo poo and everyone just blasts music in them anyway. Ears are however good as hell when you're a pedestrian or on a bike. Although a lot of people don't bother to use them there either. I can hear any sort of engine waaaaay before I get a visual on it.
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Feb 14, 2022 07:34
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Cars are one of the easiest things to hear because they're a repeatedly exploding pile of harmonics shaking the ground around them as they move. If ever there was a toy case to show someone how to localize an object in space with their ears, it's listening to a loud rear end car buzzing and rattling along a road.
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Feb 14, 2022 07:36
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SKULL.GIF posted:Actually now that I think about it, I would say that the vast majority of hearing people have no loving clue what's happening around them since they don't loving use their eyes or their necks at all. They just listen out for "OI THERE!" and don't bother to look to their sides or behind them ever. Car or no car, all you freaks are stumbling through life zombielike. I've got an auditory processing problem , like "ear dyslexia", so everything sounds like garbled radio static unless I can see your lips or its a super Clinical situation I super get you about hearing being overrated I basically have earplugs/high end headphones in all the time when I'm not working.
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Feb 14, 2022 08:55
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:I can hear any sort of engine waaaaay before I get a visual on it. less useful with electric cars these days. but yeah if you arent doing that it's not that important of a sense.
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Feb 14, 2022 09:23
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:Ears are useless in cars because they are soundproofed to poo poo and everyone just blasts music in them anyway. So, you're saying loud pipes save lives?
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Feb 14, 2022 09:26
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"war on cars" is hilarious as a concept because the cars won decades ago and we've lived in occupied territory ever since. Here's a good one: EV charging stations in sidewalks from a few pages back. What's missing?   it's for cars, of course it can't risk being damaged. they're important, unlike pedestrians.
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Feb 14, 2022 09:40
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The bollards are pretty galling given the state of American bike lanes, yeah
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Feb 14, 2022 09:50
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i dunno looks like itd still be easy to smash up the electric charging station if someone felt motivated to do something like that
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Feb 14, 2022 14:09
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:This just sounds like you want to ride your bike on the sidewalk Yes, but sidewalks are way too narrow. What we need is some sort of "second sidewalk" between the sidewalk and road, for bikes only
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Feb 14, 2022 14:21
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I drive with my music volume very low because I have tinnitus that spikes when exposed to loud sounds. hearing is only useful when I hear someone hit the accelerator to whip around me dangerously, or for when emergency vehicles are coming and need me to pull over. it’s not that useful because I’ll put in ear plugs sometimes because highway noise is a nuisance, I’d rather save my hearing and not have a couple of days of uncomfortably loud ringing than blast music over the hell sounds of the highway
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Feb 14, 2022 14:37
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this morning a blue sports sedan nearly side-swiped me as I was backing out of my parking space (which is around a bend so view is obstructed) this car was going at least 40 around that bend (posted speed limit is 10…), and proceeded to blair it’s horn while peeling around me, and then blowing through a stop sign. I live next to an elementary school… anyway I’ve had enough. I’ve already emailed the HOA, I’m about to email my county leaders. I’ll collect signatures if I have to, but this is unsustainable people have lost their loving minds and sooner or later one of these assholes is going to run over a kid. I don’t know what the solution would be (community patrols, more speed bumps, speed cameras, road-redesign and better crosswalks??) but something needs to change. And not just in my neighborhood but every neighborhood in this goddamn car-brained poisoned country.
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Feb 14, 2022 15:18
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:Ears are however good as hell when you're a pedestrian or on a bike. Although a lot of people don't bother to use them there either. I can hear any sort of engine waaaaay before I get a visual on it. Wait'll you hear how quite electric cars are until they get up to almost highway speeds and the tires start to make more noise. Luckily they can get up close to highway speeds on most roads!
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Feb 14, 2022 15:26
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Motorists hate him! Check out a weird trick this bike rider discovered to get cars not to kill him! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRanHkaxSFY
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Feb 14, 2022 15:44
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On my way back from grocery shopping the other day, a completely silent Prius turned out to be behind me at every stop for a few blocks. Cars shouldn't be audible from more than 15 feet away, but it's certainly unnerving to have a two-ton chunk of metal quietly stalking you. If we're not going to ban cars outright, some kind unobtrusive audio cue seems valuable.Jokerpilled Drudge posted:Motorists hate him! Check out a weird trick this bike rider discovered to get cars not to kill him!
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Feb 14, 2022 16:39
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Feb 14, 2022 16:42
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Cugel the Clever posted:On my way back from grocery shopping the other day, a completely silent Prius turned out to be behind me at every stop for a few blocks. Cars shouldn't be audible from more than 15 feet away, but it's certainly unnerving to have a two-ton chunk of metal quietly stalking you. If we're not going to ban cars outright, some kind unobtrusive audio cue seems valuable.
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Feb 14, 2022 16:44
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my friend's chevy bolt makes a sound like the unlockable UFO from vigilante 8
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Feb 14, 2022 16:49
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:Motorists hate him! Check out a weird trick this bike rider discovered to get cars not to kill him! New York is something. the bikers boosting off of cars with their hands is lol. that must make drivers homicidal with rage
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Feb 14, 2022 17:31
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withak posted:Wait'll you hear how quite electric cars are until they get up to almost highway speeds and the tires start to make more noise. Luckily they can get up close to highway speeds on most roads! Electric cars all play their own made up ambience to create more noise. They end up sounding strange because it doesn't align to how the car is moving spatially. i.e., it'll randomly increase volume a lot when the car hits a certain speed making it sound like it teleported closer. They also still have that seismic rumble from rolling two thousand pounds of poo poo over the ground.
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Feb 14, 2022 17:31
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Cup Runneth Over posted:New York is something. the bikers boosting off of cars with their hands is lol. that must make drivers homicidal with rage as much as i would like the cool bike guy to be in new york, that's actually miami
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Feb 14, 2022 18:49
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:They also still have that seismic rumble from rolling two thousand pounds of poo poo over the ground.
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Feb 14, 2022 19:01
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Just had someone in a large SUV tailgate me for three miles on a four lane road with light traffic. I was in the right lane, going five over the limit. At one point, I raise my hand and point to the totally unoccupied left lane to pass me in. But no, even more aggressive tailgating to the point where I can't see their headlights in my rear view mirror. I eventually make my right hand turn by going extra slow since it's directly after a large bend in the road. They rev around me flipping me off and then veer back into the right lane so vigorously I thought they were going to roll over. Why, why instigate this poo poo? We're already miserable in this car dependent hellscape, no need to add to it. gently caress cars.
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Feb 14, 2022 20:11
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Solaris 2.0 posted:anyway I’ve had enough. I’ve already emailed the HOA, I’m about to email my county leaders. I’ll collect signatures if I have to, but this is unsustainable people have lost their loving minds and sooner or later one of these assholes is going to run over a kid. they don't give a gently caress about kids lmao
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Feb 14, 2022 21:31
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WaryWarren posted:Just had someone in a large SUV tailgate me for three miles on a four lane road with light traffic. I was in the right lane, going five over the limit. At one point, I raise my hand and point to the totally unoccupied left lane to pass me in. But no, even more aggressive tailgating to the point where I can't see their headlights in my rear view mirror. I eventually make my right hand turn by going extra slow since it's directly after a large bend in the road. They rev around me flipping me off and then veer back into the right lane so vigorously I thought they were going to roll over. Why, why instigate this poo poo? We're already miserable in this car dependent hellscape, no need to add to it.
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Feb 14, 2022 21:37
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Polo-Rican posted:Yes, but sidewalks are way too narrow. What we need is some sort of "second sidewalk" between the sidewalk and road, for bikes only This sounds like you want roads, but only for bikes
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Feb 14, 2022 21:40
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Milo and POTUS posted:they don't give a gently caress about kids lmao yeah. getting to vroom vroom and go fast is real. the dead kid is only hypothetical, and it'll probably be someone else's kid anyway, and even then they probably had it coming because their negligent parents let them step into the death zone, and that's just what happens. c'est la mort
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Feb 14, 2022 22:29
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:This sounds like you want roads, but only for bikes To be fair we totally should have less car lanes, a dedicated bike lane, and dedicated pedestrian sidewalks with lots of trees to act as natural shade / soak up rain water. Instead we just build more car lanes, expect bikes to bike in them, and then lol sidewalks if they exist are all uneven, broken, and you're likely to be run over by a car going 30 over anyway because the driver was too distracted on their phone WaryWarren posted:Just had someone in a large SUV tailgate me for three miles on a four lane road with light traffic. I was in the right lane, going five over the limit. At one point, I raise my hand and point to the totally unoccupied left lane to pass me in. But no, even more aggressive tailgating to the point where I can't see their headlights in my rear view mirror. I eventually make my right hand turn by going extra slow since it's directly after a large bend in the road. They rev around me flipping me off and then veer back into the right lane so vigorously I thought they were going to roll over. Why, why instigate this poo poo? We're already miserable in this car dependent hellscape, no need to add to it. This is a weekly occurrence where I live. Car brain poison is real.
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St Paul is going through a huge arbor overhaul thanks to our dedication to ash trees followed by the recent introduction of the emerald ash borer. This means there are a lot saplings where massive trees used to be. In the last year, there have been 2 accidents that require the car to have been driving like a total rear end in a top hat that took our 4 saplings. Only wish they had been full grown trees.
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Polo-Rican posted:as much as i would like the cool bike guy to be in new york, that's actually miami oh right, I just read "NY" and autocompleted
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Feb 15, 2022 00:51
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a little cartharsis for everybody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msWpkaCnWHY&t=200s
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https://twitter.com/owasow/status/1493386242729254913
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 46%!! That's loving insane
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Much like cops are the gun fuckingest types around, they're never going to enforce any laws that could infringe on their freedoms
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I remember a time when there was a lot of publicity about not using your phone while driving, and a lot of talk about police enforcement of that. But somewhere in the last decade that's gone completely silent and it's clear that nobody gives a poo poo about it anymore, everyone's doing it and nobody's going to do anything about it. Today at one set of traffic lights two changes in a row the car at the front of the queue missed the lights change by at least 5 seconds, almost certainly because they were playing with their phone and not paying attention. It's insane how many people I see weaving all over the road or randomly slowing down/speeding up because they're trying to reply to a message or something, absolute psycopaths.
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Blackhawk posted:I remember a time when there was a lot of publicity about not using your phone while driving, and a lot of talk about police enforcement of that. But somewhere in the last decade that's gone completely silent and it's clear that nobody gives a poo poo about it anymore, everyone's doing it and nobody's going to do anything about it. Today at one set of traffic lights two changes in a row the car at the front of the queue missed the lights change by at least 5 seconds, almost certainly because they were playing with their phone and not paying attention. It's insane how many people I see weaving all over the road or randomly slowing down/speeding up because they're trying to reply to a message or something, absolute psycopaths. Part of this is because of the idea that we have to answer every text message instantly. Our work and friends demand that we are on call 24/7, and people don't know how to just turn the phone off.
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no one calls me 
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At least if they're doing it at a light they're stopped. Personally I get honked at because the light changed the exact instance I went to look at my fingernails or something.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...sh=1838e64f6398the article: Lifetime Cost Of Small Car $689,000; Society Subsidizes This Ownership With $275,000 posted:Cars can be convenient, but they are also incredibly costly, both to owners and society in general. New academic research has calculated that the lifetime cost of a small car—such as an Opel Corsa—is about $689,000, of which society pays $275,000. (A Mercedes GLC costs $1+m over an owner's lifetime.) i hate cars
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Yeah, I love paying $25 a month for a transit pass and that’s it for my transportation costs. I mean a lot of people could retire early if they simply could get rid of their drat car and had options. Even if you have a old junker, there are still plenty of costs attached to it and people usually spend at least 5-10k a year on their cars even with purchasing/factoring out. (Also, there is a huge number of medical costs attached to cars that usually don’t get factored in.) Ardennes has issued a correction as of 17:45 on Feb 15, 2022 |
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