an actual frog posted:

The great thing about bike commuting, or walking if you're lucky enough, is the fixed-time aspect. Unless the area's choked with snow or ice nothing's stopping you, your commute will always take about the same time.

It's very freeing.

Sort-of but thankfully it was deemed too expensive. Bose has a patent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KPYIaks1UY

Salvor_Hardin posted:

I have the opposite reaction. If a bus or train is slow/delayed its all vv welp, nothing to be done about it. If I'm in a car and jammed up I go nuts trying to figure out which is the fastest lane or if there are any alternate routes.

Leroy Diplowski posted:

I think this is kinda the opposite of true. I know when I was commuting via transit then if the train was down it was like "oh well, nothing I can do but wait or get on a bus bridge" if I'm late for work it's NBD because everyone understands. It impacts you and thousands of others and somehow it's less stressful.

But in traffic it makes you a lot more anxious because your gonna get poo poo like " you shoulda left earlier". And because you have control of your vehicle you feel like you have to do whatever it takes to get out in front.

Now I just bike and nothing can stop me except getting run over and then I'm dead so who cares.

Leroy Diplowski posted:

I think this is kinda the opposite of true. I know when I was commuting via transit then if the train was down it was like "oh well, nothing I can do but wait or get on a bus bridge" if I'm late for work it's NBD because everyone understands.

DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

on the other hand you're at a very low risk for having some dude walk by and literally slam a fistful of human excrement into your face and hair while in your own car. so it's a balancing act.

an actual frog posted:

Sort-of but thankfully it was deemed too expensive. Bose has a patent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KPYIaks1UY

DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

on the other hand you're at a very low risk for having some dude walk by and literally slam a fistful of human excrement into your face and hair while in your own car. so it's a balancing act.

Fitzy Fitz posted:

My neighbors (four college frat guys) each have their own giant trucks that they don't have room for. One of them is idling in his truck when I leave in the morning and idling in his truck when I get home. What are you doing??

Leroy Diplowski posted:

I think this is kinda the opposite of true. I know when I was commuting via transit then if the train was down it was like "oh well, nothing I can do but wait or get on a bus bridge" if I'm late for work it's NBD because everyone understands. It impacts you and thousands of others and somehow it's less stressful.

But in traffic it makes you a lot more anxious because your gonna get poo poo like " you shoulda left earlier". And because you have control of your vehicle you feel like you have to do whatever it takes to get out in front.

Now I just bike and nothing can stop me except getting run over and then I'm dead so who cares.

withak posted:

I started walking instead of biking to work because I find that I arrive a lot calmer and less annoyed.

Sphyre posted:

https://twitter.com/RepGregSteube/status/1496189576649613324

the truck in question:

Horace posted:

I don't get the appeal. I drove a friends suv and it didn't feel safer, it felt cumbersome and ponderous. It was harder to park. That truck looks like you can barely see out of it in any direction.

Milo and POTUS posted:

Do the flags have an appreciable effect on fuel economy

Horace posted:

I don't get the appeal. I drove a friends suv and it didn't feel safer, it felt cumbersome and ponderous. It was harder to park. That truck looks like you can barely see out of it in any direction.

BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:

The only appeal I can think of is that you don’t have to avoid potholes

Horace posted:

I don't get the appeal. I drove a friends suv and it didn't feel safer, it felt cumbersome and ponderous. It was harder to park. That truck looks like you can barely see out of it in any direction.

Milo and POTUS posted:

It's his safe space. Not remotely joking. Does he wear oakleys and have a goatee?

Fitzy Fitz posted:

Last night in the grocery store parking lot I overheard two guys getting out of their tonka truck complaining that all the parking spots are "compact." They are normal sized.

ArmZ posted:

https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/1439339481929117697?s=20

zegermans posted:

Same size bed

SKULL.GIF posted:

got home from the grocery just now. I have a new stall neighbor.



this stupid monstrosity is twice the size of my Fit. it doesn't even fit in the stall lol, I have like a foot of clearance in front while his rear bumper is 1 inch away from the concrete wall. sparkling and spotless despite the rain and snow we've had this week

SKULL.GIF posted:

isn't this exactly what he was posting about? you think you have control because the wheel is in your hands so you do all sorts of crazy poo poo and stress yourself out? but you're actually still at the mercy of train crossings, traffic jams, etc. hence "illusion of control"

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

I saw a guy driving down the highway in a work truck decked out in BACK THE BLUE decals, with two big flags flying off a pole in the back
1. thin blue line american flag
2. "JOE BIDEN SUCKS"

e: this kind of big truck guy is like the second to final form of evolution of carbrain. the final is when your big truck or van is covered in sharpie or woodpanels with black painted letters or those block letter stickers carefully placed one by one to display the craziest poo poo you've ever heard in your life. Car Brain Ascension - your car has literally become your brain, and it displays your thoughts to the world for you

quote:

In 1964, Ford debuted the Mustang, the first affordable sports car. It was an attractive machine that sold well, not the least because it was fast. The production version of the debut model accelerated from 0 to 60 mph in 11.4 seconds, a decent clip at the time.
...
Even the slowest car today is still plenty fast. The Mitsubishi Mirage, with a 78 horsepower engine often maligned as horrendously underpowered by car enthusiasts, has a 0-60 time of about 12 seconds. It would barely, just barely, lose in a sprint to a 1964 Mustang. All of the slowest cars Motortrend tested last year are faster than the cars that used to be considered fast.

802.11weed posted:

i told my dad that cars should take 1 minute to get up to 60 kph and i've never seen someone's blood pressure go up that fast. lol

Polo-Rican posted:

Good article about how ridiculous 0-60 times have gotten and why they shouldn't matter

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdmqa/its-time-to-talk-about-0-60-times

choice quote

Polo-Rican posted:

Good article about how ridiculous 0-60 times have gotten and why they shouldn't matter

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgdmqa/its-time-to-talk-about-0-60-times

choice quote

Gripweed posted:

Jestery posted:

Unironically this

Gripweed posted:

Horace posted:

I don't get the appeal. I drove a friends suv and it didn't feel safer, it felt cumbersome and ponderous. It was harder to park. That truck looks like you can barely see out of it in any direction.

Fitzy Fitz posted:

Well yeah I think there's been a shift in what people consider compact, normal, and large. And I think there's pressure to start designing streets, garages, etc. for larger vehicles. I remember the bloated vehicles of the '00s, but I don't remember them having a much of an impact on our idea of acceptable size for vehicle infrastructure.

Milo and POTUS posted:

Cool map but is it supremely slow for anyone else

WampaLord posted:

Los Angeles because at least NYC has a transit system that is used by a lot of people

no one in LA rides the Metro, it is car culture to the extreme

an actual frog posted:

It's very freeing.

Sort-of but thankfully it was deemed too expensive. Bose has a patent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KPYIaks1UY