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Gripweed posted:You've heard of Cloverleaf intersections, but are you ready for Hellspirals? looks like a forbidden symbol that summons a legion of brodozers
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I would drive on that.
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Mar 6, 2022 21:37
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bi crimes posted:looks like a forbidden symbol that summons a legion of brodozers
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Mar 6, 2022 21:59
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one of my neighbors has a volkswagen atlas lol
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Mar 6, 2022 22:07
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I rode in a Toyota Venza and it's like twice the size of a honda fit and somehow has less space inside (there's somehow almost no cargo space because it's so poorly designed) and it's considered a midsize suv. It's amazing how cars manage to keep getting dumber and dumber. I guess it's not surprising that it's designed for the US car market when the name sounds like "toilet seat" in Japanese. mystes has issued a correction as of 22:19 on Mar 6, 2022 |
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Mar 6, 2022 22:14
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https://twitter.com/dril/status/1500582858842259457?s=20&t=5nujO0B6Ic4ySbsfCPI54g
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Mar 6, 2022 22:38
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leftist heap posted:https://twitter.com/dril/status/1500582858842259457?s=20&t=5nujO0B6Ic4ySbsfCPI54g
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Mar 6, 2022 22:45
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Gripweed posted:You've heard of Cloverleaf intersections, but are you ready for Hellspirals? no ring
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Mar 6, 2022 23:04
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mystes posted:Cool that the biggest and heaviest vehicles are the most likely to be driven by drunk people if it makes you feel any better it's not like the sober ones aren't driving distracted
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Mar 6, 2022 23:11
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Gripweed posted:You've heard of Cloverleaf intersections, but are you ready for Hellspirals? what the. cloverleafs let you turn around and this doesnt even do that it looks like?
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Mar 6, 2022 23:19
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leftist heap posted:https://twitter.com/dril/status/1500582858842259457?s=20&t=5nujO0B6Ic4ySbsfCPI54g do insurance companies take this sort of information into account like they do age and sex?
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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:do insurance companies take this sort of information into account like they do age and sex? Yeah I'm pretty sure they do since insurance prices vary on make and model
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Mar 7, 2022 08:55
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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:do insurance companies take this sort of information into account like they do age and sex? Insurance companies have people whose entire occupation is to calculate your risk based on every available metric
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Mar 7, 2022 12:14
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Wake up! Brodozers? DUI Rams? What are you talking about? Oh silly you, you fell asleep in your quiet compartment while we were cruising at 300KPH
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Mar 7, 2022 14:18
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Gripweed posted:https://twitter.com/poppy_haze/status/1500146073142239236?s=20&t=zQOgiOJRBV5nW78StLNa0g No this is intentional If this happens, the car company legally owns you
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Mar 7, 2022 14:43
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Gripweed posted:You've heard of Cloverleaf intersections, but are you ready for Hellspirals? maybe we can bait them with a bunch of bike and prius cutouts until they get caught in a deathspiral and run out of gas in like 10 miles.
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Mar 7, 2022 15:18
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Gripweed posted:You've heard of Cloverleaf intersections, but are you ready for Hellspirals? how bout this, but then a larger Hell Spiral around it in case you were looking at your phone and missed the first ramp
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Mar 7, 2022 15:37
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I don't know if there's a name for it, but when a street curves to the right or left 90 degrees - it's right by my place and I hate using it because cars just fly around that thing as you can't see who is coming, and there's no stop sign. a speed bump on both sides would be nice, or at least don't have parking in the immediate vicinity
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actionjackson posted:at least don't have parking in the immediate vicinity why do you hate local businesses and the disabled??
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Gripweed posted:You've heard of Cloverleaf intersections, but are you ready for Hellspirals? more like Groverleaf
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actionjackson posted:I don't know if there's a name for it, but when a street curves to the right or left 90 degrees - it's right by my place and I hate using it because cars just fly around that thing as you can't see who is coming, and there's no stop sign. a speed bump on both sides would be nice, or at least don't have parking in the immediate vicinity I'd probably call it a blind corner
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actionjackson posted:I don't know if there's a name for it, but when a street curves to the right or left 90 degrees - it's right by my place and I hate using it because cars just fly around that thing as you can't see who is coming, and there's no stop sign. a speed bump on both sides would be nice, or at least don't have parking in the immediate vicinity put very large rocks on the edge of your property line
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Mar 7, 2022 16:29
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yes this is something i would feel safe using after watching all those Tesla self-driving videos. https://twitter.com/Gugullig/status/1500522488790355969?s=20&t=x4ZeVHRWCe7XaVAPlsXfxQ reinventing the roundabout but lovely
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Mar 7, 2022 16:54
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God Hole posted:yes this is something i would feel safe using after watching all those Tesla self-driving videos. Building 12 lanes worth of asphalt to carry less then one train would carry.
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Mar 7, 2022 17:39
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God Hole posted:yes this is something i would feel safe using after watching all those Tesla self-driving videos. 
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Gripweed posted:You've heard of Cloverleaf intersections, but are you ready for Hellspirals? Driving on one of these madness runes gives you an instant case of terminal carbrain
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Mar 7, 2022 17:58
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God Hole posted:yes this is something i would feel safe using after watching all those Tesla self-driving videos. Big Tech again trying to invent something that already exists. There are cities full of no-sign intersections where people simply slow down and yield as needed.
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God Hole posted:yes this is something i would feel safe using after watching all those Tesla self-driving videos. i thought the attraction of roads being 100% self driving cars was that they could couple together
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Horace posted:i thought the attraction of roads being 100% self driving cars was that they could couple together they can do whatever you want them to!!! (because they don't exist!!!)
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Mar 7, 2022 20:14
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Gripweed posted:You've heard of Cloverleaf intersections, but are you ready for Hellspirals? Electro-Boogie Jack posted:more like Groverleaf 
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That's $8 in like 1991 money which would be $17 or so today.
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There was a story on the national TV news last night about how we need to bring back passenger rail in New Zealand and painting trains in a positive light, so that's uhh pretty good I guess! Of course we're not going to actually do it because that would cost money which would require taxing the rich and yeah that's not a way to win elections. Crazy to see a map of how many passenger rail routes have gone away since the 1970's. Here's the passenger rail network at its peak:  And here it is today:  (And actually some of the 'today' lines shown are really tourist only lines that are shut down due to covid, and even when they were running only went a few times per week) So basically you can't go between literally any city or town to any other on a train in New Zealand. There are still a fair few tracks existing but they're now used exclusively for freight, and even where there are passenger trains they have to share the lines with freight which mean the passenger services are severely limited in speed. Also the lines and grades are all 100+ years old and were never designed for high speeds, so even if the tracks were clear the trains would still be very limited (and none of the intercity lines are electrified). The bullshit thing is that we have quite a good electricity grid in terms of renewable energy, about 84% renewable, so if we were to have a robust electrified rail network between our major towns/cities we could massively reduce our overall emissions. Blackhawk has issued a correction as of 20:43 on Mar 7, 2022 |
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Blackhawk posted:There was a story on the national TV news last night about how we need to bring back passenger rail in New Zealand and painting trains in a positive light, so that's uhh pretty good I guess! Of course we're not going to actually do it because that would cost money which would require taxing the rich and yeah that's not a way to win elections. goddamn, little island in the middle of nowhere all by itself can't resist car brain and paving over everything. what chance does america have?
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Sphyre posted:they can do whatever you want them to!!! (because they don't exist!!!) Self driving cars will never exist
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walking Bailey when one of these came out of nowhere, so nice of them not to just mow me down (this time) lol SENSORY curb weight 5800 pounds (this is with no people or items in it lol) (btw for reference the new F-150 electric truck WILL BE 6500 POUNDS) 75" tall lol
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But we just had a kid, we certainly need a vehicle this big!
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Also, federal fuel economy standards don't apply beyond a certain wheelbase, which is why all cars are now humongous.
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I don't know if we've reached the end of artificially low gas prices (probably not), but it sucks that once again it's largely regular people are getting screwed by it because there's no viable alternative to cars in most places. Like, I want to laugh at everyone finally having to pay for their unsustainable lifestyles, but it's not like there's much of a choice in the US. Then again, you didn't have to move a county over from your job so that your kids could go to the rich-kid school. You didn't have to buy that truck and SUV either. And maybe you had the choice of a smaller house in town vs the huge one you chose outside of town. People make these decisions so casually though, taking for granted that they'll always be possible, and we're reaching the point where the repercussions of unsustainable choices are going to start hurting people more.
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