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Nocturtle posted:If living in a high density urban area means you need to camp out in museum parking lots to charge your car maybe you should just take the subway. new yorkers love just sitting in their parked cars for hours actually no they hate it! but what are they gonna do, carry their groceries? ok yes they could but listen, they need their car ok
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Polo-Rican posted:new yorkers love just sitting in their parked cars for hours you’re minimizing the issues faced by new yorkers here. yes, they can carry their groceries, but do you expect them to carry their large dogs too? not practical.
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i call this drawing "Walking Down the Sidewalk Right Before Alternate Side Parking and Realizing Each Car Has a Creepy / Sad Guy just Sitting Inside"
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So, in the future... are the rich going to drive EVs, and the poor ICEs?
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Fitzy Fitz posted:So, in the future... are the rich going to drive EVs, and the poor ICEs?
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*Self-Driving Electric Cars**!! **actual self-driving functionality may never exist, you will be held liable for all traffic collisions during operation of self-driving functionality
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:**actual self-driving functionality may never exist, you will be held liable for all traffic collisions during operation of self-driving functionality lmao. We'll somehow end up with a situation where no one is liable for injuries sustained during an accident involving self-driving cars
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fault will fall on the pedestrian, the cyclist, or whoever had the cheaper self-driving car
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Clark Nova posted:fault will fall on the pedestrian, the cyclist, or whoever had the cheaper self-driving car Operating in an autonomous roadway without a licensed autonomous vehicle is a felony and anyone caught doing so assumes all liability as such.
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I'm visiting Amsterdam in less than a month and I'm worried that I'll acclimate to the quiet and calm of a city that was not designed to massacre pedestrians by flinging them under the wheels of 12 foot tall pickup trucks. the shock of returning to California car hell afterwards will give me a stroke as soon as I step out of the airport.
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zero knowledge posted:I'm visiting Amsterdam in less than a month and I'm worried that I'll acclimate to the quiet and calm of a city that was not designed to massacre pedestrians by flinging them under the wheels of 12 foot tall pickup trucks. the shock of returning to California car hell afterwards will give me a stroke as soon as I step out of the airport.
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Polo-Rican posted:i call this drawing "Walking Down the Sidewalk Right Before Alternate Side Parking and Realizing Each Car Has a Creepy / Sad Guy just Sitting Inside" reminds me of some van bound dude I found who used to daily post pictures of what he claimed were aliens hiding in people’s cars
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Going to try to cycle to the new office today, whoops it's in an industrial area serviced only by big multi-lane roads with frequent truck traffic and there are no cycleways! Somebody avenge my inevitable death pls.
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Also, flying with an airline counts as public transport - discuss.
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Blackhawk posted:Also, flying with an airline counts as public transport - discuss. It's usually substantially less greenhouse gases than driving a solo car the same distance. The way people talk about flying in the context of global warming, you'd think it was the worst thing you could ever do, but it's really just pretty bad
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ikanreed posted:It's usually substantially less greenhouse gases than driving a solo car the same distance. It's also subtantial harder to replace than short and medium distance car travel. There's a frequency thing though - because it's cheap people (and businesses) do it a *lot* and even if it's not worse per mile than solo car travel it's an awful lot of miles.
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Blackhawk posted:Also, flying with an airline counts as public transport - discuss. You don't really need to fly beyond leisure or seeing family, and maybe dubiously necessary business travel. You absolutely need public transport to get to work and around town, assuming you live in non-car-addled development. Also public transport can in principle be electrified. I'd argue flying is even less necessary than owning a car, because the reality is a lot of communities have been built around car ownership. This is part of what makes cars so terrible of course.
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30 to 50 Feral Cars
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it's called automotive insanity because car culture is freaking insane. folks
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After doing 1000km of city riding in the last few months I have noted that the drivers who are extremely abusive and occasionally try to kill you are either dudes in massive utes (90% of incidents) or women in late model BMWs or audis
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El Pollo Blanco posted:After doing 1000km of city riding in the last few months I have noted that the drivers who are extremely abusive and occasionally try to kill you are either dudes in massive utes (90% of incidents) or women in late model BMWs or audis Massive utes are the worst because that kind of vehicle is the exact personification of male aggression, so the people who buy them are most likely to want to outwardly project aggression at whomever they think they can get away with it.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/18/tyre-extinguishers-deflating-suv-tyres-as-a-form-of-climate-actionquote:The activists who took “climate action” against sports utility vehicles by flattening their tyres in the last two weeks have been receiving solidarity and calls for information from around the world.
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jackhunter64 posted:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/18/tyre-extinguishers-deflating-suv-tyres-as-a-form-of-climate-action the use of lentils makes it sound like an onion article
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upsidedown posted:the use of lentils makes it sound like an onion article There is a vindaloo drive-thru pun here My other half is away on business for maybe a month so our car has sat motionless in the driveway, they called me and asked if I could drive it round just to keep everything moving and the battery topped up which sure fine I ended up picking up a mate from a doctor's appointment so it was a 1.5 people trip instead of just mindlessly burning oil There is a 4 lane t-intersection we passed through where some people got greedy on the amber light and ending up holding the whole intersection + bus lane up for a good 40 seconds Just madness that this is an essential part of life
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upsidedown posted:the use of lentils makes it sound like an onion article https://youtu.be/0y7QhnjyDXU
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Fitzy Fitz posted:https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/multiple-dead-crash-involving-new-mexico-university-golf-teams-pickup-rcna20218 https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/17/us/usw-golf-team-van-crash-thursday/index.html quote:A 13-year-old was behind the wheel in Texas crash that killed 9 people and left two University of the Southwest golfers critically injured Oh
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:well at least we invented a form of transportation that dumps tons of carbon into the air while it's idling! It's actually 3000 pounds, not enough to qualify as "tons". 3.5 pinocchios
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freeway traffic here is close to pre-covid levels, but not evenly distributed. not surprisingly the wealthiest areas (west part of this map) have the biggest decrease because they have more people WFH. However it's kind of a mixed blessing because on those roads, people are driving fast as gently caress and so the noise is substantially worse. this is what is happening where I live as well, mostly "white noise" but every so often people going >100 mph making a poo poo ton of noise
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reading some LeGuin from 1971, figured you sickos would enjoyquote:The law office of Forman, Esserbeck, Goodhue and Rutti was in a 1973 automobile parking structure, converted to human use. Many of the older buildings of downtown Portland were of this lineage. At one time indeed most of downtown Portland had consisted of places to park automobiles. At first these had mostly been plains of asphalt punctuated by paybooths or parking meters, but as the population went up, so had they. Indeed the automatic-elevator parking structure had been invented in Portland, long long ago; and before the private car strangled in its own exhaust, ramp-style parking buildings had gone up to fifteen and twenty stories. Not all these had been torn down since the eighties to make room for high-rise office and apartment buildings; some had been converted. This one, 209 S.W. Burnside, still smelled of ghostly gasoline fumes. Its cement floors were stained with the excreta of innumerable engines, the wheelprints of the dinosaurs were fossilized in the dust of its echoing halls. All the floors had a curious slant, a skewness, due to the basic helical-ramp construction of the building; in the offices of Forman, Esserbeck, Goodhue and Rutti, one was never entirely convinced that one was standing quite upright.
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indigi posted:reading some LeGuin from 1971, figured you sickos would enjoy lmao had forgotten about that passage. so hard to imagine reclaiming even a few square metres, let alone an entire structure
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distortion park posted:lmao had forgotten about that passage. so hard to imagine reclaiming even a few square metres, let alone an entire structure well they outlawed cars within city limits so they had to do something with all the parking lots also she was talking about climate change refugees in 1971 lmao
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Dear America, If cars are so great, why are your neighborhoods where you can live without one so expensive? 
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goochtit posted:Dear America,
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I also love the window tinting that's seemingly everywhere, creating big ugly opaque blind spots and obstacles on the road for everyone else. You have no hope of seeing through or over them, so better hope the car on the intersecting road doesn't overshoot its stop line.
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no problem just add more cameras.
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my college roommates smoked so much weed that the smoke alarm was constantly going off so in their infinite wisdom they smashed it off the wall with a baseball bat within a week of us moving in. within the second week, one of them got so high they passed out and left a pot on the burner and almost burned the house down with all of us inside. probably can expect similar behavior from the brodozer crowd wrt the various cameras and obstacle alarms peppered throughout their vehicles
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jackhunter64 posted:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/18/tyre-extinguishers-deflating-suv-tyres-as-a-form-of-climate-action you will get shot doing this in america
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Cup Runneth Over posted:you will get shot doing this in america probably why they do it at night after all the baby bombers fall asleep at 10pm zonked out on prescribed ambien and vicodins also while operating a 6000 lb car
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