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the average american uses 500 gallons of gasoline every year lmao
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Beached Whale posted:the average american uses 500 gallons of gasoline every year lmao I think the average driving is 13k miles a year, which would imply an average mpg of 26, which seems a bit high since so many people drive "light trucks"
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Beached Whale posted:the average american uses 500 gallons of gasoline every year lmao
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Lastgirl posted:https://twitter.com/NormanB39802821/status/1512211275455021060?s=20&t=EAtKsNmGStdsNzxMAJVF3g Isn't it true that when you double the weight of a vehicle, the force or destruction it causes a paved roadway is 16 times greater? Like my Honda Civic is 2,900 pounds and the average pickup truck is 6,000 pounds, so they should be paying more in taxes to fund road reconstruction. lol we subsidize these shitheads' existence (large destructive vehicles, mcmansions in the middle of nowhere, etc.).
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Lastgirl posted:https://twitter.com/NormanB39802821/status/1512211275455021060?s=20&t=EAtKsNmGStdsNzxMAJVF3g remind me again how tall your average human child is 
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WaryWarren posted:Isn't it true that when you double the weight of a vehicle, the force or destruction it causes a paved roadway is 16 times greater? Like my Honda Civic is 2,900 pounds and the average pickup truck is 6,000 pounds, so they should be paying more in taxes to fund road reconstruction. lol we subsidize these shitheads' existence (large destructive vehicles, mcmansions in the middle of nowhere, etc.). Now think about Biden funded police with their mraps cutting asphalt when riots break out again
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WaryWarren posted:Isn't it true that when you double the weight of a vehicle, the force or destruction it causes a paved roadway is 16 times greater? Like my Honda Civic is 2,900 pounds and the average pickup truck is 6,000 pounds, so they should be paying more in taxes to fund road reconstruction. lol we subsidize these shitheads' existence (large destructive vehicles, mcmansions in the middle of nowhere, etc.). this is true but as a result the vast, vast majority of damage to roadways is done by transport trucks your Honda Civic is 2,900 pounds, the average pickup is 6,000, this EV Hummer monstrosity is 9,000 but the average transport truck weighs about 35,000 pounds without weighing the cargo (since cargo weight varies really widely)
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I long to be safe and warm in my metal womb https://twitter.com/ErickLorinc/status/1512120171514585093?t=WB5JGXqVAMkXg6TUQxG56g&s=19 Ignore the copyright infringement and just marvel: stopping isn't an option
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Fitzy Fitz posted:https://twitter.com/RHoogenboom/status/1512175297197658115?s=20&t=Az__X1iJHVaR6mR6eZPihg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPDvLaXuSHQ
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vyelkin posted:remind me again how tall your average human child is people need to start biking with AT mines on their backs lol
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Fitzy Fitz posted:stay safe safety trolley
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vyelkin posted:this is true but as a result the vast, vast majority of damage to roadways is done by transport trucks Technically road damage is proportional to axle weight, so trucks aren't as bad as the gross weight would suggest due to the large number of wheels that weight is distributed over (still bad though). This actually makes the relative damage cause by something like the hummer ev to actually be a lot worse as it's placing all that weight on only 4 points.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:stay safe safety trolley
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Blackhawk posted:Technically road damage is proportional to axle weight, so trucks aren't as bad as the gross weight would suggest due to the large number of wheels that weight is distributed over (still bad though). This actually makes the relative damage cause by something like the hummer ev to actually be a lot worse as it's placing all that weight on only 4 points. Road wear/damage is roughly proportional to axle weight to the 4th power.
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withak posted:Road wear/damage is roughly proportional to axle weight to the 4th power. I've heard this so many times and would love to hear an explanation of why because fourth power is some crazy poo poo that almost never happens, only other example I can think of is like black box radiation.
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IAMKOREA posted:I've heard this so many times and would love to hear an explanation of why because fourth power is some crazy poo poo that almost never happens, only other example I can think of is like black box radiation. It's because cars are THAT bad, makes u think
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IAMKOREA posted:I've heard this so many times and would love to hear an explanation of why because fourth power is some crazy poo poo that almost never happens, only other example I can think of is like black box radiation. it’s not derived from first principals or anything, it’s just a rule of thumb relating magnitude of loading and some kind of measure of pavement durability or functional life.
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Apr 8, 2022 21:52
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:Better go for a 9pm mud season drive after my pandemic choral practice. quote:It was unseasonably warm that evening, but the temperature was falling fast. Less than a mile up the road lay Radtke’s husband, Bob Jervis, sick in bed with a fever. lmao her husband has COVID and she was only a mile away from home
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vyelkin posted:remind me again how tall your average human child is "What child? I didn't see a child! They must have foolishly run out before a sensible driver like me could reasonably be expected to react!" etc etc  Greatbacon posted:https://twitter.com/M_WrenchGang/status/1512028800091054081?s=20&t=Wpi8eAcimixSVa0RA-Pj6A Genius. Gonna do this (until I get raged against).
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IAMKOREA posted:I've heard this so many times and would love to hear an explanation of why because fourth power is some crazy poo poo that almost never happens, only other example I can think of is like black box radiation. Drag/resistance through a fluid medium invoking a fourth power with speed is another, and to my understanding is comparable physics to road damage - a moving vehicle creates a tiny wave in the road, a heavier vehicle produces a larger wave. The damage comes from the solid road resisting the 'liquid' action of the wave. The energy content (and thus damage) of the wave scales with both speed and vehicle mass, but we don't do high road speeds the same way we do high masses. Car Hater has issued a correction as of 12:01 on Apr 9, 2022 |
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bedpan posted:lmao her husband has COVID and she was only a mile away from home
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mystes posted:Wtf didn't she just walk home when she got stuck lmao walk home??? what are you some kind of car hater? No clearly the solution is to get out and push the car but drop your keys in a puddle, then crawl in feet first through the window and get stuck and almost drown in the mud while you dangle there for 6 hours
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mystes posted:Wtf didn't she just walk home when she got stuck lmao COVID brain maybe? I'd bet her husband currently has COVID and she has caught it at least once. "Leave the car for the tow truck and walk the less than 5280 feet home" might not have seemed to her to be an option.
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the description of how she got stuck there is baffling. I've read it like three times now and I still don't know if I got it right. her legs were up in the truck cab, lodged behind the steering wheel, her face in the mud? what the gently caress? how does that happen
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:walk home??? what are you some kind of car hater? No clearly the solution is to get out and push the car but drop your keys in a puddle, then crawl in feet first through the window and get stuck and almost drown in the mud while you dangle there for 6 hours she probably got hypothermia and then reached the paradoxical undressing stage/terminal burrowing stage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothermia#Paradoxical_undressing
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only thing that makes sense to me is the mud was so deep she couldnt open the door, and hosed up trying to get out. but wrapped up in a sleeping bag? that sounds more like a hit
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rural vermont dirt roads have nothing to do with car brain really. in the spring they get the same kind of mud that stalled the russian army in ukraine.
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The weird position she was in is not her fault because of hypothermia, and the mud was probably very bad, but she still could have just loving walked home and not doing thinking to do that shows some pretty serious car brain. (Also wtf would you go to choir practice when your husband had covid?!)
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working today we had a guy come in and ask my boss (there's only two of us), in his opinion as a volunteer firefighter, if telephone poles were hungrier this spring than last year lol so many people gettin COVID brained up and driving, it's great, love this stupid loving country
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yesterday I finally saw someone do the thing where they use the turn lane to cut around traffic and blow through a red light
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Greatbacon posted:https://twitter.com/M_WrenchGang/status/1512028800091054081?s=20&t=Wpi8eAcimixSVa0RA-Pj6A lol
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God Hole posted:the description of how she got stuck there is baffling. I've read it like three times now and I still don't know if I got it right. her legs were up in the truck cab, lodged behind the steering wheel, her face in the mud? what the gently caress? how does that happen some Idiot Doom Spiral sht
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Greatbacon posted:https://twitter.com/M_WrenchGang/status/1512028800091054081?s=20&t=Wpi8eAcimixSVa0RA-Pj6A
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mystes posted:I feel like after you do this to a carbrained person once they're just going to decide that in the future they should ignore all signs that there might be a person or object in from of their car and just plow forward. and thats when you strike
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placing myself at risk of getting shot to death or run over in order to carry out such acts of rebellion as Stepping Over Imaginary Object and Placing Lentils In Valve Core
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