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Smythe posted:man that song takes me back. kinda reminds me of pete and pete for some reason You know what would really remind you of Pete and Pete? https://youtu.be/wTcpqzQbRTI
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mastershakeman, looking good friendo.
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This summer I think I got a glimpse of what suburban life is like in the US. My wife had to work close to Billund in Denmark and we had to bring our car. Our oldest son loves Lego so we decided to stay close to Lego-land in Billund. We got a good deal on a house/cabin with parking. The blue circle is the approximate area we stayed in. Black circles are places with grocery stores. The train route is marked in yellow and the red circles are stations. I think it stopped every 30 minutes at each station. This was the "train".  I have to apologize for every time I've made fun of Americans treating a 10-minute walk as some sort of ordeal. Walking in a place clearly designed for cars is an awful experience. It took about 15 minutes to walk to the nearest store but I only did it once. Back home in Stockholm I'll occasionally walk 40 minutes or so to a certain shop because it's a pleasant experience. Walking in this place was soul crushing. I ended up driving even if I was just picking up a carton of milk. It really illustrated to me how the idea that Americans love to drive is bullshit. I loving hate driving but I did it anyway when there was no other option.
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If the road that tram takes is closed to all traffic other than the tram so you can walk on it and only have to watch out for a couple trams an hour that's still insanely better than the US despite the distance between everything In most places in the US all the roads would have like 6 lanes of traffic and you would have to cross five of them to get to the supermarket mystes has issued a correction as of 21:02 on Aug 2, 2022 |
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Clark Nova posted:I've never seen anything like that weird grid of wavy streets in the US. Here it's all dead ends and cul-de-sacs deliberately designed to prevent any kind of thru-traffic They're for breaking up sight lines in suburbia because infinite identical houses as far as your eyes can see fucks with your brain. They're in the US, mostly the east I guess?
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:They're for breaking up sight lines in suburbia because infinite identical houses as far as your eyes can see fucks with your brain. it's funny because bumbling into a development on my bike and getting lost in a maze of streets also fucks with my brain and it doesn't even make it much less unnerving! see this exurb of montral
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maybe they should design the self-driving vehicles to better detect where pedestrians are so they can stop when appropriate the technology is absolutely possible, it would just cost more money
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lol americans are largely fine with letting tech and car companies use public roads to beta test new technologies that could kill innocent people if a programmer made an error
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Homocow posted:lol americans are largely fine with letting tech and car companies use public roads to beta test new technologies that could kill innocent people if a programmer made an error I saw people on the local subreddit unironically saying that deaths were worth it if we had self driving cars everywhere by 2020. None of those people post anymor.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:None of those people post anymor. hopefully because they were in self-driving teslas
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Xaris posted:hopefully because they were
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I saw people on the local subreddit unironically saying that deaths were worth it if we had self driving cars everywhere by 2020. they were posting in SA too
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Hedenius posted:It really illustrated to me how the idea that Americans love to drive is bullshit. I loving hate driving but I did it anyway when there was no other option. i moved to the suburbs because the cost of housing in the only walkable/bikeable/decently covered by public transit areas in my country is insane. had to get a car and i hate driving to do basic things so loving much.
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Homocow posted:maybe they should design the self-driving vehicles to better detect where pedestrians are so they can stop when appropriate Maybe the self-driving car should be reserved for bringing enemies of the state to the guillotine and absolutely nothing else. Barring that it shouldn't exist at all.
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car lovers of the future: pedestrian was looking at their phone not where they were going, verdict, good shoot
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Ham Equity posted:I've been doing some googling, haven't been able to find anything: does anyone know what happened to that teenager in Texas who ran over the cyclists while rolling coal on them after he got charged last November? no updates afaict but you'll probably find them here https://www.bikelaw.com/cambio-corsa/ when they happen. also the associated news hits i found when looking for this were just depressing https://road.cc/content/news/cyclists-boycott-after-owner-filmed-rolling-coal-292193 quote:Cyclists in north Texas have called for the boycott of a custom car shop after a truck driver, alleged to be the owner of the business, filmed himself blowing black smoke from his exhaust, known as rolling coal, at a bike rider.
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SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:no updates afaict but you'll probably find them here https://www.bikelaw.com/cambio-corsa/ when they happen. also the associated news hits i found when looking for this were just depressing It's loving Texas, I don't know why you'd try to start a boycott of this piece of poo poo, it's just going to get him more business.
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Mameluke posted:The quebecois are a race of freeloading contractors and it comes as little surprise they can't build their own nests after having seen how they piss away public money All true. Yet still better than anglos SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:no updates afaict but you'll probably find them here https://www.bikelaw.com/cambio-corsa/ when they happen. also the associated news hits i found when looking for this were just depressing I wanna know what happened to the ones that threw open the doors in a whataburger and blew smoke in
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Milo and POTUS posted:
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Homocow posted:maybe they should design the self-driving vehicles to better detect where pedestrians are so they can stop when appropriate also, and honestly imo even more importantly, it would put pedestrians on equal footing with drivers. the car-brained ideal is that pedestrians have to stay out of your way so you can get where you want asap, and tech that detects pedestrians and stops for them as if they have an equal right to public space clearly isn't going to appeal to the car-brained designers of this poo poo
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Hedenius posted:This summer I think I got a glimpse of what suburban life is like in the US. My wife had to work close to Billund in Denmark and we had to bring our car. Our oldest son loves Lego so we decided to stay close to Lego-land in Billund. We got a good deal on a house/cabin with parking. Now multiply this x1000 and you'll really understand 
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Xaris posted:you butchered the joke rear end in a top hat I like that headline. it was certainly his first fatal crash
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Now multiply this x1000 and you'll really understand christ
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And that's 20-25 miles away from downtown Atlanta. I drove across that metro area once on 95 and that was enough to depress the hell out of me.
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WaryWarren posted:And that's 20-25 miles away from downtown Atlanta. I drove across that metro area once on 95 and that was enough to depress the hell out of me. Suburban north Atlanta seems damned and determined to keep with 70s-90s planning trends no matter what it costs. The Cobb County Braves complex sucks poo poo.
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I can barely stand to visit Atlanta. Every time something fun comes up that I want to do there, I have to weigh it vs driving in that traffic. I don't know how people can stand to live there.
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er I meant 75, the one with the 23 lane wide section or whatever.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Now multiply this x1000 and you'll really understand That is horrific. Here's my suburb in Melbourne, basically no dead ends or unwalkable streets.  Got two tram lines and a six track train station within 200 feet of my place. Having a car is pointless. 
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:
We had tram lines on nearly every loving street here and a fleet of over 650 tram cars for a population of 1.6m in 1970. It was all thrown away in the late sixties / early seventies in the service of the automobile and I'm still livid about it.
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:That is horrific. Here's my suburb in Melbourne, basically no dead ends or unwalkable streets. How do you keep homeless people from walking into your neighborhood and doing drugs at you?
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