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actionjackson posted:electric cars and chargers will be options for people with enough money, who also tend to have their own indoor garage space to charge it easily. otherwise, eh lots of people without garages or even a driveway are going to inflict their jank solutions on the rest of us lol
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I still say electric cars won't be a massive thing until all the gasoline runs out. A lot of people think once that happens there will be a post car utopia/apocalypse but lol nope we're just going to have electric cars charged off a grid that burns coal or finally uses nuclear
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cowboy beepboop posted:why though? when i visited atlanta i took the metro from the airport and it was pretty good. clean, fast, seemed to have ok frequency. seemed way better than the big slow heavy rail I am used to here in Sydney The “joke” in Atlanta is that their transit agency, MARTA, is an acronym for “moving Africans rapidly through Atlanta.”
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cat botherer posted:Electric cars solve none of the fundamental problems that gas cars have. there is some environmental benefit but not a ton, otherwise yeah
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I still say electric cars won't be a massive thing until all the gasoline runs out. A lot of people think once that happens there will be a post car utopia/apocalypse but lol nope we're just going to have electric cars charged off a grid that burns coal or finally uses nuclear
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I hope they drag it out and don’t reveal who is Sauron until the series finale.
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withak posted:I hope they drag it out and don’t reveal who is Sauron until the series finale.
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part of the problem is if we want everyone to switch to EVs then the grid will have to be upgraded to meet all the extra demand, which seems achievable in theory, but America in recent history has an amazingly bad track record at big infrastructure projects
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Horace posted:roundabouts!!! There's a great one near me that was fine when they installed it years ago, but then they decided that it had too much traffic capacity so they changed it from two lanes to one so now the path through it is all lopsided and uneven. The highway coming from the bottom is divided and has a gas station on one side so there's a legitimate need for a not insignificant amount of traffic from that direction to make essentially a u-turn through the roundabout which means you're crossing back and forth through what would have originally been 2 lanes multiple times
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FreeRangeHexagon posted:if we want everyone to switch to EVs bad news about that https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1140653683492950018
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FreeRangeHexagon posted:part of the problem is if we want everyone to switch to EVs then the grid will have to be upgraded to meet all the extra demand, which seems achievable in theory, but America in recent history has an amazingly bad track record at big infrastructure projects EV charging draw is about on par with central air, the problem is that switching to EV solves nothing. It's an excuse to keep doing what we're doing instead of what we should be doing, reverting to pre-WW2 patterns of living.
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FreeRangeHexagon posted:part of the problem is if we want everyone to switch to EVs then the grid will have to be upgraded to meet all the extra demand, which seems achievable in theory, but America in recent history has an amazingly bad track record at big infrastructure projects
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there's a widespread belief out there, even in anticar circles, that Americans all owned horses or some poo poo prior to cars. In 1900 there were four people for every horse in the country. People walked and poo poo was built to reflect that, and that's the sort of built environment we're going to have to revert to.
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i would love to be able to safely walk and bike to more places, oh well, cant do anything about it
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ted hitler hunter posted:Worldwide there is not enough mining capacity or enough prospected ore to get the required minerals to build enough EV cars, power stations, power lines and power plants within the proposed timelines. A complete switch to EV cars in the near future is an unrealistic short term goal. I'm not even talking about worldwide, I mean even for California it's probs not going to happen. If they can't build a train how are they going to upgrade their electricity grid?
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:there's a widespread belief out there, even in anticar circles, that Americans all owned horses or some poo poo prior to cars. In 1900 there were four people for every horse in the country. People walked and poo poo was built to reflect that, and that's the sort of built environment we're going to have to revert to.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:there's a widespread belief out there, even in anticar circles, that Americans all owned horses or some poo poo prior to cars. In 1900 there were four people for every horse in the country. People walked and poo poo was built to reflect that, and that's the sort of built environment we're going to have to revert to. there were like 50,000 people living here back then. I don't think that way of life is possible anymore
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in Cuba there are 67 motor vehicles per 1000 people. in India 62 registered vehicles per 1000. 254 per 1000 in Turkey. in the USA it's 868. I think we can get that number down if we actually wanted to
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webcams for christ posted:in Cuba there are 67 motor vehicles per 1000 people. in India 62 registered vehicles per 1000. 254 per 1000 in Turkey. in the USA it's 868. I think we can get that number down if we actually wanted to if we believe in ourselves there's no doubt in my mind we can design and sell street legal cars for children and get that number up to 1:1
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Cash for cars for kids?
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the brand new 2024 Ford F150 with extended cab and tot-safe pedals
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instead of those fake plastic toy keys for babies, they get a real set
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UK update: still sucks at least you have the London Underground, for now
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my neighbor got her suv "detailed" lmao
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thats when you pay a guy $200 to vacuum your car, isn't it?
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actionjackson posted:my neighbor got her suv "detailed" lmao
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Car washes sell subscription passes now, a car guy I know pays $300/mo for unlimited car washes and one detail service per month. He drives the 10 miles to go wash his car every two or three days. This guy also buys a new car and trades in his old one at least once a year.
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Detailing is when you have someone follow your car around to make sure that cheating bitch isn't driving with another man.
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eXXon posted:Detailing is when you have someone follow your car around to make sure that cheating bitch isn't driving with another man. ??? Detailing is clearly when you lose the person following your car around when your trying to cheat on your SO????
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Lmao https://nyti.ms/3V7DIgF quote:The state was warned repeatedly that its plans were too complex. SNCF, the French national railroad, was among bullet train operators from Europe and Japan that came to California in the early 2000s with hopes of getting a contract to help develop the system.
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Notable reasons for the Moroccan projects success probably include using existing technology (basically off the shelf trains, same ones that SNCF use everywhere) and not making the whole project run at max speed. Also got expertise from existing HSR operators to help with the project. https://www.railway-technology.com/news/morocco-inaugurates-tangier-casablanca-high-speed-rail-line/
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distortion park posted:Notable reasons for the Moroccan projects success probably include using existing technology (basically off the shelf trains, same ones that SNCF use everywhere) and not making the whole project run at max speed. Also got expertise from existing HSR operators to help with the project. https://www.railway-technology.com/news/morocco-inaugurates-tangier-casablanca-high-speed-rail-line/ Reading the NY Times article makes California seem extra stupid because all of the slow and costly reroutes treat high speed rail like commuter rail. It's incredibly stupid. If they need a commuter rail line, build a loving commuter rail line. Or be more like Texas and completely loving destroy any attempt at high speed rail and instead add more highway lanes. God I hate my stupid loving state.
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America has the best immune system against public transit on the planet. unbeatable in this arena
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it’s normal to get your car detailed every now and then
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eXXon posted:Detailing is when you have someone follow your car around to make sure that cheating bitch isn't driving with another man. lmao
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