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 The second-highest line is noted transportation safety leader Russia. The US did narrowly edge out Georgia in deaths per inhabitants, though!  Not as bad as Switzerland! their baseline is 10x lower  Maybe the safest place to be really is in a car, although I wonder how much of this is because who even has passengers in their car anymore? (from OECD via NYT remembering that cars are bad)
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show this chart to the average american and they will take it as vindication for buying the most bloated SUV or truck they could afford
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i wonder how fast you would need to hit it at to knock it over
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p. sure you would pulverize the car before you knocked it over.
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actionjackson posted:i wonder how fast you would need to hit it at to knock it over depends on the diameter and how embedded it is and the surface conditions. in an unpaved or thin asphalt you could end up lateral soil failure from a bending moment (l-pile analysis). if the surface is rigid concrete in very dense sand with an 18-in bollard deep embedment encased in a large concrete footing, it would probably not get knocked over by anything other than a bulking giant truck. the kinetic calculation isn't hard but you'd have to assume some diameter, surface condition, and generalized soil modulus and shear strength
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actionjackson posted:i wonder how fast you would need to hit it at to knock it over Really loving fast
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:The best way to make other drivers rage out ime 100% it’s like a real life “one weird trick to not getting pulled over, other drivers hate this.” now that I think about it walking, biking and public transit are similar weird tricks.
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CopperHound posted:To be fair, I squeeze between the carts holding my basket saying "I'm a Bike! I'm a bike! gently caress you, I'm a bike!" Good for you you're doing it right
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my car is part of my identity, it's how I express myself
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drat what happened in Lithuania in 2008 and can we make it happen here?
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Gripweed posted:drat what happened in Lithuania in 2008 and can we make it happen here? global financial crisis I would assume
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CongoJack posted:100% it’s like a real life “one weird trick to not getting pulled over, other drivers hate this.” We went to a state park and back on Saturday. In around three hours of driving, we saw three crashes and two near-misses, and a guy who was all over the road like he was drunk or reading a book or some poo poo. My wife stays in the right lane and drives at the speed limit. One guy in a Dodge (it's always a Dodge) raged the gently caress out over that and used a right turning lane to pass us. Speed limit was 55mph and there was a left lane he could have used.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:We went to a state park and back on Saturday. In around three hours of driving, we saw three crashes and two near-misses, and a guy who was all over the road like he was drunk or reading a book or some poo poo. Driving politely and cautiously owns. It makes idiots so mad. Even better if you take time to wave pedestrians across the street and such.
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Lol that bollard video is great, especially because they had to total like seven Dodge Chargers or whatever.bike tory posted:my car is part of my identity, it's how I express myself Are these cars all actually exactly the same size? I know the same chassis is used for a LOT of cars but I didn't think that many competing manufacturers. I think the photos might be resized so the wheelbases are all the same.
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Mister Speaker posted:Lol that bollard video is great, especially because they had to total like seven Dodge Chargers or whatever. In a world where manufacturers are trying to eke out any gas mileage gains they can, everything's going to gravitate to the same aerodynamic shape eventually (Except pickup trucks, which are built to be as obnoxious and wasteful as possible)
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Lib and let die posted:Driving politely and cautiously owns. It makes idiots so mad. Even better if you take time to wave pedestrians across the street and such.  . Although it's even better to not drive in the first place so its a moot point.
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Aren't there external limits to how wide and long cars can be? Like, width of lanes, standard size of parking spaces and in sane countries even regulation? It stands to reason that American cars would naturally converge on this maximum possible size, which would then push the entire system towards even bigger sizes.
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BonHair posted:Aren't there external limits to how wide and long cars can be? Like, width of lanes, standard size of parking spaces and in sane countries even regulation? It stands to reason that American cars would naturally converge on this maximum possible size, which would then push the entire system towards even bigger sizes. There was a big thread in my local subreddit about how the parking spot sizes at the garages downtown are too small and need to be expanded.
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The real pro move to piss off cagers when you're forced to drive is to come to a complete stop at stop signs and look in both directions to make sure it's safe to proceed before taking off again.
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SimonSays posted:The real pro move to piss off cagers when you're forced to drive is to come to a complete stop at stop signs and look in both directions to make sure it's safe to proceed before taking off again. on a bike you will piss people off equal amounts by doing this or not doing this
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Clark Nova posted:on a bike you will piss people off equal amounts by doing this or not doing this Often the same people too I'd wager. I live right next to a completely car centric (and very un-Danish imo) shopping horseshoe thing. Just a big parking lot with half a ring of big box type shops. I sometimes have to go there and get a big thing, and it's kinda incredible how hard it is to actually get in with a cargo bike. Like, it's actively hostile to people who are not driving. The overview doesn't show how bad it is, but all the internal roads are too narrow for a bike to fit beside the cars. And you better believe I'm taking up a parking space with my bike. 
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BonHair posted:Aren't there external limits to how wide and long cars can be? Like, width of lanes, standard size of parking spaces and in sane countries even regulation? It stands to reason that American cars would naturally converge on this maximum possible size, which would then push the entire system towards even bigger sizes. We're definitely already at this point. People can't park their trucks in their garages anymore. SUV drivers will wave me through turns in parking lots because they can't maneuver without taking up both lanes. Truck beds stick out of parking spots and into the lane in the old part of my city. Home garages are probably going to grow because that's a relatively easy change, but there's a point where developers and cities aren't going to want to accommodate because there's a real spatial and financial burden to bigger parking. State DOT is probably salivating over bigger lanes though.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:SUV drivers will wave me through turns Bullshit.
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thinking about this article againquote:When Kristen Trevino moved to her new home in the Dallas area recently, she ran into a problem. 
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lobster shirt posted:thinking about this article again 
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Fitzy Fitz posted:We're definitely already at this point. People can't park their trucks in their garages anymore. SUV drivers will wave me through turns in parking lots because they can't maneuver without taking up both lanes. Truck beds stick out of parking spots and into the lane in the old part of my city. There's one parking garage I like to use downtown in the rare occasion I have to drive there, because it was built in the 1950s and new trucks don't fit. Always an open spot there. quote:
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Lmao, my garage fits my cargo bike, baby stroller, various garden tools and furniture and a bunch of other crap. And it's not even effectively organised. Or it could fit a small car (European sizes).
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lobster shirt posted:thinking about this article again BonHair posted:Lmao, my garage fits my cargo bike, baby stroller, various garden tools and furniture and a bunch of other crap. And it's not even effectively organised. Or it could fit a small car (European sizes).
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Fitzy Fitz posted:We're definitely already at this point. People can't park their trucks in their garages anymore. We're well past that point even. I was visiting my sister and remarked how many assholes were parking their trucks/SUVs in their driveways overlapping the sidewalk because they probably didn't fit in their garage, and they were lucky nobody used a wheelchair on their street... nope, one of her nice neighbors uses an electric wheelchair and is forced to use the street. There's also a bunch of new families on the street and all the kids just have to be in the street to ride their scooters and trikes, hoping the obviously too large cars see them when they're even lower than they are standing   The "bike boulevard" around here takes me through a section that's a bit narrow, so everyone just hops the rolled curb and parks on the sidewalk 
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bike tory posted:my car is part of my identity, it's how I express myself Harder for cops to identify you, praxis. Sorry
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cat botherer posted:So she bought another F-150 without checking the dimensions, just assuming it would work? Wow she must really need that truck for her costco runs. I could understand not checking the size the first time but if you buy a car specifically to fit in your new garage and you don't check the dimensions you should probably be assigned a state guardian to make decisions for you
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:if you buy a car [...] you should probably be assigned a state guardian to make decisions for you
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bike tory posted:my car is part of my identity, it's how I express myself this is every car on the road thats not a prius or a tesla and theyre all ugly as sin and gigantic. plus theyre 6000lbs or w/e transporting 130 pounds of human
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Mister Speaker posted:Lol that bollard video is great, especially because they had to total like seven Dodge Chargers or whatever. take another look at the video bruv....
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Smythe posted:this is every car on the road thats not a prius or a tesla and theyre all ugly as sin and gigantic. plus theyre 6000lbs or w/e transporting 130 pounds of human
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