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lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

riding on a train is a relaxing experience

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Precambrian Video Games
Aug 19, 2002



platzapS posted:

Is there a good public transit app, preferably for the northeast/mid Atlantic US? Something better than Apple Maps

NJ Transit :rimshot:

Google Maps is fine. If there's something else better let me know but if NJT doesn't know where the gently caress its buses are how are 3rd party services going to?

duomo
Oct 9, 2007




Soiled Meat

platzapS posted:

Is there a good public transit app, preferably for the northeast/mid Atlantic US? Something better than Apple Maps

I like Transit alright

mystes
May 31, 2006

duomo posted:

I like Transit alright
I used to use this but didn't they make a lot of stuff subscription based as of a few years ago or something?

duomo
Oct 9, 2007




Soiled Meat
I’ve only ever used the free version. It’s suited my needs well enough in Boston. Maybe the limitations of the free one would be apparent in somewhere like NYC with more than a few lines

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA
News report about people stealing handicapped spots sparks dozens of car-brained fuckers to come out of the woodworks to smugly declare, "if there's not a sign to go with the paint, then it's not really a handicapped spot :smug:"

Deadly Ham Sandwich
Aug 19, 2009
Smellrose
Carbrain should qualify you for a handicap space.

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


AnimeIsTrash posted:

i woudlnt drive that

correct. you conduct them

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
AIT wearing an old timey conductors floppy hat and pulling an old timey train whistle chain going TOOT TOOT

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN
Jun 26, 2009




Would you rather be run over as a 100 year old man or 100 year old babies

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

i think it would be worse if 100 babies died vs 1 man but inevitably cars will kill that many people anyway

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Would you rather fight one F150 sized man or five man sized F150s?

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin

gradenko_2000 posted:

it really sucks that more and more car controls are handled with a touchscreen instead of something more tactile. It increases driver distraction that way!

i rented a tesla for an out of town trip and it was the greatest rental i've ever made because
1) the range and charging were absolutely awful experiences and
2) all the hardware/software poo poo was also awful. the touchscreen would even display a little camera picture of what was in your blind spot if you put on your turn signal, but to look at it you had to look just above your knee. insane that it's allowed on the road

my favorite stupid thing it did was see speed limit signs listed for trucks only and display them on the touchscreen as the correct speed limit. just pure incompetence by the programmers

Blackhawk
Nov 15, 2004

Cup Runneth Over posted:

Would you rather fight one F150 sized man or five man sized F150s?

Depends if the F150 sized man is just an extremely fat normal-sized man, because in that case I'd just have to wait and let nature take its course.

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


Blackhawk posted:

Depends if the F150 sized man is just an extremely fat normal-sized man, because in that case I'd just have to wait and let nature take its course.

I would say that they just have to be able to occupy the same amount of space. So if the man was only just small enough to curl up into the volume of an F150. This probably wouldn't create F150s that you'd imagine when you see the word "man sized" but it would be fair I think.

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?
my buddy rented a Tesla in Vegas

"Good god. Rented a Tesla in Vegas for my son's baseball tournament. Cooperstown was easy. Here you need to wait like 20m for a supercharger. It’s insanely inconvenient.

Now that my son has experienced the farting car, I can be done with this."

huh.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

lobster shirt posted:

riding on a train is a relaxing experience

for relaxing times, ride in east palestine

Cup Runneth Over
Aug 8, 2009

She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXHSob-TdGI

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
driving the f150 around twon today

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
I drive an f350 because im the bigger man

Ansar Santa
Jul 12, 2012

Ardennes posted:

Admittedly, not even talking about cars, but British engine tech/electrical systems were often a generation behind everyone else. MG roadster were rather notorious.



This is an engine from an APC that is still in active service.

I'm from a few days in the future, but I would be remiss if I didn't point out that the oil filter is a teacup

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


The Rover V8 was a Buick engine that the British licensed and then hosed up so badly that the oil plug would spontaneously blow out and strip it’s threads

Mister Speaker
May 8, 2007

WE WILL CONTROL
ALL THAT YOU SEE
AND HEAR
Teen in St. Louis for volleyball tournament hit by car, has both legs amputated; suspect arrested

quote:

ST. LOUIS (KMOV) – A teenage girl from Tennessee who was in downtown St. Louis for a volleyball tournament was hit by a car Saturday night, resulting in both her legs having to be amputated.

Janae Edmondson was critically injured when she was hit by the car at 11th and St. Charles around 8:40 p.m. According to St. Louis police, the car ran a yield sign at the intersection and hit another car. That car went airborne and hit Edmondson, pinning her between it and a parked car.

...

“Any time you’re in a big city, we try to make sure that [the] kids aren’t walking by themselves. This doesn’t sound like anything that couldn’t have been prevented on their side,” said McQueen. “It’s a tragedy and we always have to be a little more careful in big cities.”

A GoFundMe account created to help the Edmondson family with medical expenses has been created. More than $25,000 has already been raised.

What the gently caress is that statement?

Also is this the sort of thing that victims can pursue in civil court? Seems to me that it's only fair that someone who literally crushed a child's hopes and dreams should have their wages garnished until the end of time in recompense.

silicone thrills
Jan 9, 2008

I paint things
nothing could have prevented some garbage driver running a stop sign and plowing into this kid.

Ham Equity
Apr 16, 2013

The first thing we do, let's kill all the cars.
Grimey Drawer

Mister Speaker posted:

Teen in St. Louis for volleyball tournament hit by car, has both legs amputated; suspect arrested

What the gently caress is that statement?

Also is this the sort of thing that victims can pursue in civil court? Seems to me that it's only fair that someone who literally crushed a child's hopes and dreams should have their wages garnished until the end of time in recompense.

In theory, this is why we have car insurance.

In practice, the minimum liability insurance required in most states is way, way loving less than needed to cover even moderately bad medical expenses, and tons of people are driving around without even that.

Precambrian Video Games
Aug 19, 2002



Keep an eye out for flying cars trying to land on you, folks. Stay alert, stay safe. Tell them STOP and NO clearly and firmly.

Ansar Santa
Jul 12, 2012

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

The Rover V8 was a Buick engine that the British licensed and then hosed up so badly that the oil plug would spontaneously blow out and strip it’s threads

it seems to me like they actually made the rest of the engine so strong that the oil plug was the last remaining weak spot, and the fantastic power leaking past the seals could not be contained by the puny drain plug. a little bit like how late model panzer 4s were like 10 tons overweight and were as slow as and broke down as much as heavy tanks

Horace
Apr 17, 2007

Gone Skiin'

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

The Rover V8 was a Buick engine that the British licensed and then hosed up so badly that the oil plug would spontaneously blow out and strip it’s threads

I have owned cars powered by this engine. impressive how little power it put out considering it had the fuel economy of a container ship.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

Lager beer is proof that god loves us
Pillbug

Mister Speaker posted:

Any time you’re in a big city, we try to make sure that [the] kids aren’t walking by themselves.

Always make sure that you're escorted by a Superman, Hulk, or at least some kind of big robot to bat away cars flying at you.

silicone thrills
Jan 9, 2008

I paint things
power to 8100 homes/businesses in the city was taken out today by "a vehicle accident"

Precambrian Video Games
Aug 19, 2002



silicone thrills posted:

power to 8100 homes/businesses in the city was taken out today by "a vehicle accident"

drat. I hope AnimeIsTrash is okay.

webcams for christ
Nov 2, 2005

https://twitter.com/fuckcarsreddit/status/1628272517499748352

Fitzy Fitz
May 14, 2005




This morning on the Atlanta news, I poo poo you not, they shared a story of a sneezing driver who crashed into a school bus.. and immediately followed it with a story about a bill in the general assembly proposing to reduce speeding tickets in active school zones to $10.

wash bucket
Feb 21, 2006


I can't believe we're still playing the "kids these days :smug:" card considering how much older generations did that to us and we hated it. Unless I'm misjudging how old wapo's writing staff is.

Horace
Apr 17, 2007

Gone Skiin'

https://twitter.com/wastenatwantnat/status/1628179940918149120

ah, I see. with his rear wheel he clipped the car which had come up behind him. I knew it was his fault all along.

also
1: I know I should not read bicycle helmet discourse on twitter, I knew it would make me mad, and it made me mad.
2: maybe they should do something about this "sheffield danger roundabout" which caused a cyclist to reverse PIT manoeuvre a car

webcams for christ
Nov 2, 2005

Horace posted:

https://twitter.com/wastenatwantnat/status/1628179940918149120

ah, I see. with his rear wheel he clipped the car which had come up behind him. I knew it was his fault all along.

also
1: I know I should not read bicycle helmet discourse on twitter, I knew it would make me mad, and it made me mad.
2: maybe they should do something about this "sheffield danger roundabout" which caused a cyclist to reverse PIT manoeuvre a car

lol even Wikipedia is using a car-brained framing

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


McCracAttack posted:

I can't believe we're still playing the "kids these days :smug:" card considering how much older generations did that to us and we hated it. Unless I'm misjudging how old wapo's writing staff is.

The writing staff is publishing what the people in charge tell them to publish, the same as the writers who called us young and stupid.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!
thinking about driving into work today

mystes
May 31, 2006

AnimeIsTrash posted:

thinking about driving into work today
You're actually supposed to park outside but lots of drivers don't seem to understand that

mystes has issued a correction as of 15:36 on Feb 22, 2023

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AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!

mystes posted:

You're actually supposed to park outside but lots of drivers don't seem to understand that

what

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