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OMGVBFLOL posted:that's a train, you're talking about trains
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Powered Descent posted:This one? lol yeah that’s the one
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OMGVBFLOL posted:that's a train, you're talking about trains The train option costs just as much as, or more than, a plane ticket, takes twice as long as driving, and usually has like a 3 AM departure or arrival time. I'm going to bet on full self-driving cars being a thing before we get worthwhile long-distance train service. e: so I just looked it up, if I want to go from Miami to Seattle, it would take about 48 hours of constant driving. If I want to take a train, the fastest, cheapest option on Amtrak costs $1039 and involves 102 hours of sitting in a coach seat. If you want the ability to lie down during those four days of travel it's at least twice that price. I would love for long distance train travel to be a practical thing in the US. Right now it isn't. Wingnut Ninja fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Jun 6, 2023 |
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Jun 6, 2023 23:47
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i doubt your actual cost on a hypothetical cross country autonomous driving trip is going to be all that much better than flying and that's also assuming you value your time at $0
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Jun 6, 2023 23:55
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yeah but no airports or other people
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I can definitely see the appeal of a near-future road trip in a self-driving car instead of flying. You get to bring lots more stuff, you have your car with you at your destination, and nicest of all, you aren't crammed in sardine-style with a bunch of strangers at any point. Sure, a long trip would take a few days, but computer drivers don't get fatigued and you could keep moving almost 24 hours a day. And as long as I'm dreaming, I'd like a spaceship too. I have yet to hear of a self-driving system that I'd trust to take me across the street, let alone across a continent.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:The train option costs just as much as, or more than, a plane ticket, takes twice as long as driving, and usually has like a 3 AM departure or arrival time. I'm going to bet on full self-driving cars being a thing before we get worthwhile long-distance train service. actual machines vs loving magic. if we're allowing for a hypothetical future on the level of safe, driverless, passenger-carrying cross-continent highway travel but limiting ourselves to the current afterthought that is long-haul north american passenger rail, it's because you've already made up your mind about which one you like fact remains, fast transcontinental travel while you sleep or idly pass the time is 19th century tech
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OMGVBFLOL posted:you've already made up your mind about which one you like What I like has nothing to do with it, I already said I'd love for trains to be a practical option. But right now there's a ton of effort being put into developing self-driving cars and jack loving squat into developing long-distance rail travel.
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Union Pacific has a market cap of only like a hundred and twenty billion dollars. It’s a rookie mistake to buy Twitter instead.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:What I like has nothing to do with it, I already said I'd love for trains to be a practical option. But right now there's a ton of effort being put into developing self-driving cars and jack loving squat into developing long-distance rail travel. right, but you said you'd love to nap while traveling cross-country, enough to never fly again, and are just waiting for the tech to be available. i just pointed out it already is
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bull3964 posted:You.... don't actually believe that, do you? gently caress no of course not. But we’re all allowed to dream.
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Powered Descent posted:I can definitely see the appeal of a near-future road trip in a self-driving car instead of flying. You get to bring lots more stuff, you have your car with you at your destination, and nicest of all, you aren't crammed in sardine-style with a bunch of strangers at any point. Sure, a long trip would take a few days, but computer drivers don't get fatigued and you could keep moving almost 24 hours a day. Yeah but who is going to fart directly into your face?
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Cojawfee posted:Yeah but who is going to fart directly into your face? I volunteer as tribute.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:right, but you said you'd love to nap while traveling cross-country, enough to never fly again, and are just waiting for the tech to be available. i just pointed out it already is Tech is, money, will, political obstructionists, planning ability, very much isn't
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The average american is 5'6" tall and fits into airline seats quite comfortably
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Mortabis posted:The average american is 5'6" tall and fits into airline seats quite comfortably Three-seats Georg, who lives in the lav of a Challenger 600 and flies 10,000 miles a day, is an outlier and should not be counted.
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United Airlines taking notes and lobbying for fetal personhood to skew the statistics.
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Platystemon posted:United Airlines taking notes and lobbying for fetal personhood to skew the statistics. lol I hadn't even considered children, I was just deliberately averaging the bimodal distribution
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Pretty soon they’ll just thread a rod through your shirtsleeves and hang it on a hook from the ceiling Spirit will use the hook too but the rod is a $20 upcharge
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How much for a noose?
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canonically, one penny to hang yourself, two if you wanted to sit while doing it quote:Especially used in seaport cities that a ‘penny hang’ was an establishment common, located in a cellar or basement. It featured hooks in the walls, with ropes strung in parallel from one side to another at about shoulder height. In the late evening, a homeless person, a drunk or exhausted “clients”, who had spent all their money, or were too boisterous to be allowed anywhere else, would enter the penny hang, after paying a penny, and then drape themselves over a rope, and attempted to sleep as best they could
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From the OSHA thread: God drat people are stupid. Stole this comment: "Tourist: “Kobe!” Pilot: “NOOO!”"
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MisterOblivious posted:From the OSHA thread: On the one hand, dumb tourist. On the other hand I think she just had a weird almost involuntary reaction to seeing the pilot touch the lever and then feeling the need to copy him.
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Jun 9, 2023 16:06
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But why. I've flown shotgun in small planes and never wanted to "just grab" the yoke or throttle or something. Unless the PIC told me to.
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what's that lever do? rotor quick-release?
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the milk machine posted:what's that lever do? rotor quick-release? Pilot's ejection lever
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every lever in a helicopter cockpit is the Crash Lever
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Doesn't PIC usually sit in the right seat of a helicopter?
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No. Reminds me of my flight in FIFI, when I moved towards the rear to see the APU in the rear compartment. One of the crew was already in there with a passenger and he waved me off quite vigorously, for what I assume were CG reasons.
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i find it difficult to believe that one person moving around could have a significant effect on the CG of a B-29 Superfortress, but maybe i suppose
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What does FIFI stand for. Google says "FIFI France" is "friends in France international" women's group and they don't seem like they'd be a large operator of helicopters
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it stands for 'how the gently caress did it take them that loving long to realize 'confederate air force' was a TERRIBLE vibe'
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Hadlock posted:What does FIFI stand for. Google says "FIFI France" is "friends in France international" women's group and they don't seem like they'd be a large operator of helicopters Sagebrush posted:i find it difficult to believe that one person moving around could have a significant effect on the CG of a B-29 Superfortress, but maybe i suppose
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FuturePastNow posted:every lever in a helicopter cockpit is the Crash Lever 
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I'm wondering if the passenger was properly briefed on where (not) to touch. Elsewhere suggested it looked like she misunderstood him checking the lever als an invitation to use it as a handhold, and so she absentmindedly does it. Such a misunderstanding seems much more likely to me than a passenger actually trying to pull random levers
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FIFI: Josephine O'Connor (1919-2007), the wife of Victor Neils Agather
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Lord Stimperor posted:I'm wondering if the passenger was properly briefed on where (not) to touch. Elsewhere suggested it looked like she misunderstood him checking the lever als an invitation to use it as a handhold, and so she absentmindedly does it. Such a misunderstanding seems much more likely to me than a passenger actually trying to pull random levers look at this guy who’s never dealt with paying passengers
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HookedOnChthonics posted:it stands for 'how the gently caress did it take them that loving long to realize 'confederate air force' was a TERRIBLE vibe' They were actually way ahead of the curve on renaming themselves.
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