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fermun posted:one of the roads that i take when i bike to work has signs all along the bike lane that let you know the streetlights are timed for 13mph, and it's a very pleasant speed I bike on one of these pretty regularly and it's extremely satisfying to coast on down while still beating cars who feel the need to go 35 between lights also my limit for precariously balancing a box of pizza on the handlebars
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withak posted:Learning that you can only go as fast as the person in front of you is a valuable life lesson. I can accept that in a car or walking, but for some reason every person in front of me on a bike is a challenge. Even if we're all stopping in the same place in a bit. idgaf if I'm on a bikeshare and you're on a carbon road bike, it is on.
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If someone in front of me is going faster than me on their bike you better believe that's a challenge issued to pass them.
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No, this is the most liberal car.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:One of the hardest parts of riding a bike is actually accepting that you do not have to be going as fast as possible at all times. you do
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Rode my bike to work today Laptop in my backpack, other stuff in a pannier. 40 minutes for the 6.5km going to the office 42 minutes for the 8km going home Leather shoes weren't an issue at all Feel really good about this - I knew it's been possible for a long time, I just didn't have a reason to do it yet until I was called in
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I got a new job in March 2020 and was really excited because I could bike there, maybe 2 miles from my apartment. Getting there was basically one long downhill bomb and getting back took going uphill the whole way, and I loved it for the 3 days I went into the office before everyone got sent home forever. Bike commuting to work is the dream.
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I'm always much happier when I ride to work, as long as the cars leave me alone. I can do most of it on a bike path by a park though, and that is amazing.
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my bony fealty posted:Bike commuting to work is the dream. 
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As much as I enjoy being able to walk to work in four minutes, I kinda wish I had a nice 5k ride instead. It'd be better health-wise too.
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Tiggum posted:The best part is riding home right as all the car-drivers are also trying to get home but they're stuck in traffic while you coast right on by. This was exactly what happened this afternoon and I had a huge poo poo eating grin on my face the whole time. God bless protected bike lanes
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I live 2 miles from work, by car. If I bike, it's 5 miles on mostly bike/pedestrian paths. I have done that in the spring/summer/fall hundreds of times now. But my division is moving to a new building on the outskirts of the city and will be nearly impossible to access by bike.
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I rode to work every day I had to go in this week  . My commute is about 21 miles roundtrip and it was cold and rainy here so I had the paths and bridges mostly to myself. I notice I really sleep better when I ride vs taking the subway in.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:One of the hardest parts of riding a bike is actually accepting that you do not have to be going as fast as possible at all times. same with a car imo
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BONGHITZ posted:same with sexual intercourse imo
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https://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2024/01/25/pittsburgh-schools-bus-violations/stories/202401250116quote:ttsburgh Public School officials are cracking down on illegal school bus passings they say have exceeded 9,000 violations in six months. 9,202 incidents of drivers putting children at risk in six months, but there are fines issued for doing it so clearly something unethical is going on.
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Looks like they pulled over for the Google mobile
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theyre driving while the google car illegally passes across the double yellow lines
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nah, that's a weird narrow road, i guess the google van was going in the other direction 
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:nah, that's a weird narrow road, i guess the google van was going in the other direction lol
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https://v.redd.it/r7v3hxj624ec1/DASH_1080.mp4
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gradenko_2000 posted:what the gently caress? how does that happen? probably old. they're driving an automatic, at 8 seconds in they take their foot off the gas, then when they are about to hit the driveway, they go to put their foot on the brake but they accidentally hit the gas, then when the car accelerates they panic and they push harder on the pedal they think is the brake but is actually the accelerator and so they zoom into the garage.
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gradenko_2000 posted:what the gently caress? how does that happen? It’s a Tesla, so coin flip between driver mixing up the pedals and the driver letting satan take the wheel.
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A car racing out of control is always the driver mashing the gas instead of the brake, regardless of how much they insist they did nothing.
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withak posted:A car racing out of control is always the driver mashing the gas instead of the brake, regardless of how much they insist they did nothing. wasn't that toyota acceleration thing all mass hysteria
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i say swears online posted:wasn't that toyota acceleration thing all mass hysteria I guess that's why the Tesla approach of collecting lots of data and then immediately very publicly blaming crashes on user error regardless of whether that's true is unfortunately the optimal approach in some sense. mystes has issued a correction as of 16:14 on Jan 26, 2024 |
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withak posted:A car racing out of control is always the driver mashing the gas instead of the brake, regardless of how much they insist they did nothing. normally i'd agree, but this is elon's cars we're talking about. last week a guy randomly almost got driven over by his car while he was clearing snow around it lmao
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fermun posted:probably old. they're driving an automatic, at 8 seconds in they take their foot off the gas, then when they are about to hit the driveway, they go to put their foot on the brake but they accidentally hit the gas, then when the car accelerates they panic and they push harder on the pedal they think is the brake but is actually the accelerator and so they zoom into the garage. Many such cases!
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fermun posted:probably old. they're driving an automatic, at 8 seconds in they take their foot off the gas, then when they are about to hit the driveway, they go to put their foot on the brake but they accidentally hit the gas, then when the car accelerates they panic and they push harder on the pedal they think is the brake but is actually the accelerator and so they zoom into the garage. I guessed this was gonna happen before it even happened in the video. The abrupt lurch forward as the car snaps off the side mirror also points to exactly this.
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i say swears online posted:wasn't that toyota acceleration thing all mass hysteria Olds renting unfamiliar cars iirc yes
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mystes posted:I don't think we'll ever really know. Their software was shockingly bad which is why they lost the lawsuit but I don't think anyone was actually able to show that that would cause acceleration in real world conditions. That could very well just be because it didn't happen frequently enough to be easily reproducible, or it could have just been made up and people were confusing the pedals and/or getting floor mats jammed in their pedals.
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Doesn't the brake easily overpower the engine 100% the time? I seem to remember a bunch of demos where someone showed that, even for a ridiculously-overpowered supercar, stopping distance increases only slightly if you keep the accelerator floored during the test.
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cat botherer posted:The crazy one was with that guy was just uncontrollably going down a freeway. Called 911 himself, but eventually careened into something and died. WHY DIDN'T HE JUST TURN THE ENGINE OFF? If I recall right he had a push button ignition when such a thing was very new, and had been pressing the button over and over trying to turn the car off. You have to hold the button for a long time like you're shutting down a crashed computer now. A lot of recent car deaths are due to bad design. That Jeep shifter killed a lot of not-famous people along with Anton Yelchin.
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SimonSays posted:Olds renting unfamiliar cars iirc yes Remember when Jeep switched their Grand Cherokee transmission to a joystick instead of a shift lever and a bunch of people ran themselves over with their own car because of it https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/19/entertainment/actor-anton-yelchin-killed/index.html e: goddammit
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