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Rockstar Massacre posted:actually, pretending that stricter traffic enforcement can save lives feeds narratives that systemic reform can be ignored in favor of greater personal responsibility, an excuse city engineers and state legislators have been using for years to not take meaningful action on traffic reform. 100% agree. Can I get some help scraping grandparent blood off my hood?
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Polo-Rican posted:I've seen so many posts like this, and just did some research on my shithole hometown to gauge how much has been lost to cars. Just found out about a big park with multiple trollies and rail lines which would run from neighboring towns and cities: My town was once one of a million little 2-3 town sized RR companies who were connected to the main lines and were locally expanding through 1910. Sometime after that the Pennsylvania RR came into control of most of them and today there's a NS line that doesn't stop a half hour out of town.
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How about instead of banning cars we just put the FAA in charge. Every new car you buy requires a new type certification. (real) yearly inspections, repair logs, the whole deal.
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Dec 2, 2021 06:35
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Can we at least hold them to trucker standards? Logbooks and get randomly pulled over for inspections? We can put the excessive fines towards your hyperloop idea.
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I was searching for a multi-car accident news story to see if anyone died before I posted it here. Used the terms Multi-Car pileup LA and lol there's just so many. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9yqXzZ16ns Linked because of the unknown status of a few people. The thread might appreciate this one out of the too many pileups to sort through. https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/crime_police/article_59e0b426-53e5-11ec-a0dd-5b72ae4dde09.html posted:
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Dec 5, 2021 22:00
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If you're over the age of ~21 and have a fart can on your car we should legally be required to punch you in the face. This concludes my rant. E: Flowmasters are also fart cans, I don't care that they overcharged you for it.
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Let's keep some perspective here, that truck was easily worth $75k before we chased it down.quote:Officials say the suspects actually left their car behind, and it flipped over and injured one of the responding officers. He suffered minor injuries but will still seek medical assistance. Timeline of events: 1. Suspect flees on foot. 2. Officer approaches truck. 3. Truck flips over in epic defensive maneuver.
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Dec 6, 2021 19:36
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:all bikes are good but a ~tax credit~ for a bike that's 5x expensive as it needs to be because americans are exceptionally lazy is exactly what one would expect from our very in touch leaders There are a bunch of decent ebikes in the $1,000-$2,000 range, but they’re also not exactly stylish, or powerful, nor do they come with a lot of Schwinn and Shimano accessories.
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Dec 8, 2021 23:20
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depending on the stipulations 1/3rd off isn’t terrible, but it’s going to work out as a wash if you’re required to buy USA made. I don’t even know who makes an electric bike in the USA. ebikes=bicycle in my posts. everything else is mopeds
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Dec 9, 2021 00:26
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Fitzy Fitz posted:"I have a vacation cabin in the country, so I need a car" You don't actually need a car to live in the rural, but few are willing to commit to the bit.
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Sliding down the sidewalks to the grocery store and I start imagining a world with some sort of city service, paid for with taxes, that stocked supplies and went around clearing rights of way after snowstorms.
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It's called freedom, maybe you should look it up sometime.
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Jan 3, 2022 16:29
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Polo-Rican posted:It's apparently less taps to launch "theater" and "arcade" than it is to turn on your loving windshield wipers lol *software engineer in the bay area "what's the defroster for?"
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Tiler Kiwi posted:e: and marines That's what the Osprey is for.
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 Link for ridiculous size https://www.chinadiscovery.com/assets/images/chengdu/guide/chengdu-metro-map-full.jpg The 2nd line had just opened up when I last knew 5 years ago. 'The Plan'  Big https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Chengdu_Metro_Planning.svg nomad2020 has issued a correction as of 21:38 on Jan 9, 2022 |
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It's funny because I can't imagine someone who takes their tough guy persona seriously would proudly drive a #predator#Durango.
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indigi posted:yeah if you need a nap in the middle of a seated noncontinuous ten hour task maybe you have a sleep disorder If meth is good enough for truckers it’s good enough for a goon.
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I can appreciate the engineering that goes into an internal combustion engine, but I can’t appreciate the engineering that goes into stuffing one into a mustang, for example.
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Jan 27, 2022 22:13
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Don’t let the customers fool you like that, they really want the Escalade but are poor enough that the bank won’t let them be $100k in debt.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Just buy a Kryptonite lock, it's basically bike insurance. They cover up to $5k with the New York locks. Just regular renters insurance bought my neighbor a new e-bike. Probably more reliable than the bike lock company.
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Ham Equity posted:I feel like maybe a public policy of "if someone throws a water bottle at you, please feel free to fire off 11 bullets on a freeway in the name of self-defense" creates some perverse incentives. Water bottles have been declared weapons by my local police, so this checks out.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:idk why but it finally clicked for me the other day that the reason Americans express distance as a measure of time (ie "it's about two hours away") is because the method of transportation is always assumed to be car. if you are traveling anywhere, it is assumed you will be traveling there the same way everyone else will - by car. I see you’ve stumbled upon the freedom argument.
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PeterCat posted:There's a museum in Phoenix to the trolley car system they removed. I saw “yard activation project” and my dreams were immediately dashed once I read the project was to turn their streetcars into a cafe attraction.
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[CSPAM] - I hate specific cars: some of these automobiles are everywhere
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Feb 3, 2022 23:10
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I misread a thing, pretend I said “Grrr, cars”
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That speaks to me. I recently made the very hard (for me) decision to stay in this god awful city for a bit longer instead of buying a cabin out on some hill. The cost of the commute, fuel and wear and tear, would about equal my current rent.
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RE: Left lane speeding. Elevators aren’t roads, but here’s a study that shows a ~30% increase in throughput on an escalator by getting people to use both sides instead of staying right to let walkers up. Lines up pretty well to the car conversation, especially this part: quote:5.2 Customer Feedback https://liftsymposium.org/download/LiftandEscalatorSymposiumProceedings2016.pdf
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I demand the right to hold up the party because I’m in a hurry. E: Quote != Edit.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:This reminds me, you should always wear reflective clothing when you're walking somewhere. Consider waving a bright colored flag when in a crosswalk. And always make eye contact with drivers when you cross the street! related, does anyone have a good recommendation for an obnoxiously bright flashlight with a random interval flash mode? I have to cross a 4 lane road with a median divider before dawn and find a lot of inattentive drivers.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Is there some sort of whoopie cushion device I could attach to my tailpipe? I'd be so popular. https://youtu.be/FYRFQk2PjO8 VV- Well, was the bird crossing the road at an approved pedestrian crossing?! -VV
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They, themselves, are just that important OP.
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also bikes above 1000W (750 for a bunch of places)
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Blackhawk posted:250W in a large chunk of the world (I think 300W in Aus and NZ?), also a 25 kph speed limit in most places. Heavens forbid a bicycle with a motor be able to go as fast as I can ride my bike without the motor! Perish the thought of a cargo bicycle having a motor powerful enough to haul a load of groceries up a steep hill, think of the carnage that could result in. Far better to have a very SAFE 2000 kg vehicle with 250,000 W of power to carry one person to and from the shops or work 99% of the time. Can’t even register my over-1000W ebike as a moped, I could if I stuck a 50cc gas motor on it though.
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https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2101084119quote:The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) specifies the use of biofuels in the United States and thereby guides nearly half of all global biofuel production, yet outcomes of this keystone climate and environmental regulation remain unclear. Here we combine econometric analyses, land use observations, and biophysical models to estimate the realized effects of the RFS in aggregate and down to the scale of individual agricultural fields across the United States. We find that the RFS increased corn prices by 30% and the prices of other crops by 20%, which, in turn, expanded US corn cultivation by 2.8 Mha (8.7%) and total cropland by 2.1 Mha (2.4%) in the years following policy enactment (2008 to 2016). These changes increased annual nationwide fertilizer use by 3 to 8%, increased water quality degradants by 3 to 5%, and caused enough domestic land use change emissions such that the carbon intensity of corn ethanol produced under the RFS is no less than gasoline and likely at least 24% higher. These tradeoffs must be weighed alongside the benefits of biofuels as decision-makers consider the future of renewable energy policies and the potential for fuels like corn ethanol to meet climate mitigation goals. I don't think anyone here is going to be surprised by this study.
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Nitevision posted:Seattle, home of the Climate Pledge Arena, tore down a highway along the waterfront and spent $4 billion to replace it with a giant car tunnel under downtown. And then just also built a new high speed stroad along the waterfront. Lets loving go!!!!! They dug a 5 billion dollar tunnel that bypasses that whole area, the port wanted a redundant route and truckers hate paying tolls.
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Lilium Dimension posted:I also like cars, and I enjoy driving mine, but their existence has warped our cities and towns into paved nightmares. I'd gladly give mine up if it meant I could live in a carless city. I would willingly cube my new compact car if I could trade it for some moderately good rail alternatives.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:As it is the cops here don’t enforce traffic laws at all anymore and every time I go out I see speed racer stuff. Last Saturday I saw some guy in a Charger shoot right across two lanes of traffic to use an on ramp + gore zone to pass at high speed. Would be nice if we didn’t sell people 400 horsepower cars to do that poo poo. My favorites are the ones who dip across 4 lanes of traffic to gain 1 car length of distance. Suplex Liberace posted:I wish every car and truck and SUV and whatever other genre of car was dead!! debated this the other day, and the answer that came up was vans. need to move some poo poo? van. Need to move poo poo by 4x4? van. need to haul 12 of your closest friends? van. nomad2020 has issued a correction as of 03:27 on May 1, 2022 |
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I appreciate the big paragraph about how cars suck, all you really need to do is spend an hour in your car to go six miles in normal traffic when you’re not used to doing that, it really makes me want to kill myself. I did this for about a year, not the sitting in traffic part but the driving 2.5 hours each way to work part as a 20 something. Never again. in my defense, the town I drove from had long since lost nearly all of its industry. Pitts related, miles long traffic jams through the squirrel hill tunnel on game days!
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:guess I can just go hang out at Sheetz for five hours You're supposed to use one of those chargers at the mall, and spend money while you wait.
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