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Cars are useless. Embrace the future of nothing but crew cab trucks with short beds. Get em in hybrid, Ecoboost 4 cylinder, giant V8, or electric
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Cars are cool because their suspension can be rocked so that you can wedge yourself in between them by parallel parking with a bit of vigor Can't do that with trains
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Aug 11, 2021 22:49
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Americans despise the idea of public transit because it means sometimes you may have to walk a few blocks Idea: a bus that stops every block so it takes forever to get anywhere
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Aug 13, 2021 04:49
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donoteat posted:a self-driving car intelligent enough to navigate general road conditions will also be intelligent enough to demand wages and time off a mild amount of snow easily defeats every self driving tech
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Aug 23, 2021 23:16
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The new corvettes look awesome and I'm gonna try to get my rich in laws to buy one because it's gonna be a collectors item and sly Stallone will drive it in the future to catch Wesley snipes
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Sep 11, 2021 23:45
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i say swears online posted:i need to start a US planned city thread. my best spot is on the mississippi, somewhere south of st louis Cairo Illinois about to be a boom town again
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Sep 12, 2021 14:21
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whats the coolest american car for under 6 figs to buy, im trying to convince rich in laws to do this its the vette, right
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Sep 28, 2021 20:18
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streetcars are pathetic and all trains should operate either subterranean or elevated so no at grade crossings are possible also the train tracks should have bike lanes adjacent to them so people can ride without dealing with stop signs or stoplights. just use on/offramps
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Sep 30, 2021 15:31
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Sphyre posted:yeah we wouldn’t want our precious cars to be inconvenienced by having to stop for a tram now would we nothing as fun as trains being unable to move because theres wrecks on the tracks to clear
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Sep 30, 2021 19:50
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Sphyre posted:as much as i'd like to get rid of cars entirely, and of course metros are excellent, in practice the underground/overhead/monorail argument is usually deployed by concern trolls who don't want road space to be allocated away from cars and to other users No it's because the regional rail line I use is entirely elevated from downtown to the end of my town, then it goes at grade, then goes below ground, then back to at grade. The at grade intersections have accidents all the loving time.
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Oct 1, 2021 14:08
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Suplex Liberace posted:lets remove the things hitting the tram instead unless the trams are colliding then lol Lots of pedestrians die on the tracks too, let's make it so the only thing left in the world is trains running around on their own power
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Oct 1, 2021 14:22
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its called a governor and its bullshit and is responsible for one semi truck going 64.78 mph passing another truck going 64.52 mph where it takes 25 minutes for the pass to complete on a 2 lane interstate
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Oct 4, 2021 14:53
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indigi posted:I support ~80mph governors as long as people in the left lane get auto ticketed for not passing im passing that guy up ahead up there. no reason for me to weave back and forth between lanes over and over, ill just stay right here thanks, constantly passing the next slow guy up ahead. somewhere up there
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Oct 4, 2021 16:25
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it debt and cheap living areas. in the UP every single person seems to have a big rear end truck, they make a household income of like 30k, but their house payments are about 40 cents a month
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Oct 4, 2021 17:25
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i say swears online posted:I live right next to the fastest road in the US with a limit of 85mph. It was cool for about a year but at only two lanes per side it's been destroyed by trucks and has thousands of potholes patched over and over where is there an 85mph road, one of the dakotas?
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Oct 4, 2021 19:15
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im pretty sure my uncle's farm truck doesn't even have power windows, why spend the money on a wagon mover also the single worst thing in the world are people with fake service dogs, that poo poo makes me so angry
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Oct 5, 2021 18:37
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i say swears online posted:try working at a hotel where by law you have to take them at their word i saw one "service animal" lay down on its side and refuse to move while its owner drug them along the (admittedly smooth) floor. bunch of other fakes ones would show up with their owners in court all the time and create disruptions nonstop i have a cousin with an infinite amount of health problems (dwarfism, epilepsy, kidney issues leading to transplant) who has real service dogs so i can recognize one thats actually legit and it infuriates me to think she might not be able to use hers somewhere because of fakers
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Oct 5, 2021 20:18
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Xaris posted:that would literally be ideal, it is the perfect truck. but i dont think they sell them in the states or street legal, idk nah theyre around, some Instagram influencer in Miami has one
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Oct 5, 2021 21:54
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Polo-Rican posted:Ironically, if you go to yosemite, yellowstone, zion, etc during peak travel season, you'll get loving stuck in traffic jams within the parks... It's ridiculous and kinda disgusting. i rode on a snow bus into yellowstone when i went winter camping, it was rad as hell
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Oct 5, 2021 22:07
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Xaris posted:cars freaking rock They're the freeways of our times, someone said. Not me.
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Oct 6, 2021 14:49
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Suplex Liberace posted:hmm seems like it will cost too much lets just make the 2 right most lanes we can replace the other 3 with green space much cheeper i think you'll find the bike lane is a great place to stand and chat with your friends so that passersby don't bother you like they would on a sidewalk. except in winter when it's full of snow and slush since no one bothers to plow it since it isn't part of the road
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Oct 8, 2021 14:58
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The Chicago one has a mix of rich areas with few cars next to rail, rich areas with lots of cars next to rail, and super poor areas with very few cars not by rail
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Oct 9, 2021 21:08
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LonsomeSon posted:idk if I’m missing the joke but in the US there’s a whole sub-specialty among doctors called Sports Medicine, sort of an intersection of Internal Medicine and Orthopedics, and there are various tiers of practices which service professional athletes of whichever celebrity tier anywhere there are professional sports teams, at variously inflated rates I knew a bunch of gymnasts who kept doing drills in their 30s and were shredding knees. Their doctors/therapists were always like : here's an idea , don't do two flips and a spin and try to land on the ground
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Oct 9, 2021 21:09
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:Just took a leisurely walk around my chicago neighborhood. Counted 5000 cars, zero trains. look up
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Oct 11, 2021 14:45
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Dolphin posted:people always complaining about drunk drivers. motherfucker guess what would happen if there weren't any cars around I agree, duis shouldn't be a crime just like biking under the influence shouldn't be a crime (Illinois is correct on this in not making it one)
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Oct 14, 2021 02:07
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my town has a suburban outdoor mall that is constantly packed and thriving and generates crazy amounts of revenue through taxes. as far as i can tell it's a unicorn
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Oct 14, 2021 15:33
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Fitzy Fitz posted:The outdoor style is popular right now. I wonder if it will be dead in 15 years though when it's no longer nice and new? That's what indoor malls were at one point. its been there since 1956!
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Oct 14, 2021 17:13
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crosswalks without stop lights/signs shouldnt exist especially on multi lane roads
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Oct 14, 2021 21:41
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mystes posted:yeah okay i don't know, what even is a generator Magnets
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Sep 12, 2022 01:24
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Xaris posted:how do i use a phone and manual at the same time though Steer with your knee when not using that leg on the clutch
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Sep 16, 2022 03:36
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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
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Feb 21, 2023 20:00
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Ham Equity posted:https://twitter.com/Qagggy/status/1630792068288356354?s=20 All bike lanes need to be narrower than standard cars or else people will drive in them more than they would otherwise
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Mar 2, 2023 15:54
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Horace posted:i read that people were stealing Kias “with just a USB cable”. so I thought that someone had hacked together like an arduino that bypasses the ecu or something. No, turns out if you smash the ignition barrel out of the steering column it exposes a hole the shape of a USB plug, meaning you can start the car using the cable as a key. Lol wow. It's like the kryptonite bike locks being opened with bic pens in 05
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Mar 4, 2023 22:10
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:the amount of people I see that hold their phones against their steering wheels so they can continue being on the phone while driving unnerves me Would you prefer if we held it up in the air instead of braced against something we can kind of steer with? Nothing wrong with knee steering it's just not as efficient as elbow steering And driving is so boring the options are often either drive distracted or drive drowsy/snoozing
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Mar 6, 2023 15:11
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:somebody's gonna come in here and start with some "no ethical driving under capitalism" bullshit and I won't have it Too late
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Mar 6, 2023 15:13
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Zipper merges are great. You go all the way to the end of the merge lane and then jam yourself in between two stopped cars with the threat of hitting them. The only real question is why the merge lane is more than 1 car length long
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Mar 6, 2023 19:20
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lobster shirt posted:its good to leave proper following distance imo. if someon gets into that space i just slow down a little bit until proper spacing is re-established. not that hard. *slows down to a complete stop as an infinite amount of aggressive drivers merge in front of you*
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Mar 9, 2023 04:02
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Mister Speaker posted:In Toronto in 2018, an incel rented a van and drove it onto the sidewalk, killing 11 people. Last year he was sentenced to life in prison, possibility of parole after 25 years. There's a ton more than that. The Nice guy killed 69 people. But that was with a gun in Norway; the van driver in Nice, France killed 84
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Mar 14, 2023 21:01
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Mister Speaker posted:I was just talking local examples since BonHair already mentioned some European ones. I know it happens all the time. I just wanted to make a 69 joke
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Real hurthling! posted:lol yeah leave something that goes on your head at the mercy of passers by I've had my bike hosed with a bunch, seat unbolted and stolen and all that , but no one has ever touched my helmet I hang off the lock.
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