Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

Time-poor working people need cheap easy-to-eat food on the go and that’s all the defense the concept of fast food needs. It’s existed in one form or another since Greek times.

actionjackson posted:

how do they alter the direction it moves without power?

Weka posted:

I have recently obtained security footage of NHD posting in the car thread.
Content warning: this footage shows an insanely brutal vehicle accident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G27uwkp_dOo

Ham Equity posted:

Like, if we're going to have a death penalty, this is the kind of thing it should be for (I recognize this is Australia). Like, there's no reforming that.

Grassy Knowles posted:

Like, without a car, she would've just stumbled into a few folks on her way to the bus.

Ham Equity posted:

Fine, have her watched like he was watched for his whole life to insure she never gets into the driver's seat of a car ever again, and it's totally doable.

Polo-Rican posted:

the true protagonist of speed racer only appeared in one episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSlRDRSBRec&t=437s

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Terminal autist posted:

Its like fly fishing I'll get a bite eventually

Real hurthling! posted:

a car? heh. bitch my train has 10 cars both to and from work

a.lo posted:

Afraid to purchase a new car because people may laugh at me

Celexi posted:

Sounder train only runs in early am and afternoon and Link has yet to actually expand. The bus alternative takes a full hour over a regular commute making it am hour and half versus 20 and has parts of the day it doesn't exist . If the sounder train was a regular train that would be a 15 minute commute at best.
I wish it was a wait 8 minutes thing.

Terminal autist posted:

Ok we're all agreed cars are bad on a societal level. But the sonic capitalism meme, so I'm gonna buy a charger

Preen Dog posted:

Because of my city's rear end handling of covid, mental illness and homelessness

Martian posted:

This is not true, the fundamental problems car dependency causes are the same everywhere, the symptoms are just slightly less extreme and sometimes papered over more than in the US (this is true for most societal problems)

Real hurthling! posted:

i take the subway every day 40 mins both ways and aside from a guy coming around high as hell stumbling or screaming its fine. all the bad news stories are like 4:00am a lone idiot tries to convince several armed men to stop smoking weed

Sphyre posted:

goddamn you suck, get the gently caress out

BonHair posted:

If you build your entire infrastructure around cars and remove the cars, you're gonna have no infrastructure. USA is hosed because the entire infrastructure is based on cars. Too remove cars, first you gotta get alternatives in place.

Preen Dog posted:

Car brain symbolically describes defaulting to betrayal in a prisoner's dilemma

Ardennes posted:

I think it is more than the media though, at least in Portland, hit and runs and homicides are far higher than they were in 2019, and the result on the social fabric is telling. California doesn't seem different. I think eventually there is going to be another push to be "tough of crime" but at lot of the issue is cops are extremely expensive and more extreme tactics are not really sustainable.

Cars are a part of that in the sense they are making sure there isn't a real solution as transit funding tries up and non-car infrastructure gets minimal funding among obviously a ton of other issues. Housing is expensive in part for example because of terrible land use, and how does that happen?

I guess you can do an attempt at cheeky "well cars are not the real problem"-style misdirection but cars clearly enhance some of the worst aspects of neoliberalism. The Soviets hosed up by promoting cars as much as they did and perhaps it was a sign of where the communist party was going.

Ardennes posted:

ISI

withak posted:

You guys know why the old-timey dog was named "nig" right?

Boywhiz88 posted:

Safe injection sites are the answer and will never get to happen.

gradenko_2000 posted:

try to imagine every nhd post as being made from inside a car while they wear wraparound shades

Polo-Rican posted:

large suv: trash
large suv in white: ultratrash

Blackhawk posted:

Just nuts how much people are willing to give up in exchange for a few square meters of flat ground.

RockWhisperer posted:

Parisians are banning rental scoots. Thoughts?

I personally think they'd have a place in walkable cities if they were geofenced to designated parking areas and fines were issued for chucking them into the woods and what not.

lobster shirt posted:

speed and acceleration should be capped, on cars

mystes posted:

They're just not renewing the contracts with the rental companies which will mean they can't legally operate in Paris once the current contracts expire

Mister Speaker posted:

Lmao do you really trust 95% of drivers to be able to recover should they find themselves in a situation where they "need to gun it to maintain control?" Do you think that fuel economy is the only reason most cars are FWD these days?

Jokerpilled Drudge posted:

dude you just loving love cars why are you here

FlutieFlake posted:

It's unlikely you'll lose control of your car at 20 mph, the sensible top speed that cars should be limited to.

gradenko_2000 posted:

I feel awful having to order in so much with my wings clipped rn but I'm promising myself I'll make up for it when I'm back in fighting form

Martian posted:

Deepl translation of (most of) a Dutch article about car brained drivers and the effect it has on a young blind pedestrian

https://www.ad.nl/auto/doodsangsten-bij-ouders-bestuurders-negeren-blinde-djan-en-rijden-gewoon-door-bijna-platgereden~a364f995/

Makes me angry. At least the local government apparently does care.

Mister Speaker posted:

This didn't feel like a 'warming up the engine' thing, and I don't even think it was a diesel (it didn't sound that way). It's 9 degrees Celsius here today. I think this guy was just taking a break and wanted his heat on instead of being arsed to put on a jacket.

Blackhawk posted:

By poorly planned does he mean working as intended? Because it's good as hell that those concrete barriers hosed up that car attempting to murder some cyclists.

Jokerpilled Drudge posted:

lmao I was probed for 4 days for saying it was an amazing video (it was). Literally one in a million shot, looked like a Michael Bay movie. aired on dozens of local news channels who teased the video during commercial breaks

Of course the mod assumed that I was saying it was a great thing that someone got hurt in a car accident.

which is insane because its literally my job to try to end car violence

mastershakeman posted:

There's a lot of spots in Chicago where you can park except during rush hour , when the extra lane of traffic is super needed!!!! And towing is nearly instant. I got got multiple times over the years due to this, mainly because I didn't have a stable 9-5 m-f and would sometimes forget which was a weekend vs weekday

So yeah great to see abandoning cars in a bike lane doesn't get a tow when milliseconds of parking in a car lane does

Sphyre posted:

remember that time you posted about how you couldn't wait to obliterate some posters itt, then made a bunch of probes and bans so bad they had to be walked back by the admins? pretty cool stuff. glad you've decided to stick around even though everyone thinks you suck

BonHair posted:

Starting to think maybe capitalism is bad?

eXXon posted:

Walked by a parked Wagoneer - regular, not Grand, and not lifted - and noticed it was several inches taller than me. Almost 76" total. loving Christ.

Oh and I spent a few days in a smaller rental SUV, some Volkswagen poo poo, going through the desert. Even though it wasn't that tall the suspension was soft as poo poo and I felt like it was constantly swaying.

teethgrinder posted:

Paywall I don't have access to:

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/04/20/rural-americans-are-importing-tiny-japanese-pickup-trucks

(preview ends there)

But people have been saying all along people that actually need utility vehicles have less use for over-sized pickups with high, difficult-to-load beds.

Cup Runneth Over posted:

They should just tow your car and sell it at police auction to pay for the tickets if enough unpaid ones pile up.

Smythe posted:

taliban cornered the market on these soz

Epic High Five posted:

I'd imagine these people would be open to something like that if they could find it. Are you in the US OP? Even the actual Toyota dealership near me has never stocked any truck smaller than an F150

The government could never even come close to loving over the poor as much as car culture does. As though there's some sliding scale of income level where being a shithead with your car suddenly starts being okay.

SKULL.GIF posted:

Lots of "I'd rather be in my car, alone." comments here on this story about charging fees to drive through the Toronto city core: https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/12vfcpc/toronto_traffic_is_terrible_is_it_time_for_a_fee/

A while ago itt someone pointed out how cares are super isolating, creating basically a bubble between you and the outside world, and that thought always comes to mind whenever reading about stuff like this.

mawarannahr posted:

lol at gendarme car evolution. then:

now:

McCracAttack posted:

The Wichita Eagle: In the land of the free, why can’t we have mini-pickup trucks like the Taliban and ISIS?

silicone thrills posted:

due to the whole stress of - infrastructure is literally falling apart almost everywhere - I can't say i've ever had an amazing drive.

Deadly Ham Sandwich posted:

In Texas, speeding ticket penalty doubles in order to protect drivers. Most fatalities around road construction are drivers and their passengers. Drivers will kill themselves speeding into any possible obstacle present around construction.

Anyways, we need more bollards and curbs on streets.

Leroy Diplowski posted:

Yeah, the lovely thing is this person has been riding daily for 10 years or so, but when sharing infrastructure with cars there's no margin for error. There's no lesson to learn. Everyone does things that know better than in a moment of distraction. No matter what level of knowledge of best practices you have, people cannot and will not behave perfectly every time. The only way to keep ourselves safe is to design systems of transportation that place less and less dependency on behavior. It's the fundamental flaw of cars.

Jokerpilled Drudge posted:

its actually insanely smart to trade the very small chance of homicide for the super-common chance of vehicular homicide

Real hurthling! posted:

they are repaving outside and its like benzine city over here. gently caress the automobile

Greg12 posted:

No sarcasm, 2014 Planning magazine was full of articles about how great this will be for our cities and how we all have to start renovating our streets to make war for the robots.

The authors celebrated how robot-car-as-a-service would bring the end of car ownership AND street congestion. "We won't need parking lots! We won't even need street parking! We can widen every sidewalk!" "There won't be traffic jams because drive-alone-own-car trips won't exist!" They never, ever asked what the cars would do when not occupied because it never occurred to them.

*Make room for the robots, lol

Milo and POTUS posted:

55 miles a day lol. On commute alone. God drat. That's an average too so you're gonna have some outliers driving 50+ a mile one way