City and school buses don’t go on highways, or at least it is vanishingly rare, and service vehicles are likewise not nearly common enough for it to have any kind of impact, nor are they even often present on the highway during busy times. Box trucks and vans are more common, but they’re not exactly powerless and they aren’t common.
Besides, highways through the middle of town shouldn’t be there at all so I don’t really give a damn.
And the incredibly large vehicles can be easily seen and accommodated for. One exception does not make the idea bad and besides, for many of the oversized ramps found in downtowns one issue is that trucks of that size shouldn’t even be allowed there anyways. North Americans are just used to the idea of shoving an 18-wheeler or whatever into areas that should never be in but it’s not good just because it’s normal.
Yea holy shit, it’s insane that people will try to merge like that. And some on-ramps are quite short, which I support because it’s less land wasted, so you really gotta boogey.
Unfortunately they don’t work. I used one for a time, and basically took even my slowest, most gentle start in order to register as safe acceleration. Stopping was a disaster where most of the time I needed to just put it in neutral and coast to a stop or risk watching my rates go up. Had so many “yellow” trips, it was insane. And then if someone were really worried I can actually see it being distracting where they might now have to consider a rate increase when slowing down to avoid an accident which, given how bad a decision making people are already, doesn’t seem like a particularly good idea.
I drive a BRZ, and I think the app used the accelerometer in the phone, so maybe it was calibrated for a big soft thing and just assumed that anything I did was street racing.
For context, I’m the kinda person to stop at all stop signs, even the one at the end of a drive-thru at 3am where I can see for miles all around me. I keep following distances so well that I actually don’t use my brakes enough and they get rustier quicker than normal, especially since I drive so rarely these days. These apps would punish me for my driving and reward people in large SUVs who are more likely to turn into a pedestrian than anything(but a reasonable speed!).
I drive a BRZ and can handle Calabogie without much issue and I realized today that I need to drive it because it’s sat for a couple weeks. Been taking the metro everywhere. There could be no one on the road and far more often than not I’d still rather take public transit.
I’m not gunna cuss ‘em out, and it’s still poignant. Besides, people are individuals no matter which department they work in so it’s not like I’d be ranting at a machine that literally cannot accept outside information.
Though, in this case it would be a question of the reception of punishment. Why should I be punished for something that those punishing me don’t even seem to care about or take seriously?
The principle of the trial or the principle of telling them to stuff it? Because I know that’s not a way out, but if I’m stuck with it I’m still happy to tell them to fuck off if it won’t cost anything extra.
Exactly. I got a ticket for Huntclub west of Conroy back in August. When it turns to a 60 zone nothing changes and nothing indicates that you should pay that “60” sign, which look an awful lot like an “80” sign, any extra attention. Like, a 60 zone with merge lanes?!? And a central median two lanes wide?!?
I asked for a trial and, if needed, I’m straight-up going to say that I don’t see why I need to take this seriously if the city won’t even do that. Of course, they’ve completely fucked up getting me that trial so that time may never come.
For context: I’m a huge advocate for walkable cities, public transit, etc. I’m not against the slower speed limit, I’m against the stupidity.
At this point, you should hate them. They’ve directly harmed the whole world with intentional evil just for a few years of power. I hope their deaths are long and painful.
When suspension on a car is fucked the car doesn’t get shorter. Springs set the ride height and are just coiled metal, but shocks are full of fluid which can leak leading to a sloppy ride and the inability to properly absorb bumps.
In this case, it’s the height of the front bumpers off the ground. As someone who has a BRZ which was even lowered for awhile these drivers need to get over themselves and stop bitching that they can’t have the entire world built to serve them and their fully voluntary choices. What’s next, complaining that nature is woke because it makes driving my low, RWD car slightly more difficuly?
If I had the ability to create a rink in my backyard with nice lighting I’d probably be pretty comfortable, too.
But yea that looks super slick so fuckin’-A.
Hahahahahahahaha
And then if there are, they don’t really get enforced.
It’s wild how clean that road looks beside the completely fucked sidewalk.
Except we’re getting there lol
The point is that if you build right, or even attempt to, you will have safer roads and cities even with a lot more density.
That’s average density, but a lot of the US is empty. The more empty places there, the more places that are denser than the average.
I hope Mamdani frames one of those bad boys and hangs it on his office door.
I’m always astounded at the near universal human ability to act as though some demented fuckhead is some super wizard who forces them to do shit. Putin is just some guy, he’s largely useless and he wears stupid high-heels because he’s not even able to stand up to his own crap. Everyone could just start ignorning him tomorrow but they don’t.
Part of that problem is there are a lot of people who love to be thugs. They’re just broken losers who love taking orders that let them be mean to others and the world would be so much better with them as red paste on the sidewalk to be washed away by the rain.
Until they get universal healthcare they haven’t ever been part of the civilized world as far as I’m concerned. It doesn’t even have to be that good, it just has to be not completely absent(the ACA does not do enough to redeem the rest).