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[teriyakiburns]

Somewhere in the videos of people dying thread, there's a vid of a guy tooling around on a bike, who manages to flip over and whack the back of his head on the ground. Instant death. He was doing maybe 5 mph at the most.

 

[DavidS877]

Regular unleaded gasoline is half that. It's still a lot man. And those fuel tanks are big.

Don't be poor.

A fair number of planes can use unleaded gasoline(autogas) but it has to be ethanol free as planes were mostly designed before ethanol and it will destroy fuel systems, just like older cars. Which raises the price. However, the majority of miles flown by piston aircraft can't use it as they run higher compression, higher powered engines that need 100LL.

This leads to airports almost universally stocking only 100LL and Jet-A. If you want unleaded you have to make your own tank trailer or bring it in in 5 gallon jugs or similar.

Now, you may be thinking, surely those Californians and their retarded children are forcing the world to stop making 100LL aviation fuel which contains LEAD. And you'd be right. Like everything in aviation, once you design something unleaded which can be used in 99%+ of the piston fleet you have spent a ton of money and your market is, relative to normal gasoline, tiny. So the price isn't going to be much lower than 100LL, if at all. In theory without lead it could be carried in normal pipelines and the same tanker trucks that carry normal gasoline but it's unlikely that this will save any significant amount of money as it will still be a very niche product.

 

[Baraka Obama]

Many public EV chargers around here just plain do not work and parking is limited.

There is one I go to regularly to park my government certified Green Vehicle but I don't throw a fit when Jimbob parks his non government certified green Tacoma cause a) its really hard to find a spot and b) charger doesnt even work.

 

[quaawaa]

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[Grapefruit Soda]

The helmets shit always drives me insane, full on mati style. The biggest risk while biking is always impacting the ground! You cannot scoop your brains back into your cracked skull. They always repeat the same trite, idiotic response "helmet mandates prevent cycling" yet it seems to work for motorbikes. As an avid longboarder, snowboarder, and general outdoors enthusiast, there is no reason to not wear a helmet on a bike.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

/r/fuckcars discusses whether or not bike helmets are necessary again:

To be fair, when you're as functionally retarded as they are, it's understandable why they're opposed to helmets. I mean, what are you actually protecting?

 

[quaawaa]

Plenty of toll roads pay for themselves. Someone points this out, citing an actual financial statement, but OP can't believe it:

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/r/fuckcars member thinks its a good idea to wear all black at night:





Of course OP is a troon:

and a Ukrainian (why isn't he fighting?):

16 is old enough to fight:

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NBC touched a nerve:










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Urbanists brigaded the comments:

There was one good comment:

 

[Fried-Rice12]

There's a railroad too

TOTAL URBANIST DEATH!

Many public EV chargers around here just plain do not work and parking is limited.

Did the negroid copper thieves get there before you?

The helmets shit always drives me insane, full on mati style.

This is exactly why you must support their desire to not wear helmets. This way there is a high chance they will remove themselves from existence via brain injuries. Support their desire to remove themselves from life!

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Somewhere in the videos of people dying thread, there's a vid of a guy tooling around on a bike, who manages to flip over and whack the back of his head on the ground. Instant death. He was doing maybe 5 mph at the most.

This one?

Spoiler: Dazed and Confused

 

[M3xus]

Somewhere in the videos of people dying thread, there's a vid of a guy tooling around on a bike, who manages to flip over and whack the back of his head on the ground. Instant death. He was doing maybe 5 mph at the most.

Where I grew up, nobody wore helmets until some kid broke his skull and needed a metal plate installed in his head. The city passed a law mandating helmets shortly after, but just about every kid already had one by the time it passed. That kind of thing isn't something you forget. Nobody stopped biking because we suddenly had to wear helmets, at least in my neighborhood.

On second thought, let them argue against helmet laws, they'll take themselves out of the genepool when they fall off a curb and cave in their skulls.

 

[maxell4hd]

Plenty of toll roads pay for themselves. Someone points this out, citing an actual financial statement, but OP can't believe it:

And a major difference between roads and transit is that private road users pay for almost all of the capital (the vehicle) and operating costs (fuel, insurance, maintenance and labor) needed to use roads. Public transit users through their fares only cover a fraction of operating costs and usually 0% of capital costs, the rest is covered by taxpayers who mostly never or rarely use transit.

It doesn't really matter that a highway isn't "profitable" when the cost of a passenger-trip is so low compared to a bus or train and they enable so many people to make trips they need or want to make. For example Calgary, which has a pretty successful transit system, spends less total money on streets than it does on transit despite there being 10X more car passenger-trips than transit trips.

 

[Baraka Obama]

For example Calgary, which has a pretty successful transit system, spends less total money on streets than it does on transit despite there being 10X more car passenger-trips than transit trips.

I'm not surprised to hear that but there's probably some detail missing because the highways aren't being maintained by the City of Calgary but are uploaded to the province so this is only considering surface streets. And long term highway maintenance is actually really expensive compared to normal streets -- think about plowing frequency, quality of road surface (which is getting beat to shit by big trucks) needing more frequent replacement, eventually every minor street bridge crossing needing replacement every ~40-50 years, without getting into things like additional policing costs.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Don't be poor.

A fair number of planes can use unleaded gasoline(autogas) but it has to be ethanol free as planes were mostly designed before ethanol and it will destroy fuel systems, just like older cars. Which raises the price. However, the majority of miles flown by piston aircraft can't use it as they run higher compression, higher powered engines that need 100LL.

This leads to airports almost universally stocking only 100LL and Jet-A. If you want unleaded you have to make your own tank trailer or bring it in in 5 gallon jugs or similar.

Now, you may be thinking, surely those Californians and their retarded children are forcing the world to stop making 100LL aviation fuel which contains LEAD. And you'd be right. Like everything in aviation, once you design something unleaded which can be used in 99%+ of the piston fleet you have spent a ton of money and your market is, relative to normal gasoline, tiny. So the price isn't going to be much lower than 100LL, if at all. In theory without lead it could be carried in normal pipelines and the same tanker trucks that carry normal gasoline but it's unlikely that this will save any significant amount of money as it will still be a very niche product.

Interesting history on leaded airplane fuel. And I guess not being poor is part of owning a plane. Though it's a bit ironic you have problem planes like the 737 max, because they wanted fuel costs even lower than they already were, that the turbofans got so big and made the plane so unstable, they needed to add computer stabilization. Even though the 737 before was already plenty efficient.

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Fears cars but refuses to use the seatbelt. Truly peak reddit brain. Walk more, lift some weights at home, you shouldn't have these problems.

fuckcars member thinks its a good idea to wear all black at night:





Of course OP is a troon:

and a Ukrainian (why isn't he fighting?):

16 is old enough to fight:

Faggot is brave enough to walk in black clothes at night without even a flashlight, but fight a war in his country? Nope. Even though the Ukies I'm sure would accept someone with such... courage (for bomb disposal).

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Plenty of toll roads pay for themselves. Someone points this out, citing an actual financial statement, but OP can't believe it:

The funny thing is those small collection of posts (in your post) is an excellent microcosm of all of /r/fuckcars' insanity.
1. Will happily pull out any study, even if it's complete garbage but gets pissed when someone pulls out a study, especially one that they can't immediately dismiss as propaganda.
2. Will never take responsibility in an accident. If the driver can't be blamed, blame the infrastructure.
3. Closely tied in with troons.
4. Muh oil industry.
5. Overestimating time & distance. If your friends live 40 minutes away, for all intents and purposes, you don't live in the same city, and no mass transit system will close that time.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Fears cars but refuses to use the seatbelt. Truly peak reddit brain. Walk more, lift some weights at home, you shouldn't have these problems.

He's literally too fat to use a seatbelt.

Considering the Reddit brain of "gym of life, drivers are fatasses", this guy who apparently should be fit by their own definition isn't. Federal regulations can size up to 215 lbs. but realistically you can get by with over 300 lbs. (anecdotally, 300-pounders can even fit airline seats and seatbelts).

But who is this mystery fatass? Either @quaawaa failed to notice this or put it in the wrong thread but it's none other than our very own Richard "Terra" Jones.

 

[WelperHelper99]

He's literally too fat to use a seatbelt.

Considering the Reddit brain of "gym of life, drivers are fatasses", this guy who apparently should be fit by their own definition isn't. Federal regulations can size up to 215 lbs. but realistically you can get by with over 300 lbs. (anecdotally, 300-pounders can even fit airline seats and seatbelts).

But who is this mystery fatass? Either @quaawaa failed to notice this or put it in the wrong thread but it's none other than our very own Richard "Terra" Jones.

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Oh. He's a BIG chungus, lmao.

 

[SpiderBitch]

'Health benefits from cycling outweigh the health risks from accidents'

Theres a major fucking difference between being slightly more fat than youd be if you biked and getting your skull caved in???

Also, usually only fit to slightly chubby people bike in the first place so whatever health claims are probably also inaccurate

Also, on the topic of being difficult to see, even the dutch are legally required to put working lights on their bikes when its dark, and a lot of people going on walks in the dark put on a light band or some reflective vest or whatever. Yknow, basic personal responsibility (even if they dont wear helmets).
Also, the average cyclist is just terrorised by 16 year olds on their modded vespas on the cycling lanes instead of by cars lmao

 

[quaawaa]

You can't win with these folks:







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[F-14 Tomcat]

Though it's a bit ironic you have problem planes like the 737 max, because they wanted fuel costs even lower than they already were, that the turbofans got so big and made the plane so unstable, they needed to add computer stabilization. Even though the 737 before was already plenty efficient.

737 max's crash issues don't come from inherent instability in the design. Rather they come from too much stability. The larger engines shifted the center of gravity forward, which creates a more stable airplane. As an aside, aerodynamic instability is actually beneficial to efficiency in certain regards. This is due to a stable aircraft's tendency to nose down, which requires downward pressure on the tail to keep it level. This downward pressure robs the airplane of some of the lift it generates. On the other hand, an unstable (or rather relaxed stability) airplane has a tendency to nose up, which requires an upward pressure on the tail to correct. This adds lift instead of taking it away. Anyways, 737 max's forward shifted center of gravity caused a change in how the airplane handles. Rather than adjusting the design to compensate or requiring pilot retraining for the new type, Boeing decided to throw in a half baked program that pitched the nose up automatically to make it feel more like the older airplane. The issue came from bad sensors feeding erroneous data to the computers, which started pitching the airplane up automatically. The pilots were uninformed about this new system, and even if they knew it existed they couldn't override it. There's so many layers of incompetence to the 737 max story that it makes me upset, but it wasn't due to an unstable design.

 

[DavidS877]

they couldn't override it.

They could actually disable it, but it also disabled the normal trim system and they'd have to spin the trim wheel manually.
And, they'd have to know about it.
It was an also option for having multiple sensors on the system, and some carriers didn't get the 2 sensors so there was no way for the computer to know if there was a sensor error.