It also goes to show the root of the problem - they deem the city as good in itself and the desirable outcome; everyone sees the city as a necessary evil, a blight on the landscape.
I think before they started recognizing them as cars some states basically classed them as farm or offroad vehicles similar to side by sides.
Here in Florida they were being used on private property long before they were street legal. I believe that Disney and Universal Studios both have permission to import keis that are much newer than 25 model years old to use on their properties.
they tried that in Sheffield during the Wu Flu, on one of the busiest junctions in the city, no less
While not strictly related to the video of the cyclist running a red light and hitting a car, it does make me wonder if any of the urbanists have discussed the Idaho stop in any detail. Based on a quick YouTube search, the major urbanists are mostly concerned with how stop signs are evil and you should simply be expected to navigate a roundabout at every intersection, which of course diverts more space from their famous shopping centers that are worth infinite money if only roads didn't exist to eat up valuable land use potential.
That's pretty much my stance, having seen some insane shit like someone trying to pass in the shoulder in a construction zone on an interstate highway. It's all about situational awareness, and this applies whether you're speeding on the highway, making a right turn and neglect to check for bike traffic, not using a rearview mirror on a bicycle (real game changer, by the way), crossing a street while playing on your phone, etc. It's safe to assume that everyone on the road is retarded and to act accordingly.
I'd say Road Guy Rob is good if you count him. From thumbnails, Oh the Urbanity looks decent. Will have to check them out later. Also, that's twice now where they insist that two words used mostly interchangably are ackshually super diffrent things that totally aren't our own autistic definitions
True zen is realizing this is true - including you. You (and I) are just as retarded.
OTU is the one that went to the bike lane town hall and seethed about it, only adding his commentary afterwards.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'm not autistically focused on transportation and such, more like vaguely interested in things like how the fonts of road signs are designed for maximum legibility, and somewhat amused by the verbosity of America's road signs, e.g., "no parking on this side of the street." It's a whole science to get slow-in-the-minds to react to a large amount of information in real time.
For sure, defensive driving is also about defending against your own retardation. I'm generally pretty chill on the road, but I do get annoyed at times and have a long list of "retard tells" warning me about other people's possible danger. Some are irrational heuristics, like having numerous or any political bumper stickers, while others like visible body damage are more sensible as to another driver's potential danger.
To be fair, they are firmly in urbanist circles and had personally biked in the neighborhood where the boomer think tank gathered to dismantle the unspeakable evil of the bike lane. Also, when they talked about things like how it'd make some car trips more convoluted and parking a bit harder, they didn't autistically screech but we more like, "makes sense." I'd say that counting every stop sign on an errand for ammo in the neighborhood meeting is more autistic than producing urbanist content that's an alternative to ranting about suburbs.
RGR is good because Jason Slaughter calls him a car apologist. (Despite him being more of an urbanist than the insult "car apologist" would have you believe.)
Actually not an irrational heuristic. although note this is from the pre-replication crisis era so it is very likely to be complete nonsense.
Classic, thanks for sharing. I do have a political sticker on my older car, but it's period correct and for a fringe candidate, and it's on the glass so I don't fuck up the paint. Maybe the reasoning that people with lots of bumper stickers are wearing their heart on their sleeve so to speak, and are likely to be more irrational on the road, was a good gut feeling.
But there are still car-hating fags in the comments:
