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[Dimension Sniper]

The only Tesla I've ever been was ubering around Vegas and it's also the only car I've ridden in since the worst of the 80s mobiles that had a seat belt that didn't latch. It seemed perfectly designed to be a shitty taxi and not much else from that experience.

I had a model 3 as a rental once on a work trip, and I only accepted it because it was 2 AM when I got to my destination and the rental counter didn’t have anything else and I really wanted to get to my hotel and sleep. It was probably the worst rental experience I’ve ever had. My main gripe with the way it’s designed is the fucking touch screen. Everything is buried in nested menus - I had to dig around for multiple minutes just to figure out how to adjust the mirrors. The screen being in the center of the dash also forces you to look away if you need to adjust anything while you’re driving, which was especially uncomfortable while driving in a place I didn’t know.

The acceleration is nice, but the second you take your foot off the accelerator the car just stops, like a golf cart (I think it does have a mode that allows it to coast like a normal car, but I couldn’t be arsed to dig through all the menus to find it.) Also, for as big and heavy as they are on paper, the car felt like it had absolutely no weight, and the steering was weird and floaty. My daily driver is a compact car that’s right around a ton, and it feels infinitely more solid on the road. Plus it has real buttons that I can navigate by feel without looking away from the road instead of having to doop-de-doop on a fucking touchscreen just to turn the a/c down.

I’m not opposed to electric cars as a general concept if they can be made well and safely and production and ownership of them isn’t mandated, but Tesla ain’t it, and it is astonishing to me that people actually buy these things.

 

[quaawaa]

A few days ago, the United States Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, announced the rescindment of two Biden DOT memos that mandated that highway funds be spent on bike lanes:

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Today, the DOT made a press release restating the Secretary's tweet:

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StreetsBlog (an urbanist blog run by lobbyists) picked up the story:

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On a side note, the author of the StreetsBlog article is the same person who wrote the infamous article about getting PTSD from shooting an AR-15 (archive):

The recoil bruised my shoulder, which can happen if you don’t know what you’re doing. The brass shell casings disoriented me as they flew past my face. The smell of sulfur and destruction made me sick. The explosions — loud like a bomb — gave me a temporary form of PTSD. For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable.

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Predictably, /r/fuckcars is seething:













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[Xarpho's Return]

Trump himself pulled up with a gun but I fought him off and everyone clapped.

"Yeah I vandalized a car but he's the unhinged one, trust me"

Urbanists: Here's why everyone form the suburbs and rural areas are backwards and stupid. Urban cities: Why is the crime rate so high and trash everywhere? Clearly this is the fault of the reactionary right-wingers.

My city has a few townhomes, they fucking suck. Imagine trying to relax while the people are blasting mariachi music every weekend on the other side of the walls. (True story)

Today, the DOT made a press release restating the Secretary's tweet:

"Above the law", the law was just as legally rescinded as it was mandated. No one voted for it, the general sentiment is that even within cities it was unpopular, the only people that really liked it were /r/fuckcars and other sociopaths.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

All that seething because Trump stopped all that money laundering.

This is why it was cheaper for HSR to just build their own trackage in Florida and California, separate from every other rail network, the cost to do that is comparable or under what it would cost to even attempt a retro-fit.

The thing that makes me annoyed the most about urbanists how much they shit on Brightline, but still cope about how California/Amtrak is just one year away from building publicly viable HSR. Its like these people are addicted to being useless, and stuff never getting done. Just bitch and make lame excuses.

 

[IdiotPlusPlus]

The thing that makes me annoyed the most about urbanists how much they shit on Brightline

I really don't get the hate for Brightline, it is a gem for producing 'fucked around, found out' vids lol
If anything we should give Florida's Chlorine more funds and make them add dash cams to all their rolling stock xD

 

[TowinKarz]

I really don't get the hate for Brightline, it is a gem for producing 'fucked around, found out' vids lol

Because they built something that works without asking for EVERYONE's input - typical commie cope and seethe - that some schmucks with a backhoe and a dream went out and built it without even asking the almighty elites if it would be good for society.

 

[Oliver Onions]

the bottom left one is typical early 20th century suburban housing in Bongland, and this type of housing is usually found on quiet streets away from town and city centres

Terraced houses are also pretty good in the winter because you can vamp your neighbour's heating on either side and save some money.

 

[quaawaa]

Because they built something that works without asking for EVERYONE's input - typical commie cope and seethe - that some schmucks with a backhoe and a dream went out and built it without even asking the almighty elites if it would be good for society.

Brightline isn’t really high speed rail and it’s losing money. It’s an expensive commuter rail line from West Palm Beach to Miami; it’s only “high speed” from West Palm Beach to Orlando. I posted earlier in this thread about how they’re trying to sell rights to run a public commuter train on their tracks to the local transit authority because they need cash.

It was also cheap to construct because they didn’t really build anything besides a handful of stations as it reuses a freight rail line. The California High Speed Rail defenders are correct when they point this out to justify why their project is more expensive (though most of the CAHSR price is due to corruption).

Reusing freight rail is a major problem as it’s made it the deadliest railroad in the country because people aren’t expecting a once sleepy freight rail line to have 100+ mph trains coming down it. Most of the deaths are jaywalkers doing something that is perfectly safe with slow freight trains (archive), not the viral clips of cars driving around the crossing guards. Brightline is slowly adding fencing along the entire route to fix this, but they demanded the taxpayer pay them to do so.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

Teslas suck, buy a good hybrid like a Ford Fusion. Oh wait, that's a car, and cars are bad.

 

[Kiska]

mandated that highway funds be spent on bike lanes:

Well yeah those are and should be for highways, they'll still get their bike lanes if they use BIKE LANE funds. Probably wouldn't even make much of a difference but apparently we're nazis for limiting the scope of what funding should be used for, imagine if he does that with the MTA in NY next and forces them to actually maintain their infrastructure for once.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Well yeah those are and should be for highways, they'll still get their bike lanes if they use BIKE LANE funds. Probably wouldn't even make much of a difference but apparently we're nazis for limiting the scope of what funding should be used for, imagine if he does that with the MTA in NY next and forces them to actually maintain their infrastructure for once.

Remember, they like to claim that highways should be MORE expensive because "they don't pay for themselves". Imagine saying all that and robbing it at the same time!

Reusing freight rail is a major problem as it’s made it the deadliest railroad in the country because people aren’t expecting a once sleepy freight rail line to have 100+ mph trains coming down it. Most of the deaths are jaywalkers doing something that is perfectly safe with slow freight trains (archive), not the viral clips of cars driving around the crossing guards. Brightline is slowly adding fencing along the entire route to fix this, but they demanded the taxpayer pay them to do so.

I followed Brightline on Google Earth from Orlando to Fort Pierce and I'm surprised that not a single railroad crossing was closed off (that wasn't closed off years before); they ALL got upgraded, which means that the train has to whistle for each and every one under current FRA guidelines.

In my neck of the woods, Union Pacific doesn't go nearly as fast but hates grade crossings anyway, with a number of crossings closed or converted to overpasses/underpasses. I realize underpasses probably don't work given the Florida coastline topography, but I'm a bit surprised that there were NO upgrades made.

Then again, rail advocates are really weird about re-using freight for passenger, they aren't compatible. It's like in Katy Freeway how they bemoan how the railroad was ripped up for the highway expansion, except it was single-track, had way too many crossings, no place to put any stations, and usefulness outside of peak hours was debatable anyway.

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

So I was browsing Youtube just now and I stumbled upon this video comparing 2 video game cities and right in the middle of it he decides to go on an urbanist rant about one of the cities. Most retarded shit I have ever seen.

 

[CEO of Gay]

In my neck of the woods, Union Pacific doesn't go nearly as fast but hates grade crossings anyway, with a number of crossings closed or converted to overpasses/underpasses.

Good. That's the sensible way to do rail, whether freight or high-speed passenger. At grade crossings sucks for both the trains on the tracks and the cars on the road. It's why I initially had a long, autistic rant typed out in response to @quaawaa's post above, about the rescinding of the Biden memo; I was imagining bike lines being installed in the shoulders of the Interstate highways. Different kinds of vehicles with different speed and movement profiles? Grade-separate that shit.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Why Europe is going ‘car free’​

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[FILTH Tourist]

So I was browsing Youtube just now and I stumbled upon this video comparing 2 video game cities and right in the middle of it he decides to go on an urbanist rant about one of the cities. Most retarded shit I have ever seen.

The thing that he used to spring board into that rant was cherry picked as fuck. No shit the ultra expensive mansions on the hills are isolated with no sidewalks, public transportation, or commercial areas. It is like that on purpose to keep the poors, paparazzi, and trouble makers away for the safety and privacy of those living there. Not to mention the people living there could not only afford cars, but personal drivers too. So spending money on public transportation for them is a waste and defeats the purpose. If he started in Franklin's first house near Grove street he could find a strip mall and a bus stop within a city block, totally deflating his rant.

 

[Jotch]

Curse you Elon MusKKK!

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Good. That's the sensible way to do rail, whether freight or high-speed passenger. At grade crossings sucks for both the trains on the tracks and the cars on the road. It's why I initially had a long, autistic rant typed out in response to @quaawaa's post above, about the rescinding of the Biden memo; I was imagining bike lines being installed in the shoulders of the Interstate highways. Different kinds of vehicles with different speed and movement profiles? Grade-separate that shit.

No, it's still bad because UP obstructs any new grade crossing built, at the minimum they'll want another one gone and construction will drag on for years. It's the opposite of the Brightline approach and bad in different ways.

The thing that he used to spring board into that rant was cherry picked as fuck. No shit the ultra expensive mansions on the hills are isolated with no sidewalks, public transportation, or commercial areas. It is like that on purpose to keep the poors, paparazzi, and trouble makers away for the safety and privacy of those living there. Not to mention the people living there could not only afford cars, but personal drivers too. So spending money on public transportation for them is a waste and defeats the purpose. If he started in Franklin's first house near Grove street he could find a strip mall and a bus stop within a city block, totally deflating his rant.

I don't know why urbanists are so weird about commercial areas. In general, commercial establishments attract crime, create more trash, are noisier, and generate more light. Given how sucky even most corner stores are the payoff is negligible and when you point out disadvantages you get excuses like "ACKSHUALLY CARS ARE NOISIER"-type shit.

On that note, where are the bakeries urbanists always talk about? Even in Europe I don't see anything, Amsterdam-Centrum just has a bunch of tacky tourist shops and memes that they float around like "Europeans enjoying coffee" (an extremely touristy coffeeshop in Paris, it's doubtful any locals still visit). I know Null talks about the lack of good American bread too but his posts about the subject read as if he's never been in a grocery store better than Walmart (despite being from Florida he seems to have never stepped into a Publix in his life, apparently).

 

[quaawaa]

On that note, where are the bakeries urbanists always talk about? Even in Europe I don't see anything, Amsterdam-Centrum just has a bunch of tacky tourist shops and memes that they float around like "Europeans enjoying coffee" (an extremely touristy coffeeshop in Paris, it's doubtful any locals still visit). I know Null talks about the lack of good American bread too but his posts about the subject read as if he's never been in a grocery store better than Walmart (despite being from Florida he seems to have never stepped into a Publix in his life, apparently).

When you search "bakery" in Paris, the two most central bakeries are outposts of a Korean chain:

There are obviously a lot more patisseries in the city, I just thought this was funny.

From poking around on Google, most of the "bakeries" there primarily sell pastries and coffee, not bread. They may offer bread, but most of their inventory is sweet. I dare say that American supermarkets have larger and more diverse bread sections, though the French pastry shops have more variety (and higher end pastries) than most American bakeries.

 

[LaxerBRO]

The thing that he used to spring board into that rant was cherry picked as fuck. No shit the ultra expensive mansions on the hills are isolated with no sidewalks, public transportation, or commercial areas. It is like that on purpose to keep the poors, paparazzi, and trouble makers away for the safety and privacy of those living there. Not to mention the people living there could not only afford cars, but personal drivers too. So spending money on public transportation for them is a waste and defeats the purpose. If he started in Franklin's first house near Grove street he could find a strip mall and a bus stop within a city block, totally deflating his rant.

Might as well have started Cyberpunk in V's penthouse that doesn't have street access:

 

[DSHK]

Why Europe is going ‘car free’​

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God, europe is so fucking gay.