Not a Children posted:

Anyone in the know would realize all you have to do is brake-check them 2 or 3 times and suddenly their car is gimped due to overheating

Ultraklystron posted:

Honestly would go with a kei truck or kei van (or even a ute) if I could get one at a reasonable price. I don't need a big truck, but I do need to haul stuff (gardening supplies, tools, free stuff off Craigslist, recycling) around way more often than I need more than 2 people in the vehicle.

wargames posted:

https://www.6sqft.com/how-horse-poop-inspired-the-new-york-city-stoop/

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almost five million pounds of manure was being dumped on the city streets every day (we can imagine how that would effect our commute to the office)

Chris Knight posted:

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

that is entirely correct, they are looking to make you imagine how they'd take a running start to then slide on their bellies through the poo poo-coated streets all the way to their offices (i.e. that's how the manure effects the commute)

Ultraklystron posted:

Honestly would go with a kei truck or kei van (or even a ute) if I could get one at a reasonable price. I don't need a big truck, but I do need to haul stuff (gardening supplies, tools, free stuff off Craigslist, recycling) around way more often than I need more than 2 people in the vehicle.

Dijkstracula posted:

if you're serious about wanting a kei truck there's a Toyota TownAce on Bring A Trailer right now

edit: there is also a weird lifted Lada convertible which is not a kei car but definitely seems cut from the same ridiculous cloth

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”American truck buyers were more into style and class and less into barebones utility”? Really? I am going to guess you are a millennial. Maybe you have never owned or driven a ’60’s C10 with a 3-on-the-tree?

Shame Boy posted:

millennials are killing the ugly truck industry

Dijkstracula posted:

I guess in the sense that we're not shelling out 75k for a F-350 anymore

Shame Boy posted:

millennials are killing the ugly truck industry

Roosevelt posted:

im not looking it up but i'm going to guess 75k is more F-150 range these days

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Under the best-case scenario, the presence of as few as 2,000 self-driving cars in downtown San Francisco will slow traffic to less than 2 miles per hour, according to Millard-Ball, who uses game theory and a traffic micro-simulation model to generate his predictions.
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"Even when you factor in electricity, depreciation, wear and tear, and maintenance, cruising costs about 50 cents an hour—that's cheaper than parking even in a small town," says Millard-Ball. "Unless it's free or cheaper than cruising, why would anyone use a remote lot?"

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

Mean streets: Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

Mean streets: Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park


not factored into his calculations: cost of auto body repairs when your car drives past the fire station and has a twitch

Roosevelt posted:

the photography guy where i work has a tiny little van that he uses when he goes out on jobs. it looks like the apple car that the lowly worm drives.

My Linux Rig posted:

you know what else is cheaper then parking? bus fare

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

Mean streets: Self-driving cars will "cruise" to avoid paying to park


not factored into his calculations: cost of auto body repairs when your car drives past the fire station and has a twitch

Not a Children posted:

lmao imagine dedicated literal square mileage to ghost cars constantly roaming, searching for passengers

There is no way that's more practical, not to mention safe, than a competent railroad system

I hope that if it ever actually came to pass people take to them with crowbars and baseball bats

lancemantis posted:

so greymarket chat how did the military guys I'd see have their Volkswagens from germany in the US work? just another illegal car?

Cocoa Crispies posted:

the bus is so good too, it’s socially acceptable to thank the driver which you basically can’t do on a train

Cocoa Crispies posted:

the bus is so good too, it’s socially acceptable to thank the driver which you basically can’t do on a train

DELETE CASCADE posted:

you can thank the conductor

hobbesmaster posted:

if pg&e is any indication if everyone did that there'd be a lot more forest fires

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Tesla already is facing a huge uphill climb to meet its employment goal – or face a $41.2 million penalty from the state. The plant employed about 800 people before Tesla's 7 percent company-wide job cut last month. But it needs to increase employment there by more than 80 percent in the next 14 months to avoid triggering the penalty – assuming state officials try to impose it.

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Tesla's conventional solar installations fell by 17 percent to a five-year low during the fourth quarter. Its solar deployments last year were down 62 percent from just two years ago, when it was the unquestioned leader in the residential rooftop market with a market share of around 33 percent. It's now No. 2, and its market share is around 9 percent, according to analysts at Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables.

Tesla doesn't expect the decline to stop, either. The company said solar deployments would drop even further during the first quarter to another post-2012 low.

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Musk, who has said he slept on the factory floor during the Model 3 production ramp this summer, has never visited the Buffalo solar panel factory. Yet he told analysts Wednesday that he plans to make several trips to China this year to check on progress at the electric vehicle plant it is building in Shanghai.

Platystemon posted:

Well kind of but as a side effect of car culture causing sprawl into forests.

Increased demand in the same geographic area isn’t going to cause more fires. If anything, it will decrease them because rent‐seeking utilities are forced to replace lovely old infrastructure with new infrastructure for capacity reasons.