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Bickering about bicycles, now with occasional tips about motorised vehicles
Grognard:
the local 'pick-a-part' places have caught on to that. Now days, they pull the good tires as the vehicles come in.
but even at $50 each, I'd save.
hmmm...
maybe Saturday.
The Seldom Killer:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaeCpVsMUP4
Dalillama:
--- Quote from: Blue Kitty on 24 Jan 2011, 21:47 ---Nice little bit of advice
But man, fuck roundabouts. They put in a few in north of my city and nobody gets how to use them. More often then not traffic is jammed an extra mile cause of those fuckers.
--- End quote ---
...No offence meant, but anyone who can't figure out a simple roundabout in under thirty seconds has no business piloting anything motorised in any public place whatsoever.
bhtooefr:
The problem is that in the US, things are so car-centric that it's downright impractical right now to get those people out of cars. And, because of how massively and invisibly subsidized car travel is, and how allergic people are to subsidizing infrastructure that isn't car infrastructure, mass transit and cycling infrastructure investment is nonexistent (and city structures in the US were designed around the car, making things worse).
I had some ideas for how to gradually fix this from the "incompetent people operating heavy machinery" direction, though, from the direction of creating a new class of car similar in concept to Europe's heavy quadricycle (although much heavier and more powerful to fit a few existing used cars into the category), with greatly reduced safety standards and the current licensing standards, and then creating much stricter licensing for normal cars: https://bhtooefr.org/blog/2013/06/12/thoughts-on-drivers-licensing-standards-in-the-us/
The Seldom Killer:
I think some of the problem comes when people figure them out differently. Even in the UK, where they're commonplace, people do different stuff on them. Mind you, I would like to see tougher and repeated driving proficiency testing.
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