My brother in Christ you are the traffic
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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Trust me bro, just one more lane
because trains are too expensive or something
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You may as well declare that your permanent address. It's where you live now. May as well try and find happiness where you are.
You'll meet friends there, settle in, maybe get married and have some kids, grow old and retire to the back seat, having lived a rich and full life.
In a few generations, the fact that the cars can move will only be a children's story, and eventually forgotten altogether.
Public transport for the win :D
At least until we find a way to f* it up--again.
Traffic jams would be a whole lot less damaging if they were all electric. Just sitting there with the AC and radio on is a whole lot less emissions compared to fossil fuels.
I prefer a rock solid public transport system, and plenty of safe walking areas and no-car zones. EVs help minimally in the grand scheme, since they are costly to produce, especially the batteries.
But then you lose your fReEdOm, and are beholden to another driver's whims! Creep to the left or right side of the lane in your traffic jam? Forget it! All you can do is read, or play a game, or gaze forlornly at the liberated masterminds as you zip past in your socialist train!
Which won't happen especially in car first cities. I am in Michigan, it's the home of the automobile and everything is built around it. To accommodate a good mass transit they would need to demolish large portions of the cities to install rail lines because busses are a lack luster bandage. Even with cities with great bus lines like Lansing or Ann Arbor it still can take hours for a trip across the city when a car gets you there and back in minutes. Business will also need to accommodate and give longer time off for doctors appointments. My wife rides the bus often in Lansing and if she has a appointment that is only a 10min car ride she is gone for 3 hours on the bus.
To accommodate a good mass transit they would need to demolish large portions of the cities to install rail lines because busses are a lack luster bandage.
I mean, we did that for cars, and it only made things worse
Good luck with that, though. If this is America, and I think it is, we find ways of making a good public transit system suck. I also think we need to take a hard look at how our towns and cities are desined as well, and make them to where they're optimized to be able to drive into a central location then bicycle or hoof it to whrever you wanted to go within a couple miles.
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The two issues I have with current EVs is you can't work on them and they don't last as long as gas vehicles.
I have a old suburu and it still runs fine
Its also worth remembering there is a lot less maintenance to do on an EV. No oil to change, lubes to replace, belts that break...
Besides the batteries, an EV car should last longer than a gas car.
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That's true, but electric cars won't fix the core issue of car dependency and massive traffic jams
What is crazy is that with 1 passenger per car, that is not that many people. Like not even 50. You could all fit in a single bus
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Did you stop there and cause a traffic jam to get this beautiful picture?
[Image description: A photo of a road with two lanes. There is bumper-to-bumper traffic reaching an approxime 53 car length.]
Plot twist: photographer is the first car inthee lane
Was it really necessary to stop and hold up traffic just for this picture though?
ban cars
This isn't mildly infuriating. Now, if you took a second shot of the traffic in front and there was nothing - just the echo of a brake check an hour earlier. That would be mildy infuriating.
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Never been to a city before, huh?
Cities tend to have public transport.
Back in 2017 or whatever that North American solar eclipse was, I drove down to Bend Oregon to view it. After, there was bumper to bumper traffic almost the whole way north, back to Seattle, WA. There was literal bumper to bumper traffic from Bend, OR to Issaquah, WA. That was almost 350 miles and took basically an entire day. It was horrible having to pee on the side of the road in bumper to bumper traffic in the middle of nowhere. Protip? Don't try to drink the Gatorade just to have a pee bottle.
Man, got to love the ability to work from home and not have to deal with this on a daily basis.
There is so much time wasted being caught in stuff like this. One of those F Cars moments.
This looks like a normal day in Tampa.
That looks like normal holiday traffic. Is it?
Been there before. We recently had a semi truck tip and spill thousands of frozen French fries across all lanes of the highway. They closed it completely down for hours. People were literally reversing on the highway to back up to the nearest exit. It was terrible
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Amateurs
Looks like my commute today, just with grass lol
I don’t know if this counts as “mildly” infuriating, I’d be freaking OUT with a traffic jam that long, especially if I had somewhere to be at a certain time!
Wait, this is long? This looks like regular traffic to me...
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