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Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

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Post by recuter »

InitialLastName wrote: post #159
recuter wrote: post #157

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Spouses come and go. A limited edition PRS is forever. Besides it is probably going to end up a collectible and increase in value. Can't afford not to buy it really.

Without another adult in the household, how can I reasonably justify needing a 2-car garage to store all my bikes?

That's easy. You watch a few FortNite videos on YouTube and slowly but surely end up with a small motorcycle collection.

You're going to want to work on your own bikes and eventually fabricate your ow-- basically, you need the space for your $250,000 CNC machine anyhow, so..

Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

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Post by ryanianian »

zwilliamson wrote: post #136

My whole family worked for a major car manufacturer. My mother was the first woman tin smith hired there. I grew up loving cars (rural living). But now I’ve lost the love. I think mainly after seeing what they do to amazing cities like SF and Seattle my heart has changed. We need to subsidize and promote better personal mobility options. My daily driver is a Riese & Muller Load 60 e-cargo bike. I’ve had it since 2020…

I live in a very walkable city (NYC). But I don't dare ride a bike. The car traffic is too nasty, and I'm very non-confident about my bike-riding abilities. I would love a motorized three-wheeler or something where I don't have to balance on my own _too_ much. Maybe with a roof for the rain.

Perhaps I'm dreaming of a world full of personal tuk-tuks and golf-carts? It's annoying that the only real options in the US seem to be "30 pound bike" or "2-ton+ car".

Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

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Post by zwilliamson »

djaychela wrote: post #141
zwilliamson wrote: post #136

My whole family worked for a major car manufacturer. My mother was the first woman tin smith hired there. I grew up loving cars (rural living). But now I’ve lost the love. I think mainly after seeing what they do to amazing cities like SF and Seattle my heart has changed. We need to subsidize and promote better personal mobility options. My daily driver is a Riese & Muller Load 60 e-cargo bike. I’ve had it since 2020…

Just looked at the Riese & Muller. Looks great, but I think part of the problem with ebikes like this is that they -are- the price of a secondhand car, and most people will just go with that instead. I've got a 'normal' ebike, and I used it a lot in lockdown, and often use it to go to the local shops. Would love something like the R&M, but it's a lot of money...

People usually don’t look at the maintenance costs of owning a car. Gas, insurance, registration, tune ups, repairs. Then compare how much you’ll put into your R&M over the years. It doesn’t even come close to a cars yearly costs :)

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Post by zwilliamson »

stronglikedan wrote: post #143
zwilliamson wrote: post #136

My whole family worked for a major car manufacturer. My mother was the first woman tin smith hired there. I grew up loving cars (rural living). But now I’ve lost the love. I think mainly after seeing what they do to amazing cities like SF and Seattle my heart has changed. We need to subsidize and promote better personal mobility options. My daily driver is a Riese & Muller Load 60 e-cargo bike. I’ve had it since 2020…

I just love my car. I just love to drive it. I love to go where I want, whenever I want. I hate being driven - it's anxiety inducing and mind-numbingly boring. I appreciate the car-friendly infrastructure. I'd wager most drivers IRL are like me, despite the vocal online minority. We should work on better infrastructure that allows for all public and private transport modes to work about equally as well in a given spa…

Cars are cool tech no doubt. I just think when you step back and look at our cities the car infrastructure is overwhelming. No one should die because they were walking in a city. San Francisco had a Vision Zero goal; to have no pedestrian or biking deaths in the city. They made good progress but are far from reaching the goal

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Post by User23 »

kube-system wrote: post #160
User23 wrote: post #154

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922r is basically just a buy American regulation that has the added bonus of letting ATF hassle people selectively. On the other hand, "solvent traps" remind me of wine bricks[1]. Both are obviously legal. Sure you could do illegal things with them, but you could do illegal things with a coke bottle too. But what does this have to do with illegal guns as any ordinary person understands them? Maybe some Republican bub…

There's a word for people who pick and choose which laws to follow: criminals. And I don't think there's too many duck guns subject to 922r. > Meanwhile, plenty of Democrats in Chicago own illegal sears for their Glocks along with drum mags. How do you know they're democrats?

> How do you know they're democrats?

Just a lucky guess /s

Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

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Post by forgetfulness »

dahfizz wrote: post #140
forgetfulness wrote: post #114

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For instance: https://www.reddit.com/gallery/y78psk

Its not unreasonable to point out that having your own car unlocks a lot of personal freedom and independence. That post is obvious flame bait but I find it hard to argue the underlying truth.

That personal freedom and independence gets burnt away as exhaust in traffic jams for entire days of your life every month.

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Post by dotancohen »

nerdponx wrote: post #83
dotancohen wrote: post #36

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Fortunately the browser has the option to disable cookies. I've never understood why people just don't use this option.

Lack of decent UX for cookie management.

So ripe for an extension or add-on?

Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

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Post by hanlec »

It was no further than 1 week ago when I was talking with my spouse about how could we compare the size of some cars. We found it very tedious to even find the official dimension. And we had no idea how to visualize the differences. This is absolutely fabulous!
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