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CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

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Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

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post #23

Whoa. For me its cookie choice box gives me one choice: agreeing to be tracked. I've never seen that, but it strikes me as pretty rude.

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

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Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

#43

The page lists "858705 comparison combinations": https://imgur.com/a/coBCan8 For anyone who is curious what means, it means they must have 1311 cars in the database. (1311 cars for the first choice * 1310 cars for the second choice assuming you can't compare a car against itself, divided by two since order doesn't matter. 1311*1310/2=858705.) How I found it: https://hastebin.com/raw/ekeqegoxuv If anyone wants to hire…

> For anyone who is curious what means, it means they must have 1311 cars in the database. They do, the list is available here https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/ . A quick pipe of this list into wc -l gives you 1311.

Thank you. Nice to have that confirmation! :D

Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

#44

I've found a few of these types of sites over time, and I find them pretty handy. This one gets added to the list! There's Handgun Hero [1] for comparing ... handgun sizes, which is super handy when window shopping for something new, to compare it to something I already have. There's Camera Size [2] which compares, you guessed it, cameras. Handy for the exact same reasons as the above. For a more technical comparison…

How often does someone need to buy new handguns?

More often than I buy new cars

Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

#45

I've found a few of these types of sites over time, and I find them pretty handy. This one gets added to the list! There's Handgun Hero [1] for comparing ... handgun sizes, which is super handy when window shopping for something new, to compare it to something I already have. There's Camera Size [2] which compares, you guessed it, cameras. Handy for the exact same reasons as the above. For a more technical comparison…

How often does someone need to buy new handguns?

In USA, gun per capita is over 2 and majority of democrats, who approach almost 50%, do not own guns. So the answer is "often", if you consider USA.

Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

#46
post #4

Very cool! I just did some car shopping and compiled a spreadsheet of the various dimensions of the cars we were considering. This would have been a perfect tool for us. It's kind of hard to really get a sense of the numbers otherwise. Looks like it doesn't have a way of visualizing interiors, unfortunately.

+1 for the interiors. I'm doing car shopping right now, and this is the type of thing I've been looking for. I wanted a way to visualize the approximate height difference of sitting in the cabin of a CUV vs sedan.

Subaru Outback has the best cabin

Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

#47
This is beautiful. It must have been a lot of work to collect all that data and images. Although the UX is a little shaky. When searching for a vehicle the UI jumps around. And it would be useful to just search for a vehicle in a single query and not have to go always through the manufacturer first.

Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

#48

I've found a few of these types of sites over time, and I find them pretty handy. This one gets added to the list! There's Handgun Hero [1] for comparing ... handgun sizes, which is super handy when window shopping for something new, to compare it to something I already have. There's Camera Size [2] which compares, you guessed it, cameras. Handy for the exact same reasons as the above. For a more technical comparison…

Not quite the same but similar is https://geometrygeeks.bike/ for comparing, you guessed it, bicycle geometries. No bike photos on this one, though.

Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

#49

Unfortunately the longest and shortest vehicles in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_superlative... aren't there, but this is the closest I could find: https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/bmw-isetta-1955-1-d...

Found longer! Dodge RAM 2500 https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/bmw-isetta-1955-1-d...

Re: CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions

#50

I've found a few of these types of sites over time, and I find them pretty handy. This one gets added to the list! There's Handgun Hero [1] for comparing ... handgun sizes, which is super handy when window shopping for something new, to compare it to something I already have. There's Camera Size [2] which compares, you guessed it, cameras. Handy for the exact same reasons as the above. For a more technical comparison…

How often does someone need to buy new handguns?

If you get into Guitars we call it GAS (Guitar Acquisition Syndrome).

Some ladies even have fashion accessories, you can color match your guns and purses for every occasion. Try it before you knock it. ;)

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