Meanwhile in Germany…
And because trams have right of way if a car crashes in a tram it’s always the car fault.
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First cars looked like carriages. Then they looked squared off. Then they looked like covers for Hugo Gernsback novels. Then they got rectangular again. Then they got the melted HotWheels look. Then half of them turned into Urban Assault Vehicles. I’m hoping for Romany wagons with robotic lizards next.
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Can we call it the Atomic Amish?
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This one uses mixed use traffic lanes.
There’s another system in Tampa that uses a dedicated lane.
Haven’t been able to ride either yet, due to COVID, but looking forward to it.
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Looks like a pushmepullyou. At least it is stackable. Uses less space.
So ugly no one will steal them. Next stop Dystopia.
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Had a Porsche for a while. Cops would stop me for 5 mph over the limit and arrive at the car already mad. No such problem with the replacement vehicle, a Prius.
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Cars carry a lot of emotional baggage.
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I foresee a fleet of self-driving bedroom taxis favored by future sex workers. Fares increase by the hour or minute.
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It’s cheaper to make. Front panels and back panels are the same, left side door and right side door are the same (so one ‘regular’ and one ‘suicide’).
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Ah, we’re going back to stagecoaches. Except we have electric motors & batteries instead of horses, and a computer instead of the driver sitting up front with another guy riding shotgun.
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Something like a Tiny House of the Rising Sun?
Robots will make them, Robots will wash them Robots will drive you to the woods and bury you.
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Toasters? I’m sure they are perfectly ordinary cars. You will not be cooked.
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That’s not a toaster, THIS
is a toaster.
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The real question is why toasters are designed to look like self-driving cars.
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That’s the car-seat orientation requirement for babies under 30lbs in the US as I understand it. good enough for babies is good enough for me (my chronically car-sick wife OTOH…)
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Well when are we getting flying toaster cars?
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Psychologically better as well—facing forward, we strain to see new things coming into view far away, while anything big and close disappears just as we’re finally getting a good look at it
Backwards is an eminently superior way to survey a landscape IMO
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Salmon have been dying mysteriously on the West Coast for years. Scientists think a chemical in tires may be responsible
Even with this chemical identified, the scale of the problem could make saving the fish difficult.
Roughly 3.1 billion tires for the planet’s more than 1.4 billion vehicles are produced annually, the study said, and this chemical appears to be used in nearly all of them.
Previous studies have found that tire abrasion is one of the most significant sources globally of microplastics in aquatic ecosystems, and it’s responsible for an estimated 30% of all the microplastic particles in our oceans.
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Nuclear-powered, of course, or else I’m suing Disney and Azimov.
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