Yes, among the quiter vehicles that go by are the city buses. I think they must have run-quiet tires. It’s an almost-pleasant whoosh they make, even at 3AM. The other quiet vehicles are owned by drivers who follow the speed limit, and even ICE vehicles make almost no noise at 20-25MPH.
EVs might be quiet intrinsically, but so many of them make that obnoxious UFO noise when accelerating.
I live on a busy street. I’m eagerly awaiting these quieter EVs. Soon?
Moreso a nation with profound mental health challenges. Like that movie which psychoanalyzed corporations using human diagnostic tools, if you examine American culture that way, we are a deeply, deeply traumatized society. Just as a for-instance, so many of us hate and fear interacting with our fellow citizens (like, preferring the isolation of a car and conceptualizing public transport as full of danger and urine), but at the same time suffering from a major loneliness epidemic.
We could really do with an adult to force us into therapy.
Good. Fuck 'em.
I’m with your wife. She was 100% correct. The criminal in the Commodore created the danger.
That’s a street. Streets have existed for millennia, and their purpose is to provide a common space within a city for human social and economic activity. This photo depicts that original purpose. Streets were only arrogated by motor vehicle manufactures about a century ago.
After nationalizing the rails and ports. I mean, if they’re that important to the economy, and all.
This unhinged reply non-figuratively made me laugh. Legit thanks, I needed that today.
If women don’t have larynxes, how do they speak?
I do know what it’s called when the larynx is prominent on a woman’s neck? (Might have to gimme a lil’ hint.)
Everybody has the same anatomy in the neck, yeah, so I don’t know if culturally you’d call it an Adam’s apple on a woman, but hers is somewhat visible.
That’s bad that the car’s software confused a closed garage door for a kid.
Ever notice that most of MAGA’s material was cribbed from the liberal side? There was a running joke 15-20 years ago about Ann Coulter being a trans woman, due to her prominent Adam’s apple. They applied the “I’m rubber you’re glue” rule, and have been trying to make this a thing since then. As usual, they’ve missed what made the joke funny, as cringe as it was.
That’s Babylon Bee-style humor, that is, ideology dressed up as humor. It’s “funny,” but doesn’t make you actually laugh.
This, but unironically. Self-driving cars will completely ruin driving, maybe permanently?
Not Just Bikes did a video about this exact topic, and how it would turn our cities into dystopian hellscapes. Because we’d have to ban everything except the intetconnected cars from the streets.
Somehow, I feel like the definition of carbrain categorically excludes self-identification as one. Like, the essence of the word is a paraphrase of Vince Lombardi: Cars aren’t the important thing, they’re the only thing.
So hiding like that would make him a Secret Asian Man? (That misheard song lyric is one that I can’t forget.)
Wikipedia has tons of background: Clint Eastwood at the 2012 Republican National Convention
Here’s the video: Clint Eastwood RNC Speech
Thanks, I do know why EVs make the noise; it’s still disruptive and stressful to people living on the street. But I guess that’s to be expected; cars ruin cities.