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Trains are somehow exempt, if you get hit by a train it's because YOU were impatient or dumb. Anytime a cyclist gets killed by a car it's automatically "they were murdered".
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Trains are somehow exempt, if you get hit by a train it's because YOU were impatient or dumb. Anytime a cyclist gets killed by a car it's automatically "they were murdered".
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Because trains run on tracks so to be hit by a train you were automatically in their area. Cars are designed to detect and acquire peds and cyclists as targets and then pursue them in order to run them down. Cars don't have their own area, the road belongs to everyone, cars are simply the vicious a0ex predator that must be eliminated for everyone's safety.
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this made me realize that prey animals as people would just be urbanists
I think zootopia even touched on that ....
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That's always been my response.
WHAT were your unsupervised kids doing that let them suddenly pop up in the known blind spot of a fast-moving vehicle on a dedicated roadway so that a nominally alert and cautious driver couldn't avoid them?
Accidents don't happen in a vacuum, but asking what role the non-car caused in a car-to-noncar collision is apparently the same as asking a rape victim "what were you wearing"?
If a kid darts into the road from between two parked cars at 3 feet in front of a GMC Sierra doing 25? They're fucked, there's nothing the vehicle or driver can do at that point.
This is not a fault of the vehicle, it's the fault of a pedestrian who failed to exercise basic caution.
Also, for as "big" as those trucks are? Thanks to extensive use of plastics, aluminum, and metal pressed as thin as they can get away with? They weigh comparable, if not less, than my old 78" Dodge pickup I got as my first car. Aside from the vinyl door panels, dash, and plastic tail lights? EVERYTHING on that truck was steel or glass. Even if today's trucks do ride 3'' higher, they're probably SAFER to operate and would stop from 45 in less space than mine. They also have better brakes, they've got ABS and discs, my old truck had no ABS and drum brakes that were less efficient and, again, took more braking space than a modern Dodge truck.
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That's a good analogy.
Really it comes down to an external locus of control. Nothing is a consequence of their actions, everything just happens to them and it's someone else's fault for not meticulously engineering the environment to ensure absolute safety while they helplessly bumble around like NPC animals in a video game.
Kind of ironic how some of them will slam into stationary vehicles just to prove a point but then demonstrate enough cognizance to attend city council meetings.
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That is also a legitimate question, along with "where were you" "what were you doing" and "who were you with".
Safety is _everyone's_ responsibility, including yours.
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Maybe don’t raise manlets. Manlets BTFOed
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Trains still have the soul of a predator. If they weren't restrained by the rails, they would be monsters.
Just think of the damage their little car-mixed cousins, trucks and buses (which are just individual rail cars on wheels, or "dwarf trains") already do. Never mind this Aussie abomination, the road train:
It may only consume SUV's and cars now, but when that prey gets scarce, guess what's next...
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They're vicious monsters even when restrained by rails. Here, a predatory Pendolino train uses barriers to trap an unsuspecting truck on a crossing before going in for an incredibly brutal kill. The poor thing gets decapitated instantly.
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There was that one picture with a pooner next to a truck (original post); it was funnier when they claimed they were an adult man because it would make it even more pathetic.
The comments don't mention how ugly the city is (I'm sure if it was a normal-looking North American strip mall or anything resembling one they'd be crying about it), just that it's a "low-income" area.
We all know that "low-income" is often used as a euphemism, but even in American cities you don't see neighborhoods like that except in EXCEPTIONALLY shitty areas.
The main Tesla owners I know hate Trump and gripe about how Musk should've "stayed in his lane" and not bought Twitter. You can tell that the subreddit is getting worse when there are fewer people willing to call out how retarded this is even for /r/fuckcars standards.
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This is such a common thing outside the USA that I think there’s a deep cultural divide and I don’t know how to cross it. Maybe Europe and South America and Africa and Chicago just gave up, but in all those places the good people who are working/trying decorate the inside of their buildings only and the outsides look like pastel prisons.
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It's not about safety. It's about people thinking/living differently than them and their perceived utopia. Trucks and SUVs aren't just less efficient with gas they're vehicles you can use to haul things like fishing boats and campers and horse trailers. Your kids may use one to haul a lawn mower around to do basic landscaping for some cash. They are to bugmen the epitome of independence and also a conspicuous display of wealth because newer models are more expensive than smaller cars and trailers/campers can also be quite expensive. They hate the types of people that would choose these vehicles and they hate the types of activities these people get up to with their bitchin rides.
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"Cut their tires"
These people scream so much about public safety yet they encourage shit that puts the safety of the public at risk
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Aren't they usually used like freight trains are, just without tracks through the outback? They have their own roads, etc.
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While I don't doubt he would key a car and probably a lot of them might have. He's essentially bragging about behaving like a cowardly little bitch. Doing things like vandalizing something behind someone's back is something a weaselly cuck would do because they can't confront someone. I bet his heart beats faster while he's doing it constantly having to watch his back in case he turns around and gets decked in the face by the angry owner.
Please let him get caught keying a drug dealer's Escalade.
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They share roads with normal vehicles - it’s just that Australia is so fucking huge and empty that you can go thousands of miles without seeing anyone.
And people just transporting themselves often just fly a small plane.
Shit is absolutely insane and we don’t even know - America has nothing like it.
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This kills the truck.
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They are generally used in the outback where there are large distances to support small towns, farms, mines, etc that are away from rail lines(the centre only really has 2 public lines, the Ghan and the Trans-Australia), i.e doing the work of a branchline/shortline train work post the rise of trucking in the red centre, and are pretty much banned in cities, and generally the town centres of larger outback towns.
So unfortunately they they can't eat urbanists because urbanists never leave the city, however their smaller cousin the B-Double can get them, or the true urbanist hunter/killer the Truck and Dog Tippers xD
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It's cygan doing.
This isn't even a big car? Even before importing american cars became easier we still had a lot of those big family cars.
>Before
Before what? Those cars are already here and people love them. In 15 minutes by car I can reach Dodge dealership and 3 companies that import US cars, including one that specializes in importing those big pickup trucks.
We get frequent reminders to avoid those apex predators
EDIT: and the most important thing in that photo is mf ukrainian license plate
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