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A shoulder is not nearly safe or as intentional as a sidewalk, you aren't nearly as safe from vehicles on a shoulder.
Its free. Most of America only sees foot traffic from broken down cars. You are completely safe because people won't intentionally drive on a shoulder except in emergencies, yet will drive on a sidewalk in exponentially more cases.
Don't be contrarian about a good thing just because urbanists like it.
Lmao.
I don't want to have to drive around random pedestrians, and as a pedestrian, i don't wanna increase the risk of getting hit by a vehicle.
I don't think you'll have to worry about it in your bedroom in your parents house.
There is no good argument for wanting people and cars on the same stretch of road.
I already made one you absolute retard cuck.
 
If your urban/suburban planning doesn't account for foot traffic, it has to share the road
I think the misunderstanding here is the road that the Hohol was complaining about was in the middle of nowhere:
the original Tiktok video was out in some semi-rural highway somewhere with no buildings in sight
Which is what @Bonesjones was referring to when he said:
Most of America only sees foot traffic from broken down cars.

@Grapefruit Soda In this context, would you agree that it doesn't make sense to pave sidewalks along roads where the distance between stops is further than what an average person is able to travel on foot?
 
Turns out that the anti-car NYC mayoral candidate is actually very pro-car for himself:
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Turns out that the anti-car NYC mayoral candidate is actually very pro-car for himself:
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Not surprised.

AOC flys from Washington to NYC, even when she is a champion of rail.

Normally, her defender's can claim that the US doesn't have rail infrastructure so she has to fly but the Acela Express offers faster service to both cities than planes.

They are just against normal citizens flying. I swear that if their were restrictions on eating meat, politicians would claim that they needed to eat meat so they could think more clearly so they could better your life.
 
Have the r/fuckcars people ever expressed an opinion on drive-in movie theaters? I'm betting they would absolutely despise the concept. It's a shame those theaters are a dying breed.
They probably just complain why they won't let them ride in with their bikes and have to sit outside on a lawnchair if they do. Actually I could imagine one of them taking a photo of them sitting on a lawn chair at a drive in posting it to r/fuckcars to make a point how "you don't really need a car".
 
I'm not urbanist, but anyone who disagrees or doesn't like sidewalks is a fat retard whose opinion shouldn't matter. If your urban/suburban planning doesn't account for foot traffic, it has to share the road, and no car driver wants to be stuck behind a 70 year old pedestrian.

If the 3rd world has sidewalks, then Americans have no excuses for not having them.
Its the quintissential reddit-ism of smugging over a very easy to support or logical concept so much it start to sounds retarded, irrational and unfeasible, simply because they want to use it as a vehicle for further faggotry or just the simple fact that they're really fucking annoying about it
 
It's hilarious how these urbanists and redditors think Elon Musk's visionary ideas like the tunnel or hyperloop are ridiculous (not agreeing or disagreeing), but are OK with this Ponzi scheme of a project that endlessly consumed time and resources and has gone no where.

Newsom could say he's funding anything and as long as it's a state backed project by the Dems they will be behind it. They could stay they're developing teleportation technology and they would be fine even if they're paying them trillions of dollars to spend on hookers and blow.
 
It's hilarious how these urbanists and redditors think Elon Musk's visionary ideas like the tunnel or hyperloop are ridiculous (not agreeing or disagreeing), but are OK with this Ponzi scheme of a project that endlessly consumed time and resources and has gone no where.

Newsom could say he's funding anything and as long as it's a state backed project by the Dems they will be behind it. They could stay they're developing teleportation technology and they would be fine even if they're paying them trillions of dollars to spend on hookers and blow.
They can't even draw the obvious conclusions from fucking SNCF withdrawing from the project. Or is that the car/oil companies' fault?
 
People say that Musk has retarded ideas, but once in a while I feel like he has a good one. I think he might be a tend setter for lightly armored vehicles. Youtubers have mostly been harping on the idea saying "why do you need a bulletproof truck". But they never really explained how it actually affects them. Who cares if someone wants to buy a bulletproof vehicle. In the scenario where it doesn't get used nothing happens. It's like arguing against why do you need a fire extinguisher.
Hey so not fully related, but I don't know anyone remembers one time I mentioned the idea of armored vehicles becoming an optional extra you can order at the dealer after Tesla is the trend setter. Well Volvo just came out with this.


With the somber serious tone of the video and the man selling it like he's selling life insurance. You can tell Volvo wanted to make this different than a normal car commercial as there is no way to sell it normally without it looking like it came from a GTA game. But yeah say what you want about no one needing an armored car but here we are, because we live in a low trust society where violent thugs roam the streets looking for confrontation.
 
Hey so not fully related, but I don't know anyone remembers one time I mentioned the idea of armored vehicles becoming an optional extra you can order at the dealer after Tesla is the trend setter. Well Volvo just came out with this.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mACO9BhP3ok
With the somber serious tone of the video and the man selling it like he's selling life insurance. You can tell Volvo wanted to make this different than a normal car commercial as there is no way to sell it normally without it looking like it came from a GTA game. But yeah say what you want about no one needing an armored car but here we are, because we live in a low trust society where violent thugs roam the streets looking for confrontation.
Well armored cars are typically sold by custom coach companies usually for diplomats and other high priority targets, but still it's just the society we seem to live in.
 
Hey so not fully related, but I don't know anyone remembers one time I mentioned the idea of armored vehicles becoming an optional extra you can order at the dealer after Tesla is the trend setter. Well Volvo just came out with this.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mACO9BhP3ok
With the somber serious tone of the video and the man selling it like he's selling life insurance. You can tell Volvo wanted to make this different than a normal car commercial as there is no way to sell it normally without it looking like it came from a GTA game. But yeah say what you want about no one needing an armored car but here we are, because we live in a low trust society where violent thugs roam the streets looking for confrontation.
This is moreso a marketing stunt than a serious attempt at an armored car. By their own admission it's only resistant against pistol calibers.
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IIIA is for soft body armor and is useless against even intermediate rifle rounds.
 
Well armored cars are typically sold by custom coach companies usually for diplomats and other high priority targets, but still it's just the society we seem to live in.
Yeah, that's sort of why I found it interesting it was a video put out by an official OEM. They even mentioned cases in the video like armed hijacking or kidnapping so it's like they're acknowledging the rise in prevalence of those use cases. The only thing they're missing is when a group of melonated gang of "cyclists" tries to attack you.

This is moreso a marketing stunt than a serious attempt at an armored car. By their own admission it's only resistant against pistol calibers.
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IIIA is for soft body armor and is useless against even intermediate rifle rounds.
That does seem to be the use case for light applications like this though. They're aiming more for concealment to maintain it's look as a normal SUV over an explicit armored car. It probably isn't aimed toward an actual VIP like a politician, but instead maybe someone who's well to do, but needs extra protection. I don't think it's fully just a marketing stunt. It seems to be a real product they're trying to offer.

Being resistant against pistol calibers will still suffice in a lot of applications provided the assailants aren't carrying a rifle which is harder to conceal. Like as I mentioned use cases of rioter/"cyclist" mobs trying to pull the driver from their car.

With the amount of riots that keep blocking various intersections it starts to sort of make sense why this extra trim level is starting to be offered.
 
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