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Hah I still remember watching one of the TopGear specials in Africa, and them comparing domestic roads (pothole ridden) to ones made by chinese apparently “uk q
by seer 5y ago
Hah I still remember watching one of the TopGear specials in Africa, and them comparing domestic roads (pothole ridden) to ones made by chinese apparently “uk quality”. Looking at that “shitty african road” I was like “hey thats a normal second grade road in Eastern Europe where I live.
Moral of the story - cars are tough and can handle much (much) worse roads that US and eastern europe think of “normal” roads.
I prefer cycling myself and don’t really like cars, but “failing US road infra” just sounds so naïve…
- mschuster91 5y ago> Moral of the story - cars are tough and can handle much (much) worse roads that US and eastern europe think of “normal” roads. And here we come to the old saying of "poverty is expensive". A modern, well made and maintained asphalt road is no issue for a modern car, it will require its usual scheduled maintenance and that's it. But put the same modern car on a poor or dirt road and the maintenance expense for the car will explode: tires, springs, O-rings and other seals, rust, the list goes on and on. Pot-hole repairs in particular can get really expensive.
- alamortsubite 5y agoSomewhat ironically, this sounds like the perfect application of the American conservative political strategy of "starving the beast."
- jabl 5y agoI recall some story about the 90'ies after the fall of the Soviet Union when all the mobsters got loaded and bought fancy German sport cars, which promptly broke down due to the poor state of the roads. Whereas the local simple but rugged cars continued working just fine.