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Oh I don’t care about all that. When the highway I can see out my balcony is gridlocked everything is quiet. When there’s high speed it’s noisy. When the road
by renewiltord 7mo ago
Oh I don’t care about all that.
When the highway I can see out my balcony is gridlocked everything is quiet. When there’s high speed it’s noisy.
When the roads are gridlocked I can bicycle by quite easily. When they’re going by at 45 mph that’s a lot more risky.
When the cars in the line are autonomous they won’t turn into me randomly because they lost their temper. Honestly, you’re making this outcome seem like paradise. Gridlock is a dream.
- ukuina 7mo agoAren't gridlocks noisy due to honks?
- renewiltord 7mo agoThe ones in SF’s FiDi are, but the highway ones seem quiet. Beats me why.
- manarth 7mo agoMy experience of travel suggests to me that honking is cultural: what's normal for Mumbai doesn't happen in London. In the UK, the horn might be used to "wake up" a driver in front - e.g. the traffic light has gone green, the driver in front isn't paying attention, so the car behind might sound a short honk to alert the driver in front that the light has changed. There's also the annoyed "you cut in front of me" / "you did something dangerous" long blaring honk. Those are the two main accepted uses of the horn in the UK, so there isn't much honking in UK traffic jams.
- majormajor 7mo agoHow are you getting around personally? Especially if demand shifts further to cars—now with fewer downsides—and further hinders availability and development of public transit, much like the post-WWII original car ownership boom did (and not just in the US!).
- renewiltord 7mo agoI have electric bike. For me and family. Gridlock is best for that because cars not moving.