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Driving4answers had a similar rant recently about the 2024 Prius, where there's an always-on warning beep every time you enter an intersection, which intrusivel
by moffkalast 4mo ago
Driving4answers had a similar rant recently about the 2024 Prius, where there's an always-on warning beep every time you enter an intersection, which intrusively pulls away your attention in the exact moment when you need to be focusing on the road the most. I'll be surprised if it doesn't cause someone to die in the coming years. Laws for drivers written by people with chauffeurs.
- cucumber3732842 4mo ago> Laws for drivers written by people with chauffeurs. Not even that. They know the laws are stupid. They don't care. It's just another day at work for them. They're trying to surgically write laws to garner support/votes from shorsighted hand wringing Karens (plenty of examples in HN comments) while also not actually hurting industry/donors. So stupid rules and stupid beeps are what you get.
- phoronixrly 4mo agoAnyone who's working on making driving a car unbearable has my vote! My bicycle has a single chime and it's manually operated.
- zelphirkalt 4mo agoWait until they mandate a panel of warning LEDs on your bike or a cam on your bike recording your face.
- newsclues 4mo agoWait until manual bikes are banned and only gps tracked e-bikes exist for citizen safety!
- cavoirom 4mo agogiving up your freedom to limit others in the name of safety seems unwise. too much control creates a generation behave like the kids.
- phoronixrly 4mo agoOh, the good old cars are freedom cliché? Thank you, I feel perfectly free when I don't have to worry about parking, gas, maintenance, taxes, inadvertently killing anyone, polluting...
- lan321 4mo agoMobility is freedom, yes. During communism movement within countries required a written permission slip, movement outside even more so. The longer it'll take you to leave or organize against your leaders, the less freedom you have. See DPRK for an extreme example.
- phoronixrly 4mo agoStraw man aside, I find the notion of cars being used as a tool to escape from or even to overthrow an authoritarian regime extremely funny... Even without a big brother: cars are heavily regulated and controlled; current cars are a privacy nightmare; cars are (as yet) mostly dependent on fossil fuels (that you can't produce yourself, and are heavily regulated and taxed). If anything in an authoritarian regime, cars would be (and were) an instrument of control. The extra funny part is that all the car-brained ex-communist people that had to be good little comrades during the 20-year waiting list period they had to endure are now big on the 'cars = freedom' mindset... No my guy, if cars were freedom, you can be damn sure only the communist nomenclature would be allowed to have them. Instead you were humiliated with spending half your life on a waiting list, and then the only freedom you got was to continue being a subservient communist subject under the party boot. How else would you afford gasoline after all? Not that that was enough... For context, I live in a former communist country, parents and grandparents waited for 10+ years to be graced with the permission to buy a car. Then proceeded not be able to afford petrol until the early 2000s...
- queenkjuul 4mo agoIt's truly hilarious to me that people forget cars need roads, roads are owned by governments, and governments can block roads whenever they want. I bike most places but keep my car for the odd road trip or run to Ikea. But when ICE decides to shut down the interstates and round up all us commies, my car is not going to magically smuggle me 500 miles to Canada, and i can't believe people think it will
- hparadiz 4mo agoI legit can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.
- imp0cat 4mo agoThat's what so great about it, isn't it?
- bmacho 4mo agoWhy would you care what the guy was thinking writing that comment? Do you know him? He might as well just be a stochastic parrot. Just like with other media (movie, book, etc), the product is the end product, in this case a joke or a thought-provoking view. You shouldn't care about the creator's actual views or consider them while engaging with his comment.
- forgetfreeman 4mo agoIf your primary mode of transportation is a bicycle and you're cheering shit that annoys and (critically) distracts motorists you might have a death wish.
- strken 4mo agoI feel compelled to mention that the vast majority of cyclists are part of a household which owns a car, as well.
- moffkalast 4mo agoYeah, the occupants of the car won't be dying, I'm pretty sure every collision is survivable with seatbelts on with modern cars that have a meter of crumple zone in every direction and look like bloated whales. But pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists are gonna die on impact with them.
- compass_copium 4mo agoSolidarity. Cars belong in the rubbish bin of history. The Soviet Union had the right idea, as usual--make cars unbearable to drive to encourage public transportation.
- K0balt 4mo agoThat works for people in cities, if cities were made to by usable by cyclists and pedestrians. Not so much for people that live in rural areas.
- kybernetyk 4mo agoWhile not in the SU directly, I got to enjoy public transport in communist Poland for a few years and yeah, you don't want that.
- smackeyacky 4mo agoCommunist Sydney trains are awful too
- phoronixrly 4mo agoAnd here we come to the crux of the train issue - elitism. You both find it below your level to use public transport, and you don't want to mix with the 'unwashed masses' - again, doing so would be below your level.
- badpun 4mo agoPublic transport in communist Poland was horrible because it was severely underfunded. Remember that Poland bankrupted in the 1981 (when the West put sanctions on the country after the Jaruzelski's "coup", and sanctions kiled the economy) the whole decade was kind of surreal in terms of state's lack of funds and decrease of living standards.
- inigyou 4mo agoIf they were communist, why didn't they just print more money?
- kybernetyk 4mo agoLet me guess: You get your groceries delivered by some underpaid sucker? While I enjoy biking it's impractical many times (if you don't live a sheltered life with people doing all the annoying stuff for you). We have those inner city bike extremists here, too. There's proposals like banning all motorized traffic from the city because you "can walk to your bakery duh". But they never ask themselves how the baker gets all his materials to the bakery.
- nehal3m 4mo agoDepends on where they live. Groceries don’t have to be a weekly run to a far flung place to get a truck bed full of stuff. It can be a daily visit to a neighborhood supermarket on your way home. If zoning laws allow those can exist.
- kergonath 4mo agoThat’s nice in principle, but it really is not the same budget around here, even though the shops are here. Small neighbourhood supermarkets and corner shops are significantly more expensive than the big supermarket that’s a 10-minute drive away. We’re doing both: buying what we need in large quantities or with a long shelf life once a week from a supermarket and things like some meat, fruits and vegetables from the corner shop but that takes a bit of work and planning. Still, there’s money to be saved taking advantage of economies of scale.
- mcv 4mo agoHere the corner shop is a supermarket. I think I've got 5 supermarkets in a 2km radius.
- beej71 4mo agoIt won't work for everyone, but I have a bicycle trailer for food shopping. 20 minutes ride each way. I go about once a week.
- phoronixrly 4mo agoNo, I walk 200 meters to Billa or Lidl, or less to one of the plethora of small grocery stores.
- whatsupdog 4mo agoWomen's suffrage was the stupidest thing humanity ever did. And the general populace is still not ready to admit the mistake, as proven by the expected incoming downvotes.
- galangalalgol 4mo agoI'm not going to upvote you, because I don't agree. I do hope they don't bury this though. A lot of people (some women included) think as you do. But I have never felt comfortable asking why in person. As long as you are exposing yourself to ridicule would you mind explaining? The obvious answer was always the notion that women make decisions on emotions more often, but is that really well supported? My experience is that they simply make decisions based on different emotions. Edit: I think most destructive decisions are made in fear, and everyone does that sometimes. But we fear different things.
- mcv 4mo agoI think it's entirely baseless. It's pretty clear men can be very emotional about the decisions they make. Look at all the stupid wars throughout the centuries based on pride, anger, greed or vengeance. Look at all the counterproductive economic policies, or counterproductive police systems. And if you question it, all the arguments are based on feelings. There have been rational leaders and politicians, but there have also been many irrational and emotional ones, and I see no evidence men are less affected than women. If anything, it seems to be the other way around, although there's not that much data yet on female decision making in politics. But I'm pretty sure that the claim that women would be more emotional, is itself driven by emotion rather than data.
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- prepend 4mo agoI had a prius and every time I started it up, it would display a big warning prompt that blocked out the rear view camera. So you had to tap ok before backing up. Every time. My current car shows this once per driver. I always thought toyota engineers were stupid for designing such a system.
- mcv 4mo agoToyota is terrible at this. Various Toyota's we've had required you to either agree to obey traffic rules, warned about data costs when connecting your phone, or a variety of other things. Super annoying and distracting. As soon as the car starts moving, all the parts should be doing their job. That's no time to nag the driver.