Laarlf

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by Laarlf 6y ago
For the price of an ami you can get a lot of used car. Why is that relevant? Because small electric cars suck. They really do. Driving them isn’t pleasant, charging them mostly impossible and they are about as ugly as you can imagine. Not r
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by Laarlf 6y ago
That is correct. You will not convince most people to ditch the car unless you deliberately make it horrible or by completely banning it. It’s like poisoning alcohol during prohibition.you’re putting “public” interest over personal interest
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by Laarlf 6y ago
Live and let live is a dead concept. Large cities kinda are the reason for that. Before, small towns had small communities with similar interests.
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by Laarlf 6y ago
I look at European city centers where cars often times get thrown out now and: they don’t agree. Profits were way down even before COVID. Even if you offer people the option to not use their car, they will avoid it. No form of transportatio
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by Laarlf 6y ago
That seems to be true with Teslas. But at the end of the day it does not matter, since the number that you get with WLTP is useless.
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by Laarlf 6y ago
I have looked at the Model 3 and Hyundai Ioniq and even there the energy usage seems to be rather off. 15 kWh/100km WLTP vs 19 kWh/100km according to spritmonitor on the Model 3. 11 vs 14 with the Ioniq. So yeah, it seems like WLT
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by Laarlf 6y ago
Very good question: WLTP has just a number for you. PHEVs may not be a good idea depending on your driving style. There should be more discussion about what type of engine is the correct one for you before buying. Do you drive enough motorw
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by Laarlf 6y ago
SCR systems are very expensive in modern VWs as well. Especially to repair. With the additional pressure on the engine because of restrictive exhausts engines also don't last as long. EGR systems on diesels are known to gunk up. VW us
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by Laarlf 6y ago
Remember how i said "unrealistic" and not "lower"? WLTP is a rather unrealistic way to determine fuel consumption or energy usage on cars. If you look at sites which collect fuel usage for cars you often times see fuel u
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by Laarlf 6y ago
NEFZ was unrealistic so we better introduce WLTP, which is even more unrealistic. Cool.
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by Laarlf 6y ago
Well to be honest the cheating was pretty much only done so the cars wouldn't be unbearably slow. And every other european car manufacturer basically did the same. Once the targets become impossible to reach for everyone, you start che
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by Laarlf 6y ago
I have a great solution to that problem: give the people who work money. Crazy, right? Seriously though: UBI would encourage more working without registration. What you can already see with students where their parents pay their education.
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by Laarlf 6y ago
Honestly a lost opportunity. Hydrogen, lean running ICE engines with ethanol, opposed piston engines are all really doable options to offer ICE engines. Which are still important for higher speed travel and places where you can’t charge at
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by Laarlf 6y ago
> Tragedy of the commons. Ah so you’re saying the lifestyle isn’t superior because it throws self interest out of the discussion. And yes, it works out quite well for me. My hatred for cyclists who don’t use the bike lanes built literall
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by Laarlf 6y ago
Well why are you still around cars when your lifestyle is so superior? There must be billions of people choosing the "superior" life. How great that you are so superior yet you want cars to take 2-10 times as much fuel to let them
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by Laarlf 6y ago
If your oh-so-superior lifestyle is so much better, just move to a country where cars don't exist. Cars and bikes do not belong on the same road without seperation. Mixing different speeds of transportation on the same road is inherent
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by Laarlf 6y ago
On the bike lane. There is none? Either well behaved and aware of the circumstances on the road or under the car.
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by Laarlf 6y ago
That is the thing that annoys me the most. You don't walk on train tracks, you don't drive on the sidewalk. Excessive speed differences like these are dangerous. Either accept that cycling on the road is dangerous and work with th
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by Laarlf 6y ago
What? The apocalypse? No that won’t come because of Bitcoin miners. Why would it?
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by Laarlf 6y ago
endless banning is the downfall of the west. I pray for the apocalypse to come sooner.
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by Laarlf 6y ago
Regular corners. Road width isn’t even that important really. Smaller roads makes some people drive very inconsistent with their speed, which annoys people and encourages overtaking at possibly risky spots.
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by Laarlf 6y ago
Europe has built roads forever that makes driving engaging. Europe has a lot less issues with phones while driving etc. Germany also solves that problem by having no speed limit when it gets boring. Making driving engaging is the best way t
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by Laarlf 6y ago
Undersized roundabouts with 1 lane are not fitting for certain places. As said, I have seen many traffic lights being replaced with roundabouts. If you go to the Netherlands you see how roundabouts are executed well. Also Denmark has well m
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by Laarlf 6y ago
Not leaving your house would solve a lot of things. Why don’t people do that? Anyway, slowing down traffic is not the answer. Driving should either be more automated or more engaging so drivers stop using their phones. 2 hours of driving 2
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by Laarlf 6y ago
I live in Germany. We have some roundabouts. And let me tell you: they rarely work better than red lights. Traffic flow requires more than roundabouts. They require proper planning, green waves, proper sizing and still different lanes for r
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by Laarlf 6y ago
First they came for the fascists. Then they came for the conservatives. Which made fascists recruit conservatives. Then they came for free speech advocates. Which made fascists recruit them. Then they came for capitalists. Which made the fa
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by Laarlf 6y ago
Tractors gave top speeds over 20 mph. If i was on foot, i would not call that "low"
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by Laarlf 6y ago
Do you see Google, Microsoft and Apple? It’s nearly been 3 years and they don’t really seem to care. Pretty sure the EU is too scared to touch them.
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by Laarlf 6y ago
Yeah, same thoughts. The gdpr didn’t change much but made small companies like these more vulnerable and web browsing more unbearable. Data is still getting collected and big companies don’t care.
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by Laarlf 6y ago
Takes literally 3 minutes on my car at -10C. If you have issues with cold climates maybe buy a car built in and for cold climates. Like Swedish cars.

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