TomK32

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by TomK32 2y ago
It is a long process, it was in the Netherlands (where it started with campaigns about the number of children killed by drivers (others might say cars, but there's a person driving the car) but will be faster for every other city. I en
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by TomK32 2y ago
You probably wouldn't believe it: But we managed to raise our daughter without having a car. She's now a happy cyclist herself. And in regards to handicaps, a few years ago I broke my hip, nothing a few plates and screws couldn&#x
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by TomK32 2y ago
GCN, a cycling channel, just released a video on the car-centric thinking that we all have been forced into over the past century https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_4GZnGl55c It took me years go get into a thinking that mobi
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by TomK32 2y ago
You will be very welcome as an engineer. We do have english speaking countries in the EU: Ireland and Malta have it as their official language but others like The Netherlands will give you not much problem and then there's plenty of ci
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by TomK32 2y ago
Just like the markets in the West, the chinese market for EVs is saturated. That's why they have to ship their EVs to Europe before they have a buyer.
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by TomK32 2y ago
Xi the grab hag https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grab_hag I couldn't read whether those additional 16% last year (after a pandemic and the unexpected 3-day SMO by Ruzzia in 2022) are just a fluke or way above the e.
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by TomK32 2y ago
The Soviet Union was just the same old russian feudalism with a new name tag and leadership. In a sense even modern-day russians are still not emancipated citizens like we are in the West.
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by TomK32 2y ago
Yes, Austria has only a population of 9 million, with 1937 (as per 2015) unsecured railroad crossings with just a sign and no barriers or lights. The number of people being killed in car accidents was close to record lows at 178 last year w
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Some people will even try to cross rails if the gates are down.
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by TomK32 2y ago
There's an Austria paper that looked into the accident cause "speeding" (nicht angepasste Geschwindigkeit) means across the german-speaking countries. The results boiled down to "it depends" on the officer typing in
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by TomK32 2y ago
District heating is common in many northern European cities, even Italy (e.g 55% of households in Turino). The USA has 2500 (as of 2013) such heating and cooling networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating
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by TomK32 2y ago
It can be much worse if people have to use computers and of course trust them completely. Just this week I brought five crates of empty beer bottles back, the machine to feed them into didn't work so the cashier had to do it "manu
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by TomK32 2y ago
I don't see the harm for start ups to think about their user's rights early on. Better it becomes part of their Startup DNA than having to learn it later and adopt their company.
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Especially if they don't give you access to you data (impossible in the EU thanks to the GDPR). They have to be taken to court for this.
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Much easier if the Supreme Court gives you at least carte blanche for all your misdeeds while in office.
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by TomK32 2y ago
Ask your parents, spouse, children, co-workers how they'd feel if you died simply because you were to lazy to do just one simple action before driving off into the sunset. I'm pretty sure they don't want you to join the Derek
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by TomK32 2y ago
I can't think of any country that limits registration of older cars, can you?
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by TomK32 2y ago
Seat belts work. Use them. Those won't don't use decimate themselves over time. E.g in Austria of the 178 car occupants killed last year 42 didn't wear a seat belt[0]. Those 23% is far above the 8% that did not use a seat bel
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by TomK32 2y ago
You are almost right with your thinking expect those SUV owners are often also dad and thus the sons have access to far too powerful cars.
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Your argument works fine until you remember that distraction, in the form of smartphone-usage during the drive, has risen to one of the top three causes of road accidents.
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some exotic cars do, but I was thinking of cars popular with young men who cause senseless accidents by treating cities roads as race tracks. A BMW 3-series is popular with them and is about 5 seconds 0-100.
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by TomK32 2y ago
5 seconds is still too quick in my eyes, the current VW Golf can do this, the Mark 1 took 9 seconds. Why would you need this as a default? If it's an option that you have to toggle and it comes with a visible sign and the data tracker
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by TomK32 2y ago
Less reason for them to accelerate like they do. 0-100 km/h in 5 seconds will kill people in a city if you do it by accident, which already happens.
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by TomK32 2y ago
The speed limiter is enough, I'm sure that insurance companies will soon offer discounts if you submit those speed logs in case of accidents or in general with live-speed-tracking. The problem though remains: Too much horse power and i
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by TomK32 2y ago
Even in something boring as programming software for the british Post Office, a scandal that is STILL ongoing, you can mess up not just the software but other people's life if you act like a coward who doesn't own up to the softwa
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There's plenty to be done mostly in research: Regular checks on every solider after they had a blast that potentially affected their brain. Training can certainly be adapted as well as the gear that protects their heads and brains. I b
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by TomK32 2y ago
Swiss Air is owned by Lufthansa and part of the Star Alliance. Also, being from a small country almost all destinations are outside Switzerland and suffer from whatever care the local handler give to your baggage...
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by TomK32 2y ago
All that research, and a hundred years later it turns out that you need to be born from a very small gene pool to set long distance running records. Shows that your research is crap (or gets trapped in a local maximum) if you don't ste
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by TomK32 2y ago
Every modern day Parkrun is organized better by magnitudes. On the other, it's my watch that tells me how far or fast I have to run today.
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About 50% of passenger vehicle occupants killed in 2022 were not buckled in[0]. All cars are death machines, but as long as their users are too stupid and ignorant to do ONE SIMPLE ACTION before every drive to save their OWN LIFE, I don&#x2

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