Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
Was hoping for videos of cars sliding down hills, there were some good ones in London a few years ago
Entirely unashamed anti car propaganda, and the more the better.
- Thread starter teuchter
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beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
I had to direct traffic this morning to stop idiots from driving down a hill of sheet ice that had hundreds of primary age kids going to school at the bottom of it. Utter fucking twats.
What a strange take.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
It's free bus day every day for me (unless the Govt decides to do a winter fuel allowance on it) I still use my car most of the time though.Free bus travel tomorrow in my area for world car free day
World Car Free Day 2024 - Travel Devon
Go Car Free this Sunday 22nd September, your bus ticket's on us!www.traveldevon.info
Trying to decide where to go
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
The only way to learn how to drive on icy roads is to have the appropriate tyres for it firstly. Which no-one in this country will. I often get asked, since I grew up in Ontario, how they handle it there. And the answer is "pretty well, once you've got snow tyres on the car". You just have to drive a bit slower is all.
Unless it's black ice, for which the only solution is to calmly sit back and wait for the car to finish its uncontrolled glide.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
It has famously never been icy here before
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Yes, but down in the SouthEast, most people only see it once every few years. At which point they try to get out of their drive, fail, say fuck it I'm working from home today and head in tomorrow when the ice has melted or at least been gritted.
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
Going slower is important, but so is using second gear sometimes to start moving or to manoeuvre, and so is decelerating on straights rather than even slight bends. Things that you really have to develop a feel for, even if you know them theoretically.
It’s just silly to say that most drivers are fuckwits or incompetents or whatever it was. Most driving is relatively easy; sometimes it’s very challenging, and tuition can’t prepare drivers for everything.
All completely true, but you fail to allow in addition for the fact that most people are fuckwits.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Especially once they get behind the wheel of a car, for some reason. Perfectly normal, functional adults, and one minor thing that causes them to lose 3 seconds of their journey time has them screaming "SHITCUNT!" at people and trying to kill the other drivers.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
The most important thing to learn is to keep your foot away from the brake pedal. You can't steer if your wheels are locked up. It's probably the cause of most crashes on snow and ice.
Snow and ice are great fun to drive on. It's why the best rally drivers in the world come from snowy, icy countries. It's just a shame that most drivers are so thick that they have no idea how to drive in those conditions.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Shit is still shit even when it doesn’t exist elsewhere
teuchter
je suis teuchter
The Swiss say no to road expansion.
www.bluewin.ch
Motorway expansion rejected with 52.7 percent of votes against
The federal government must abandon the expansion of six Swiss highway sections. At the ballot box, voters rejected five expansion projects in German-speaking Switzerland and one project in French-speaking Switzerland with a 52.7 percent "no" vote.
www.bluewin.ch
teuchter
je suis teuchter
And here is a useful resource for anti-car propagandists:
transportknowledge.net
Transport Knowledge Wiki
transportknowledge.net
