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3·9 days ago- Heavier vehicles have worse emergency maneuver and braking performance
- Majority of EV’s sold in the US are SUV/crossovers which have the same visibility issues
- EV’s have ridiculously high rates of acceleration, leading to dangerous driving
LOL ok you got me there. I mean driving is the dominant mode in SF.
Nope, the map color is correct for San Francisco.
Has nothing to do with the number of properties. The rule would apply to any owner having at least 50 units under management. A single mid-sized apartment building might qualify.
Yimby is about removing the red-tape that prevents development. There is no bigger red-tape than rent-control. Even if all other restrictions, such as SFH zoning, were removed it wouldn’t matter because nobody will build in areas with rent control.
What a bunch of BS. Kamala Harris is pushing rent control – the complete opposite of Yimby.
Nothing unusual? On the same day he got the noise ticket, he received tickets for running a red light and speeding in a school zone.
There is no contradiction. Just because the vehicle is licensed for street use doesn’t give the owner permission to operate it in ways that violates the law.
Actually, the law does just say “above 85db” is not allowed. Doesn’t matter if the car is stock or not.
The Amish are required to have lights during the daytime also.
NYC has never been interested in making parking efficient. The parking meter rates are ridiculously cheap, with many streets not charging anything for parking (or even having time limits). And yes, giving away valuable parking makes driving much more complicated – but apparently the Governor was in a diner and overheard some voters from NJ complaining about increased costs…
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/10321/Diana-s-life-could-have-been-saved-says-doctor https://print.ispub.com/api/0/ispub-article/12892
Scoop-n-run vs Stay-n-play has been a long-running debate, with conflicting data and studies.
No, there are major differences. The classic example was Princess Diana, who spent the last hour of her life mere yards outside a hospital with an emergency room that could have probably saved her life. French protocol, as you say, is the “stabilize” the patient before moving, whereas in the US the EMS would have done a scoop-and-run.
This particular street is wider because it once had trolley tracks running down the middle, before the Key System was ripped out in 1958 by General Motors.
The space will be used for a parking lot (originally was supposed to have a cycletrack, but that was deleted as well).
The project cost is $25 million. There will be long-term pavement maintenance costs that comes with the wider highway, not to mention the giant parking lot that is going in. There will be lost property tax revenue, and more death/injury. So it is highly doubtful the refurb costs of the buildings on that block would have been remotely close to all that.
For those interested in this topic, there are better sources of info than a NJB youtube video. In my experience, NJB is more interested in clicks than accuracy, and this video is no exception.
In particular, the complaints about oversized firetrucks is a bit overblown because any halfway competent bike planner can work around that when designing bike facilities. When cities say they can’t do a bike project because of FD concerns, it usually means they just don’t want to do an otherwise popular project, and are using flimsy FD excuses as a convenient way to kill a project.
In Europe, they treat patients at the scene, whereas the US extracts the patient and transports to nearest hospital (and stabilize inside the ambulance). These approaches require very different types of equipment and manpower.
actually high-vis gear is mandatory in all motor vehicles
Wait, what? All this time I’ve been breaking the law by riding in cars without my high-vis vest?
Tesla has notoriously bad rear visibility. And just being a larger vehicle means more blind spots no matter how many cameras/sensors are used to compensate. I’ve unfortunately been a passenger enough times to know Tesla’s collision avoidance stuff doesn’t work at all.
The statista link isn’t publicly readable, but other sources say Mustang-ev is #3. Ford calls it an SUV. Long-term, the Administration is subsidizing 1-for-1 replacement of the fleet with EV equivalent – so expect much more SUV/truck in the EV sector if they get their way.