Valerie Reishuk
Brent Toderian“We really need to do something about e-scooters in cities…”
Alexandre Chailleux@BrentToderian How did we get to this? What is the value? From a French (or even an European) point of view, this is just ridiculous.
Unabogie has voted Kamala!@achailleux @BrentToderian the driver of that truck has deep seated feelings of inadequacy.
⚜️Δρakakiς🍁@BrentToderian - and strollers! Those things are a menace!
SellaTheChemist@BrentToderian Hey! That needed to be marked as sensitive. I'm traumatised by that image! It'll cost me squillions in therapy.
Chris James@BrentToderian I think e-scooters have so much potential but the UK implementation has been terrible. A bunch of rental trials in big cities and every nuisance kid running around on one illegally in the suburbs.
It’s leading to a lot of bad press and it’s just normalising them as a nuisance rather than as a solution to sustainable urban transport.
It’s leading to a lot of bad press and it’s just normalising them as a nuisance rather than as a solution to sustainable urban transport.
John Gordon 📷It took some time here for the novelty of the rental eScooters to wear off (and all the free credits to run out). Responsible use can cut traffic in cities, but they need to stay off sidewalks and obey traffic rules.
I bought my own for my commute into San Francisco - about a mile each side of a ferry ride - but I had bike lanes to ride in which made it safer.
Kukka Häst@DoinSomeCMD @BrentToderian it’s mostly the same everywhere i think.
the point is to flood cities with them to oversaturate the market to see which vendor can survive for longest, and it’s done with VC money.
it’s hard to negotiate voluntary limits because any new operator would initially not be affected (depending on local laws & municipalities’ powers) but grudgingly they accept some compromises for image control reasons.
and so on, and so on…
geewhiz@DoinSomeCMD @BrentToderian tell your press to stop equating a small nuisance with a deadly one
Threemoons@BrentToderian Word to that. Why anyone would need a jacked up muscle jeep in NYC is beyond me.
Raymond CraneCompensation is a cruel bedfellow
That one doesn't have the massive wall at the front that seems to be in vogue right now either. There is one that drops a kid off at my kids' school every day, and, unless they have forward looking camera, there is no way the driver can see whether there are kids crossing in front of him as he leaves the drive through lane (and kids come in that gate all the time, so usually there are kids around when he is moving). Scares me every time i see it.
frater mus> the massive wall at the front that seems to be in vogue right now either
It's like an Onion article or 8th-grader's classroom doodle come to life.
I am 6'. Yesterday I walked past a stock GM pickup and the hood and bedrails were even with my shoulders. I can't even.
Ladrillo_azul@BrentToderian 1st we need to figure it out what human necessity this tank fulfills.
Activist@Ladrillo_azul @BrentToderian Reproduction of more man-children. They need it to get the chicks. /cc @Threemoons
Eric on the Moon@BrentToderian Good for that IKEA trip every 10 years.
@ericskilling @BrentToderian Not that useful even for that trip. I went to IKEA last weekend and returned with two tables and an office chair _inside_ my little Kia.
John Shirley@BrentToderian Yes! This imbecilic fetish people have for these giant largely useless truck-ish THINGS--just droolingly moronic.
JB 🇨🇦@BrentToderian Should be illegal, they are completely unsafe and pose a threat to anyone near them
Tony Jordan, IAFG@BrentToderian I took this pic!
PaulTessar@BrentToderian Bet he’s ready to roll some coal!
still aetios anyway@BrentToderian it's called ram because you'll ram many pedestrians
kira :3@BrentToderian these should simply be illegal on public roads, that would be great
Lindsay Tobias@BrentToderian dude, he’s doing wheelies
Swedneck@BrentToderian I'm very happy that like 40% of people in my city are actively positive about e-scooters, and most don't really care.
It's amazing what some decent bike infrastructure does.
[zaphod@::1]#
@BrentToderian why is this guy so calm, I'm sure the driver is not seeing him 😆
Dandydan@BrentToderian any truck that size should be classified as a commercial truck and taxed higher.
Lierre Rue@Dandydandy @BrentToderian yes! & require a commercial license to own/drive them legally, with all the extra training & tests that entails. it wouldn't eliminate these vehicles entirely, but would definitely cut down on the number of them on the road. driving, especially driving large vehicles, is a privilege not a right, & comes with more responsibility than i think many casual drivers can handle (speaking as a former commercial driver who still has their cdl lol)
Nick Bax@BrentToderian #alttext a male presenting pedestrian of average to tall height crosses in front of a pickup truck leaving a parking lot. The pickup truck is lifted such that the man’s head is below the top of the truck’s hood.
Jono Ferguson@BrentToderian this is a good thing, give it another iteration or two and they are going to be so big only one will fit down a two lane road and they will be so high we can just walk under them
@BrentToderian Per today's Nib: https://thenib.com/height-of-folly/
raerae@BrentToderian right. These dumb trucks are the standard where I live. Illegal, yet nobody gets pulled over or ticketed. You can, however, get pulled over for an air freshener hanging from the rear view and subsequently shot. MN.
Grant Buote@BrentToderian - someone's obviously got a small dick
MHRev 👹🤡@BrentToderian 99% chance that pickup has truck nutz.
@energiepirat@BrentToderian Use Skatebords instead to pass the Truck underneath.