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Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷Now with alt text…
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FelichsAs far as I'm concerned self driving cars already exist, and have done for a long time.
Some people refer to them as "Taxi"
badushka@felichsdakatze @KimSJ What happened to the good old times when your horse knew the way home?
Григорий КлюшниковThis train looks exactly like the Sapsan high-speed train that goes between Moscow and St Petersburg.
Camel
Reed's Dad@KimSJ just came back from Europe and loved public transit. Very tonuse, they have apps for tickets and schedules and wait for it....it's affordable!
David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🕊🌈@KimSJ yep. I walk or bus. Her National Coaches for longer haul internally & my lovely #FlixBus as soon as I've crossed that muddy ditch our jingoistic natives lurve so much! #ForeverEUropean ✊ 💖 🇪🇺 😎 #EUFM (EU Flag Mafia...that unorthodox, non conforming #RebelAlliance )
RejZoR@KimSJ I remember the time we were in Prague and we missed the sub train. Next one arrived 3 minutes later. There's one every 3 minutes and they go to all the parts of the city and each ride only took few minutes. With such connection you really don't need a car. We don't have that in my country even though buses are pretty regular in capital city.
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Jubei@KimSJ you want to live in Japan then. Because that's how frequent trains are there 😂
Sam Easterby-Smith@KimSJ this is the way 👍👍👍👍
Timekeeper 
@KimSJ about the ALT, the train looks more like a deutsche ICE than a Shinkansen, but color schem don’t fit 🧐
Hans has moved@Timekeeper @KimSJ yes, seems like a Siemens Velaro that was developed as an ICE but is also sold to other countries. I don’t think anyone uses that specific color, but it most closely resembles the Russian one (Velaro RUS / Sapsan)
hegatherhohrnws@KimSJ "at last the trains ran on time"
Fascists: no we fixed that
Brokar@KimSJ But you can't just put down and rebuild the cities. The streets were already there before the train was invented in most big cities. It's grown organically.
As for the cars: there are areas in the country which are thin with public transport. Living there without a car is ridiculously cumbersome.
So i'm pro car and i'm pro public transport. Getting relaxed from Berlin to Hamburg in 90 minutes: unbeatable by car. Could be even faster if the ICE was going full speed.
As for the cars: there are areas in the country which are thin with public transport. Living there without a car is ridiculously cumbersome.
So i'm pro car and i'm pro public transport. Getting relaxed from Berlin to Hamburg in 90 minutes: unbeatable by car. Could be even faster if the ICE was going full speed.
😀🚲We can't just flatten and rebuild cities but we can legalize bikes and transform the car-dominated street networks, turning excessive car lanes into bus priority lanes with frequent transit, neighborhood cut-thru routes into calm streets with bike-only filters that still allow residential access but cut speeds and suppress car traffic. Zoning and parking mandates are being repealed, 3-5 story infill adds affordable housing and more nearby amenities, 15min neighborhoods, by bike @Brokar @KimSJ
Wolf480plYeah, many cities also had many wide streets. What happened is that they made them smaller (Verdichtung) in order to build wider/bigger office buildings instead of enhancing the overall traffic, like adding a bus lane or separate bicycle lane. And now it's impossible because there's only one lane left. Also here greed kills reason.
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Λиdrα’s@KimSJ Yeah, and I want to drive the car I travel with because, for me, driving itself is the experience.
Gid@freewheel
You're right. Traffic jam is a great experience.
Please try to understand the post. It is about getting easy from A to B, not replacing driving a car for fun.
@KimSJ
You're right. Traffic jam is a great experience.
Please try to understand the post. It is about getting easy from A to B, not replacing driving a car for fun.
@KimSJ
@Mr_GHARice @KimSJ Okay, you misunderstood me. I use a bicycle or public transport for my daily commuting. But when I go on long trips, like for a vacation, I enjoy driving and prefer not to use a self-driving car.
a fish named dog ✡️♾️@KimSJ Also while I'm at it, can we please get rid of Trump? And Putin. Him too.
Nate@KimSJ along with public transport, which I'm totally in favor of, can we have personal transport that dispenses with all the gimmicks and instead of just reliable and cheap? Some of us live in rural areas that won't ever be served by public transport.
I don't want self driving. I'm weird, I don't even want power windows or locks. Give me a basic box with just the controls needed to move it down the road safely. Make it possible to use it for a lifetime by being repair friendly, because buying new has a lot of environmental costs. And make it cheap, because frankly it should be.
@KimSJ I've seen that company. Actually looks promising, depending on how they manage to price it. I like the focus on efficiency.
An interesting effect of creating these with three wheels is they avoid a lot of the regulations designed for cars in the US, which is one of the only ways they manage to save on weight. As a motorcycle lover I'm also kind of naturally in favor of smaller, lighter vehicles than cars anyway. A great strategy to save on energy is to just move less mass around.
*sigh*Ber nard@KimSJ ... Where the traindriver is adequately paid an generously treated whenever they have experienced the horror of a suicide with their unstoppable heavy machine.
(I know a traindriver, they get between 1-4 suicides per 2 years, it is devastating and the repetitiveness gets them. Then they don't get adequate care for dealing with it. .nl)
PetterOfCats
Gordon J Holtslander
This Train Station Has No Business Being This Good
Oregon Wine Woman@KimSJ
I agree.
I agree.
Azutsune the stargazer@KimSJ screw driving embrace more time to be addiction
Barry Goldman@KimSJ i'd settle just for cities! they don't seem to exist around here (albany region of new york)
Walter Tross@KimSJ I've just been to Paris, and was amazed at how much less car traffic there was, and how many more bikes, compared to last time I was there, about 8 years ago. And no point in Paris is more than 1 km from a station of the Métro. I wish Rome, where I live, was like that.
Peter Brown@waltertross @KimSJ I don’t think many local councils realise how much frustrated demand there is for cycling. They grudgingly provide 1.5 m on roads or pavements which will take one bicycle at a time, but in five years time the demand will have completely outgrown it.
In urban areas they need dedicated streets .
In urban areas they need dedicated streets .
🐜@KimSJ i want (t(ele/rans)porter/portal)s
@KimSJ i do want KITT/KARR
Kereru Brewing Co@KimSJ heck yeah!
Open Risk@KimSJ the cities of today did not exist 100 or even 50 years ago. The car-defined city is a modern invention that in retrospect was... a very bad idea. Pollution, noise, waste, congestion. We have normalized everything in the name of convenience but even discounting sustainability its a broken design. The latest incarnation, grotesquely massive SUV's to move one or two individuals is peak callousness.
But we are now so deep inside the cesspool, its not going to be easy to climb out of it.
Pedestriansfirst@pedestrians1st @KimSJ its a plausible outcome where it counts most: the vast numbers of dense urban centers. But it will take concentrated efforts among very many different players and resisting the vast vested interests that will try to undermine and delay the inevitable every step of the way.
Jim Brobeck@openrisk EVs are NOT the answer. They prolong the addiction to private driving rooms and amplify toxic tire dust that is accumulating in our brains.
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voltar13@KimSJ
I want to live in a city and a country like this! It would be soo amazing and comfortable. Public transport and bikes are the way to go :3
P.S. The train on the picture is Siemens Velaro RU aka Sapsan
I want to live in a city and a country like this! It would be soo amazing and comfortable. Public transport and bikes are the way to go :3
P.S. The train on the picture is Siemens Velaro RU aka Sapsan
chibi-[N]ah🇫🇷 
@KimSJ Looks more like a Siemens Velaro/ICE 3 than a Japanese Shinkansen :)
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oylenshpeegul@KimSJ Last night I watched Omni Loop (2024), a movie named after a section of the Metromover in Miami. Sounds neat! Why don't we have something like that in every city?
Omni Loop
I just watched Omni Loop (2024). Wild! It was written and directed by Bernardo Britto. It is delightfully weird. I don't think it's a spoiler to say the loop in question is a time loop and Mary-Louise Parker and Ayo Edebiri play scientists trying to figure out how it works. All time travel movies have plot problems and how they deal with them often determines their success. This one embraces its own strangeness and doesn't bother explaining everything.
Democracy Dies in Dumbass@KimSJ I don't want Self Driving because computers can't be trusted.
Gian M S@KimSJ già pure noi
Mr. Framework 
@KimSJ last thing before going to bed hehe