NarrativeBearHi-Viz for Everyone!
SteveCan you see me?
Which one am I?
Yeah this hits close to home I worked at a place that painted everything safety yellow including the forktrucks zero contrast for anything lol
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why are you wearing plain cloths Prickles?
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for high visibility sir
This jives with my belief that street-legal cars should not be allowed to have any external or functional modifications. Basically, there is one version that was approved to be safe and street legal.
If you change the rims to be a different size, that alters several safety characteristics of the car, including its stability/balance and speedometer readings. If you add a spoiler, you’re changing its maneuverability. Even adding things like custom bumpers will change the fuel efficiency. Changing the engine or exhaust can change performance characteristics.
Basically, if you want to customize the car, you can change the interior. If you want to change other things, fine, but there’s no reason to let those things on public streets.
This would also have the advantage of giving “car guys” fewer things to be proud of, so presumably there would be fewer car guys going forward.
Don’t be a shit. You know what I meant. Things like seat covers.
Maybe we should design cities around public transportation such as bus/train/plane, and use feet and bicycles for anything else.
Cars ought to be seen as a special case for people with mobility issues, not the norm for personal transportation.
This sort of exists in Germany. Any modifications must undergo an inspection at the TÜV. If it’s deemed unsafe, you have to get rid of the modification.
This may sound good, but Germany is one of the worst countries in the world regarding bureaucracy, only surpassed by Japan I believe. These things don’t make life any easier.
It sounds like it has no negative effects. If anyone deserves bureaucracy, it’s car modders.
Some modifications actually improve safety and efficiency, though.
bearboiblakeThis just sounds like you hate cars so much that you just want people who like cars to suffer out of pure spite. Car crashes are caused by drivers rather than modifications, don’t let your feelings cloud your judgment, you’ll just alienate people who would otherwise be supportive of more public transport and less car-centric infrastructure
This just sounds like you hate cars so much that you just want people who like cars to suffer out of pure spite.
You’re in a community called “fuck cars.” Are you an idiot?
Do you have to be so aggressive? Acting like this makes the movement look spiteful and vengeful, rather than actually working sensibly towards a better world.
Did you really see “fuck cars” and expect it to be polite to car people? One time, I told a car guy that I enjoyed taking public transit, and he aggressively told me that I “could pry his car keys out of his cold dead hands.” I hadn’t even said anything about him or anybody else. I didn’t even know he was a car person. Car people are not going to cooperate and “work sensibly towards a better world.” They don’t give a shit about the world, and they don’t give a shit about you. And this is a place where we can shit on those evil people.
I’m sure there are plenty of communities where you can waste time working sensibly with people who don’t give a shit and will never change, and your message will surely resonate beautifully there. But here, we’re in the “fuck cars” community, so don’t try to tell me not to act that way in a place that is made for me to act that way.
teftIt still kind of does, the point is to make it stand out from the background
Yeah this
Black car at night is less visible than yellow car at night.
infinitesunriseThat’s kind of the color of NYC’s outer borough cabs (The ones that can only pick up fares outside lower Manhattan)
All of our current cars ended up being silver. Sad