Same deal in China, though in most cities, you can leave the bikes nearly anywhere that’s not blocking traffic.
The escooters only cost 15 cents for 20 minutes, but its the spirit of the thing, I used to grab a bicycle just to go 1 block to get to the subway, now its not worth it.
I hate how many cities here in China got rid of public bikes for public escooters.
I wonder how they describe it when a cop gets run over.
I hate cars because mass use of cars is detrimental to everybody’s mental and physical wellbeing.
You hate cars because it gives you a pretense to be an asshole.
Also part of the reason I love motorbikes and ebikes is that I can simply go around obstacles like cars, pedestrians, road construction, you apparently. The freedom promised by cars is only realized by bikes.
Biden implementing Trump’s dogshit policies is good actually
-lemmy libs downvoting you, probably
It was fine when all cylinders felt like firing.
Nobody would say “I wouldn’t buy a Cybertruck, they’re so cheap”, if they did, you’d probably go “Haha they’re like 6 figures new!”, thinking the person assumed that because Teslas look cheap they actually are.
My first car’s engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northstar_engine_series#L47
It does, and its not a plugin.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2SyONV_EruQ
Tldr, the ICE engine produces barely enough torque to move the car from a standstill while producing enough hp to charge the batteries, and letting the much more powerful electric engines do the work, whereas previous hybrids don’t go all-in on efficiency, letting the engine provide an appreciable amount of torque to the wheels.
The cyclists have every right to use the road as you do
I haven’t driven a car in years.
You’re an asshole if you block traffic for literally no benefit to anybody and you will be treated that way whether you’re doing it in a car, bicycle, mobility scooter, or just dancing in the middle of the road taking videos during traffic.
To be clear, the other dumb laws for 2wheelers include where filtering and splitting are illegal, allowing cars to park blocking the bike lane, not allowing bikes to use sidewalks and instead forcing them to act like cars.
Traffic laws in America are dumb as shit, especially those designed around 2-wheelers. You can be perfectly legally blocking traffic and creating an unsafe situation for everyone behind you by being or pretending to be a car doing 10 mph.
We must all share the road, the bicyclists who take up a lane when the shoulder is clear and they aren’t turning left or something are nearly as big assholes as the drivers who see a bike filtering at a light or stopped traffic and move to block them.
An expensive product can’t be cheap. It can be cheaply made, but a cheap expensive thing is an oxymoron.
Assuming you’re esl:
Cheap doesn’t mean low quality, it means low price, which can imply low quality, but it doesn’t work if the thing’s not also cheap.
You could call US cars cheaply-made junk.
America uniquely hostile to non-car transport. I feel safer riding a motorbike through the densest traffic Vietnam has to offer, in the middle of a monsoon than an American stroad.
Cheap junk?? American cars are very expensive junk.
Say what you want about GM, they didn’t have to put the same V8 into pretty much everything, and now that they don’t, how are teenagers going to get their hands on a 4L V8 so detuned it makes the same power as an engine 1/3 the size for like $4000 that was only ever driven by grandma?
Yes and no? The reason for that marketing is that they can sell pickups and SUVs at way higher margins because they’re seen as luxurious. Because they have higher margins, every non-pickup sold represents a pickup or SUV not sold to the car company and dealerships. This is dumb as shit, but its how business types think.
The SUV version with the same engine gets 50 mpg, but costs 60% more.
Theres a hybrid here in China, Geely Emgrand, that gets 104 mpg hwy and costs 13K USD.
The guy who came up with it was a lycra guy.
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I’m in China right now, ama.
Here’s a random bike I saw a couple hours ago