A melbournian with many interests:
* Christian (very liberal)
* Embedded Rust Engineer
* Magic The Gathering judge
* Board gamer
* Keyboard enthusiast (DIY, very small, Colemak)
* Getting into 3D printing, supporting the keyboards and gaming.
* Father of 2 kids (2018 & 2020)
* NixOS user (awaiting alternatives for community reasons)
All too often I come off as argumentative, I’m working on it but definitely a work in progress.
@limelight79 @Showroom7561 Yeah: ‘I looked and they weren’t there, therefore the only possible way I could have hit them is if they did this weird and implausible manoeuvre’
People will invent stories to tell themselves to feel good. They then will tell everyone else the story like it is fact.
People make for terrible evidence.
Log data with a computer. It is much harder to trick yourself this way.
@farbel @HiddenLayer555 Not much more, PT already moves more people than private vehicles around NYC: https://a816-dohbesp.nyc.gov/IndicatorPublic/data-explorer/walking-driving-and-cycling/?id=2415#display=summary
So to get from where it is to a “no private vehicles” utopia thre isn’t that much more to do. Probably as tramways on roads that will now be closed to cars. So not that expensive. But a couple more subways for some links that need more volume would probably be needed.
@limelight79 @socsa No, you should have safe options for riding an ebike for your commute.
@Successful_Try543 @hemko I’m sure there is some language/legal jurisdiction differences, but isn’t suing for illegal but not criminal things and charges are for criminal acts and always brought by the state?
Operating while insolvent feels like more of a criminal thing to me, more than an illegal act.
@limelight79 @someguy3 Fixing the bike infrastructure so an ebike is suitable instead of a motor bike would help you a lot.
@someguy3 The better infrastructure I was meaning it better options that don’t mingle with cars, so the slower speeds are fine.
And any trip that isn’t fast enough at 20mph should involve a train ;)
@limelight79 @someguy3 Just because other infrastructure sucks doesn’t mean other laws should suck, we should fix the infrastructure.
@psud I really should try a recumbent bike one day, I enjoyed my trike but the bikes always scared me. But I should give one a try.
@psud I got enough skin taken off my knee at 20kmph to make dancing at my wedding 6 weeks later sketchy.
Although that was gravel.
@psud @snekerpimp honestly the gravel rash you can get at 40kmph is pretty significant, and hills to get that much speed aren’t weird.
@9point6 @scrubbles the $500 a month for a second hand lease?
Converting that to Aussie, we’ll call it $800 a month. My wife visits the office twice a week, by Uber at 8pm her one way commute would be $42. That is safely an under estimate as peak traffic makes that much worse.
2 x 2 x 4 = 16 trips a month is $672 a month on taxi’s for that commute. A commute that is infrequent, and less than half the distance to the city from our suburb.
Yes that is before other car costs, but other trips too
@theskyisfalling @limelight79 With the emergency feature sucking, boring live sharing of location would be the next best right? At least then your loved ones know where you are when you don’t return.