Small EVs and efficient people carriers update familiar names for the modern age.

  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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    23 hours ago

    Made for the civilized streets of Europe, not the kill-or-be-killed Mad Max hellscape of the the automotive United States.

    Edit: Are we making an exception for Rome?

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      23 hours ago

      Tell me you have never been oversea’s (let alone drove there) without telling me you have never been overseas.

      Everywhere in the world people drive like ass hats. It part of the human condition.

      • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
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        Nah, on average, people in Europe are way better drivers than in the USA. To the point where it’s shocking to me as an American.

      • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Twice as many road deaths in the US IIRC.

        FYI people drive wildly differently in the EU already.

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        23 hours ago

        Yes, but the problem in the US is we have several generations of cars built to be “safe” for the driver, which means more dangerous for everyone else, meaning drivers of large vehicles drive wrecklessly with absolutely no fear for their own lives and aren’t removed from the gene pool.

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          20 hours ago

          I was driving from coast to coast in the US granted, a good while ago when there were still much fewer ass clown oversized trucks on the road (but still more than enough anyhow), in a Sedan. Didn’t feel too stressed to be honest. Where it gets really dangerous real fast is if you dare to walk anywhere outside of the few somewhat pedestrian friendly areas in the country.

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        21 hours ago

        Taxi drivers take it to the next level tho. First time I rode a taxi in Tallinn was pretty white knuckle.

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          3 hours ago

          Did you know that the highway scene in Tenet was filmed in one take and entirely accidentally? They just built the film around that.

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          13 hours ago

          Guangzhou, China takes the cake. I was there for a few weeks. Wrong side of the road, wrong way on one way streets, ON THE FUCKING SIDEWALKS w/ ped traffic. It was insane!

          Dominican Republic is a distant second, there was order to the chaos I could see after a few weeks… China it was pure entropy at its finest!

        • Xerxos@lemmy.ml
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          Well, they drive better in Germany than in France, Italy, or Bulgaria (from my personal experience).