Putting in roads means people can start businesses. If I live in some village with no roads no matter what great ideas I have I can't get those products out. Creating a road would let me create jobs. Taxing me to pay for it is fine, because I am now far richer due to those roads.
So the internet was just moving money from A to B?
If people move to places less densely populated they will spend even more time in their cars. My parents live in the sticks and have to drive over an hour to buy anything. They spend far more time in a car than my city living self.
Trains are efficient, manageable and superior to cars. If we spent a tiny amount of our road budget on rail we would see huge returns and stop funding terrorism through oil.
4-5 hour plane ride, plus you have to arrive 2 hours early, and planes never seem to take off on time, so lets add an hour. Now we have 8 hours of misery vs 12 hours of sleeping in a real bed or doing whatever the hell you want and a seat built for an adult human.
Even if it was half the speed it would be faster to the user. My last trans Atlantic flight plus jot home was 10 hours in the air and 14 hours worth of security and delays. I have never in my life seen train service canceled due to broken train, that last trip they canceled two flights due to broken plane.
Go to Europe ride their rails then say that. You can travel at 200mph, while getting up to walk around and drink alcohol. Normal humans can afford a bed for the nights travel. Trains are far more fun to travel on than cars or airplanes. They have their part to play in a transportation system. If modern rail was available in the USA I would never fly again, except to cross an ocean.
You can create jobs, via investments in infrastructure. These facilitate business and can indirectly create jobs. For a good example witness the lack of jobs in areas with no roads. The internet also created a great many jobs, and its creation was government spending.
I am not suggesting this high speed rail program is such an investment.
I do not mean using engine breaking to slow the car in poor weather, merely to avoid gaining unwanted speed. ABS is another topic I do not want to get into and would frankly prefer to be able to disable in my own vehicles.
Except yes you can. It matters not that the shifting is done by the computer, no one has reported that these cars ever failed to shift. The drivers just did not even try it.
Cables also get stuck. Used to happen all the time in my old 87 corolla. Was never a real problem I just popped the gas to unstick it, and if I had to I could have held in the clutch or shifted to neutral.
This would result in braking in tight corners at speed, the last thing you want to be doing. This is because to turn the wheel you will end up pushing it in somewhat.
A standard transmission driver would have just pressed the brake and clutch at the same time. This means even if he was holding down the gas by mistake the car would have slowed down.
Automatics are terrible at getting you where you are going safely. I constantly see people using the brake in bad weather when down-shifting would be far safer. The same with going down steep inclines.
If you cannot put down the cell phone and big mac to shift you are not responsible enough to be operating a motor vehicle.
What you mean is the light comes one when gas is still in the tank?
Because that is intentional, they trigger those early now so folks like you would stop burning up fuel pumps. You see, the fuel pump hangs in the tank and is cooled by the fuel, if the fuel gets too low it can heat up and that kills it over time.
This is clearly driver error, even if the car accelerates suddenly. if you cannot handle your car getting the throttle stuck wide open you should not be driving. At the very least any of those folks could have put the car in neutral.
Ok so we should believe you over the actual experts?
How is this for a little thought experiment; Odds that their is some conspiracy to cover this up, vs the known fact that none of these drivers were capable enough to simply put the vehicle in neutral and might have been poor enough drivers to be actually standing on the gas and thought it the brake.
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Putting in roads means people can start businesses. If I live in some village with no roads no matter what great ideas I have I can't get those products out. Creating a road would let me create jobs. Taxing me to pay for it is fine, because I am now far richer due to those roads.
So the internet was just moving money from A to B?
You realize this is not a zero sum economy right?
If people move to places less densely populated they will spend even more time in their cars. My parents live in the sticks and have to drive over an hour to buy anything. They spend far more time in a car than my city living self.
Trains are efficient, manageable and superior to cars. If we spent a tiny amount of our road budget on rail we would see huge returns and stop funding terrorism through oil.
4-5 hour plane ride, plus you have to arrive 2 hours early, and planes never seem to take off on time, so lets add an hour. Now we have 8 hours of misery vs 12 hours of sleeping in a real bed or doing whatever the hell you want and a seat built for an adult human.
Even if it was half the speed it would be faster to the user. My last trans Atlantic flight plus jot home was 10 hours in the air and 14 hours worth of security and delays. I have never in my life seen train service canceled due to broken train, that last trip they canceled two flights due to broken plane.
Go to Europe ride their rails then say that. You can travel at 200mph, while getting up to walk around and drink alcohol. Normal humans can afford a bed for the nights travel. Trains are far more fun to travel on than cars or airplanes. They have their part to play in a transportation system. If modern rail was available in the USA I would never fly again, except to cross an ocean.
You can create jobs, via investments in infrastructure. These facilitate business and can indirectly create jobs. For a good example witness the lack of jobs in areas with no roads. The internet also created a great many jobs, and its creation was government spending.
I am not suggesting this high speed rail program is such an investment.
I do not mean using engine breaking to slow the car in poor weather, merely to avoid gaining unwanted speed. ABS is another topic I do not want to get into and would frankly prefer to be able to disable in my own vehicles.
Except yes you can. It matters not that the shifting is done by the computer, no one has reported that these cars ever failed to shift. The drivers just did not even try it.
That p4 is not saving you any money. A cheap new computer would save you money and be faster. P4s are practically space heaters.
Go look at per mile or per hour records for train accidents vs car, you can't win that one.
Buy an apple airport, you are not the type of person that should be using these alternative router firmwares.
I have heard the same from a postgres developer.
Bullshit, it was the democrats. Look at the votes. Less than 10 of those teabaggers voted against it.
Not completely their fault?
They are the only ones who had the power to do that. No one forced them to do a damn thing.
Why did you not shift to neutral?
This would have kept your power steering.
Those people are not qualified to be operating motor vehicles.
You can always put the car in neutral.
He failed to put it in neutral, surely it is sad that his driving ability was so poor it got his family killed.
Cables also get stuck. Used to happen all the time in my old 87 corolla. Was never a real problem I just popped the gas to unstick it, and if I had to I could have held in the clutch or shifted to neutral.
This would result in braking in tight corners at speed, the last thing you want to be doing. This is because to turn the wheel you will end up pushing it in somewhat.
A standard transmission driver would have just pressed the brake and clutch at the same time. This means even if he was holding down the gas by mistake the car would have slowed down.
Automatics are terrible at getting you where you are going safely. I constantly see people using the brake in bad weather when down-shifting would be far safer. The same with going down steep inclines.
If you cannot put down the cell phone and big mac to shift you are not responsible enough to be operating a motor vehicle.
What you mean is the light comes one when gas is still in the tank?
Because that is intentional, they trigger those early now so folks like you would stop burning up fuel pumps. You see, the fuel pump hangs in the tank and is cooled by the fuel, if the fuel gets too low it can heat up and that kills it over time.
This is clearly driver error, even if the car accelerates suddenly. if you cannot handle your car getting the throttle stuck wide open you should not be driving. At the very least any of those folks could have put the car in neutral.
I live in a city, I do fine. Most Europeans live in cities and they all drive standards.
If you cannot handle your car getting the throttle stuck wide open you should not be driving.
Ok so we should believe you over the actual experts?
How is this for a little thought experiment;
Odds that their is some conspiracy to cover this up, vs the known fact that none of these drivers were capable enough to simply put the vehicle in neutral and might have been poor enough drivers to be actually standing on the gas and thought it the brake.
Neutral would be just as good and would save your transmission.
A far simpler thing to do is just ban slushboxes.