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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Not to defend the swastidumpster but...

The pop-up lights are dangerous just because the mechanical parts that make them pop up can fail and you won't have any lights.

Being blinding bright is somewhat safer than not being visible at all. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

You're right, of course. That and the added collision risk if they do get hit while the lights are up. Still, going over a hood is much safer than under.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I thought Miatas where only banned in Germany/EU (where the Nazitrucks are not allowed too)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Are they really? Just NAs or all Miatas?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Afaik only NA. Others are Ok. Though, that's always only for driving on public grounds/roads, you can drive anything on private property afaik

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Step 1: Extort half a trillion dollars of wealth from the working class.

Step 2: Be above the law because of your obscene capital horde, make a really shitty car.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Would you expand on this? I'm pro working class and I feel like there's a story I want to hear more of here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

I am certainly no expert, and I won't act as though my comment was meant to be more than a punchline in a meme post, but Elon has effectively been running the grift for ages now. I was following his bullshit way back in the Hyperloop days when he was convincing local governments, universities, and really just the general public that his snake oil was just around the corner and soon would revolutionize society with a little help. The man just gobbled companies up and repeatedly amassed more and more wealth by pump and dumping absolute nonsense to anyone he could and somehow repeatedly got away with it over and over. He turned his 'little' pile of generational apartheid wealth and a break from his part of PayPal (he didn't make it of course, he doesn't make things which actually work) into an empire of grift which fucks workers, investors, and taxpayers in one swoop. Here it comes guys in a year from now we'll be traveling in thousand mile vacuums going at the speed of sound! Oh and we'll have fully underground car transport that whisks you back into the city with elevators, and massive tunnels which we can make super quick and cheap (you might know this as the funny tiny tunnel which ferries Teslas in at a snail's pace), or solar roofing shingles, or full self driving cars, or TESLABOTS or going to mars on a spaceship with a god damn entertainment room, or cheap reliable reusable rockets which reduce launch costs or the TESLA Semi truck for long haul deliveries or god knows what else he's said and altered and lied through his teeth about.

I don't have concrete numbers on the damage, but no one earns a billion dollars, it must be exploited. Yet somehow 1 billion is a pittance to this titan of grift, and now he's at the helm of the White House. Sorry this likely wasn't the objective detailed story you were looking for, but that rant was a long time coming.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

What if we made it taller with brighter headlights so the pedestrians can see it more easily?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

NOT BRIGHT ENOUGH.

MAKE THEM BRIGHTER.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Okay. Crazy idea, but hear me out first. What if instead of expanding on the tired old SUV paradigm, we instead motorize football field bleachers?

Way taller and brighter than anything else on the road.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Just keep raising them until they are eye level, and make sure to put lights capable of outshining the sun in them. That way everyone can see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

If the pedestrians retinas aren't sizzling are they really considered bright?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Amen! If we're going to have 85 mph traffic through a dense residential area, those pedestrians need to be able to see a vehicle from at least a mile away.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's all been downhill since the demise of the pop-up headlight

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

It's all been downhill since the demise of the ~~pop-up headlight~~ vehicle-free city.

I'm having a bit of laugh, but in all seriousness, I should be able to walk downtown without risk of being hit by a car. I bought a reflective cap after a near miss. It was not the last. I may have to get a vest next. I work and live here. I shouldn’t have to dodge traffic.