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The prefictability is really a flaw. Busses can go anywhere with a road. Much more flexible.

I beg to differ. A pedestrian or a cyclist is much more likely to be hit by a bus because buses can go and turn anywhere. Flexibility is an asset outside of cities and high-density areas, but in an urban area public transit on rails is far superior.

Take your liberal propaganda and stuff it

Your reaction is perfectly valid. Come, join us at fuckcars

It won't get stuck in car traffic, for one, and it's reversible so its operational footprint is smaller than that of a bus network. Also predictable because it's on rails so people outside the tram know exactly where it's going. Also lower operational and maintenance costs because less wear and smoother ride

F-150 SuperCrew with an 8-foot bed is 244 inches long, just over 20 feet. But that's a truck with an 8-foot bed, it might actually do something useful sometimes. This is a three-row pavement princess SUV.

Expect a lot of dinged doors and door dinging.

...which will then lead to wider parking spaces and even more space stolen from pedestrians and cyclists.

With how cops are, it's tantamount to the same thing -- it's tacit approval for them to straight up murder protesters regardless of provocation. They can always make that shit up later and get off without consequences.

And I'm sure no one is ever going to misuse that and claim the protester calmly standing in front of the car was "threatening them!!!1!!!1"

As a car enthusiast I'm incredibly conflicted because muscle cars are cool -- but I can't for the life of me tell you why. They're loud, heavy, inefficient, and much clumsier and slower than other sports cars (which is why I prefer sports cars anyway). They have incredible amounts of power but they can't even use it properly except on a prepped drag surface, maybe.

You're right, they really are dumb as fuck.

None of those things automatically give you the right to murder someone. Due process exists for a reason.

This does happen regularly in the US.

No you won't. It's significantly higher in the subcontinent, and those are the 10% that actually make it to the news. We tend to cling pretty hard to the "women are property" idea around these parts, unfortunately

Uttar Pradesh is India's analogue to the US' deep south. Take the worst stereotypes you'd associate with that, turn them up 11x, and that about covers what it's like.

Waymo uses Jaguar I-Pace CUVs that are built primarily out of aluminum and powered by lithium ion batteries. Aluminum melts at about 660°C, and Li-ion battery fires can easily reach 1000°C

Tom Morello was at the protest, hopefully he's had the same thought

It's real

Channel 9 reported it as her being "caught in the crossfire", as if she got hit in a gun battle between protesters and cops or something

They're two separate statements. I acknowledge that it's beyond shitty for cops to be shooting anyone (especially journalists).

But also the news outlet in question is known to have shitty politics and therefore while this specific article is more or less accurate (and backed up by other sources) , they are far from a reliable source.

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