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Gas cars got fast because sufficiently high quality computer control matured to the point where making a high power for its size/weight engine that both met emissions standards and reliability expectations and did so at a reasonable price point was doable.
The ability to actually build the hardware has preceded the ability to run it in a reliable and emissions compatible manner ever since we've had emissions rules. Having better FEA software so some engineer could shave a gram off a piston, get his bonus for achieving his KPI and ensure half a million engines start knocking at 120k on the dot was never the bottleneck.
There are two groups of people who go big on vertical and indoor farming. The first is people who wanna grow drugs and perhaps some other super high dollar, super labor intensive things.
The second seemingly smaller group is people who want to institute policy that would greatly disrupt the rural to urban movement of food and goods in general and want to ease the pain of that.
So now we're just splitting subjective standard of living hairs? I think we can all agree that living car free in Manhattan is fine and living car free in nowhere Idaho is not but drawing a line in the middle always just turns into a dumb circle jerk.
>It's not even practical to stay out late in many of those cities.
That's mostly because people who think they know how other people should live don't want the bars open all night and in cases where that's not politically possible to just decree they screw with other things they can effect like public transit schedules.
You absolutely can live without a car in a lot of these cities but if and only if you want to bike. If you want to ride a lot of public transit it's gonna suck.
What you can't do is do it in a trendy way that "befits your tax bracket" so to speak and prevents the white collar types from looking at you like you're inferior when you bike lock your cargo bike to the lamp post beside the liquor store.
As for bigger cities, you absolutely can live without a car in Boston, DC, SF, Atlanta, Chicago, and the list goes on but toward the bottom it's gonna require more biking and less public transit.
Most of their calls are mundane stuff. And they leave a pretty decently wide path of destruction in doing that. We're talking like mundane situations where there is no urgency and no need to tear shit up in the interest of time.
I once arrived to a minor rollover after the cops but before fire. Nobody injured. Occupant trapped because she was a large lady and couldn't release her seatbelt upside down and was having difficulty unlocking the car because side curtain airbags.
I offered to flip the car and treat it like a lockout. "Customer" was fine with it. Cop was iffy. FD showed up, didn't want to hear it, broke the window, unlocked the car, opened the door, cut her belt rather than release it and dropped her on her face and then had difficulty getting her out. Now I get that they have "procedures" but this seems like a forest for the trees situation.
Or they'll show up, shut down two lanes for a minor fire on the shoulder and not move the trucks until the car is loaded on a tow truck and gone. Supposedly it's to keep them safe from being hit by traffic. Meanwhile here I am not blocking traffic to recover shit that broke down.
Sure, they'll save a life if the situation presents itself but they sure don't care about being tidy about it.
They're boys with toys that they don't frequently get to use and they work for the government. Follow the incentives. They'll do their jobs but they don't give a lot of fucks about things like "unnecessary property damage" and "other people's financial well being" and anything else not written in their KPIs.
I used to drive tow truck. I can't count the number of cars they totaled peeling the roof off (granted some were totaled anyway) because that was easy and cutting a door off was hard. And don't get me started on them and their stupid stands they use to prop shit up in the most questionable of ways...
I think your claim is way to optimistic in light of the fact there are other people claiming that the LCS boondoggle is the fault of faulty procurement and not Congress.
These sorts of statements are analogous to the median/mean slight of hand (a.k.a. lie) that people use all the time. You're intentionally missing the forest for the trees.
There needs to be latent demand by people who are willing to use that form of transit. A bike lane to a strip mall off the highway that has nothing else immediately around it does nobody any good other than maybe a couple activists and bureaucrats who want to pat themselves on the back and earn a few brownie points at the expense of the public. A bus stop would be better even if the bus service is very crappy.
>But maybe you should just stay off the road instead, so you have less blood on your own hands.
Tape won't undo all the other changes to cars that OEMs engaged in once they were required to have a screen.
Congratulations. Your pet regulatory change has reduced back over deaths by under a hundred a year. In a vacuum with spherical cow that's great but reality isn't a vacuum with spherical cows. And now that you've put this hardware in cars and engineers have taken advantage of it you've increased back out accidents and merging accidents (both are inversely correlated with rear visibility) and you've made many of the critical 2nd order functions of operating a car less intuitive and more distracting to use. You've but you don't care about that because the metric you were gaming (back over deaths) is marginally improved. And when called out by people who want to look at the big picture you respond with insults. Screw you and the safety vest you rode in on.
That's because there's huge overlap between "climate shock video" and "video from decades past when big industry was polluting things in the west" and "video filtered to look like it is from decades past". Basically you're pattern matching on the second order visual cues. A video of a pit mine full of modern equipment taken with a modern camera in 1080p or better wouldn't look the same so you wouldn't mentally bucket it the same way.
Backup cameras are the unholy trinity of upper middle class moral panic and shirking of responsibility, government Doing Something (TM) and people's inability to accept small but concentrated bad things versus large diffuse and hard to measure bad things.
I suspect this will result in an increased production value or quality of the lower tiers the same way that cheap camera/mic hardware and good/cheap software upped the production value of your average hobbyist tier youtube channel.
Short of maybe, maybe, landing a fully laden C5 on everglade highway or redefining landing to include crashes where the tires happen to be the first bit to crash you are going to have a hell of a time displacing the road bed a meaningful amount with an aircraft without destroying the aircraft. They are simply not strong. They have to be light enough to fly you know.
Never-mind the fact that they used to fly these things off of dirt strips...
At best you might displace the asphalt a little and leave some ruts behind you. Remember, these are vehicles on pneumatic tires. Their point loads aren't high enough to really cut through pavement. All you can do it smoosh it out of the way. And the road bend was made of gravel of particular size and roughness and then gone over with compacting equipment to prevent exactly that from happening, albeit over time.
Slap a lien on it with a reasonable interest rate and call it good. Sales have to be registered publicly so it's not like it's hard to collect.
The actual "failure" loads are orders (yes, plural) of magnitude higher and most failures aren't the kind of catastrophic thing that people on the internet typically try and imply unless you get really unlucky and your shelf road turns into a landslide. Failure usually means you park a heavy object somewhere and come back hours/days/weeks/months later and find that it sank or slid slowly downhill in that time.