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neighbourbehaviour
joined 2 years ago
Is System76 a non-profit by any chance?
Sure. However not everyone can make everything so if you have to buy something and if that's got a backdoor in it, it's probably preferable to be from an allied country. It's all about risk mitigation.
If you were the Chinese military you probably wouldn't like American backdoors in your gear. The American military probably feels similarly.
Yes but the next step is for people formerly in cars to move to these alternate modes of transportation which have higher density, thus if you're really successful at it, at least initially, freeing up more space than you took. Under that possibility, we end up with more empty space on the now narrower street. Which induces demand.
Again, I'm saying that under these assumptions, the author's argument is valid. I'm not saying it's valid in all circumstances or that's it's actually useful, outside of what he used it for. He made it to show that even if we're very good at improving the quality of life of commuters we shouldn't expect to have F150s driving at 50kph through downtown. It's not an argument I'd use in any other setting as it can be misused very easily by people that don't want improved transit or bike infra.
Now taking even more space, arriving in F150s and RAMs. Gotta have that elevated driving position! 🥲
Did this guy just make the argument that shifting people to cycling and public transit just induces more demand for driving? What a profoundly stupid idea.
If we agree the idea (or the fact) of induced demand, then it logically follows that taking people out of cars and into the TTC or onto bikes frees up space on the street which produces induced demand. Nothing stupid about it - straight up logical deduction. :D Unless you take so many people out of the street that the induced demand fails to saturate the streets. Which as the author says doesn't seem to happen in cities where people want to live in. It's not a politically useful argument, but it's valid. 😄
That won't change anything. The financial incentives from investors driving this will demand similar policies even if they get redressed in different marketing.
Yup. Samui/MEC AirZound. It goes for $20-30. There's an identical one from Delta that's a lot more expensive for no good reason. The AirZound is the lightest way I know to produce 120dB of noise.
While this is true, you could easily hook up a torque sensor to this setup in the form of a torque-sensing bottom bracket. Grin currently has a left-crank-measuring cheap option that isn't amazing but it's significantly better than a cadence sensor. Then there's the dual-crank option for a good chunk more. I'm running a version of the latter and it feels pretty amazing. My motor's different though. It's a smaller and lighter geared hub - Bafang G310. The G310 is more appropriate for as-light-as-possible applications. In fact the front version of this hub is probably the lightest option.