Message from @Freiheit - CA
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Eh.. I've had worse. Not cuts, but I've broken 7 bones (5 at once) and have been burned pretty badly once. I'll be fine.
That car is missing a front wheel.
@JesseJames Do you think this patch is too close to the sidewall? Do I need a new tire?
I would replace it forsure. If you need to run it until Monday put it on the back. Plugs are only for temporary use anyway. But when it is that close to the sidewall a patch won’t stay anyway.
Sheiiiit
Sorry bro.
That's a blowout in the making.
@Der Seeteufel - SD That Whizzer looks awesome!
Can anyone tell me if a 600cc cruiser (Honda Shadow) has sufficient power to carry a passenger and still maintain highway speeds (80+mph)?
<@&435155863217504256> ^^^
Why? Is your passenger 400lbs?
How much combined weight? What year is it? You can re hear anything to run lower rpms at higher speeds just by replacing one or two sprockets and taking links out of a chain.
Haha no she's not even close to 400lbs. Just looking to get another bike and don't want to waste my time getting a 600 if I'm going to regret it later. Looking at 750's on up.
Combined weight would be about 325lbs.
I would recommend a larger cc bike for riding 2 up. I would also recommend avoiding interstates whenever possible for safer more fun alternatives of highways.
I recommend one of those for 2+
Yeah I avoid highways. Prefer riding through the mountains or back country roads.
I have a 390 KTM, and I can easily acheive highway speeds with a passenger. I don't like it, because I can't speed out of dangerous situations, but it can be done
There is a happy medium for sure.
Self-driving 18 wheelers are now on the road in testing mode! Here’s one from Embark:
Here’s one from Waymo (Google):
https://v.redd.it/mphe7rpqyz811
Great
@Tanner - SC nice.
That's the type of disruptive technology that sparks wars. Trucking employs 3.5 million men.
In the US.
@Der Seeteufel - SD yeah exactly. I'm like... "Wow, cool... I guess" but I feel like it will also put a lot of men out of work, but then again if it works it will probably be hard to stop that kind of economic force. Trucking as I understand it actually pays decently, which mean the globalists are going to gleefully push this.
I have all kinds of mixed feelings about it.
It would be a lot better if they were replacing the foreigners driving the taxis and Uber and stuff
Many foreigners drive trucks also.
Shovels put hand-diggers out of work and we’re all better for it.
@Tanner - SC Yeah but hand diggers weren't better off for it in their lifetimes, neither were luddites.
Sure they were. The technological breakthrough dropped the price of digging related goods and services, the technology enabled previously unfeasible developments, and the large amount of labor availability allowed other projects to develop.
I know many people who used to do secretarial work on typewriters and manually running around letters. They’re all far better off now, even though computers and email “killed” their jobs.
@Tanner - SC the worrying thing is that workers are being attacked in two fronts. One, the natural progress of technology, which is (arguably) a net positive to society, and the over crowding of the labor market via immigration
The problem isn't progress it's too rapid progress. We fought some pretty massive wars around the time of industrialization which resulted in a substantial reduction in the labor pool. I'm not necessarily saying that one thing lead to the other but when there is a sudden surge of unemployed men conflict usually follows shortly after.
Why didn’t the invention of the internet and computers set off a war? That was far more profound of a change than automated 18 wheelers.
>meanwhile, in Andrew's imagination
Plus, autonomous 18 wheelers will not happen overnight and they will not transition immediately to zero drivers. I work with automation in manufacturing all the time. First you have the driver overseeing and intervening in some circumstances, then just overseeing, then maybe he manages 2 trucks at once, then 3. For all we know, this will simply allow more goods to be shipped by the same number of drivers. My manufacturing plant has seen that many times.