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xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas (xkcd.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that's the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Love it or hate it, they aren't intentionally designed not to be walkable, they're intentionally designed to discourage traffic from driving through them.

The reason communities like yours and the one behind your house aren't connected is to reduce the amount of cars driving down your block. To make it safer for your kids to play outside.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

The reason communities like yours and the one behind your house aren't connected is to reduce the amount of cars driving down your block.

Which is ironic because it has the opposite effect by forcing every resident to get around via car