Not to mention how much dead space is needed in front and behind the parking spot for that SUV.

And in all likelihood, that is a single occupancy vehicle, so the amount of space needed is even more obscene.

I’m willing to bet that most cyclists crashes cost the cyclist more (i.e. to fix/replace their own bike) than the damage they caused to other things. LOL

Exactly. You don’t hear about bikes crashing through buildings and store fronts. Or knocking down road signs. Or power lines. Or bus stop shelters.

On a side note: I wonder what the cost of all the bike-related crashes (caused by bikes) would add up.

A crash like the one in the video likely cost someone (insurance company, tax payers, other drivers, etc.) way more than hundreds of cyclist-caused crashes.

I’d be willing to bet that the administrative costs to have cycling insurance would likely be more than the insurance is worth.

Whereas with car insurance, you’d never be able to pay for the true cost of all the damage, lives lost, etc. That’s why they cap liability to usually max $2,000,000.

I’d argue that at least where I live, the amount of electric vehicles that has appeared over the precious decade is very clearly a majority bikes, scoots and other personal transport, instead of a car.

Me too, and I love it! Just the number of private e-scooters out this year has blown my mind! I’m not sure if it’s due to accessibility (they are <$1000) or if our rental e-scooter program showed people the value in micromobility, so they invested in a personal e-device.

And while the rent-a-scoots are pretty obnoxious at times, they do support the public transport insanely well in a city like mine

My city does not have great public transportation, however, the data from our first year of rental e-scooters has shown that people are using them for trips that would be “car first” at any given time. This is positive, and that’s with an enormous amount of push-back, lacklustre infrastructure, and the growing-pains that come from such a new and highly regulated form of transportation.

10 km is pretty far.

That’s “up to 10km”, not that every trip is 10km.

In that context, it’s going to be easier/faster to bike or take an e-scooter to your destination.

If it’s under 2km, then walking really shouldn’t be a problem.

And if public transportation is available for medium distance trips, that should be first (as it is in cities/countries that are not built around car-dependency).

but that metric fails to account for the fact that few people will walk 2 hours one way for an errand.

Look at the bigger picture. We should be walking a minimum 10,000 steps a day (something like 8,000 to 12,000, realistically). That’s 8km a day as a bare minimum for minimum basic health.

Driving costs more time, because you now have to allocate time to drive + time to get those steps in. Why not walk that 2km errand instead?

At those short distances, we aren’t talking about massive differences in time to destination. And I think anyone can use the mental health benefits of movement, too.

I wish that happened. It’s very difficult to convince an EV owner to take a train or bus, even if they are electric.

The more convenient we make driving in cars, and the better drivers “feel” about driving an EV, the more difficult it is to move away from car dependency.

Here’s a survey from CAA (Insurance company in Canada, like AAA in the States):

Drivers were more likely to drive more in a battery-powered EV than even a Hybrid.

And this part kills me: “The majority of trips for both BEV and PHEV drivers are relatively short, typically staying within 10 kilometers of home. This pattern reflects the convenience of electric driving for routine commutes and local errands.”

UCDavis Institute of Transportation Studies also found that EVs are driven more than gas cars (SOURCE).

Moving away from fossil fuels is a good thing.

Yes, but not if it promotes destructive behaviours such as increased car dependency.

EVs are like low-calorie sweeteners: they do nothing to stop obesity, and actually encourage more eating (and more obesity).

That’s rare.

I’ve checked out dozens of sites where pedestrians or cyclists were killed by drivers. Municipalities pretty much never make those areas safe. Not even with paint lines.

I see this pretty much every time I ride. Multiple times. 😮‍💨

Merz hailed the deal, which was clinched in a ballroom at Trump’s golf resort in Scotland, saying it avoided “needless escalation in transatlantic trade relations” and averted a potentially damaging trade war.

Nothing about this “deal” prevents Trump from being Trump.

EU caved, and that’s a massive show of weakness.

Yup. Spend hundreds of millions so that more people can sit in traffic? No problem, we’ll start work tomorrow!

Ask for a 100m multiuse path so that cyclists don’t get killed by crazed SUV drivers? “ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR GODDAMN MIND?? Who is going to pay for that? What about the kids? How will seniors survive?! What about my parking space! Cyclists don’t follow the rules! Where’s your helmet?!! I didn’t see you!!!” 😒😮‍💨

“There is a common goal, to make city streets safe.”

Really? It sounds like cyclists are disproportionately being targeted, while the real dangers are being treated lightly.

But I’ll also say that I hate the fact that an industry (i.e. food delivery) is ruining cycling for everyone else.

That’s exactly how NIMBYs act, too!

“You can’t expect me to fit my single car in my empty, 6 car driveway! I neeeeed on street parking!”

Thanks for the ideas.

GPU does seem to be passed onto the docker container, not only because of the dramatic increase in speed, but also because the CPU isn’t being maxed out like it was before adding the GPU hardware line.

Volumes are bind mounts.

I experimented with permissions and user groups, and noticed no difference to the behaviour in render output.

For these videos, quality isn’t super important, but file size is. I spent most of yesterday tweaking settings on my local Handbrake install to get the right balance. So, I assumed transferring the settings over would give the same results.

In Ontario, you can kill 16 kids, and get 10 years.

I’ve seen countless deaths here in Ontario (Canada) where the driver either gets nothing, a traffic violation, or a very light jail sentence.

Even worse, we had a teenager run over by a driver who failed to look both ways before going through a stop. And you know what the city did? They banned e-scooters on that road. The victim was simply trying to get home after work.

The only time when you see slightly harsher penalties is when the driver went out of their way to use their vehicle as a weapon.

But all other cases of distracted driving, driving under the influence, “accidents”, and simple neglect, rarely come with adequate consequences.

I agree. And I’d have them ahead of every stop sign if I could!

At the very least, speed bumps should be on all roadways that are designated bike routes.

Of course, NIMBYs fight hard against speed bumps.