Dutchman here. I love riding in fresh snow. Very serene, empty roads, and plenty of grip. It takes effort, and I’ll be wearing lots of layers, so I’m very warm.

Fuck old snow or black ice though. Like you say, snow is rare so I don’t have studded tires or chains and stuff. Usually the cycle tracks are well salted and plowed though. There’s even an app mhat can de bicycle route planning over plowed roads only.

Yes, both would work.

Is horse meat illegal? Why?

I had a ton of fun with the GTA V single player campaign, years ago.

I’ll wait for the reviews, and probably for the price to drop, but if it’s not all multiplayer micro transaction hell I’ll absolutely play the biggest game of the decade.

My first guess was >!a beer mug!<, and I’m sticking to it.

Why wouldn’t we accept that? We accept so many deaths by human car drivers.

It won’t be hard to have self-driving cars be 10 times safer, which will save many lives. But that does mean we have to accept some deaths by self-driving cars.

No deaths would be awesome, but for that we would have to completely restructure all existing traffic infrastructure. In the current case there will allways be scenarios where even the best drivers (human or robot) won’t be able to avoid a collision.

Depends on where you live. If youre west of Germany but on the mainland, winter is the one where the sun is highest between 1 and 2. Summer time is even worse though, between 2 and 3.

I’m really proud of how confident you are.

I’m surprised that this is the most recent one on the link. Are they not doing campaigns anymore?

You can place a bike on either side of each bar. Look at the brackets for the front wheel.

A lot. Most of the strength from a beam comes from the top and bottom, because these are the parts that have to stretch or compress most when the beam is bending. The middle part is contributing relatively little for strength.

That is why metal poles are often hollow, that saves a lot of material and weight without losing much strength.

Oh no, a post that’s not about the US! Quick, let’s make it about the US anyway!

It makes a lot of sense. I make eye contact with drivers, because then I’m mostly sure they’ve seen me.

With a driverless car I’d like to know it has acknowledged me, so I can start crossing the road. Otherwise I’ll wait until it has completely stopped. So there needs to be some sort of feedback that’s intuitive. Might as well be eyes.

There’s been a misunderstanding here. It seems like you are trying to share a balanced and nuanced opinion. That’s a major faux pas around here, on the internet. Please find yourself an establishment where such vulgar language isn’t frowned upon.

That’s true in theory, but if you talk about megameters to a European you’ll get very weird looks.

An engineer will understand what you mean, but still laugh at you.

But it’s a non-issue for anything on earth, where you’ll have 40.000 kilometers at most. Not a lot of time is spent talking about x thousand kilometer.

Any notion that a kilometer is “too small” is laughable.

I appreciate your optimistm, but I won’t hold my breath.

all the chatbots die

Is that planned on the same day hell freezes over?

I admire your positive outlook and confidence in turtles

It would be really surprising to see turtles on the wheel, considering there are no wild turtles in the Netherlands.

Whaddayamean there’s no such thing as a fish? I just ate one!