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Comment Re: Bullshit narrative ... (Score 1) 230

Those type regulations don't exist everywhere and they still cry foul when they are asked to have insurance other than the personal minimum liability required by the state for a private noncommercial car. It appears to me that they simply want to first reduce their costs as much as possible by putting the burden of maintaining a fleet of vehicles on the drivers but when they have trouble finding drivers because they can't support the burden they try to claim they are exempt from insuring and licensing their vehicles commercially.

To call Uber a ride sharing service is silly... I go to my phone be it a call, text, or an app and order a ride a car shows up and I pay them for a ride this is how a taxi company works.

 

Comment Re:The future is coming. (Score 1) 214

Well that would be covered under the extended warranty and you want to make sure you get that and anything else it will cover fixed before you trade it in. Also the goal is trade in every three years although probably not for your first new car that one will be five years but you want to get better value on the trade in it doesn't even have to be a different car just new.

This is kind of a regular thing after you make it past the buy in it's cheaper than a lease.

Comment Re:Where are the round-abouts (Score 1) 203

We have two round abouts in my US mid-western town, they are not that great and are in places of low pedestrian traffic. The rest of our intersection are more like the ones vision zero are purposing. They work very well in business areas, slows the cars down so they see the businesses, the angle parking allows more cars parked on a block, and is generally easier than parallel parking. Crosswalks are usually at the end of the blocks where there are traffic lights or have a pedestrian signal that's activated when they press a button to walk.

Comment Re:A mixed bag (Score 1) 490

When ever this subject comes up it makes me think of the same thing. What would a gender neutral world actually be like? Everyone wearing the same style clothing, no gender specific colors, hairstyles, etc... You would have trouble telling someones gender until they started to grow facial hair or develop other gender characteristics. Some wouldn't develop those characteristics until their mid twenties if at all while others would in their early teens.

Comment Re:Why limit it to gang deaths (Score 1) 609

No grown ups make decision like I do. I don't own a firearm because the cost of a safe to properly store one is more than I'm willing to pay for something I probably will never have a real need for. Although I do know people who live outside the city who do have them and have used them when rabid coyotes have gotten into their trash, barns, and go after their animals.

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