And this is why you're not running a company like Apple. Picking a fight you can't win with the regulator in one of the largest market blocs in the world is not good for business.

Well you've given up disputing the statistics of road safety and yet you still feel your roads are safer.

And your complaint about A roads appears to not be based on the reality of A roads (you think for reasons known only to you that as road ploughing through heavily urban south London is somehow comparable to California back country roads) in the UK but that the government uses a different scheme for labelling roads than America.

This truly is American exceptionalism in action.

It's also why you will never have safer roads: you simply cannot comprehend that a different country could do anything better in any way, especially something you feel an awful lot of national pride over, namely roads.

Ah well I don't live there anymore, and I don't have to drive on those dreadful roads where the designers can't decide whether they are high speed through routes, or low speed access roads and so just fling both types of traffic together, splat down some signage and hope for the best!

Also, and I can't stress this enough but you apparently came to this country for the roads and the main takeaway is they weren't big enough (alsob unsafe apparently, but you just invented that since it isn't true). That has to be the saddest tourism jaunt I think I've ever heard of.

if you didn't have such a decrepit economy you'd be driving these big SUVs too.

Sadly we cannot all be Parisians and vote against such monstrosities, so in the UK over 60% of new car sales are SUVs. Americans don't have a monopoly on foolishness. Speaking of, your point about fuel is bogus, your roads are substantially more dangerous per mile driven, which normalizes out for how much people drive.

The UK had done of the safest roads in the world, you can make all the excuses you like, but North America has a lot of poor road design in many ways and unlike the UK and Europe has seen increasing pedestrian deaths. You're roads are badly designed and unsafe. I can give you links to follow of you stop feeling nationalistic pride and want to know more. Funny thing is America's poor road design is one of the saving graces: they are not only dangerous but inefficient at moving lots of traffic too, which keeps speeds down. That's why your roads got more dangerous per mile during COVID when showered increased, unlike the UK and Europe where roads got safer.

And... I'm not sure what you're getting at by insulting great British A roads. You seem to think this is done sort of amazing pwn. Though if you think the A205 (basically an elaborate troll which started in 1921 and has got really out of hand) is like California back roads, I'd say you need your head and eyes examined. Is also dearly love to know which bit of California back country feels like a very slow version of Mad Max: saaf London bruv innit yeah innit.

I'm not going to get pride over A roads, because many are very deeply crap in a rich and interesting variety of ways but I do know that your assumption about what an A road is specifically is misplaced. You're thinking in terms of how roads are classified in the US, which is not how we do it here. I'm not going to argue our way is sensible (it isn't) but A road does not mean what you think it's means.

Also you came on holiday to England for the roads? That's bananas.

Dude, check your facts.

Mirai tanks: 700 bar.

Here is some reading material for you:
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At no point did I claim they did not exist. Although, they really only exist in pockets around Southern California and the SF Bay Area. Until a few years ago, it wasn't possible to drive a Mirai from San Francisco to LA because there were no H2 Fuel stations between the two hubs.

This must be the most asinine comment I have read on /. in a while. You are claiming that, because you can look out of your window at an H2 fuel station, you know everything about them, while your posts contain obvious factual errors.

Simple fix: award H1-B visas in order of salary to be paid to the visa holder.

No, we (as a country, not me personally) voted in the weak guy, the failed businessman and the poor negotiator (he didn't even write the book).

Entirely predictable outcome. Anyone with half a brain could see that this would happen, that Trump isn't a businessman, isn't a negotiator. But unfortunately, too many people in the USA don't have half a brain.

I don't understand what you don't understand about propaganda and hypocrisy.

The reason you don't understand is because you've been inventing a position for me to hold.The reason that doesn't make any sense is a you problem not a me problem.

The western narrative is that communism/Russia was and is bad because of this one famine,

The "western narrative" is that Russia is bad for invading its neighbours, particularly Ukraine at the moment.

For the same reason you'd be annoyed in 2025 if someone was still going on about the Iraq war being over WMD's and Saddam planning 911.

Are you saying the Holodomor didn't happen? Or The USSR wasn't the cause?

I've driven on the best roads England has to offer, and they are a joke. The regular highways there would never get past safety studies here.

I think your safety studies my be flawed. From Wikipedia:

Traffic deaths per billion km (USA): 6.9
Traffic deaths per billion km (UK): 3.8

Traffic deaths per 100,000 inhabitants (USA): 12.8
Traffic deaths per 100,000 inhabitants (UK): 2.61

Anywyay, this is why America is bad at stuff like this: you are convince you're the best and never allow reality to penetrate any further.

You drive your car at 200mph on the roads? I don't think you're car is faster than a train.

Anyway at least you've tacitly admitted that size has nothing to do with it, it's all just performative political nonsense. Nonetheless it's funny how a "brokeass" country can actually afford the thing your are apparently quite jealous of. And socialist isn't really the insult you seem to believe.

I'm not really sure either why you think I'd get a burst of hurt national pride over the most boring, utilitarian roads in the country.

No, but I'll anticipate the incoming "the US is so backward because it doesn't have a dense national rail system like my $TINY_DENSELY_POPULATED_COUNTRY does!!1!!!11!!!" comments.

Ah yes, the old excuse that Alaska is huge and empty therefore so therefore LA (which is much smaller and much denser than the UK) must also have a shite public transportation system because Alaska!!!! Eagles n' shit! Guns! America Fuck yeah!

Thing is this pathetic excuse repeats ad nauseam across the whole of America. No one cares or expects Alaska or the vast tracts of sparsely populated farming country to be well served by trains, but there's no reason why many towns, cities and metro areas which are dense and rich don't have decent rail.

Spain isn't wildly different from California. A bit bigger and a bit bigger population. And it has high speed Rail. France is a bit more dense but not a factor of 2. And they have an amazing high speed rail network too.

Your excuses don't hold up to scrutiny.

Why drive that far when it's likely cheaper to make that trip by sea? Or by train?

America has loads of goods trains too. And the longer the distances, the bigger the gain, since they're more fuel efficient and need fewer staff.

A stopped clock can be right twice a day. And two wrongs can make a right.

I am not sad about this. Vance is still a deeply sketchy person. Starmer is still a petty authoritarian and a hypocrite (and yet still better than the last lot), and back doors are still stupid. Political pressure over commercial laws is dubious too. Also fuck the police they can't be trusted with this sort of thing either.

I'm not sure exactly what we would call an F-150

I don't know what we call an F-150, but I know what I call someone driving one of them in London. Sounds a bit like with ducking brat.

You realize that's worse, right?

Neither hating Russians nor being raised to hate them is worse than what precisely? Blind hatred?

I really am having a lot of trouble even understanding what you're so angry about.

The only one going on here about "hating people" is you

So what the ever living fuck are you banging on about then?

You keep spewing stuff, sure, but it has no apparent connection to reality. You dragged "Iraq" into it too. I'm sure you feel you just made a devastating point, but I have literally no idea what your point is.

You may wish to try engaging with me as a person, rather than a cardboard cutout of what you believe feel that people who think Russia is in the wrong should look like.

I do agree people started to obsess on it more at that time, to the point of throwing away some of the useful function in the pursuit of "thinness". But the size/weight/dimensions were always important

Size and weight was, but Apple obsession broke the laptop market. Having been blessed with a bad back I've always been somewhat obsessed with weigh, much more so than many here. I remember arguing with people over specs who simply would not consider weight to be a specification. Buy you know what was lighter than contemporary MacBook airs? My EEE 900. I loved that machine, so awesome. It was relatively thick but I always loved the form factor. That style of laptop vanished sadly. I found the small overall size more important than thinness.