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Japan finds solutions, America finds excuses.

You have enough taxpayers to build 26 lane highways in California, but you're telling me you don't have enough money to build a 2 lane HSR?

In fact we use Saarland as the official measuring unit. One Saarland is ≈ 43 Manhattans. Or, to be more precise, one Manhattan is 23 Millisaarlands.

Every adapter I had was broken after a year or less. I imagine if you keep them attached to your phone, they'll break even faster. Do these adapters exist with a 90° angle which might help preventing broken cables?

Not really in the spirit of reducing waste.

On first glance I thought this could have been a two way road with trees in the middle and they closed one way for this pedestrian area.

But it actually was some kind of parking lot/access street. The actual Rue de Meaux continues straight on while what we're looking at is just a 100m long off-branch.

Plot twist: They're all working there, they are just getting a coffee on the way to their job.

It's not just the hood. A Ford Transit has a smaller wheelbase, a smaller track and a lower ground clearance than an F250. The smallest F250 engine I could find has 405hp, more than a full sized German fire truck, the biggest Transit engine has 310hp. They're clearly not built on the same platform. Noone would use a Ford Transit flatbed for their daily commute, and noone would do this to a Ford Transit flatbed either. Because they're not the same type of car.

I don't doubt that deaths by cars aren't taken seriously. I doubt that deaths by guns are.

Btw. if you're willing to prevent deaths in either of these cases, you should actually work on preventive measures instead of penalizing after the killing. As the diagram above clearly shows, even harsh punishments don't prevent gun crimes, so what makes you think it would work for car crimes?

What you could do instead is:

• Separate gun owners/drivers from other people (don't allow carrying guns through the town/protected bike lanes)
• Reduce the number of people who feel the need to own a gun/car (build strong and safe communities/build fast and safe public transit)
• Disallow owning extremely dangerous weapons (automatic rifles/pickup trucks)
• Require intensive training and background checks before allowing people to own a gun/car
• Take away the gun license/drivers license from offenders
• If you really have to put people in prison make sure they'll get re-socialized in prison instead of breeding even worse criminals
• ...

So what? Your local farmer drives 200 miles (and back) to deliver 10 bales of hay to the next town instead of commissioning a truckage company that has the right equipment to transport three times the load at half the cost as they can use the truck to transport something else on the way back? Don't your farmers have something more useful to do with their time?

No, it's obviously not.
A van without enclosure looks like that:

A pickup truck with enclosure looks like this:

One of these allows you to see a three year old standing 60cm in front of your car, the other one doesn't even allow you to see the same kid when it's 3 meters away.

I advocate for using the right tool for the right purpose. I'd rather have one real truck on the road that is able to transport a decent amount of stuff, driven by a professional truck driver with a professional drivers license than three of these wannabe trucks that are driven by wannabe truck drivers.

Doesn't seem too easy to access anything but the first row of boxes. Where would you even store these orange boxes that are currently on the hand truck? On top of the rack? Seems like fun lifting them 5 feet if they contain any heavy tools. With a Van you have access from the sides built in, and because of the lower floor you could even add a ramp to push your hand truck into the car without having to lift anything at all.

Btw. it's possible to fit two pallets into a small van. Heck, you can even fit a pallet into a cargo bike.

Ah yes, two trailers of hay bales is the exact same thing as one trailer!

If you don't need two trailers, maybe just don't attach the second trailer?

In Europe, the maximum weight you're allowed to tow with a passengers car driver's license is 3500kg. And even that requires an extended licence for driving with large trailers. Everything bigger than that requires a full truck drivers license anyway (Including all the shenanigans that come with commercial freight traffic like a driving logbook, minimum resting times).

So people will either use a real truck if they need one or they'll use a passenger car if they don't.

Not sure which type of bobcat that is, but you can probably pull that with a slightly bigger station wagon, but surely with a Van.