That is 1 street that is less than 1/4 mile long. imagine for a moment how much nicer the north end would be if the whole thing were pedestrian only (or at least everything inside cross street and commercial street)

so it was pure incompetence on the part of the police I guess.  shocking.

what are you smoking? because you are speaking gibberish.

they don’t seem to have an issue with this in europe, where it is common. and yeah, no they don’t get to park and idle (there are already laws about that in many places), they get to leave..

yes.  there needs to be a corresponding expansion of public transit any time something like this is enacted.  

and if a law banning vehicles in the city core between 6 am and midnight were in place, the cops would have had a clear basis for arresting all the drivers and impounding their trucks.

as it was there was no clear law saying they couldn’t do what they were doing.

not at all infeasible. just requires a change of mindset.

many large cities, particularly in Germany, have large sections of the city with no cars/trucks allowed between 6am and midnight

pretty much every city in europe does this.  they allow delivery trucks between midnight and 6am usually.  construction and repair vehicles (like plumbers etc) get permits for daytime access which are strictly enforced.

not really. a large industry of for lease/sale parking structures and car rental complexes on the border of the ban area at/near public transport hubs would spring up quickly.  for an example take a look at any major german city with a central “Walkplatz” or no cars zone.  parking structures get built at major entry…

there are many practical reasons why a total ban of cars and trucks in even a city like NYC, Chicago, Boston or other major cities with decent to good public transit is not feasible.

businesses need to get deliveries, things need to get repaired, buildings need to get built.

that said, it is entirely feasible to ban…

forget the “in this market” bullshit.

“in this market” only a complete fucking idiot buys a car that they don’t absolutely have to buy.  “in this market” fix what you have as long as it is less than $5k and wait for the market to return to sanity.

it’s too much money, so ND, but I really like it anyway.

not sure what you mean by downwash wings.

both the front wing and the rear wing are traditional downforce generating wings, but have greatly simplified and restricted endplates that should reduce vortex production.

the theory is that ground effect tunnels are less susceptible to disturbed air when following and…

the purpose of the downwash sidepods last year was to get as much air as possible into the coke bottle region over the top of the diffuser.

so far it looks like there are 2 distinct design corners being developed with this year’s cars, the high long sidepod designs seem to be geared to supplying as much air to the rear…

the alfa and the aston also have the louvers and similar, though less extreme, sidepod profiles. aston and alfa also seem to have much more aggressive undercuts.

williams, McLaren and SAT have downwash sidepods without gills like the merc and RB did last year.

the front wing and the floor edge on the ferrari are clearly…

“fell off in 2021"???? it was a big step up over 2020.

obligatory reference to NFPA stats showing that in total numbers and per car actually on the road and in per million miles driven, EVs catch fire at a much lower rate than gasoline cars. but that doesn’t fit your narrative.

if you fire someone for theft, you will probably end up paying them for a full year minimum.

similarly, in germany they had (when I was stationed there) extremely generous maternity related work and leave policies - a woman was essentially unfirable from the day she notified the company she was pregnant (to prevent…

real cities have real transit. Boston, NY, Chicago, SF, London, Paris, Tokyo....