"Porsche was my first word" (porschewasmyfirstword)
07/19/2017 at 13:15 • Filed to: None
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"Porsche was my first word" (porschewasmyfirstword)
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Things we don’t wanna hear about driving (and parking).
bwp240
> Porsche was my first word
07/19/2017 at 13:16 |
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I watched this video this morning. I especially like how it offers no solutions.
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Porsche was my first word
> bwp240
07/19/2017 at 13:26 |
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I especially like how it offers no solutions.
You need to have a solution for a problem to point it out? News to me.
Or do you find parking lots pretty? Like some kind of romantic dystopian Blade Runner-setting.
benjrblant
> Porsche was my first word
07/19/2017 at 13:31 |
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It’s easy to point out flaws in a system. Anybody can look at a car and say “That’s upside down.”
It takes skills, planning, and lots of thought to develop a correction for it that works as well as intended.
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bwp240
> Porsche was my first word
07/19/2017 at 13:32 |
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Well I kind of figured that there would have been some possible concepts to pose as solutions. You can’t tell me that Apple will build this huge isolated campus and have no way for the employees to park all of their cars. Does that mean more underground garages, better public transit, stuff like that.
I am all for greener areas and improvements, but it just seemed like the piece only suggested that we should stop driving as a society. Then we won’t need parking lots. However, that is just the tip of the issue. Infrastructure in general in America sucks. Road/Path layouts are terrible and public transit is hodgepodge at best on a regional and national level. Giant asphalt parking lots are just one of the results of this.
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benjrblant
> Porsche was my first word
07/19/2017 at 13:34 |
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Unless you’re taking step 1 and admitting that there is a problem and posing it as a prompt for public discussion. (=
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Porsche was my first word
> benjrblant
07/19/2017 at 13:41 |
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It’s easy to point out flaws in a system.
Depends on the problem, I’d say. I wouldn’t dare to point out a problem with the Saturn V (unless I am rocket scientist or the Saturn V is upside down).
I at least find it interesting that of all things it’s because of the parking lots everything is out of walking distance (in a lot of places in the US).
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Porsche was my first word
> bwp240
07/19/2017 at 13:45 |
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Well I kind of figured that there would have been some possible concepts to pose as solutions.
Even more so as they had an expert handy.
Urambo Tauro
> Porsche was my first word
07/19/2017 at 13:48 |
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Kind of a side-tanget, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about parking space requirements.
Like the standard car is typically about 6 feet wide (give or take), right? But you need to have room to open doors on both sides, and a good round number for that is about, say, 3 feet. So for one car, you’re looking for a space that is about 12 feet wide, nearly double the width of the car itself!
But parking lots have spaces that are closer to about 9 feet wide (or less). Why? Because the 3 feet you use to get in and out of your car is the same 3 feet that the car next to you uses. (It’s rare to see both cars needing their doors opened at the same time.)
But to get that three feet between cars requires that people park in the exact middle of the parking space, or you’ll end up with less room on one side. And you can’t just ignore your passenger side to give yourself a little extra room on the driver side, when it directly affects your neighbor on the other side.
So that ~9' wide parking space isn’t generously sized to allow for sloppy parking at all. It’s an effort to adhere to a minimum requirement in the interest of maximizing lot capacity. We can park however we want at home, but public/commercial parking really demands precision from us drivers.
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Porsche was my first word
> Urambo Tauro
07/19/2017 at 14:02 |
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But to get that three feet between cars requires that people park in the exact middle of the parking space,
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> Porsche was my first word
07/19/2017 at 23:31 |
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Both street and building entry and exit, I think are the least thought out part of construction. like car tailights. “fuck what do we have to do to meet spec?”