NationStates Jolt Archive

So, what is it guys? Which vehicle do you prefer?

Cars carry more stuff, can carry a few passengers, and are much safer for the occupant (while more dangerous for houses and pedestrians etc), and are generally more useful just to name a few advantages. Theyre also more comfortable, which can also be a disadvantage as being relaxed on a couch while travelling at 60mph generally is unsafe.

Motorbikes are generally faster, more mobile (can fit in more spaces), a rider is generally more alert than a driver, theyre more open (can be both good and bad), and they get much further for the gallon of fuel. Furthermore, bikes are cooler.

Jetpacks.

I'm suicidal, but I prefer cars. :p

I hate getting all wet because of the rain. Cars is my only possible choice.

I dig both, but lean my preference towards cars. You can go faster for cheaper on a bike, though. So there's that.

I just really like cars. But my motorcycle, which was just a wimpy old street bike, was fun as hell. I can only imagine a tuned sport bike...

Cars, because it gets really fucking cold where I live, and I have to travel long distances routinely.

I'm a car man, but I can appreciate a fast bike. Though that's mainly because of the engines...get a Suzuki Cappucino (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_Cappucino) and a Hayabusa engine. Should make for an interesting combination.

I have a feeling that one day I'll get a bike license, but I have no immediate plans for it.

Cars, I've seen how badly people drive.

silent trains the size of motorbikes, that run on tracks just big enough for them.

powered by batteries and covered with solar panels to recharge the batteries, like those solar 'powered' cars university engineering departments compete building every year, only on little hernia gauge railway tracks instead.

for places that are too sparsely populated for the slightly larger multiple unit minivan sized mini-rails that are just big enough to sit in side of. (that would go just about everyplace there's paved streets and roads now)

for beyond the end of where there are even too few people for even the micro-rail/hernia gauge, battery powered masterbot/garden tractors.

no pavement wider then a sidewalk or a bike trail anywhere.

(and there is freight equipment for hauling stuff for each)

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Cars carry more stuff, can carry a few passengers, and are much safer for the occupant (while more dangerous for houses and pedestrians etc),

Huh? I still have to see a car crashing into an house and damaging it seriously. Concrete and bricks > thin steel, aluminium and plastics.

Anyway, if I have to drive, then car. Or bicycle. A motorcycle is just an hybrid between a car and a bycicle.

I still have to see a car crashing into an house and damaging it seriously.

then you haven't been paying attention. there have been MANY such incidents well covered in sensationalist corporate media. of course the car inveriably comes out the worse in these, but few houses these days are made of concrete and bricks. the resault of cars running into them looks more like the're made out of toothpicks held togather with elmers, which is closer to the more typical case. of course the cars also end up looking like they had been made out of tin foil, which in the context of the forces involved is pretty much the case as well.

things on rails, even things on wings, run into anything a HELLA of a lot LESS often. and did so even when there were more people riding them then cars.

motorbikes DO have a major plus over cars in that rights of way to ride them need not consume nearly as much real estate, nor are as wasteful of materials and energy per passinger/payload. silent electric ones for short hops to the grocery or suburban and intercity rail would be mostly cool though, and/or for out in the boonies, although silent battery powered garden tractors could do the same job while doubbling as small scale agricultural and construction machinery.

i still prefer the aesthetics of my little people sized trains, wherever there is anywhere near sufficient traffic flow to justify them.

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Cars. This time of the year in Sweden, you really learn to appreciate them. Why there are no good electric cars yet though, is beyond me. I want one that can go for 80 km on a charge and plugs into the wall.

then you haven't been paying attention.
Yet I read 3 newspapers a day, plus the TV and radio news.

there have been MANY such incidents well covered in sensationalist corporate media. of course the car inveriably comes out the worse in these, but few houses these days are made of concrete and bricks.

Huh? What a backwater place do you live in? It's about 2000 years since houses are built with bricks, at least here. Now, we're switching to concrete or brick-and-concrete mainly.

things on rails, even things on wings, run into anything a HELLA of a lot LESS often. and did so even when there were more people riding them then cars.
That's notorious.

Anyway, a motorcycle is faster than a car with the same cubic centimetres, but in stable only a little more than a bicycle. Motorcycles are totally unsafe.

Huh? I still have to see a car crashing into an house and damaging it seriously. Concrete and bricks > thin steel, aluminium and plastics.

Anyway, if I have to drive, then car. Or bicycle. A motorcycle is just an hybrid between a car and a bycicle.

a few weeks ago a tractor pulling a "horizontal tube on wheels carrying feces" tipped over and crashed into a house which was flooded with pigshit.

Big snarlying V8, over-powered, gas-guzzling, lifted 4x4 with mountains of rubber to lay down on your pretty asphalt before heading into the back woods to tear up trees and run over bunnies and cause destruction and mayhem wherever it goes. Hell is four wheel drive baby.

Huh? I still have to see a car crashing into an house and damaging it seriously. Concrete and bricks > thin steel, aluminium and plastics.

Anyway, if I have to drive, then car. Or bicycle. A motorcycle is just an hybrid between a car and a bycicle.

Not all that many houses built from brick these days. Besides, at a pace a car can still say knock a main support and cause the house to collapse under its own weight.

How many manga / anime characters ride bicycles?

Not all that many houses built from brick these days. Besides, at a pace a car can still say knock a main support and cause the house to collapse under its own weight.

How many manga / anime characters ride bicycles?

I'm guessing you're in the US because most houses around here are built from bricks and mortar.

http://www.boreme.com/media/yr2005/chav-mobile.jpg

I shall call it 'camouflage' :D

I shall call it 'camouflage' :D

I have a funny story on a completely unrelated topic regarding that paint job.

I have a funny story on a completely unrelated topic regarding that paint job.

did you once get asked to get some tartan paint for someone?

did you once get asked to get some tartan paint for someone?

No, I went to the bar and one of my touques has that as the print. And this chick walks up and asks if it was real burberry or blueberry or whatever designer brand thing she was thinking of. I replied,"Damn well better be, I paid 300 bucks for it!"


I paid 10 bucks from some street merchant thing in the mall.

Really light roadsters... so, uhh... four wheel motorbikes?

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omg CHAVtastic innit:p

Really light roadsters... so, uhh... four wheel motorbikes?

http://thekneeslider.com/images/ggquad1.jpg?

i've never ridden a motor bike. the closest i've got is driving a quad. that was definitely more fun than car driving. i love driving my car but i have a feeling i'd get more of a thrill from riding a motorbike.

I like my car but petrol prices are sky-rocketing here in Australia so I'd take a motorbike - can't give anyone a lift ;) and saves on the gas.

Cars because the chance of surviving an accident is much, much, much greater.

Cars. You're just too vulnerable on a bike.

trains. (even little tiney ones)
You're just too vulnerable in a car.

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