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Comment · 1 month ago
Depends on the definition of "whatever" but car parks come to mind.

In Finland there are specific signposted pedestrian zones, where cars may enter but must not exceed 20kmh and must give priority to pedestrians (as must cyclists). They are typically the areas surrounding apartment building entranceways.

Comment · 1 month ago
Curious. I have Siri turned off (just checked again) and I use Apple CarPlay daily. Maybe an EU thing.
Comment · 2 months ago
Things have drifted since Robert Peel defined successful policing as "Whether the police are effective is not measured on the number of arrests, but on the lack of crime". Civil forfeiture is a good example that would horrify him.

His insistence that "The police are the public and the public are the police" doesn't really hold up in many countries anymore.

Comment · 3 months ago
A dandy-horse, or a velocipede.
Comment · 5 months ago
The calf muscle pump performs the same task in humans.
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
A friend of mine planted a small tree in one, after many months of notifying the local council. It was fixed very quickly.
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
They have more usability problems than that. Driving Mercedes Benz hire cars a couple of times recently in UK and Ireland was a shock - they have the automatic gearbox PRND selector on the right-hand stalk, and indicators on the left hand one. I could maybe excuse that on a LHD car, but on an RHD car, it is infuriating. Using the windscreen wipers instead of indicating is a trivial low-consequence mistake, bumping into neutral is not.

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