Anyone know where this is?
Edit: Found it! It’s Los Caracoles (The Snails) pass in Chile next to the Argentine border.
lots of serpentine roads like that in South America’s Andes, we even have a train that moves back and forth as it sigsags up the mountain
Yep, took one like that going to a ski resort in Chile, was mega sick when I arrived
look at South American Andes over here
This is so strange. I have almost been there… on a work trip where i visited the hydro power plant just 50-100 meters down the road. Had no idea that was there…
Los Caracoles? (west out of Los Andes)
It’s Spanish for “The Caracoles”.
I took a bus from Mendoza to Santiago that went down this road. Was pretty crazy at the time but still way less sketchy than the buses going through Bolivia.
I was just going to post the same thing. I took the same bus route and man that was scary at some points looking out the window, over the edge.
This confirms, once again, that Chile is the best country of Chile
Make it straight, and put a ramp on the bottom for epic jumps.
it looks at Lombard St. in SF
“Pathetic”
Honestly that is probably less dangerous than the regular streets of SF. Never felt more like I was about to die in a cab than I did riding in SF. Dude seemed to know what he was doing but it felt like a roller coaster.
Now imagine the actual Steve McQueen driving at top Mustang speed up and down those streets in Bullitt. Absolute legend.
That parking space for the white car in the first photo looks like it sucks.
Surprised it’s still the whole car and not just the front.
I wonder if that is actually an allowed space.
Agreed.
I’m feeling anxiety just imagining backing out of that.
I thought it’s only exist in GTA San Andreas, but it’s real now
Might’ve even been real a few decades before San Andreas 😉
That’s a fun discovery!
And Midtown Madness 2
That car parked in that not really a parking spot is just asking to have their bumper ripped off.
That’s beautiful!
Yes! Pretty well trafficked all day every day.
Do you guys think it would be a good idea if more US residential streets were made into this?
even better would be making it a sheer cliff with an elevator and a staircase.
How that proposal looks in winterOoh, now I want to see sb drive up that
I can smell the dying breaths of clutch mechanisms from here.
Just don’t use it! 😁
Speed shifting ftw!
rip to your transmission
Eurobeat intensifies
Put it in second and keep it there.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
splat
China also has an amazing switchback highway called the Pamir sky road with over 600 hairpin turns in under 36km
🤢 That sounds amazingly nauseating.
Poor humans
Not pictured is the incline that the switchbacks are set at. They put the exact minimum required, so most vehicles are struggling just with the switchbacks.
Swiss would drill a tunnel.
I’m sensing a pattern with the swiss. 👀
They are themselves a hole in the EU
a hole’s indeed
Darn, i had the same idea 😂
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So they’d make it a holey site?
Big asphalt at it again.
I mean yea we want to stop erosion, but also going in a straight line is efficient. It’s all you can afford. You are in a dead sprint, forgetting the gash on your head. Down, down, down hill you go- it gets steeper but you try to use gravity to your advantage. You can’t let him catch you. You need to get to your car as soon as possible. What you and Sam saw back there was too much, and you both need to get as far away as possible. You are almost leaping with every sprint, but then you hit a patch of loose gravel and slip backwards, hitting your head on the ground. You feel dazed as you curl up grabbing the back of your skull. More blood comes out onto your hands, you know you are concussed but you also know the only way for survival is forward. You get back up and move as fast as you can. You look for Sam but in the confusion you lost him. You look around but the California landscape goes for miles, and you know this is where people disappear. You see far below is a stream, and all streams go down hill. You keep up the pace until you come to the waters lapping up to the pebbles around. You start moving down the flow of the stream as it gets larger. As you run, you see him- “SAM” you call out. He’s sitting on a log looking up, but he doesn’t turn around. You run up to him, the striped shirt you gave him is torn up. “Sam?” That’s when you know that somehow you’ve been outmanoeuvred.
A pike was holding the body of Sam up on the log, as if he was a lawn ornament. You best friend who you saved twice in Kuwait sat there, upright, but the life was long gone. You promised his mother you would keep him safe, but now you failed in what was supposed to be a small day hike.
Suddenly you see a flash of metal from the side of your eyes. Your concussion plus the sun makes it so hard to see, but you finally make out the figure who put you two through all this. Suddenly you vomit as you stumble to get away, but you become dizzy and splash into the shallows of the river. You try to get out when suddenly a hand grabs you by the hair and pulls you up.
There he is. Bloodied hands and all. You never thought you would be here. You never thought you would die by his hand. You never thought it would be today. You never thought it would be
But at the end of the day we want to minimize the impact of human activity in protected areas. Having switchbacks for stable roads helps avoid unnecessary maintenance that could be even more disruptive. Civil engineering is important!
Please say it ain’t a copypasta 😂
Honestly I got really high one night and had just seen the Shia LaBeouf song, so I decided to write my own fanfiction but sneaking it into random comments on Lemmy, and then I just kinda kept doing it. So no copy, but this is OC pasta.
I’m gonna coin the term “getting LaBeouf’ed”
You just got LaBeouf’ed.
I dig it :) Thanks for the lebeafing, it was good shit
edit the comment history is great :D keep the internet weird :)
peak fiction. I hope I’m going to get labeoufed more often.
must be a cities skylines enjoyer (modded)
Road bike line vs downhill mtb line.
The incline would be too steep and you would lose stopping power, increase rollovers.
Pussy
If you want a private steep road then go figure it out rather than try to force that onto the whole of society. My grandmother still has her license.
I bet she would full send it on a 45 degree slope.
She would
Pussy
Gotta unlock it with a stunt
