Could we please include credit for webcomics?
XKCD makes linking with attribution super easy: Permanent link to this comic: https://xkcd.com/2684/ Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/road_space_comparison.png
OP is big on digital data preservation https://xkcd.com/1683/
Sorry about that, I found it somewhere else without credit and completely forgot the art style was from XKCD.
I’ll add it to the post.
fun fact: it’s illegal to not credit them! see the creative commons license at the bottom.
This community is awesome.
Just reverse image search. Good god people need their hands held for everything.
(/s BTW)
Alt text: I wonder how hard it would be to ride an electric scooter in a hamster ball.
I wonder how hard it would be to stop…
Why would I stop?
And how hard it would be once you stopped…
Is it one plane flying into 5 sky scrappers?
How do you scrap the sky?
With a scrapper
What if these 50 people are clowns and all they have is one Fiat Uno?
thats only 39 hamster balls, 0/10
Technically he only specified how many people. Some of those hamster balls are multi passenger
Speaking from experience?
It doesn’t say there are 50 hamster balls.
In the original there are 50, 16 rows of 3 plus 2 more.
Wait, someone edited this just to remove some hamster balls ? Weird
What were they hiding?
The lower half is obviously nonsense. The future belongs to the 50 people tandem
Humancenticycle
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They’ve probably just never seen a tandem 50 in a major city, it sounds made up.
Gotta swing 'er wide left then hard right for a turn on those tight city blocks.
So uh, walking, buses, and bikes for the win?
Scientifically speaking yes. Also trains
Train using road space for comparison:
Unironically yes
For space efficiency, yes. Bikes are actually better than walking for CO2 output. Your food has a CO2 cost, and bikes are really damn efficient at turning your food calories into forward momentum. Ebikes are even better on a per mile basis, but their higher manufacturing cost mean they never catch up to lifetime CO2 output of a regular bike. Still, whatever gets more people on bikes is a win in my book, ebike or otherwise.
Why wouldn’t the wolves just eat everything?
Because they don’t like cabbages
“My cabbages!”
- Baahvatar, the Last Goatbender
…wonder how fast a 50-seater tandem bicycle could get going, assuming ideal conditions and riders.
At least 12
How fast can it stop? I wouldn’t want to first heading against a crossing or wall with 49 people pushing the pedals behind me.
Chatgpt says
Professional Cyclists: Elite professional cyclists can produce power outputs of 300 to 400 watts during races, with peak efforts exceeding 1,000 watts for short bursts (like sprinting).
Time Trials and Climbs: During time trials or climbs, trained cyclists can maintain higher power outputs for extended periods, often around 350 to 450 watts for well-trained athletes.
But then it tells me 40km/h assuming 400W which is obviously wrong. I guess you’d have to model that “tandem” in CAD and simulate the airflow to get accurate drag numbers
If I wanted to ask ChatGPT, I would ask ChatGPT myself. You’re useless.
Could’ve done without the insult.
so, people walking
Realistically, the 50 people riding a bus scenario will become 50 people riding a bus with rest of the road space occupied by 16-wheelers or other large transportation trucks
I don’t get it, are you confused or doubtful?
