You and your car would be dead not even halfway up that proposed ramp.
Looks like a job for the Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak tuning.
I imagine part of the reason why this was done was to not only have the road, but have it be much less susceptible to erosion so it last longer and is safer. I’m definitely no public works engineer but seems Iike the different tiers would help stop/limit slides
Yep
Many can’t even make it up The Grapevine between LA and Bakersfield.
There was no work for their people so they did this to keep them busy. ☺️
When you’re 100 words short of a 200-word essay.
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Of course I know that the road has to be this way 👀
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.
This road was so much fun I rode up it twice in 2012. You can see this section starting at 1m30sec. https://youtu.be/za0mQFl-4jI?si=rYq6qbP8caSD_bIQ
You really should think about not crossing over into the opposite lane, especially on blind turns on a switchback.
None of it was blind. You can see through every one. Also, the camera didn’t have the contrast ability to show that I could see deep into the tunnel. Why do to think the corners were blind? Did you see some trees or berms that werent there?
Initial D!!!
GAS! GAS! GAS!
I’m gonna step on the gas
That was not the song that came to mind for me.
Deja Vu, I’ve seen this comment before.
(Higher in the thread)🎵
And I know it’s my time to go
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 :)
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
The incline would be too steep and you would lose stopping power, increase rollovers.
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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
Yeeeeeehaw!
Just build a slide for cars.
With a ramp at the end like the skiing long jump in the Olympics.
White knuckling of death, shit geyser filled pants, eyes squirting like Adriana Chechik, doing 200 downslope. Rookies!
Gotta unlock it with a stunt
