There is a social phenomenon in driving motor vehicles, at least in the US, that is bothersome and dangerous: the wide turn. It seems cultural. It happens in every vehicle turning context, but is most dangerous at intersection turns. Instead of slowing down, a driver turns the vehicle opposite to the upcoming turn before making the turn. Can we get a moratorium on this behavior? Just slow down, and make the turn please.

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"Clay Trauernicht, one of Hawaiiā€™s most prominent experts...said the deadly Maui blaze has shown clearly how nonnative grasses ā€” many of them on former plantation lands that have been left substantially unmanaged by large landowners ā€” can cause what might be an otherwise manageable to balloon in size." nytimes.com/2023/08/13/us/hawa

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Russ · @russ
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THIS TASMANIAā€¦
Old truck. Oatlands, Tasmania.

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John Arnold · @JohnDA
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_The Evening Post_, 29 Apr 1922:
MOTOR-CAR CENSUS
TOTAL ESTIMATE 12,588,949 VEHICLES
Compiled from the most reliable statistics obtainable, there are in use 12,588,949 motor vehicles throughout the world (says the New York Times). This includes passenger cars and commercial vehicles with motor-trucks. Of this large number, 10,505,660 are in the United States. This represents 83 per cent. of the world registrationā€¦
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news

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it's B! Cavello šŸ · @b_cavello
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Hello !

I have a question for you: when early were introduced like the , what were people buying them for?

Iā€™ve been trying to look at to get a sense of who was buying these vehicles and what they were doing with them, but Iā€™m struggling to find more.

Is anyone here particularly familiar with from the and in America?

Boosts appreciated!

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