30000th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 10)

[orangeandblack5]

glad you’re alright

[orangeandblack5]

no because if I’m stopping it’s because there’s something I can’t just move up a bunch farther for, and if I’m not stopping and get rear-ended anyways that’s the freest payout of my life

[orangeandblack5]

honestly the only time I ever really consider “well what if somebody behind me rear-ends me” is when I’m stopping behind a motorcyclist and in those scenarios I always turn my wheel all the way to one side so if I do get rear-ended the odds of me not hitting them too are way higher since the path of least resistance for my car will be to turn

[Zugzwang]

@orangeandblack5

no because if I’m stopping it’s because there’s something I can’t just move up a bunch farther for, and if I’m not stopping and get rear-ended anyways that’s the freest payout of my life

I moreso meant when I’m still in the process of slowing down rather than already stopped (so I slow down more gradually than I otherwise would)

[orangeandblack5]

oh

well i do that anyways since it lets me brake regeneratively and thats just free mileage (have I mentioned hybrids are OP?)

[Ash]

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oh yeah hybrids are incredible and if I were in charge ICE-only [consumer] vehicles would have been outright banned, like, ten years ago

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right and if I were dictator of the world their only options would have been hybrids starting at least a decade ago

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like genuinely hybrids have effectively zero real downsides for consumers at large and any car that isn’t hybrid should just be illegal to sell

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(get a hybrid, they last way longer and cost way less to maintain)

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used hybrids are not mega expensive or anything? i assume that just means u found a killer deal on this civic lel

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unless you’re saying you’re buying a new car in which case definitely get a hybrid - it will literally pay off the difference over time, and you’re gonna be stuck with whatever car you snag for a long time

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really regardless of new or used it almost never makes financial sense to go non-hybrid unless you find a really killer deal on some ICE car that will outweigh a decade of increased gas and maintenance costs

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EV batteries often don’t hybrid batteries are much smaller and do much less work so they tend to last much longer hybrids stay winning

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hybrids by and large are just ICE cars with a battery and some motors slapped in the vast, vast, vast majority of times something goes wrong with a car drivetrain it’s a moving mechanical part, not one of the motors so the odds you ever have to actually touch the electric drivetrain are low, and if anything goes wrong with the ICE components then every shop ever should be able to address that however, what’s notable is that because you have the motors and battery, the mechanical parts of your…

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in other words, the outliers where something does go catastrophically wrong are probably more expensive for hybrids than ICE cars, but the expected value of maintenance costs is much lower for a hybrid than an ICE-only vehicle

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like I know multiple people who own hybrids (including me) and I have never once heard of any of them having an electronics issue that required any kind of specialized EV mechanic to fix instead of just whichever shop was cheapest

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seriously electric motors are fucking stupid simple to operate and have virtually no wear

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if u dont believe me google search “are hybrids cheaper to maintain than gas cars” and read all the articles saying yes :P

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anything similar is pretty good old priuses are kinda ugly but like in every other metric they’re great new priuses also look pretty sick at the end of the day hybrid hatchbacks are like mega overpowered in every metric that counts so

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should’ve bought a hybrid

Not really, no.

[Aleph (Ishmael)]

dodgers downfall

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BLUE JAYS WALK IT OFF AND BE REINCARNATED AS A LOTUS FLOWE

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IDFC YOU BEAR TBE MS

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ANYTHING BUT DODGERS

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1-2

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aOIT OMAT HOME

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CHALLENGE

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BASES LOADWD

2 outs

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caught!!!

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WERE GOING TO EXTRASSSS

[Atlas]

wow i wonder who’s playing

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stfu atlas xoxo

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will smith is hitler reincarnated