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...
Just a site visit as part of a larger trip in the country (some knowledge exchange stuff in a hydro power company i used to work for), so we were visiting several parts of the power plants down the Aconcagua valley among other areas. This was the highest point of that particular part of the trip.
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.
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.
Yea our Hyundai does this too but you need to tap on the brakes and then you will see the revs raise and hold. It only does it when on a downhill incline.
I guess SF lied when they said Lombard was the crookedest street in the world. The one from the meme is clearly more crooked. Also, when was that picture taken? There's usually a huge line of tourist cars driving down that street. I've never seen it with only 2 cars.
Oh, maybe? I haven't been back to SF in over a decade. I'm kind of afraid to go back, because I love that city, and the things I read about it on the internet these days make it seem like it has deteriorated dramatically since I was there last.
Going by the memory of my 1980 edition of the Guinness book of world records, it was the number of hairpin turns that made it the crookedest street. There could also be a difference between a street and a road.
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
See this is the most unamerican bullshit ever said on this plateform...just left me fucking live without government oversight. It's people like you who keep me and my people suppressed. I'm sick of absolute puss bags of people letting my pure blooded Americans from living their full lives. You expect us to live by your rules because you can't even handle a slope in your Nissan leaf. Someone is own insatiable FUCK mobiles that can handle this grade. It's not my fault you care about my body enough to try and regulate it. It's my body, and it's my choice what I do with it....lol
See this is the most unamerican bullshit ever said on this plateform...just left me fucking live without government oversight. It's people like you who keep me and my people suppressed. I'm sick of absolute puss bags of people letting my pure blooded Americans from living their full lives. You expect us to live by your rules because you can't even handle a slope in your Nissan leaf. Someone is own insatiable FUCK mobiles that can handle this grade. It's not my fault you care about my body enough to try and regulate it. It's my body, and it's my choice what I do with it....lol
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.
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!
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.
A steep so slope, it keep you woke!
Seriously, don't drive down this thing in your semi-truck tired, don't even think about going down that waterpark slide unless you're well rested when you get there.
Imagine this spot being your best alternative as a civil engineer, that's one helluva mountain range. What's this, like a pass between the Karakoram or something? Somewhere in the Andes?
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?
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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...
What did you do there?
Just a site visit as part of a larger trip in the country (some knowledge exchange stuff in a hydro power company i used to work for), so we were visiting several parts of the power plants down the Aconcagua valley among other areas. This was the highest point of that particular part of the trip.
Sounds like a nice trip!
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.
nobody gonna ask how you found it?
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
And Midtown Madness 2
Might’ve even been real a few decades before San Andreas 😉
That’s a fun discovery!
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.
I want to coast down that in neutral so bad.
Coast down it in first so you don't fade your brakes to uselessness (even automatics have a first-second for engine braking downhill like this).
Not mine. I think it has automatic engine braking or something since I don't drift downhill as soon as I let off the brake though.
Yea our Hyundai does this too but you need to tap on the brakes and then you will see the revs raise and hold. It only does it when on a downhill incline.
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.
I guess SF lied when they said Lombard was the crookedest street in the world. The one from the meme is clearly more crooked. Also, when was that picture taken? There's usually a huge line of tourist cars driving down that street. I've never seen it with only 2 cars.
I thought they blocked it to only local traffic after residents complained?
Oh, maybe? I haven't been back to SF in over a decade. I'm kind of afraid to go back, because I love that city, and the things I read about it on the internet these days make it seem like it has deteriorated dramatically since I was there last.
Going by the memory of my 1980 edition of the Guinness book of world records, it was the number of hairpin turns that made it the crookedest street. There could also be a difference between a street and a road.
How that proposal looks in winter
Ooh, now I want to see sb drive up that
You and your car would be dead not even halfway up that proposed ramp.
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
See this is the most unamerican bullshit ever said on this plateform...just left me fucking live without government oversight. It's people like you who keep me and my people suppressed. I'm sick of absolute puss bags of people letting my pure blooded Americans from living their full lives. You expect us to live by your rules because you can't even handle a slope in your Nissan leaf. Someone is own insatiable FUCK mobiles that can handle this grade. It's not my fault you care about my body enough to try and regulate it. It's my body, and it's my choice what I do with it....lol
See this is the most unamerican bullshit ever said on this plateform...just left me fucking live without government oversight. It's people like you who keep me and my people suppressed. I'm sick of absolute puss bags of people letting my pure blooded Americans from living their full lives. You expect us to live by your rules because you can't even handle a slope in your Nissan leaf. Someone is own insatiable FUCK mobiles that can handle this grade. It's not my fault you care about my body enough to try and regulate it. It's my body, and it's my choice what I do with it....lol
Looks like a job for the Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak tuning.
Many can't even make it up The Grapevine between LA and Bakersfield.
I can smell the dying breaths of clutch mechanisms from here.
Just don't use it! 😁
Speed shifting ftw!
rip to your transmission
I never use my clutch and I usually get 10,000 miles to the transmission.
Eurobeat intensifies
Put it in second and keep it there.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeesplatDeja Vu, I've seen this comment before.
(Higher in the thread)🎵
And I know it's my time to go
(Hold my tea)
GAS! GAS! GAS!
I'm gonna step on the gas
https://youtu.be/qkwnkt8mwjU
That was not the song that came to mind for me.
https://youtu.be/atuFSv2bLa8?si=5ApYELQ9YsQrKCAN
oh I know haha
MULTI-TRACK DRIFTING!?
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
Big asphalt at it again.
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 😂
So they'd make it a holey site?
must be a cities skylines enjoyer (modded)
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
Shia LaBeouf
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.
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
You only need one lane going up, and a jump off ramp at the top
Gotta unlock it with a stunt
No guardrail that I can see.
*Street view confirms no guardrail.
Video here https://maps.app.goo.gl/SERFBifCZs7Ztvif6
So you can take the straight path if you choose!
So OP motivated enough they could do exactly as it's drawn
For 15 dollars you can park your car in a mountain elevator which will go up in a straight line on the side of the mountain. LOL.
Yeeeeeehaw!
Just build a slide for cars.
With a ramp at the end like the skiing long jump in the Olympics.
Weeeeeeeeeeee
A steep so slope, it keep you woke!
Seriously, don't drive down this thing in your semi-truck tired, don't even think about going down that waterpark slide unless you're well rested when you get there.
Imagine this spot being your best alternative as a civil engineer, that's one helluva mountain range. What's this, like a pass between the Karakoram or something? Somewhere in the Andes?
Unedited photo: how to make Jeremy Clarkson have an aneurysm from orgasming too hard.
Edited photo: how to make Jeremy Clarkson have a rage aneurysm.
He's an ass. I've still never forgiven them for their Mexico special
Never watched specifically because he gave me douchebag vibes from the start, what was so bad about the Mexico special?
Severe racism including calling Mexicans
Straight from their own Fandom wiki https://topgear.fandom.com/wiki/Mexican_Comments_Controversy
True, he is and that was awful.
White knuckling of death, shit geyser filled pants, eyes squirting like Adriana Chechik, doing 200 downslope. Rookies!
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?
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.
::: spoiler \s Of course I know that the road has to be this way 👀 :::
why not make two roads? one only goes straight down. The other can be switchbacks to go up. let's waste 2x the asphalt!
Ooh, and an intersection every time they cross.
Roundabout.