• HottieAutie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    103·
    2 months ago

    Anyone know where this is?

    Edit: Found it! It’s Los Caracoles (The Snails) pass in Chile next to the Argentine border.

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      311·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • niktemadur@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        Now imagine the actual Steve McQueen driving at top Mustang speed up and down those streets in Bullitt. Absolute legend.

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
      151·
      2 months ago

      That parking space for the white car in the first photo looks like it sucks.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 months ago

      That car parked in that not really a parking spot is just asking to have their bumper ripped off.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        2 months ago

        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).

        • rickyrigatoni
          31·
          2 months ago

          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.

          • Trollception@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            2 months ago

            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.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      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.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          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.

      • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        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.

    • pdxfed@lemmy.world
      21·
      2 months ago

      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

      • SynopsisTantilize
        1·
        2 months ago

        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

  • Blackout@fedia.io
    36·
    2 months ago

    China also has an amazing switchback highway called the Pamir sky road with over 600 hairpin turns in under 36km

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    291·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • meep_launcher
    222·
    2 months ago

    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!

      • meep_launcher
        15·
        2 months ago

        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.

        • skulbuny@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I dig it :) Thanks for the lebeafing, it was good shit

          edit the comment history is great :D keep the internet weird :)