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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 79 points 10 months ago (8 children)

it looks at Lombard St. in SF

“Pathetic”

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 points 10 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 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Surprised it’s still the whole car and not just the front.

I wonder if that is actually an allowed space.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Agreed.

I'm feeling anxiety just imagining backing out of that.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

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

[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I thought it's only exist in GTA San Andreas, but it's real now

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 6 points 10 months ago

And Midtown Madness 2

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Might’ve even been real a few decades before San Andreas 😉

That’s a fun discovery!

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Yes! Pretty well trafficked all day every day.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I want to coast down that in neutral so bad.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 points 10 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.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you guys think it would be a good idea if more US residential streets were made into this?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 10 months ago

even better would be making it a sheer cliff with an elevator and a staircase.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought they blocked it to only local traffic after residents complained?

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 10 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 points 10 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.