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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 78 points 2 months ago (8 children)

it looks at Lombard St. in SF

“Pathetic”

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 2 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 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 14 points 2 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 2 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 2 months ago

Agreed.

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

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

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

[–] BastingChemina 6 points 2 months ago

And Midtown Madness 2

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

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

That’s a fun discovery!

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Yes! Pretty well trafficked all day every day.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I want to coast down that in neutral so bad.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 10 points 2 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 2 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 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.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 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 2 months ago

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

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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