[HN Gopher] CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions
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CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions
Author : kennybrea
Score : 354 points
Date : 2023-01-20 02:46 UTC (20 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.carsized.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.carsized.com)
| stefap2 wrote:
| No Acura?
| wpietri wrote:
| Whoa. For me its cookie choice box gives me one choice: agreeing
| to be tracked. I've never seen that, but it strikes me as pretty
| rude.
| dotancohen wrote:
| Fortunately the browser has the option to disable cookies. I've
| never understood why people just don't use this option.
| ajsnigrutin wrote:
| Yep, browsers should have per-domain cookie jars that get
| wiped when the all tabs/windows using that domain are
| closed.. and then a button not to wipe them on those few
| domains that you actually need them (to stay logged in).
|
| But this is what you get when you have politicians dealing
| with technology.
| nerdponx wrote:
| Lack of decent UX for cookie management.
| tobyhinloopen wrote:
| How do you login
| ruined wrote:
| login to what? as far as i can tell, it has no account
| functionality
| [deleted]
| [deleted]
| ComodoHacker wrote:
| Actually it offers second choice if you read the text. Don't
| agree and lose some vertical space while using the site.
| kqr wrote:
| Right click, inspect, delete cookie question element!
| feb wrote:
| And it's also illegal in EU. The GRPD imposes to have the
| choice to reject tracking cookies. And it must be easy to
| reject, not hidden somewhere or requiring one to manually
| delete the cookies with the browser mechanisms.
| bmn__ wrote:
| https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
|
| https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
|
| Don't waste time on that nonsense, let the software deal
| automatically with denying consent to being tracked.
| a10c wrote:
| One thing it's missing that would be immensely useful is a leg
| room comparison in front / back seats
| userbinator wrote:
| Unfortunately the longest and shortest vehicles in
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_superlative...
| aren't there, but this is the closest I could find:
|
| https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/bmw-isetta-1955-1-d...
| dsfyu404ed wrote:
| The "firsts" section of the wikipedia link needs a whole bunch
| of "depends how you define" type footnotes.
| netgusto wrote:
| Found longer! Dodge RAM 2500
| https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/bmw-isetta-1955-1-d...
| parker_mountain wrote:
| The 2500 also has the highest amount of drunk drivers per
| capita in the US. Truly, a terrifying vehicle.
| tw98521358 wrote:
| It's not a good buy so people that get them are by nature
| have poor impulse control. I'd love to see a chart of car
| vs avg credit rating sometime
| Helmut10001 wrote:
| This is me driving with my Space Star on the Autobahn [1]
|
| [1]: https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/mitsubishi-
| mirage-2...
| dotancohen wrote:
| Click on the front view. The Lincoln's grill comes up to the
| Mitsu's head rest!
| [deleted]
| HereBeBeasties wrote:
| Spare a thought in your enormous hatchback for those of us who
| can't even see through your back window to the road in front,
| as you tower over us:
| https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/lotus-elise-2011-ro...
| ;-)
| totetsu wrote:
| For some reason this reminds me of the video games that taught me
| to aim RPGs with iron sights by memorizing the dimensions of in
| game vehicles and comparing it to a little measure on the sight
| to estimate distance and so how far to adjust the aim upwards..
| dsfyu404ed wrote:
| Information regarding what common objects your front sight is
| the width of at various ranges is pretty a standard inclusion
| (though not a particularly emphasized part) training in
| professional armies.
|
| Many optical sights also incorporate similar features.
| pacoverdi wrote:
| Pretty cool. Looks like there are some scaling issues though:
|
| https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/peugeot-5008-2017-s...
|
| Front side: the 5008 looks smaller even though it's taller.
|
| Rear side: the 5008 looks taller.
| Jolter wrote:
| So the Citroen looks taller even though it's shorter by
| measurement.
|
| Isn't this exactly the effect they are explaining in the FAQ?
| (Link at the bottom of the page). Depending on the curvature of
| the roof line, if you stand closer or further away, perspective
| will make one car or the other look taller.
| pacoverdi wrote:
| Thanks, I did not see the FAQ which was hidden underneath the
| cookie banner :)
|
| You may be right. When looking at the side view, the rear of
| the 5008 seems a little higher, while the height of the front
| part is pretty similar in both cars.
| Toutouxc wrote:
| You don't even have to mess around with Smarts and Minis... The
| car I [try not to] drive (a Skoda Rapid liftback) fits four 180
| cm (5'10") adults and their baggage for a week, yet I could
| almost drive UNDERNEATH some of the crap I have to share the
| roads with (LR Discovery, F-150, BMW X8).
|
| I used to love cars and driving, now they disgust me, along with
| the whole my-car-is-my-identity culture.
| Gordonjcp wrote:
| And yet your "little" Skoda is the same size as a first or
| second generation Landrover Discovery, and a bawhair smaller
| than my second-gen Range Rover...
| Toutouxc wrote:
| > your "little" Skoda
|
| That's the thing, it's not "little" in my book, but a full
| sized car. It comfortably fits an average family (or a group
| of four adults) and their stuff for a week-long vacation.
|
| > same size as a first or second generation Landrover
| Discovery It's 25 % lower and 5 % narrower than the first
| generation, but I understand that the Discovery is an off-
| road car, and I also consider it a full sized car, just like
| mine. The evolution should've stopped (or been regulated)
| right around there.
| MezzoDelCammin wrote:
| 194cm tall 95kg (i.e. "not skinny") 2021 Skoda Fabia owner
| here. Last trip was 4 people for some weekend hiking, no big
| issues either.
|
| Yeah, Rapid is a bit on the long size ;-)
|
| But agree - I wouldn't like to drive that outside of the EU. It
| feels kinda weird to be (sometimes below) eye level with some
| car hoods...
| trgn wrote:
| > I used to love cars and driving, now they disgust me,
|
| ++
|
| I live in fly-over country, and cars, pretty much all of them,
| are monstrously large now. I notice the change, even to 15-20
| years ago. Just as a small example; the physical experience of
| just being in a parking lot now, it's gotten really foul. The
| rooflines of cars parked on the street now block the view
| outside my local coffee shop. Not sure if this is real, but
| there seems more of that casual sociopathic driving (weaving in
| an out of traffic, texting, tailgating, ...). I'm not
| exaggerating, any given day and I likely see, with my own eyes,
| the aftermath of a wreck.
|
| It's absolutely insane to me. It's a true saying; "things can
| always get worse". I feel like we're finding that out now. The
| public realm is just worse. Straight up. Worse. More deadly,
| violent, unwelcoming. And it's cars. The only concrete thing
| really. Big, fast going cars. Slow them down, have them
| smaller. And immediately, almost from day one, life outside is
| better.
|
| > whole my-car-is-my-identity culture
|
| This is not projection, it's a core truth. Many americans have
| reified independence into an extremely specific material
| _thing_. Big cars. Even if not all, then still enough to hold
| everybody else hostage.
| yabones wrote:
| My wife recently pointed out to me that cars from 15-25 years
| ago all have "happy faces" and newer cars (late 00's to
| current) often have "angry faces".
|
| It's silly at first, but the more you think about it, the
| more it makes sense why driving has gotten so miserable. Our
| little monkey-brains see angry faces all around us, and we
| act more defensively. We feel the need to defend ourselves
| from all the scary metal boxes, leading to buying scarier
| looking boxes. It's an angry-headlights arms race.
| jgbmlg wrote:
| I think there have always been a few aggressive, angry-
| looking cars. Case in point the 1950 Buick Super Eight
| https://imgur.com/a/OvwFNQa I wonder what is the oldest
| angry car.
| blastro wrote:
| Fairly profound point. The old Ford Taurus basically smiled
| at you.
| itsoktocry wrote:
| [flagged]
| bjt2n3904 wrote:
| > my-car-is-my-identity culture
|
| Projection much?
| forgetfulness wrote:
| For instance: https://www.reddit.com/gallery/y78psk
| dahfizz wrote:
| Its not unreasonable to point out that having your own car
| unlocks a lot of personal freedom and independence. That
| post is obvious flame bait but I find it hard to argue the
| underlying truth.
| amelius wrote:
| My phone is already my identity.
| mechanical_bear wrote:
| No Toyota Tacoma...probably the most popular truck in many US
| states. No Ram trucks. No Subaru WRX, nor BRZ. Really neat
| concept, but I wish it had more US vehicles.
| Gordonjcp wrote:
| Dodge Ram is about the same as a small or mid-size Ford
| Transit, so you could pick one of those.
| jsmith45 wrote:
| "Dodge Ram" hasn't been a thing since 2010, when they spit
| Ram out to be a separate brand. However the site does have a
| 2010-2019 (a.k.a 4th generation Ram) listed under the Dodge
| brand, which is technically fair, because the initial units
| of the 4th generation were Dodge branded.
|
| However to add the 5th generation they would really need to
| split it out as a sperate brand to be correct, and if they do
| so, they should duplicate the 4th generation into the new
| brand.
| [deleted]
| dsfyu404ed wrote:
| >probably the most popular truck in many US states.
|
| Wealthy inner suburbs where white collar professionals live
| they absolutely dominate. Everywhere else people buy half tons
| because you get so much more vehicle for your dollar, the fuel
| economy penalty is marginal and with modern tech they're not
| really that much more unwieldy to drive.
| userbinator wrote:
| The Ram is there and so is a WRX:
|
| https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/subaru-impreza-2014...
|
| But you're right about the others --- this site seems to be
| Europe-focused.
| Nition wrote:
| It does have the Toyota Hilux, which is very similar to the
| Tacoma.
| chrisBob wrote:
| The Hilux works if your goal is to compare a random compact
| car to an average midsize truck, but if your goal is to
| look at how a Ford Ranger compares to a Toyota Tacoma then
| you are out of luck.
|
| I am currently shopping for a new vehicle, and this
| comparison could be very useful if it had the models I am
| considering.
| gregod wrote:
| This is a good example for an interactive non-SPA. JS only for
| cosmetics and all state is fully stored in the URLs. The main
| pages could even be statically generated (858705 combinations * 3
| views * 8KB = 20GB).
| NikolaNovak wrote:
| I was very excited, but it seems external dimension only, and
| I've found time and again that outside dimensions have lose
| relationship to inside dimensions. Choices and tradeoffs around
| engine orientation and placement, front vs rear vs trunk sizes
| etc, can all make a massive difference. They include cargo volume
| in numbers but not front/rear seat sizes, which is critical to me
| both as tall driver and with children seats :-/
| smm11 wrote:
| "Toyota" shows one car. "Ford" shows one car.
| pugworthy wrote:
| My MG Midget is sad. Austin Healey is as close as I can get
| kennybrea wrote:
| It's a bit wonky. You have to select the manufacturer and then
| the model - it'll also have a year if available.
| Animats wrote:
| I want to see some of those new 6-door pickups.
| VanTodi wrote:
| Sadly no marauder in the selection. Would love to see the
| comparison
| AdamN wrote:
| This site is old school but a bit more informative and fast (from
| a UX perspective):
|
| https://www.automobiledimension.com/car-comparison.php
|
| One thing missing is rear leg room (which is critical for me
| right now with a family of 4)
| spacehunt wrote:
| Unfortunately this site is not useful for me, as it seems there
| is no way to select my current car, a VW Golf Mk6 5 door.
| huhtenberg wrote:
| Yours is far less useful as all cars are rendered roughly the
| same size and side by side. Its utility and its UX is tangibly
| inferior to the submitted site.
| sandos wrote:
| Theyr'e missing Rivian!
| roughly wrote:
| So here's my problem these days:
|
| https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/bmw-3-1997-coupe-vs...
| jdmichal wrote:
| I love how obvious this makes the fact that truck headlights
| are perfectly placed to shine directly into the rear window and
| mirrors of a car. I've had to angle my side mirrors down
| sitting at a light with a truck behind me. They don't have
| dimming, and I end up just repeatedly blinding myself peeking
| in the mirror.
| albertsun wrote:
| This is pretty interesting too:
| https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/bmw-3-1997-sedan-vs...
|
| Same car has grown by 5% over 15 years.
| avereveard wrote:
| Bummer that the front/rear view isn't superimposed, pillars angle
| and position is a major factor in internal space
| ck2 wrote:
| I'd like to see like three different sized humans to scale in
| front of the vehicles to show how much or little the driver can
| see.
|
| Like the way kids are invisible when they cross in front of
| modern American pickups and SUVs
| losvedir wrote:
| Very cool! I just did some car shopping and compiled a
| spreadsheet of the various dimensions of the cars we were
| considering. This would have been a perfect tool for us. It's
| kind of hard to really get a sense of the numbers otherwise.
| Looks like it doesn't have a way of visualizing interiors,
| unfortunately.
| friendzis wrote:
| I agree on the sentiment. Take some old "large" car and newish
| midsize car. While the old car will be huge on the outside,
| steering wheel to backseat distance will be pretty very much
| comparable. And aside from general ergonomics, that's the thing
| one usually cares about when looking for larger than micro cars
| pikma wrote:
| +1, this would have been super to me too when buying a car with
| the constraint of having a tiny garage with a weird shape.
|
| What I really wanted was a tool that lets me draw the plan of
| the garage and then tells me if I'll be able to park my car,
| and the margin (min offset to wall during the whole maneuver).
|
| I couldn't find that at the time sadly.
| poly_morphis wrote:
| +1 for the interiors. I'm doing car shopping right now, and
| this is the type of thing I've been looking for. I wanted a way
| to visualize the approximate height difference of sitting in
| the cabin of a CUV vs sedan.
| nawgz wrote:
| Subaru Outback has the best cabin
| a-b wrote:
| Great idea! I hope to see improved search and size filtering in
| future versions. It's annoying to select the maker first and
| later model. It would be great if I can type the model, select
| year, and get results.
| unglaublich wrote:
| Should compare it to average parking spot size.
| zwilliamson wrote:
| My whole family worked for a major car manufacturer. My mother
| was the first woman tin smith hired there. I grew up loving cars
| (rural living). But now I've lost the love. I think mainly after
| seeing what they do to amazing cities like SF and Seattle my
| heart has changed. We need to subsidize and promote better
| personal mobility options. My daily driver is a Riese & Muller
| Load 60 e-cargo bike. I've had it since 2020. I've lived in
| multiple cities and it is an ideal personal mobility setup. My
| dog rides around with me too! Why am I the only one in this town
| riding around in one? It's not a money problem. I see people
| buying secondary cars to drive 2 blocks to the grocery store. Is
| it a safety issue? Very fixable. Are people lazy? Absolutely, but
| they can be motivated.
|
| In the US we had a massive infra bill pass. How much is going to
| local pedestrian and cycling infrastructure? Just so frustrating
| the stranglehold cars have on us.
| dfxm12 wrote:
| It's part auto lobby, part ID pol. Conservatives, like Marjorie
| Taylor Greene, for some reason are against any mode of
| transportation that isn't powered by an ICE. She's said
| "Democrats like Pete Buttigieg want to emasculate the way we
| drive and force all of you to rely on electric vehicles".
|
| The bill had a hard time passing as it was...
| neuronic wrote:
| Aha, loving the smell and feel of burned or non-burned
| degraded zooplankton matter is masculine but driving across
| the city with the power of lightening like Thor himself is
| not. Got it.
|
| What I actually wanted to express: it's about framing and
| marketing and people like MTG capitalize on that. In the end,
| emotions will play a big role when it comes to adoption and
| this is where media and advertising giants come in.
| ryanianian wrote:
| I live in a very walkable city (NYC). But I don't dare ride a
| bike. The car traffic is too nasty, and I'm very non-confident
| about my bike-riding abilities. I would love a motorized three-
| wheeler or something where I don't have to balance on my own
| _too_ much. Maybe with a roof for the rain.
|
| Perhaps I'm dreaming of a world full of personal tuk-tuks and
| golf-carts? It's annoying that the only real options in the US
| seem to be "30 pound bike" or "2-ton+ car".
| stronglikedan wrote:
| I just love my car. I just love to drive it. I love to go where
| I want, whenever I want. I hate being driven - it's anxiety
| inducing and mind-numbingly boring. I appreciate the car-
| friendly infrastructure.
|
| I'd wager most drivers IRL are like me, despite the vocal
| online minority. We should work on better infrastructure that
| allows for all public and private transport modes to work about
| equally as well in a given space.
| djaychela wrote:
| Just looked at the Riese & Muller. Looks great, but I think
| part of the problem with ebikes like this is that they -are-
| the price of a secondhand car, and most people will just go
| with that instead. I've got a 'normal' ebike, and I used it a
| lot in lockdown, and often use it to go to the local shops.
| Would love something like the R&M, but it's a lot of money...
| logicallee wrote:
| The page lists "858705 comparison combinations":
| https://imgur.com/a/coBCan8
|
| For anyone who is curious what means, it means they must have
| 1311 cars in the database.
|
| (1311 cars for the first choice * 1310 cars for the second choice
| assuming you can't compare a car against itself, divided by two
| since order doesn't matter. 1311*1310/2=858705.)
|
| How I found it: https://hastebin.com/raw/ekeqegoxuv
|
| If anyone wants to hire me as a data scientist, my email is open
| :) I code Python, R, and the major languages (a bit of
| JavaScript, Go, whatever is needed) and am interested in AI, my
| latest project is here:
| https://github.com/robss2020/computerplayverysexymusic
| bnegreve wrote:
| > For anyone who is curious what means, it means they must have
| 1311 cars in the database.
|
| They do, the list is available here
| https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/. A quick pipe of this list
| into wc -l gives you 1311.
| logicallee wrote:
| Thank you. Nice to have that confirmation! :D
| defrost wrote:
| Ahhh, likely there's a few restrictions to "comparisons within
| groups" for some value of {group} ?
|
| Is there any notion of 'same' as in only { sedans | trucks } to
| { sedans | trucks } etc?
| logicallee wrote:
| no restrictions, meanwhile I found the answer :) (I put my
| original question into a pastebin) But thank you.
| felipelalli wrote:
| It doesn't have my car. :-(
| LisaDziuba wrote:
| [dead]
| logicalmonster wrote:
| This is pretty cool, but IMO a missing feature of this website
| would be to show cars in front/back of the side view to display
| what it looks like trying to park. The biggest reason to get a
| smaller car IMO is the easier time you have parking in tight
| spots. That would really highlight the differences.
| jakebasile wrote:
| I've found a few of these types of sites over time, and I find
| them pretty handy. This one gets added to the list!
|
| There's Handgun Hero [1] for comparing ... handgun sizes, which
| is super handy when window shopping for something new, to compare
| it to something I already have.
|
| There's Camera Size [2] which compares, you guessed it, cameras.
| Handy for the exact same reasons as the above. For a more
| technical comparison you can use DPReview's comparator [3].
|
| [1]: https://www.handgunhero.com/
|
| [2]: https://camerasize.com/
|
| [3]: https://www.dpreview.com/products/compare/cameras
| etrautmann wrote:
| How often does someone need to buy new handguns?
| alkonaut wrote:
| I guess it's like guitars and bikes, a small group will
| "need" a new one/another one (guilty of both), but for most
| people you either need zero or you need one and never need to
| swap once you have one. But I agree that having a site for
| comparing feels quite alien to those of us outside the US
| (for reference, I'm 40+, made military service and still
| haven't even _seen_ a handgun outside of its holster on
| uniformed officers).
| InitialLastName wrote:
| For the sake of our society, I really hope most gun owners
| don't need to replace stolen guns as often as bike owners
| have to replace stolen bikes.
| 0xffff2 wrote:
| I don't think that's what GP meant, rather the common
| trope amongst cyclists is the the ideal number of bikes
| to own is `n + 1`, where `n` is the number of bikes you
| currently own.
| Gordonjcp wrote:
| I didn't really get handgun culture (I'm in the UK,
| everyone has rifles and shotguns, handguns aren't a thing
| any more since we had a school shooting in the 90ss) until
| I read an exchange on Reddit which was full of comments
| like "Ah yeah but what you do is you unscrew that top part,
| drill and tap it a size larger, and then you can bolt on
| <some part off a different gun> which allows you to mount
| <some sort of otherwise incompatible accessory> and by
| taking a bit off the grips it'll actually be lighter and
| better balanced and easier to get the sights dialled in and
| then..."
|
| Wait a bloody minute, I get it now - you guys are _geeks_!
| Just like the synth geeks and Landrover geeks I know, it 's
| the same conversations with some different nouns in it.
| gigaflop wrote:
| There's something sexy about the CZ Shadow 2, even though
| I don't own nay handguns.
| gvurrdon wrote:
| We do still have some handguns, such as single-shot
| flintlocks, muzzle-loading revolvers of 1850s design, and
| some modern handguns which have been extended with long
| barrels and counterweights to make them >= 60cm in length
| (IIRC). I think that these aren't very common at all
| compared with shortguns and rifles though. From what I've
| heard, when modern handguns were banned some shooters
| switched to modern reproductions of the mid-19th century
| models only to find that they didn't much like the
| cleaning (black powder makes a lot of mess), fiddling and
| slow loading that goes along with these guns.
|
| https://www.henrykrank.com/guns/muzzle-loading-guns/
| User23 wrote:
| > From what I've heard, when modern handguns were banned
| some shooters switched to modern reproductions of the
| mid-19th century models only to find that they didn't
| much like the cleaning (black powder makes a lot of
| mess), fiddling and slow loading that goes along with
| these guns.
|
| One cleans black powder firearms with regular old soap
| and water, which is really interesting to me. I hear some
| people even just put them in the dishwasher!
|
| A practiced shooter can load faster than you'd think, but
| using a powder horn and the plunger is still considerably
| slower than loading a cartridge revolver with a speed-
| loader or by hand. It is possible to make paper
| cartridges with pre-measured powder charges that can just
| be dropped in and then plunged. In that case it's almost
| as fast as loading brass cartridges one at a time, which
| is still considerably slower than modern alternatives.
| This is why American cowboys would carry at least two
| revolvers for a total of 10 rounds, or 12 if they were
| feeling brave. The reason why 10 is that there were no
| firing pin safeties, so if you got banged hard and there
| was a round in the top chamber it could accidentally
| discharge.
|
| As an aside, in the USA a 19th century design muzzle
| loader isn't even legally a firearm under federal law.
| You can buy one on eBay and have it mailed straight to
| your door. I don't know if any of the states have
| restrictions, but so far as I know black powder firearms
| aren't really used for any kind of criminal activity
| except maybe poaching.
| jgbmlg wrote:
| Before the 19th Century, black powder was so incompletely
| combustible that firearms, despite allowing a huge amount
| of windage (the difference between the diameters of the
| barrel and the ball), would become too fouled to load
| after as few as 4 shots. That's why smoothbores were used
| long after the rifle was invented. During battles,
| soldiers peed down the barrel and used their ramrods to
| clean them.
| gvurrdon wrote:
| Cleaning is indeed quite easy and could indeed be done
| with a bit of hot water and soap. It can take a while,
| though. I've heard that about the sale of these guns in
| the US. Presumably there's not much demand given the
| prevalence of better modern designs. Over here, an
| original antique revolver of that period could also be
| posted directly to a purchaser who could hold it without
| a licence, as long as they weren't a known criminal. If
| the owner wanted to fire it they would need a licence. I
| am reminded that there are a small number of modern
| revolvers using smokeless powder that have been converted
| to a loading mechanism resembling that of the mid-19th
| century. These are also legal here.
|
| http://www.westlakeengineering.com/products/
| bjt2n3904 wrote:
| I call them "Barbie dolls for men". You gotta
| accessorize!
| jakebasile wrote:
| Twice a day with meals, and call me in the morning.
| AlgorithmicTime wrote:
| [dead]
| jgbmlg wrote:
| Every time you throw one off a bridge.
| sawjet wrote:
| More often than I buy new cars
| omeid2 wrote:
| In USA, gun per capita is over 2 and majority of democrats,
| who approach almost 50%, do not own guns. So the answer is
| "often", if you consider USA.
| sokoloff wrote:
| The data I looked up suggested it was 1.2 guns/American
| (not over 2.0), but in any case, I think the majority of
| both parties own exactly zero (56% of Republicans and 80%
| of Democrats per a survey in the same article).
|
| https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/06/02/us/gun-ownership-
| numbers-...
| User23 wrote:
| That's legal guns. Democrats own considerably more
| illegal guns than Republicans. Obviously self-reported
| data for illegal firearms is low quality.
| kube-system wrote:
| Yeah, there's just _tons_ of 922r compliance going on
| down at everyone 's local range. And everyone's "solvent
| trap" keeps springing a leak right at the end, some how.
| /s
| User23 wrote:
| 922r is basically just a buy American regulation that has
| the added bonus of letting ATF hassle people selectively.
| On the other hand, "solvent traps" remind me of wine
| bricks[1]. Both are obviously legal. Sure you could do
| illegal things with them, but you could do illegal things
| with a coke bottle too.
|
| But what does this have to do with illegal guns as any
| ordinary person understands them? Maybe some Republican
| bubba's Benelli duck hunting gun is technically illegal
| because he put a mag extension on it without swapping out
| enough Italian made parts, but frankly you're grasping at
| irrelevancies.
|
| Meanwhile, plenty of Democrats in Chicago own illegal
| sears for their Glocks along with drum mags[2]. Now
| that's something that maybe we should care about, because
| those are real criminals hurting real people and not just
| criminals on paper for violating frankly ridiculous
| regulations.
|
| Edit: Added easily Google-able link for illegal sears in
| Chicago.
|
| [1] https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/how-wine-bricks-saved-
| the-u-s...
|
| [2] https://www.npr.org/2022/10/28/1131026241/chicago-
| handgun-vi...
| kube-system wrote:
| There's a word for people who pick and choose which laws
| to follow: criminals. And I don't think there's too many
| duck guns subject to 922r.
|
| > Meanwhile, plenty of Democrats in Chicago own illegal
| sears for their Glocks along with drum mags.
|
| How do you know they're democrats?
| AlgorithmicTime wrote:
| [dead]
| recuter wrote:
| If you get into Guitars we call it GAS (Guitar Acquisition
| Syndrome).
|
| Some ladies even have fashion accessories, you can color
| match your guns and purses for every occasion. Try it before
| you knock it. ;)
| wayvey wrote:
| Synthesizer and other electronic music enthusiasts also
| have GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome)
| davedx wrote:
| Vinyl also used to be called "black crack" :)
| Gordonjcp wrote:
| I just need to get one more patchbay until it's perfect.
| Maybe a different mixer, or maybe just a new ADAT
| converter for the one I already have.
|
| But then that's it, no more.
|
| Same time next week, then?
| prmoustache wrote:
| GAS may have come from guitars (I don't know really) but is
| now commonly referred for any hobby as Gear Acquisition
| Syndrome
| recuter wrote:
| I don't know where it started either, maybe originally it
| was Gun Acquisition Syndrome, ha.
|
| But I'd like to believe it all started right here:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7-5io1muSQ
| grecy wrote:
| N+1 is the number of <things> you need.
|
| Bikes, snowboards, surfboards, guitars, etc
| InitialLastName wrote:
| where N < the number where your spouse leaves you.
| [deleted]
| recuter wrote:
| Spouses come and go. A limited edition PRS is forever.
| Besides it is probably going to end up a collectible and
| increase in value. Can't afford not to buy it really.
| InitialLastName wrote:
| Without another adult in the household, how can I
| reasonably justify needing a 2-car garage to store all my
| bikes?
| recuter wrote:
| That's easy. You watch a few FortNite videos on YouTube
| and slowly but surely end up with a small motorcycle
| collection.
|
| You're going to want to work on your own bikes and
| eventually fabricate your ow-- basically, you need the
| space for your $250,000 CNC machine anyhow, so..
| 22c wrote:
| Was recently linked to EloShapes [1] for comparing computer
| mouse size/profiles.
|
| [1]: https://www.eloshapes.com/
| bjt2n3904 wrote:
| It seems like we need a meta website. "I need to visually
| compare the size of XYZ.com" that helps you find sites like
| these.
| abruzzi wrote:
| Camera size was great--I just wish they had old cameras, now
| that I don't shoot digital anymore.
|
| One of the most useful for me is https://cycle-ergo.com . The
| fit and riding position of a motocycle is very personal--sport
| bikes lean you forward, adventure you stay upright, cruisers
| lean you back. But beyond that, can you reach the gound (and do
| you care), how much of a stretch are the pedals. The site is
| not perfect, but gives you an idea how you will fit before you
| have a chance to throw your leg over.
| tcmb wrote:
| Not quite the same but similar is https://geometrygeeks.bike/
| for comparing, you guessed it, bicycle geometries. No bike
| photos on this one, though.
| dschep wrote:
| You should add a child and adult for scale. So many cars are just
| dangerously large these days.
| brulard wrote:
| This is beautiful. It must have been a lot of work to collect all
| that data and images. Although the UX is a little shaky. When
| searching for a vehicle the UI jumps around. And it would be
| useful to just search for a vehicle in a single query and not
| have to go always through the manufacturer first.
| King-Aaron wrote:
| No NA mx5 :( But some fairly obscure cars in other brands lol.
| BoorishBears wrote:
| I was shocked to see my 124 Spider listed
|
| But the NB is pretty similar dimensionally to the NA, only the
| NC is entirely missing
| ggm wrote:
| MG & BYD? more chinese makes, they're killing the EV market.
| timidiceball wrote:
| Yea the first thing I looked up was Hongqi (specifically the
| E-Hs9) as they've grown popular here.
| emzo wrote:
| This is really well done. I'd love to see some more info about
| the process of photographing the cars.
| xnx wrote:
| Very cool. Is there a way to make the front and rear views
| overlap like the side view does?
| albert_e wrote:
| I had the exact comment to make.
|
| Overlapped view gives the easiest way to compare. A
| transparency slider might also be useful.
|
| Going further a 3D model of cars set side-by-side on a
| rotatable plaform would be next step i guess though the
| value:complexity may not be that great. One could put a person
| standing next to it and make the person's height adjustable too
| :)
|
| I feel like a product manager who doesn't need to care about
| implementation complexity :)
| kennybrea wrote:
| Found this and thought it's neat to see the dimensions of cars
| properly. Mostly because there's a larger influx of American
| pickups in my town and I'm not enjoying it one bit.
| CalRobert wrote:
| Was weird to see so many Dodge Rams in the Netherlands.
| Doxin wrote:
| Where do all these people even park those behemoths? Do they
| just double park all of the time?
| davedx wrote:
| Yup! Even when they could have fit it into a single slot,
| often they'll take two
| Laarlf wrote:
| I would assume that if you go out of your way to have a
| company and buy a massive pickup that is more expensive
| than a Van and less usable you probably do not give a shit.
| The fact that they can basically ignore BPM on company cars
| is absolutely stupid.
| michpoch wrote:
| Yeah but you buy a pickup for a work that you could not
| do with a van.
|
| Pickups are for farmers, how do you carry pigs or a pile
| of dirt in a van?
| Gordonjcp wrote:
| You don't, you carry them in a trailer.
|
| How do you carry them in pickup?
| dsfyu404ed wrote:
| >how do you carry pigs or a pile of dirt in a van?
|
| With less convenience and more difficulty.
|
| I've done that kind of stuff, not great but it works. I
| can definitely see why people who don't very, very, very
| frequently need the enclosed cargo space prefer the
| pickups over vans.
| yourusername wrote:
| Presumably the same place they would park the Mercedes
| Sprinter that they would have otherwise that is about the
| same size. The people driving American pickups in the
| Netherlands are almost all contractors and they're a bit
| shorter and a bit wider than a Mercedes Sprinter.
| krisoft wrote:
| > The people driving American pickups in the Netherlands
| are almost all contractors and they're a bit shorter and
| a bit wider than a Mercedes Sprinter.
|
| I imagined all these people who are only a bit shorter
| but a bit wider than a van. :)
| jameshart wrote:
| Small nit: 'double parking' does not mean 'parking in two
| parking spaces'. It generally means parallel parking next
| to a car that is already parallel parked - ie, parking
| roadside in a second row alongside a first row of parked
| cars.
|
| More generally it refers to doubling up two cars in a
| parking space in such a way that one car blocks the other
| in (eg parking two cars nose to tail in a long parking bay)
| InitialLastName wrote:
| At least in my region, the phrase is used about evenly to
| refer to both:
|
| - Parking in the roadway next to the row of parallel
| parked cars/in other ways such that parked cars are
| blocked in
|
| and
|
| - Parking a single car such that two parking spots are
| obstructed (unjustifiably so, e.g. nobody would likely
| talk that way about an RV taking two parallel parking
| spots).
|
| The difference in usage seems to depend on whether you
| (and your local cohort) spend more of your time parking
| in parking lots or on the street.
| jameshart wrote:
| Double parking is a legal term for a specific traffic
| violation.
|
| People who use it to refer to parking across two bays in
| a parking lot are using it _wrong_.
|
| It's like saying 'well people in my region use the word
| "speeding" both to refer to going over the speed limit,
| and for going through a red light'.
|
| People in your region have heard a term and misunderstood
| it.
|
| Laws commonly include exceptions like;
|
| > Vehicles used ordinarily for transportation of
| merchandise may double park for the purpose of, but only
| while engaged in, the expeditious loading or unloading
|
| - that doesn't mean delivery vehicles can park across two
| bays in a parking lot.
| InitialLastName wrote:
| > People in your region have heard a term and
| misunderstood it.
|
| Language is how people use it. That sounds like a
| perfectly valid route to adding a colloquial meaning to a
| word.
| jameshart wrote:
| I'm as descriptivist as the next enlightened linguistic
| scholar, but this phrase has a specific meaning in
| traffic codes. Misunderstanding it is dangerous.
| kube-system wrote:
| The initial mention of it in this thread was not in a
| legal context.
| PaulWaldman wrote:
| Does anyone know of a more generic version of this site? One
| where you can upload pictures with known dimensions and they can
| then be scaled accordingly.
| tmnvix wrote:
| You could include an image behind the vehicles for scale. Perhaps
| a family.
| hbarka wrote:
| or banana boxes
|
| https://youtu.be/RB6ZrjftKu8
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| I would love to see standard garage sizes as a background.
|
| https://www.homestratosphere.com/standard-garage-dimensions/
| a3w wrote:
| So, no tanks for comparison? Guess some would be smaller.
|
| > At over five meters, the Mercedes GL X166 is one of the largest
| SUVs. According to the German Transport Club, it is even bigger
| than a tank.
|
| (Actually, "than a Panzer", and discussing what is a tank and
| what is not is the same w/ the Panzerwaffe in germany, e.g. a
| Marder, not a Leopard, here)
| Someone wrote:
| The original Panzer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_I)
| was only 4 meters and 2 centimeters long.
|
| That's large for a tankette
| (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankette.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carden_Loyd_tankette shows how
| small these could be) but small for a tank.
| rr808 wrote:
| This is great, its always difficult to see comparisons online. Of
| the the big 3 row SUV looks as big as the smallest compact. I'd
| love to see trunk space too.
| huhtenberg wrote:
| > 858705 comparison combinations
|
| So 1311 cars in their database.
| xtiansimon wrote:
| Ooh! I want motorcycles
| pcurve wrote:
| I did GMC Yukon extended and Mini cooper 3door. And swap the
| order. Mini entire length is the same as Yukon wheelbase.
| causi wrote:
| I got excited about this but then neither the car I currently own
| nor the car I'm considering buying are listed.
| delta_p_delta_x wrote:
| Huh, there is less difference between D-segment (3-series, A4,
| C-class) and E-segment (5-series, A6, E-class) cars than I
| thought.
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