i don't think i've even taken my foot off the brake on that stretch.
also, note to any y'all who want to visit, it's a gorgeous walk down the street but you do not want to drive it. this photo does not do the grade justice
i can point to specific roads in local cities that they probably used for those studies. been that way for a few decades now out in sacramento specifically. they shifted the lanes a little bit, narrowed the road, and moved the curb/sidewalk/crosswalk such that (1) there's less road to cross and (2) traffic slows down because the road naturally slows down before the crosswalk. also added botts dotts to give a little rumble as you cross the crosswalk in your car.
there's a similar street that they're recently changed like that in my small city. it's a 25 street. my bike only does 20 until fix the front derailleur. if i catch the front of the wave and don't have anything heavy in my basket i can usually make 4 or 5 lights in a row before i hit a red and it's glorious.
yup. After five years i admitted to my parents "hey remember the time i came home late from blahblahblah in high school and said i got ice cream? it's because i got the car stuck on a really big rock and we had to pry it off. it would have gone easy if DAD HADN'T STOLEN MY CAR'S JACK OUT OF MY CAR. that's why i was grumpy about the jack after ice cream. but we got a good video out of it"
we ended up having to move the rock like 40 feet to get my car out from on top of it, and it has not moved to this day. big ol' rock, size of a desk.
sentient shells?