In Australia they’re registered as trucks, and drivers have to follow truck rules, including special low speed limits on hills, restrictions from minor roads except where that’s their destination

This isn’t a big impost on them, but it makes them less desirable for people who would use them as daily drivers

It looks “mean” which buyers apparently like

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It’s how I learnt to use the words. “Twice as much” or “twice as many” = 2x, “twice more than” is +2. It’s less than perfectly standard, but it’s unambiguous in English as I was taught

people turning right on red without stopping

We drive on the other side, so it’s our left turns. Newer intersections have a red left arrow while the pedestrian light is on green, then the red arrow goes out and the drivers may turn.

Older intersections have slip lanes which are pretty dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists

Twice more is plus two, not times two

I don’t like that my car sees a faded 80 sign and reads it as 30 and keeps going 80 (but starts flashing the speed on the screen)

Someone acting like you suppose the driver might have been doesn’t usually then immediately drive off and fail to identify themselves to police

Very little of the cost in that comic is external. People seem to ignore what owning a car costs

Mine is, with kilometres of cycle paths, some of them even maintained

I don’t think we see a traffic light in the video. A red light on its own is very unlikely to be a traffic light

even if there’s also a bike lane

Not in my town. We’re not allowed in the general lane without a good reason if there’s a bike lane (indicated by signs, painted lanes with bike symbols in them aren’t necessarily bike lanes, painted or separated lanes with start and end signs are bike lanes)

One route I ride is incredibly scenic, at one point there’s a really nice view over the local lake (the local lake at the city end rather than the less scenic lake at my suburban end of the ride) I’m always torn between stopping and soaking in the view, or enjoying a descent about as steep as any built after 1990, zigzagging down at up to your aerodynamic limit which is enormous fun

I ride a recumbent, which is good for me, people notice the weird bike, bad for the people ahead of me since cars tend to drift a bit as they keep watching me after they’ve passed me

It also ends at road works

If I ride in peak hour the most blocked up road is quite downhill so you fly past many cars

But I don’t like riding in peak hour, as crossing entrance ramps is slow and crossing exit ramps is frightening, though the great bulk of drivers are careful around bikes

Say the cars are 4.5m long each, 150 cars long half a metre between them for 650m, so quite likely 1km given the roughness of my estimates

In at least one thread they took the position that minus 20mph was perfectly fine

OP seems to recommend 20mph slower

People driving 5km/h below the limit in peak hour lad other drivers to drive badly. 30km/h below would induce road rage