Posts Tagged ‘subaru’
Friday, August 10th, 2012
It’s Texas of course:
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At first I thought that roadie was supposed to be a drugged-up Lance Armstrong but you can’t see any tracks on him. (There’s room on the plate for a hypo sticking out of Lance’s arm, if that who it’s supposed to be.)
Anyway, Only In Texas.
Also, Hugs not Drugs.
(Oh, this car already had a parking ticket on it, courtesy of the SFMTA / MUNI / DPT, you know, to say Welcome, Stranger! I’m not sure if the ticket was for unnecessary street cleaning or unnecessary neighborhood parking enforcement.)
Tags: 2012, bay area, california, DPT, drugged-up, drugs, lance armstrong, license plate, License Plates, Muni, Only In Texas., parking ticket, San Francisco, SFMTA, Share the Road Y'All, state, subaru, texas
Posted in bikes, cars | 4 Comments »
Monday, August 6th, 2012
Here’s your accident scene* on Market betwixt Battery and Sansome on August 3rd, 2012…
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…and here’s the streetcar driver, sitting inside of his streetcar, old 1811, pondering developments:
Wow.
Just because the SFMTA MUNI DPT is corrupt and evil and the worst large public transit agency in America and it has spokespeople who are famous for lying all the time, just because of that, doesn’t mean that the average SFMTA MUNI DPT is a bad person or anything…
*Maybe there’s some blame to go around here, having to do with maintenance or procedures or maybe the Mom-ish Subaru driver went on the wrong side of Market for a while only to suddenly pull in front of the streetcar and slam on the brakes – these things are possibilities, I suppose. But, man, things don’t look good for this operator.
Tags: +3, 1811, 2012, accident, august, battery, bay area, bus, california, child, cruashed, DPT, driver, F, f market, historic, hospital, injuries, injury, Line, market, Muni, oinbound, orange, San Francisco, sansome, SFMTA, station wagon, street, streetcar, subaru, transit, white
Posted in transit | 3 Comments »
Friday, July 27th, 2012
Generally speaking, people inside cars are held at fault when they open up doors without checking and harm results
The DMV calls this rule “Opening and Closing Doors”
“22517. No person shall open the door of a vehicle on the side available to moving traffic unless it is reasonably safe to do so and can be done without interfering with the movement of such traffic…”
Which is fine, but moving traffic can come by both sides of a parked car. See?
Another Market Street dooring narrowly averted – the cyclist in front almost collided with the right rear passenger door when it flew open expectantly:
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So I don’t know, I think I’d tell my passengers to look out before I dropped them off for them to drop their money at our shopping malls.
And I’d pull all the way over to minimize this concern in the first place.
Anyway, the next time this law gets rewritten, let’s write it more better…
Tags: 2012, 22517, area, bay area, bebe, c.v.c., california, California Vehicle Code, code, cvc, district, door, doored, dooring, financial, market, market street, pleasanton, San Francisco, silver, soma, south of market, street, subaru, vehicle, wagon, white
Posted in bikes | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, June 26th, 2012
As seen on Masonic:
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My favorite touch is the aluminum foil on the exhaust tips.
Tags: 2012, 5, antenna, antennae, antennas, bay area, california, car, license plate, masonic, NEW JERSEY, radio, red, riced out, San Francisco, subaru, survey vehicle, Wheels, white, wing, yeti
Posted in cars | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
All right, let’s see here.
Hint #1 is the way your ride is sitting on its haunches like a dog, like you removed the engine and put it in the trunk. Like you and your bud have flopped down the back seats to turn your Subie into a rolling motel, right near Haight- Ashbury.
Hint #2 is the way your ride, unlike the others on the block, is all fogged up inside because you refuse to crack your windows a bit because you don’t want people coming into your car at night to get at you or your collection of contraband / stolen goods / lifestyle accessories what’s also tucked away in the back of your red Subie.
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Now the cops of the Haight might not mess with you or anything, you know, ’cause they have bigger fish to fry, but they knows what you’re up to.
They knows.
Tags: 2012, 94117, ashbury, bay area, california, cops, golden gate park, haight, north, overnight, panahandle, police, red, San Francisco, SFPD, sleep, sleeping, subaru
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Friday, December 30th, 2011
OMG, it’s Google Bus #3 heading south on Van Ness Avenue past San Francisco’s City Hall. Next stop, Mountain View, CA
Gold! Real gold. Can you see it in the background? That’s the only flava to be seen in this shot:
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You see, some people don’t like buses. They’re called NIMBYs. In the 415, they’re almost all rich, old, white people who have nothing else to do with their lives other than NIMBY. Oh well.
Anyway, Google is trying to keep a low profile, obviously. (I don’t know the current paint scheme of the Google jets, but I’ll bet it’s something more than just black and white. )
See below for other more colorful Google conveyances and appliances, spotted in San Francisco and Mountain View.
Well, here it is, the current generation Google Maps Car. (A Subaru, judging by the Pleiades icon on the nose – for some reason, Google stripped the badges from the rear of this car.)
Are there cameras and SICK laser range finders and WiFi detectors and whatnot on top of this Subie? Who knows…
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And here’s what these rides looked like before they got wrapped:
And this was the first generation Map Car, seen getting busted by the Federal popo in the Presidio.
(I have dual sources supporting contradictory stories (so that’s four people promoting two completely different stories) on why this particular Googler got busted, or not busted as the case may be. Oh well. Did the Presidio Trust tell the Google to get a permit? And did Google ignore that request? Don’t know.)
And of course, don’t forget about the Google Bikes:
And the Google office:
And the Google Kitchen – it’s just like a 7-11 except shoplifting is encouraged:
And here’s the concomitant G-Toilet – it costs $700, it has over 20 buttons for its full operation, it’s made in Japan:
So that’s Google’s world.
Bon Courage, Googlers!
Tags: 2011, bay area, bicycle, bike, black, Blue, bus, california, car, cars, color, google, google bus, google maps car, google's, green, maps, mountain view, nibmies, nimby, nimbys, noe, prius, red, San Francisco, subaru, toilet, toyota, transit, Valley, van ness, white, yellow
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Well, maybe not a tree, but how about a big old branch of a eucalyptus [See Comments] cypress(?) tree what’s stood in the Golden Gate Park for a century or so?
The branch comes down and hits this van, straight outta Indiana. So out pop two hippies, who just happened to be inside smoking weed.
The clear-headed one is all, “We gotta get out of here, man,” but the other one just couldn’t understand the urgency, he didn’t appreciate the danger.
See?
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So they worked together to move the branch as much as they could and then sped away with a quickness. The SFPD showed up five minutes later to fix things so that the branch no longer blocked a lane of Fell during the evening drive.
(Later on, another nondescript white van took over the same space, which, as you can see, is just behind yet another nondescript white van. It’s like people from all over the country just decide to Go West, and then they end up in the 415…)
Actually, something in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle is probably falling next to some pot-smoking hippie pretty much all the time.
So let’s be careful out there.
And now, let’s remember the time when Gaia struck back at a forester, a Subaru Forester:
Ben Davis-wearing members of Laborer’s local 261 + giant Swedish buzz saws = problem quickly solved.
Excepting for Caroline’s Subie, that is.
The City crew failed to leave a note, but I think the driver will figure things out for herself after seeing the flat tires and all the sawdust.
Just another foggy day in Paradise…
Tags: 2009, 2011, 22, 5 north, aging, ashbury, bay area, block, branch, california, chipper, crash, damaged, dept., district, dpw, Eucalyptus, fell, forester, gaia, goldn gate park, haight, hippie, hippies, indiana, insurance, july, limb, marijuana, NOPA, old, panhandle, police, police department, pot, rain, raining, San Francisco, SFPD, street, subaru, traffic, tree, van, weed, white
Posted in cars, flora | 2 Comments »
Friday, April 22nd, 2011
Well, here it is, the current generation Google Maps Car. (A Subaru, judging by the Pleiades icon on the nose – for some reason, Google stripped the badges from the rear of these cars.)
Are there cameras and SICK laser range finders and WiFi detectors and whatnot on top of this Subie? Who knows…
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And here’s what these rides looked like before they got wrapped:
And this was the first generation Map Car, seen getting busted by the Federal popo in the Presidio.
(I have dual sources supporting contradictory stories (so that’s four people promoting two completely different stories) on why this particular Googler got busted, or not busted as the case may be. Oh well. Did the Presidio Trust tell the Google to get a permit? And did Google ignore that request? Don’t know.)
And of course, don’t forget about the Google Bus:
And the Google Bikes:
And the Google office:
And the Google Kitchen – it’s just like a 7-11 except shoplifting is encouraged:
And here’s the concomitant G-Toilet – it costs $700, it has over 20 buttons for its full operation, it’s made in Japan:
So that’s Google’s world.
Now, there are a lot of counterfeit Google Map Cars out there as well:
Accept No Substitutes.
Google Rulez!
Bon Courage, Googlers!
Tags: 2011, bay area, Blue, bus, california, cameras, car, cars, colors, finder, google, Google Maps Street View Car, green white, hatchback, imprezza, ladybug, laser, maps, prius, range, red, San Francisco, sick, subaru, toilet, toyota, Video, wifi, wrapped, yellow
Posted in advertising, bay area | 2 Comments »
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Remember when them German cars were screwed together better?
This car on Haight Street does:
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But your MB or BMW? Not so much.
Do these brands stand for luxury? Sure. But do they stand for quality these days? No.
Oh well.
(At least these German brands rank slightly above above rock-bottom Government Motors and Chrysler (nee Daimler Chrysler))
Check the website of that Famous Newspaper for the News of the Day.
Web site
1. Honda
2. Subaru
3. Toyota
4. Volvo
5. Ford
6. Hyundai
7. Mazda
8. Nissan
9. Volkswagen
10. Mercedes-Benz
11. BMW
12. General Motors
13. Chrysler
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
I gotta tell you I don’t know a whit about the Yelp-rated Juicy Couture store at 865 Market Street. What I do know is that its manifest succulence makes it a magnet for tourists like these folks with the white Subaru wagon from the east bay. Since Juicy has an address on Market, drivers are apt to stop right out front to drop off passengers. But the problem with that is that it blocks half of the inbound lanes.
And sometimes you get “doorings,” detailed below.
After the creating the recent “Incident at Juicy Couture,” these east bay tourists moved along to a parking cutout in front of the the bebe reserved for commercial vehicles. That’s one way to do it:
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The thing is that these days, lots of people are riding bikes on Market Street. Back in the day, there used to be more bike messengers, but now it’s mostly people commuting to work in the Financh and the SoMA. So, when you open your car door you need to make sure that you’re not going to “door” a cyclist that’s zipping by your vehicle.
Does California have a special law covering this issue? Of course. The DMV calls it “Opening and Closing Doors”
“22517. No person shall open the door of a vehicle on the side available to moving traffic unless it is reasonably safe to do so and can be done without interfering with the movement of such traffic…”
What that means is that it’s almost impossible to door a cyclist without it being your fault. Typically, a dooring results from the driver trying to exit a parked vehicle. But the driver in the Subie above didn’t get out of the car. In this case the driver left some room, maybe two or three feet, between the right side of the wagon and the curb. That left enough space for a cyclist to come through and then get surprised when a passenger on the right side opened a door to exit.
The author of California Vehicle Code Section 22517 seems not to have anticipated the possibility of “moving traffic” flowing past both sides of a parked vehicle, but any injuries to the cyclist would almost certainly be the fault of the passenger or the driver (depending on the circumstances).
Now in other states, things might be different – O.K. fine. (Actually, in other states, they say things like, “My Door Almost Got ‘Biked.’”
But in California, you need to take extra care before opening your car door. Just saying.
Tags: 22517, area, bebe, c.v.c., california, California Vehicle Code, code, cvc, district, door, doored, dooring, financial, market, market street, pleasanton, silver, soma, south of market, street, subaru, vehicle, wagon, white
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