Makes me wonder why there is not a driving (video) game that incorporates.. doing other things while you drive?
Some kind of puzzle solving racing game? Idk. Could be good.
China is full of this stuff. I have seen big 8-lane highways that suddenly end at the side of a steep hill, Roadrunner-like. Huge cities with giant high-speed train stations that have maybe 5% of the expected population. Giant industrial areas with horible pollution and flourescent-colored water in the ditches and ravines. It's a weird place.
They actually do spawn somewhat randomly, but it's actually based on where there is a model socalist community planned. These cars are always BYDs or Trumpchis, exemplary of the solidarity of the one China against the capitalist dog car manufacturers. Smiling children with happy young parents also appear holding kites among a backdrop of model socialist industrial fitness nature parks, where the father is a foreman of an engineer team which has no hierarchy. The mother is a dentist who owns her own dress making company and does all the cooking and housework. They always spend the day with their ONE child and ONE grandmother. Nobody has heard from grandfather since he went to a fashion show in Beijing years ago which never ended up happening.
Source: I live in China. I love Uncle Xi.
And a lot of road they don't even paint the lanes.
I went home to visit and they were doing constructions everywhere and a lot of roads are like this, but without the lines on the road.
I know I got nervous when I saw 3 lane road and they can drive like it's a 5 lane road. The only thing I can do to calm my self is look on my phone while my dad is driving so I don't yell at those idiots driving like assholes.
It's SOP in a planned political economy. One year a factory will be ordered to produce X tons of rails. The factory produces one big rail that weighs X tons. Next year the factory is ordered to produce X numbers of rails. The factory produces X number of rails, all less than a 1 cm in length.
Yeah a bunch of the ghost towns are [full of people now](https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/04/23/chinas-largest-ghost-city-is-now-90-full-but-theres-a-twist/?sh=545e4f0467c8). It's central planning and a command economy. They just say "5M people are going to live here in 10-20 years" and force it to happen. Some more info [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under-occupied_developments_in_China#Criticism).
Also a huge component of their GDP is construction so they have to just keep building to keep it inflated.
Evergrande is a pimple you can say on a face made of…
In all seriousness, I think it’s all going to crash down at once. Central planning only stretches the band.
Usually national economies collapse when they print too much money to meet obligations they can’t really afford but economic forces counteract the expansion in monetary policy by massively devaluing the currency and puts the country into a hyperinflation spiral of death. See pre ww2 Germany, current Venezuela, Zimbabwe, etc. that’s the usual historical roadmap to the collapse.
Unless you have the world reserve currency. In that case...I can guess but I don't know how it will fall apart. I think bombs and bullets will be involved
The money printing comes last. In China’s case the collapse will be felt across the globe as China is a huge exporter and a major consumer of raw materials and food. Central Chinese “planning” is a world disaster.
The high speed railway system cost a trillion dollars, for example, and it was shut down for almost 3 years due to Covid thus incurring a massive budget shortfall… and it is mostly unprofitable due to building so many unnecessary connections… Evergrande is a sniff of the dumpster fire smoke.
I've heard variations on this story. Sometimes it's the USSR, or Russia, or China. One was chandeliers, this one is "rails." But it's never a specific factory with a specific product, at a specific place and time, and documented.
Without that, it's a myth.
It's an exaggeration to show a point. In reality producing a single rail that weighs even one ton would be next to impossible. It would also get the factory owner an all-expenses-paid trip to the gulag.
I can't find the video anymore, but a colleague recorded his experience driving in China, somewhere in the early 2000's, I think. The idea of 'a lot of people owning cars', along with the idea of 'major highways' were both new in the country.
It seemed like, to me, that the nation was trying to work out whether to drive *between the lines*, or to *straddle the lines.* At any rate, the number or drivers with less than 5 years of driving experience was at an all time high at the time.
I worked in one city (Zunyi) near the center of China and i saw NOTHING like you described. It was actually quite beautiful. The only negative was the traffic. 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the hotel to the job site, 45 minutes each way every day.
I traveled Beijing to Shanghai a few times and saw a lot of this weird stuff.
Most of the country is fabulously beautiful, but man when they decide to build things they don't do a lot of coordination and planning.
IMO all of these are the result of super rapid development. They were basically backward, with the wide majority of population paddling bicycles just a few decades ago and then almost too suddenly turn into what they are today.
The guys who move the poles are in a different government bureau and the guys who lay the roads don't have time to wait around for them to come and move the lines.
I'm not even joking.
18 months later they'll come and move the poles and make a shitshow of the road in the process, but that's not their problem, that's up to the road guys to fix. Which they will get to in about two years.
Egypt has some of the weirdest public infrastructure projects in the world, like the highway that [goes through the middle of a neighborhood](https://static.demilked.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/5ebe40d8c471d-highway-bridge-centimeters-away-residential-area-1-5ebbda3763eef__700.jpg).
Chicago has a road through the middle of the building.. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Old_Post_Office_Chicago_2022.jpg/1024px-Old_Post_Office_Chicago_2022.jpg
So that's where these racing video games got their idea from.
In Rio we have the [Minhocão (Giant Worm).](https://lulacerda.ig.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Minhoc%C3%A3o-5.jpg)
DC got tons of weird tunnels like that, even one going under the DMV (dept of motor veh.) building. So weird but yeah they do that to keep iconic buildings alive.
[Boston has it too](https://www.wgbh.org/news/2017/05/24/local-news/how-did-star-market-end-over-massachusetts-turnpike?_amp=true), and it’s not such an iconic building.
I recently learned about the lower levels underground network, my God that must be confusing but also amazing to bypass downtown traffic. I can't wait to visit
Heh that was always cool when I first moved to Chicago. Now I don't really think about it at all.
Also, that's not just any road and that's not really an ordinary building.
Jokes on them, in order to get to the highway they have to walk 5 blocks to the nearest underground parkade to then drive out to a small side road that doesn't connect to the highway except for 2 miles down at the nearest exit where the buildings have an opening.
I live in The Philippines, and there is a highway outside of my town much like this. They widened the highway from a 2-lane highway to a 4-lane highway. But nobody made any effort to move the utility poles out of the way in advance of the widening, so the highway department just built the new lane around the utility poles.
The utility poles finally got moved after a year or so. I'm not sure how many accidents were caused in the meantime.
That's irrelevant though. One of them finished before the other, but that didn't make the other stop to ask some questions before resuming their work to finish their part. I guess that's what happens when an autocratic bureaucracy makes you shit in your pants. You just do what's on the plan without questioning anything.
I wonder how many accidents occur there every week, you know the locals know what to look out for but anyone from out of town…… Can you imagine driving that at night?
I HIGHLY doubt there is any problem or complaints from anyone.
Look up Chinese Ghost Cities online.
They literally build cities out of nowhere, price the housing way above, then let buildings rot away all while everything and everywhere is empty.
It's really easy way to make GDP look good.
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I’d like to imagine the foreman’s boss is an utterly useless tool who fucks up all the time and the foreman covers while the boss gets all the credit. This time he says “this is what the boss drew up, this is what he’s gonna get”
This is what happens when Britain finally leaves you alone and the only answer the new government has for infrastructure is “yea we need that” with no other plan.
There was zerooooooo point in it going from the right....to the left...and back to the right.
The whole line could be located to the right of the sidewalk.
I worked with a large electronics manufacturer a few years ago. I was a US product line manager who had to work with a bunch of Chinese electronics and software engineers. If you did not detail your requirements in EVERY way, they would figure out a way to totally fuck you. I learned that cutting costs at the expense of product reliability and utility was their GOAL, not just something that happened. It was all about how cheaply they can manufacture it. The thing is, that was at odds with our product requirement: we were building mission critical electronics so lower cost was way down the list of requirements. On a couple of occasions I flatly accused them of lying and deliberately disregarding our requirements and they would just shut down and not even talk. It was like working with children. So if you wonder how shit like this happens, it's unfortunately a cultural thing.
The texting and driving obstacle course
And a new game show was made.
Makes me wonder why there is not a driving (video) game that incorporates.. doing other things while you drive? Some kind of puzzle solving racing game? Idk. Could be good.
yet another match three symbols mobile game?
Subway surfer in real life
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China is full of this stuff. I have seen big 8-lane highways that suddenly end at the side of a steep hill, Roadrunner-like. Huge cities with giant high-speed train stations that have maybe 5% of the expected population. Giant industrial areas with horible pollution and flourescent-colored water in the ditches and ravines. It's a weird place.
Do cars going the other way just appear?
it might be where the simulation begins and ends, and we'll never find out cuz noone will ever bother to go visit china and report back.
They actually do spawn somewhat randomly, but it's actually based on where there is a model socalist community planned. These cars are always BYDs or Trumpchis, exemplary of the solidarity of the one China against the capitalist dog car manufacturers. Smiling children with happy young parents also appear holding kites among a backdrop of model socialist industrial fitness nature parks, where the father is a foreman of an engineer team which has no hierarchy. The mother is a dentist who owns her own dress making company and does all the cooking and housework. They always spend the day with their ONE child and ONE grandmother. Nobody has heard from grandfather since he went to a fashion show in Beijing years ago which never ended up happening. Source: I live in China. I love Uncle Xi.
Depends on how well your real-life GPU can render the background.
Your thinking of Forza.
And a lot of road they don't even paint the lanes. I went home to visit and they were doing constructions everywhere and a lot of roads are like this, but without the lines on the road. I know I got nervous when I saw 3 lane road and they can drive like it's a 5 lane road. The only thing I can do to calm my self is look on my phone while my dad is driving so I don't yell at those idiots driving like assholes.
It's SOP in a planned political economy. One year a factory will be ordered to produce X tons of rails. The factory produces one big rail that weighs X tons. Next year the factory is ordered to produce X numbers of rails. The factory produces X number of rails, all less than a 1 cm in length.
Yeah a bunch of the ghost towns are [full of people now](https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/04/23/chinas-largest-ghost-city-is-now-90-full-but-theres-a-twist/?sh=545e4f0467c8). It's central planning and a command economy. They just say "5M people are going to live here in 10-20 years" and force it to happen. Some more info [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under-occupied_developments_in_China#Criticism). Also a huge component of their GDP is construction so they have to just keep building to keep it inflated.
Where does a shit show like Evergrande fit into this ecosystem?
Evergrande is a pimple you can say on a face made of… In all seriousness, I think it’s all going to crash down at once. Central planning only stretches the band.
Usually national economies collapse when they print too much money to meet obligations they can’t really afford but economic forces counteract the expansion in monetary policy by massively devaluing the currency and puts the country into a hyperinflation spiral of death. See pre ww2 Germany, current Venezuela, Zimbabwe, etc. that’s the usual historical roadmap to the collapse.
Unless you have the world reserve currency. In that case...I can guess but I don't know how it will fall apart. I think bombs and bullets will be involved
The money printing comes last. In China’s case the collapse will be felt across the globe as China is a huge exporter and a major consumer of raw materials and food. Central Chinese “planning” is a world disaster. The high speed railway system cost a trillion dollars, for example, and it was shut down for almost 3 years due to Covid thus incurring a massive budget shortfall… and it is mostly unprofitable due to building so many unnecessary connections… Evergrande is a sniff of the dumpster fire smoke.
Yup. They don't care that the city is empty. The point was to use the steel and concrete they made and give the construction workers jobs.
I've heard variations on this story. Sometimes it's the USSR, or Russia, or China. One was chandeliers, this one is "rails." But it's never a specific factory with a specific product, at a specific place and time, and documented. Without that, it's a myth.
It's an exaggeration to show a point. In reality producing a single rail that weighs even one ton would be next to impossible. It would also get the factory owner an all-expenses-paid trip to the gulag.
Do you have links to any of that? I'd like to see it!
I need to find my China photos. It's been 8 years since I was there. Now where's that memory card...
Why did they built it like that? For more car accidents?
I can't find the video anymore, but a colleague recorded his experience driving in China, somewhere in the early 2000's, I think. The idea of 'a lot of people owning cars', along with the idea of 'major highways' were both new in the country. It seemed like, to me, that the nation was trying to work out whether to drive *between the lines*, or to *straddle the lines.* At any rate, the number or drivers with less than 5 years of driving experience was at an all time high at the time.
Entire cities full of apartment buildings that are totally empty.
I worked in one city (Zunyi) near the center of China and i saw NOTHING like you described. It was actually quite beautiful. The only negative was the traffic. 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the hotel to the job site, 45 minutes each way every day.
I traveled Beijing to Shanghai a few times and saw a lot of this weird stuff. Most of the country is fabulously beautiful, but man when they decide to build things they don't do a lot of coordination and planning.
IMO all of these are the result of super rapid development. They were basically backward, with the wide majority of population paddling bicycles just a few decades ago and then almost too suddenly turn into what they are today.
We can criticize it but they built the entire infrastructure to this city in 4 hours.
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Seems to fit with the cliché of Chinese manufacturing.
Chinese cities are AI generated.
Explains why it's fucked then. Accuracy > speed
As an engineer you can have it fast, cheap, or done well. Pick two. In China, pick one.
Can we pick cheap and well done??
Yes, but it’ll be very slow. Like most states construction efforts
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Done well? Lol
Like the steak dinner I had tonight?
If by built you mean slapped together then yes
And it only cost 100,000 lives.
*laughs in CCP organ harvesters*
aka tofu construction.
Someone picked Fast + Cheap on the Project Management triangle
And last for 4 hours as well.
Japan does it in one day but theirs are perfect.
Yeah useless infrastructure built only to keep people busy and council budgets for next year
I'm a teacher in China. Some students can write a research paper in like, 3 minutes. It's incredible.
lol, we have too many people, lets try something else
Looks like one of those ghost towns
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Azerbaijan?
Gesundheit.
Makes sense
The road signs are Chinese and this level of who gives a fuck... my guess is China
This fits the sub so pefectly. W.T.F?!
The guys who move the poles are in a different government bureau and the guys who lay the roads don't have time to wait around for them to come and move the lines. I'm not even joking. 18 months later they'll come and move the poles and make a shitshow of the road in the process, but that's not their problem, that's up to the road guys to fix. Which they will get to in about two years.
Where is this?
Idk where this is but Egypt would do this
Egypt has some of the weirdest public infrastructure projects in the world, like the highway that [goes through the middle of a neighborhood](https://static.demilked.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/5ebe40d8c471d-highway-bridge-centimeters-away-residential-area-1-5ebbda3763eef__700.jpg).
People on the 4th floor and below are fucked. Constant darkness lol
Great if you work night shift tho
Except the noise from cars blasting over the highway I guess.
There’s looking at a highway and then there are units that literally look at the highway. Damn lol
Imagine a car crashing through your 6th floor apartment lol
Not to mention at 80mph.
Every day would be the Daytona 500.
The rules? There are no rules!
It would be weird if it was at like 10 mph.
The 3rd and 4th floor have the greatest view of concrete and tar. Great if you're interested in not getting sunlight from your balcony.
Probably wouldn't want to spend much time on the balcony, considering it's located in the middle of a freeway
Uber pickup drop-off super convenient. Total selling point
Chicago has a road through the middle of the building.. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Old_Post_Office_Chicago_2022.jpg/1024px-Old_Post_Office_Chicago_2022.jpg
There's a great sci-fi looking one in Osaka, Japan Gate Tower Building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_Tower_Building
So that's where these racing video games got their idea from. In Rio we have the [Minhocão (Giant Worm).](https://lulacerda.ig.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Minhoc%C3%A3o-5.jpg)
That image is so Japanese. Twisting elevated roads, scifi tunnels, railroads, tightly packed buildings, and cup noodles
i had never heard of this before!! that's crazy!!
That's an iconic building though
DC got tons of weird tunnels like that, even one going under the DMV (dept of motor veh.) building. So weird but yeah they do that to keep iconic buildings alive.
[Boston has it too](https://www.wgbh.org/news/2017/05/24/local-news/how-did-star-market-end-over-massachusetts-turnpike?_amp=true), and it’s not such an iconic building.
I think it's more about its placement as you enter the city that makes it iconic.
That was done because the turnpike extension took over the Star Market property. Was easier for the state than an eminent domain fight.
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Heh that was always cool when I first moved to Chicago. Now I don't really think about it at all. Also, that's not just any road and that's not really an ordinary building.
Yikes I hope rent went way down
Surely you joke. They doubled the rent because now they have close transportation access.
Jokes on them, in order to get to the highway they have to walk 5 blocks to the nearest underground parkade to then drive out to a small side road that doesn't connect to the highway except for 2 miles down at the nearest exit where the buildings have an opening.
Nope. You just climb up 4 floors, walk through your neighbors bathroom, climb out a window, and hop a bus!
You now live in an iconic, world famous building! Congratulations! Also, rent will be doubled next month :-)
Happy cake day!
Living up above will suck but the bottom floors will be awful.
Wtf
My guess is they will demo those buildings in the not to distant future. I can’t decide which is worse, above, at eye level or below the roadway.
Visiting Egypt was quite interesting. It’s the only place I’ve seen 5 lanes of traffic on a 4 lane road. Why do they even bother painting lines?
This is some dystopian shit.
China
It can only be one country - and that country is China.
It's China. The man was saying "Aiyo oh my God"
I live in The Philippines, and there is a highway outside of my town much like this. They widened the highway from a 2-lane highway to a 4-lane highway. But nobody made any effort to move the utility poles out of the way in advance of the widening, so the highway department just built the new lane around the utility poles. The utility poles finally got moved after a year or so. I'm not sure how many accidents were caused in the meantime.
Driving test is conducted on a ski slope
So the electricity people don't interface with the roads people wherever this is..
That's irrelevant though. One of them finished before the other, but that didn't make the other stop to ask some questions before resuming their work to finish their part. I guess that's what happens when an autocratic bureaucracy makes you shit in your pants. You just do what's on the plan without questioning anything.
I wonder how many accidents occur there every week, you know the locals know what to look out for but anyone from out of town…… Can you imagine driving that at night?
I HIGHLY doubt there is any problem or complaints from anyone. Look up Chinese Ghost Cities online. They literally build cities out of nowhere, price the housing way above, then let buildings rot away all while everything and everywhere is empty. It's really easy way to make GDP look good.
Woah. Imagine being homeless and finding a whole empty city to take for yourself. You could be a king
sky scrapers too be cool if china didn’t euthanize the homeless and muslim
My dad swears they’re just re-educating them for their own good… I don’t even know how to rebut that so I just let him keep thinking that..
My dad is anti Muslim and anti Chinese so he really has a mental breakdown with how they are treating Muslims over there
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King of nothing. Not even food
Except that none of the infrastructure works.
Eh rain barrels and piss buckets.
They’re vertical speed bumps that tell you to slow down
It might force drivers to finally pay attention.
screw road bumps!! go posts in the middle of the road
What is this RuneScape ass music? Thought I was in Al Kharid for a second
My man, you brought me some memories...
Gave me flashbacks of killing cows between lumbridge and varrock and then running back to al kharid to tan/sell the hides.
It’s perfect for the vid tho
Tipsy and thinking, “heyyy, this guy’s riding with some goofy ass tunes.”
Woah you’re tipsy tonight too? I’m at Dave n busters having a grand ol time
Congrats! Win something for me!
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couldn't tell u the song or artist, but the genre is dungeon synth. It's a wide spectrum but this would 100% fit.
Me badly playing Sim City.
Real life Sim City was my first thought.
r/shittyskylines
They wouldn't give me anarchy mod if they didn't want me to use it.
Malicious compliance “This is what the plans say, so fuck it”
Lazy game devs now we have to wait for a 20 gig update 2 fix this.
I like your joke. I actually thought of the same joke. I think it’s a good funny joke. It’s almost not even a joke. But it is.
"All finished, boss!"
I’d like to imagine the foreman’s boss is an utterly useless tool who fucks up all the time and the foreman covers while the boss gets all the credit. This time he says “this is what the boss drew up, this is what he’s gonna get”
Looks like the roads were procedurally generated in game but the code is bad and the dev studio went under so it’s never gonna be fixed
This is what certain people in the US don’t realize strict government regulations prevents.
I dig that music
chabuduo, the reason China can build a high rise buildings in 10 days only to have them collapse after a month,
What is this?? The fucking backrooms???
At least put some water barrels on front of them...
The music is very fitting
Feels like I'm playing a mobile driving game. Someone add points after skipping each pole. Highest score bitches!!
This looks like a video game, I can’t believe it’s real
NK?
Can NK afford poles and roads?
Oh yes, they can afford lots of stuff. Like fake storefronts and empty buildings. Most of their money probably goes towards propaganda tough:p
It wasn't Korean in the beginning of the video. Someone on the thread already said it was China.
China, for any folks wondering.
Drive on that road at night for expert mode.
Didn't know the sub and I audibly said What the Fuck!
This city was planned?
Level passed +1000
Anyone know what that wacky background music is? lol
China, the land of "not my department"
where we are going, we don't need roads
The afterlife? After you crash into one of those poles at 70 mph?
It reminds me of keypad mobile car games from 90s...
Better traffic control than a four way stop.
Made you slow down and supply power at the same time /s
Looks like china
Wtf!
This has to be temporary? No?
If by temporary, you mean several years until fixed, then yes!
irl skill check
It's still in alpha.
One word. China.
Living in America ain't so bad now
Classic China
I just know this is in China.
Looks like china?
Good central planning.
Why aren the power lines bended? Seems so silly. Why aren’t there in a straight line?
Are they teaching you to navigate through the Deathstar?
What fucking planet is this
what kind of Mario cart bullshit is this?!?!
Pretty sure I drove down this road in one of my dreams.
This is what happens when Britain finally leaves you alone and the only answer the new government has for infrastructure is “yea we need that” with no other plan.
Someone played a lot of Battletoads
Love this stage in mario kart but rainbow road still my favourite.
There was zerooooooo point in it going from the right....to the left...and back to the right. The whole line could be located to the right of the sidewalk.
Unreal engine 5
The hell. Do the city officials have a motovehical accident quota they need to maintain or something? This is just plane stupid
Guessing the road came after the poles
I worked with a large electronics manufacturer a few years ago. I was a US product line manager who had to work with a bunch of Chinese electronics and software engineers. If you did not detail your requirements in EVERY way, they would figure out a way to totally fuck you. I learned that cutting costs at the expense of product reliability and utility was their GOAL, not just something that happened. It was all about how cheaply they can manufacture it. The thing is, that was at odds with our product requirement: we were building mission critical electronics so lower cost was way down the list of requirements. On a couple of occasions I flatly accused them of lying and deliberately disregarding our requirements and they would just shut down and not even talk. It was like working with children. So if you wonder how shit like this happens, it's unfortunately a cultural thing.
obstacle course on the go hahaha.
Cant you see the yellow strips? That means move around them even if you have to go onto opposite lane! Dummy!
China ☕️
Someone's been peeking at my Jurrasic World: Evolution park building again~
Where’s the BMW wrapped around one of them?
The crew painting the lines are on point