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[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Anyone know where this is?

Edit: Found it! It's Los Caracoles (The Snails) pass in Chile next to the Argentine border.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

lots of serpentine roads like that in South America's Andes, we even have a train that moves back and forth as it sigsags up the mountain

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is so strange. I have almost been there.... on a work trip where i visited the hydro power plant just 50-100 meters down the road. Had no idea that was there...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Just a site visit as part of a larger trip in the country (some knowledge exchange stuff in a hydro power company i used to work for), so we were visiting several parts of the power plants down the Aconcagua valley among other areas. This was the highest point of that particular part of the trip.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Los Caracoles? (west out of Los Andes)

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

It's Spanish for "The Caracoles".

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago

Make it straight, and put a ramp on the bottom for epic jumps.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (14 children)

it looks at Lombard St. in SF

“Pathetic”

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Honestly that is probably less dangerous than the regular streets of SF. Never felt more like I was about to die in a cab than I did riding in SF. Dude seemed to know what he was doing but it felt like a roller coaster.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That parking space for the white car in the first photo looks like it sucks.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Surprised it’s still the whole car and not just the front.

I wonder if that is actually an allowed space.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Agreed.

I'm feeling anxiety just imagining backing out of that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

That car parked in that not really a parking spot is just asking to have their bumper ripped off.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I thought it's only exist in GTA San Andreas, but it's real now

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How that proposal looks in winter

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Ooh, now I want to see sb drive up that

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I can smell the dying breaths of clutch mechanisms from here.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Just don't use it! 😁

Speed shifting ftw!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I never use my clutch and I usually get 10,000 miles to the transmission.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Put it in second and keep it there.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You and your car would be dead not even halfway up that proposed ramp.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I imagine part of the reason why this was done was to not only have the road, but have it be much less susceptible to erosion so it last longer and is safer. I'm definitely no public works engineer but seems Iike the different tiers would help stop/limit slides

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

China also has an amazing switchback highway called the Pamir sky road with over 600 hairpin turns in under 36km

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

🤢 That sounds amazingly nauseating.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee~eeeeeeeeeeeeeee~

~splat~

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Deja Vu, I've seen this comment before.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

(Higher in the thread)🎵

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

And I know it's my time to go

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Swiss would drill a tunnel.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm sensing a pattern with the swiss. 👀

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

They are themselves a hole in the EU

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

must be a cities skylines enjoyer (modded)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Big asphalt at it again.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Road bike line vs downhill mtb line.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

You only need one lane going up, and a jump off ramp at the top

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Not pictured is the incline that the switchbacks are set at. They put the exact minimum required, so most vehicles are struggling just with the switchbacks.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Gotta unlock it with a stunt

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

No guardrail that I can see.

*Street view confirms no guardrail.

Video here https://maps.app.goo.gl/SERFBifCZs7Ztvif6

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

So you can take the straight path if you choose!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

For 15 dollars you can park your car in a mountain elevator which will go up in a straight line on the side of the mountain. LOL.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Weeeeeeeeeeee

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Unedited photo: how to make Jeremy Clarkson have an aneurysm from orgasming too hard.

Edited photo: how to make Jeremy Clarkson have a rage aneurysm.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Yeeeeeehaw!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just build a slide for cars.

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