Anyone know where this is?
Edit: Found it! It's Los Caracoles (The Snails) pass in Chile next to the Argentine border.
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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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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...
What did you do there?
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.
Los Caracoles? (west out of Los Andes)
It's Spanish for "The Caracoles".
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Make it straight, and put a ramp on the bottom for epic jumps.
it looks at Lombard St. in SF
“Pathetic”
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.
That parking space for the white car in the first photo looks like it sucks.
Surprised it’s still the whole car and not just the front.
I wonder if that is actually an allowed space.
Agreed.
I'm feeling anxiety just imagining backing out of that.
That car parked in that not really a parking spot is just asking to have their bumper ripped off.
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How that proposal looks in winter
Ooh, now I want to see sb drive up that
I can smell the dying breaths of clutch mechanisms from here.
Just don't use it! 😁
Speed shifting ftw!
rip to your transmission
I never use my clutch and I usually get 10,000 miles to the transmission.
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Put it in second and keep it there.
You and your car would be dead not even halfway up that proposed ramp.
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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China also has an amazing switchback highway called the Pamir sky road with over 600 hairpin turns in under 36km
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee~eeeeeeeeeeeeeee~
~splat~
Initial D!!!
Deja Vu, I've seen this comment before.
(Higher in the thread)🎵
And I know it's my time to go
Swiss would drill a tunnel.
I'm sensing a pattern with the swiss. 👀
They are themselves a hole in the EU
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Big asphalt at it again.
must be a cities skylines enjoyer (modded)
Road bike line vs downhill mtb line.
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.
You only need one lane going up, and a jump off ramp at the top
Gotta unlock it with a stunt
No guardrail that I can see.
*Street view confirms no guardrail.
Video here https://maps.app.goo.gl/SERFBifCZs7Ztvif6
So you can take the straight path if you choose!
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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.
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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Yeeeeeehaw!
Weeeeeeeeeeee
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