Anyone know where this is?
Edit: Found it! It’s Los Caracoles (The Snails) pass in Chile next to the Argentine border.
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
Yep, took one like that going to a ski resort in Chile, was mega sick when I arrived
look at South American Andes over here
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”.
I took a bus from Mendoza to Santiago that went down this road. Was pretty crazy at the time but still way less sketchy than the buses going through Bolivia.
I was just going to post the same thing. I took the same bus route and man that was scary at some points looking out the window, over the edge.
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This confirms, once again, that Chile is the best country of Chile
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.
I thought it’s only exist in GTA San Andreas, but it’s real now
And Midtown Madness 2
Might’ve even been real a few decades before San Andreas 😉
That’s a fun discovery!
That’s beautiful!
Yes! Pretty well trafficked all day every day.
I want to coast down that in neutral so bad.
Coast down it in first so you don’t fade your brakes to uselessness (even automatics have a first-second for engine braking downhill like this).
Not mine. I think it has automatic engine braking or something since I don’t drift downhill as soon as I let off the brake though.
Yea our Hyundai does this too but you need to tap on the brakes and then you will see the revs raise and hold. It only does it when on a downhill incline.
I guess SF lied when they said Lombard was the crookedest street in the world. The one from the meme is clearly more crooked. Also, when was that picture taken? There’s usually a huge line of tourist cars driving down that street. I’ve never seen it with only 2 cars.
I thought they blocked it to only local traffic after residents complained?
Oh, maybe? I haven’t been back to SF in over a decade. I’m kind of afraid to go back, because I love that city, and the things I read about it on the internet these days make it seem like it has deteriorated dramatically since I was there last.
Do you guys think it would be a good idea if more US residential streets were made into this?
How that proposal looks in winterOoh, 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.
Eurobeat intensifies
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
Yep
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China also has an amazing switchback highway called the Pamir sky road with over 600 hairpin turns in under 36km
🤢 That sounds amazingly nauseating.
Poor humans
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
splat
Initial D!!!
Deja Vu, I’ve seen this comment before.
(Higher in the thread)🎵
And I know it’s my time to go
GAS! GAS! GAS!
I’m gonna step on the gas
Swiss would drill a tunnel.
I’m sensing a pattern with the swiss. 👀
They are themselves a hole in the EU
Darn, i had the same idea 😂
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So they’d make it a holey site?
must be a cities skylines enjoyer (modded)
Big asphalt at it again.
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
