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"L'abribus reconditionné permet aux gens attendant leur bus de visionner des mini-séries ou films au format court, pour combattre l'ennui. Un dispositif bien pensé que l'on retrouve parfaitement à travers sa signature "des émotions à la demande"."

"Yet hip-hop artists, generally speaking, aren't too impressed. Cars crowd their lyrics, but Teslas are hardly around. In the Rap Genius database, Tesla sputters behind nearly every model except Toyotas, despite being one of the world's top automotive marques."

"Add the new sustainable transportation system to your CITY Pollution is a very serious problem in our cities, and we need sustainable transportation systems to fight it. This bicycle rental system is the perfect complement to combat pollution in our cities. With the two bicycle parking stations, citizens can rent and return a bicycle. When you want to pick up a bicycle, go to the column with the computer and enter your user code. You can pick up the bicycle now. Simply connect the bike to the rack and the system will detect that you have returned it. An employee of the rental system may add bicycles to stations that are empty. With his electric vehicle and trailer he can transport up to 5 bicycles. When the battery of the vehicle runs out, you can go to the electric charger to recharge it."

"In the opening shot of the capital city of Wakanda, the fictional African nation ruled by the pantherine sovereign/superhero T'Challa, levitating trains zip along ribbons of track through dense Afrofuturist high-rises and low-slung commercial corridors tufted with parks and forests. Later, T'Challa and Nakia, an elite Wakandan spy and his former lover, catch up as streetcars hover through the trendy neighborhood of Steptown. An extensive freight network for transporting vibranium, the mythical metal found only in Wakanda, also lines and connects its cavernous mines."

"On voit en Haïti des kamion qui sont de véritables chef-d'oeuvre; en créole, on les nomme bwa fouye, ce qui signifie sculpture sur bois, en référence au bois sculpté qui les ornent."

"Mon intérêt pour le Multipla a commencé par de simples blagues, la première fois que j'ai vu cette voiture et son bourrelet inesthétique l'année passée. Au même titre que les claquettes-chaussettes, le mulet et les chemises dragon, le Multipla est emblématique du mauvais goût. « On dirait deux voitures différentes collées ensemble », résume un ami. Il m'arrivait donc pour plaisanter de prétendre avoir un goût pour cette voiture, élue la moins réussi esthétiquement par Auto info, le Journal de Montréal ou encore Caradisiac. Le Multipla est un incontournable. Puis un jour, je me suis sérieusement demandé qui étaient les possesseurs de Multipla et comment un tel design avait-il pu être approuvé. La question me taraudait. Existait-il des gens aimant sincèrement les Multiplas ? Les responsables de chez Fiat s'étaient-ils dit que ce design plairait ?"

"Armed with a $10 billion transit construction budget, two to six players compete to build a city-wide network consisting of subways, LRTs, high-speed bus routes and bike lanes. On their respective turns, players may choose to plan, build or ride. They also draw TRANSIT CITY cards, which determine the course of the game with a wide range of outcomes that accelerate or impede the creation of the network. With each new line, the $10 billion fund is drawn down, depending on the length and type of the project. The scoring system rewards players for building the right type of transit in the right spot. But if one player opts to invest huge sums on an ineffective transit route, everyone will face the consequences. TRANSIT CITY ends either when the $10 billion has been used up, or when the first player reaches the last stop by amassing 100 points. "

"A thousand years ago, back in 2019, a regional councilor in the Netherlands named Marcel Steeman undertook a seemingly impossible challenge: convince the makers of one of the most popular toys in the world to do something a little different. He wanted Lego, the toy production company based in Billund, Denmark, to add bike lanes to their tiny, brick-made cities. For years, the streets in Lego's city sets - once called base plates - had space for cars, people, even tiny storm drains, but no designated lanes for zero-emission, human-powered vehicles like bikes. Even worse, it appeared that Lego's streets had become more hostile toward pedestrians and cyclists over time. As compared to Lego sets from years ago, the cars seem to have grown larger - evolving from four- to six-studs wide - and the roads appeared to be getting wider, while the sidewalks were getting more and more narrow."

"In real life, when a pedestrian is hit by a car, they suffer physical trauma; as a result, automobiles cause more deaths than any other machine on the planet. While that statistic still applies to drivers, you can expect a number of pedestrians in fiction to hold their own. A martial artist may punch through a door without breaking their hand, and if a super hero can stop a locomotive by standing in front of it, don't expect a lighter vehicle to survive. Motorcycles? Not a chance. Automobiles? Straight to the junkyard. Aircraft? Not if there's a flying brick. Metal siding crumples like tinfoil, engines get tossed aside, frames crumple, and passengers will be stunned. This trope is occasionally also used as a gag to show just how monstrously fat a character is. This is generally not Truth in Television unless the pedestrian in question is quite large, like, say… an elephant (other animals, such as moose and deer, have a history of achieving a Mutual Kill when encountering cars). Often requires Nigh-Invulnerability for straight examples or The Alleged Car for comedy. The vehicle in question may have a recognizable Impact Silhouette left behind. Overlaps with Trainstopping, which is more about stopping a train than damaging it. Contrast with Car Fu and Toyota Tripwire. See also Chronically Crashed Car. "