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Parable - 70 - HD (Patreon)

Published:
2020-02-19 22:56:46
Imported:
2021-02

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What? I'm allowed to get hyped about these two going on a first date in a non-canon scenario.

I'm not sure carriage-wrecks would really be a thing. I mean, surely they could happen, but as far as "with great enough frequency to used as an example in a sentence" is concerned, I'm sort of thinking not realistically? Maybe I'm underestimating the frequency of carriage-wrecks.

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coredumperror

Carriages were *incredibly* prone to wrecking. Remember how, in Oregon Trail, you needed to bring a bunch of extra axels, since yours would break so much? Before they had rubber wheels to absorb a lot of the roads' inconsistencies, the wooden wheels and axels would break often.

Stephen Gilberg

I wonder what metaphor English speakers actually used before "train wreck."

Adama

Rhoda looks especially puppy-like in panel 3.

IvyReed
>>32682692

They used to use words like catastrophe or cataclysm, (Glares at Dan for ignoring the pun potential)

Anonymous
>>32682246

Define "high speed". By our standards? certainly not. By carriage standards? I imagine so, given the general absence of traffic laws at the time (look at almost any footage of traffic from India for an idea of what happens when the drivers on the road are more interested in going places than sharing the road safely).

Ardent Slacker
>>32682246

About all you need for a collision is "some traffic" and "some idiot"... who may be inebriated. I think the modern drunk driving laws came about because of the increased lethality of motor vehicles.

Ed Abrams (aka The Superdak)

"I'm not sure carriage-wrecks would really be a thing." Oh, they were, they were, judging from period works like The Count Of Monte Cristo. Rich young hotbloods have been street racing since streets and wheels were a thing.

Some Ed
>>32682246

You don't *even* need "some idiot" to be on the road in any sense, and you don't need alcohol involved. Carriages are/were notably difficult to turn. I mean, they weren't harder to turn than they looked like they'd be, but stop on a dime and turn readily they did not. At around 3-5mph or so, their turn radius is similar to a car, as demonstrated by the horse drawn carriages around here navigating the streets. But that's not their top speed; they slow down to that speed or maybe a bit less to be able to turn. Note that these carriages are pretty much never in a real hurry; they're strictly a tourism thing. Add in to the mix impatient nobles, and you have carriages overdriving their visibility range, without the drivers necessarily realizing it. They're also making enough noise that they can't make out the noise of the other carriages.

Anonymous
>>32694270

Probably even before that. Probably in nomadic tribes, the scions of the ruling families would run beasts of burden to exhaustion.