Do you have a Part 107 Certificate (small Unmaned Areal Vehicle (sUAV))? You should have that FAA Pilot Certificate for flying your drone in support of a commercial enterprise. (Your KZfaq channel is a commercial enterprise). Another question is - is your drone registered with the FAA? It should be if it weighs over 250 grams (.55 lb).

what is with people backing into parking spaces SO MUCH? is this a California thing?

@@InconsistentManner You can back in while parking or back out when leaving. The benefit of backing in while parking is that you already have had a good view of surroundings (pedestrians or cars), so it seems safer if you are competent at backing up into a spot and won't ding the other cars. When leaving, the 10 seconds to get in your car, put your seatbelt on, and turn the car on means the circumstances may have changed with cars and pedestrians, and you need to be more cautious while backing out. Also, backing in gives a nice setup to make a fast getaway in the event the parking lot is a ****show when leaving. 😜

12:58 looking forward to Kurzgesagt-style videos from CityBeautiful

Can you make an off topic video on how you became FAA-Certified Drone Pilot?

I guess it's the same reason why Americans buy big, off road SUV's with bad fuel economics, just because of a "Just in case scenario" where they "need space" or "need to go offroad (which is even illegal where I'm from and yet American car makers still use it as a selling point)". It's just a case of Americans overpreparing for their own selfish needs, because god forbid if such security ever went into something like public transport, where you have to mingle with other people.

DrDewott well some of our roadways are so full of potholes that on road driving is more hazardous than off-road driving

James Davis It still doesn't mean you need a big SUV and must use it for every little errand.

@James Davis A station wagon? Or a hatchback? It's what we use in Europe without problems.... In my home country of the Netherlands the Volkwagen Golf and Volkswagen Polo are by far the most popular cars, and those are relatively small, especially when compared to the American crossovers, SUV's and trucks. And that is not because our roads are small or anything, our cities aren't Italian towns with super narrow roads.

@James Davis We can afford it aswell, we just choose not to.... Also, size of country doesn't matter at all when it comes to the car you choose. You can drive the same distance with a smart car as with a big semi-truck no problem. Imo, the US government should put big taxes on fuel because car use is just bad and should be discouraged whenever possible. The money gained should be put toward good public transport.

I guess you've never seen any vanlife videos.

Hey, sure beats going INTO the stores and dealing with the crowds!

City Beautiful dude I love your videos. You make city planning fun somehow 😂

Not gonna lie this is the stuff I think tho😂

I can hear Homer Simpson yell from a distance "neeeeeeerd!" Thanks for being such a nerd.

Where I live, most people I know stock up on materials leading up to Black Friday to ensure that they don't have to go outside because they don't wanna get trampled

More of this

or more parking lmao

those roofs are so flimsy they won;t hold a solar array . ever seen those buildings up close... "fancy front, rest is just bare minimum". even in side the ceilings would just be bare corrugated metal roofing. with airco ducts and other electrical / water conduits just in the open for all to see.

@@shrike6259 as they're currently built yes, but they can do better and that's what I was saying

@@shealupkes yeah I work at a Walmart and there’s roof access with warnings saying not to bring “sharp stuff or stomp and watching your step” on the roof cause it’ll cut/tear it. Also when it rains expect a bucket to be placed somewhere to catch water

In my hometown, they pretty much did that in the old shopping mall (there are two shopping malls): they exapanded the building upon the front parking lot, which made it just a 50 metter walk from the bus stop in front of it. Most of the parking lot is behind the mall.

Why?

@@dude988 To make not driving easier, and to incentivise it. Parking areas are not nice to walk through.

@@peter_smyth They're also not safe to walk through

Lucas Slaughter but they are safe to drive though, and they are convenient too.

Because noone gives a fuck anyways. You want your customers to be in your place, so the easiest way to attract anybody with a vehicle is a free, close by, parking spot.

bc American

Designated drivers, parking to get in in the first place

Also, there are laws about how many parking spaces a place needs.

my guess is just in case the bar closes and gets replaced by a restaurant or something (or used to be a restaurant and is now a bar)

Seriously!

@@CityBeautiful to be fare it does not take much to be bigger that the Vatican city in size

Sorta off topic but It makes me wonder why didn't the old empires, British french Spanish Germany, dutch, etc. Just move their entire empires to the new worlds like the americas, Africa's etc. So much more space and resources to exploit. Not dense and reduce fighting when your not bordering 10 different countries, all competing for same land and resources. Would there have been a need for wwi and WWII if the French controled present day Canada, present day USA remained British. Mexico = Spain, Brazil = Portugal, dutch and Germany would carve up the Africa's for themselves.... Or British moves to South Africa or Australia New Zealand etc. Instead we had centuries of fighting for power, ego, ideologies land and resources

@@malcolmholmes2596 nothing in new world to move too only hostile Indigenous population who will not accept your rule. When there is something, people already moved here kicked out the old monarchs.

Everything is twisted when you have an economy running on the assumption (reality) that each person buys and burns polluting gasoline in order to lug a gigantic, 2500-to-4500-pound piece of metal, glass, and rubber to work, to the store etc.

well....

Moksum it really isn’t that much parking though. Europe is pathetic with its parking lots. And euro sprawl is hideous. In America you can get a gorgeous house with a perfectly manicured lawn relatively cheaply in many suburbs but in Europe the houses are small and ugly and the lots look wild and untamed. But you still have sprawl which = need for cars. You guys just have really shitty sprawl

@@LucasFernandez-fk8se I think you havent heard about public transportation yet in Germany you can take the S Bahn from the suburbs to the main city in every big city

Lucas Fernandez Who needs a lawn when you can walk to work and the city is your backyard?

Well at least we, unlike a lot of places in the US, have buses that leave pretty regularly that we can hop onto. I mean I live in a tiny town of just 2000 people but we still have a bus every hour that goes to the train station, where there's an S Bahn train every 10 minutes into the metropolis.

We should never forget that most American towns were once much like European towns. Then they started tearing buildings down to build roads and car parks.

Everything has it’s pros and cons, but I wouldn’t mind going back to public transport. I didn’t get a car until Senior year of college so I rode a lot of busses.

I am not an expert on city planning, but this is a really interesting topic! I think it would depend on the size of the city and the community surrounding. So much of the U.S. is rural. Where I grew up it was a 20 mile drive to the nearest small city (there were a few small towns closer) and the nearest full size grocery store. There was absolutely no public transportation because the 'neighborhood" was all cornfields. You can't even get Uber or a taxi to come out that far. The cities have to accommodate cars because public transportation is an expensive service to provide when traveling such a great distance for such a small amount of travelers. I agree that it's ugly and bad for the environment! I would love to see more public transportation options available. I just don't see that happening when a car is so convenient. Most people are not going to walk a mile and wait for 20 minutes at a bus stop to take a bus into town that stops 4 more times, making their 30 minute drive take even longer, just to get into town and have to walk from the bus stop to their final destination - not to mention having to carry groceries or supplies all that way. People are lazy and like just hopping in their car, driving exactly where they need to go and driving home, no walking and no waiting. Again I wish this weren't the case, terrible for our planet, but the U.S. is so built around individual vehicle transport that it would be difficult to change I would think. I'm curious what others think.

@@reach4it310 Start by remembering that American cities have already been transformed once... by demolishing town centres, driving 'car sewers' through housing areas (mainly inhabited by Afro-Americans but that is another story), building segregated and car dependent suburbs... This transformation was driven by well intentioned people who probably didn't realise that they were being manipulated. American cities did not grow 'organically' as many European cities. They were planned, financed and managed ... largely with a few to increasing profits. If cities can be rebuilt once they can be rebuilt again.

@@MrNoName7474 the main problem with public transportation in america especially systems like bart is the lack of cleanliness and security. Bart is often filled with homeless and junkies on the trains and vagrants. if they can clean these systems up and put a a couple of police at every station then more people would use it. the image of public transportation here needs to change inorder to make it viable.

Didn't really seem to be an issue though where he was filming.

Iirc not even with DLCs either. You need to mod them.

Low density buildings often have a few parking spaces built in, but yeah not for high density. Seems like an a pretty important feature

You don't need parking when your car disappears on arrival.

It seems that people don't know what vanilla means. 😂

a man of culture i see

Maybe the Promenade is just ahead of its time.

City Beautiful The town near me is building a massive "Promenade" anchored by a Costco. Nothing walkable outside of the Promenade either. 🙃

Hey kid, you like all the worst things of a strip mall combined with the worst things of a regular mall? No? Well I guess you're not cool enough for our "lifestyle center". Nothing can beat a vibrant downtown with mixed use development. Really all they need to do to make it work for suburbia is build parking garages on the edge of downtown so suburbanites can drive to downtown but not through it. A great example is Naperville, Illinois.

SODOSOPA

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I can walk to most of the shops I need on a daily or weekly basis, in a bout 5 minutes. I can bike to all the shops in my city in about 20 minutes. I might take a bus in bad weather. I live near the edge of Groningen, a city of about 200.000 in the Netherlands. I find American city planning to be an eye sore.

@@rogerwilco2 stop! I can only get so jealous. 5 min for me to get to the corner store. Not back. To get there and buy. Maybe one day the block will be more compact. 3 storied housing with mix use buildings sprinkled throughout. A cat can dream.

I live on a square in Gothenburg, Sweden and within a 10 minute walk I can go to 5 everyday shops, 30 restaurants/cafes/bars, 1 24/7 open 7-eleven with a gas station, and several barbers, fish shops (Gothenburg is on the west cost.), tech shops, etc. Even though I live 5 km or 20 tram ride from the city center. Gothenburg is the second largest city in Sweden with a population of around 600'000 (1,2 million if with suburbs.).

20 min tram ride*

I am 23 and only one person in my family owns a car, my uncle who sometimes lives in Texas.

Its propably better to just be able to walk to the bar tho, or be allowed to drink in public.

Not necessarily . A lot of people just take an Uber or taxi both ways

Imho the only thing a bar needs is a kiss-and-ride/stop-and-go lane where people can get in a taxi or Uber... Why exactly should we accommodate for people to arrive in their own car when they want to go drinking again?

Bars shoud have no parking because you should NEVER DRIVE TO OR FROM THEM BECAUSE THAT IS DANGEROUS, just walk to the bar instead.

@@crazymonkeyVIIwhy they need is to be located in such a place that you can walk there.

I laughed at the last line. Am I one of them? 😳

You think country-club level "rich" people are making the decisions of big corporations and influence how regular people behave?

What the f are you even trying to talk about?

Yeah, I was happy to see some solar panels!

Geez...PG&E still cannot keep the power on...

Geoph C it looks like Home Depot did the same.

Not big box but I assume Aldi and Trader Joe's (which is actually also just Aldi but Aldi North) might follow soon if they haven't already. Aldi North already installs them in or rather on their new remodelled stores in Germany.

The biggest parking lot I've ever been in is Disney World. You park there and they pick you up in a tram. You're not walking to the main gate. Not unless you brought a camel with you to make the trek over the tractless desert of blacktop between you and it.

And it's an asphalt jungle. Meanwhile all the amusement park parking lots where I'm from are 90% gravel with trees and bushes in between the rows

I would call these parking lots as below the average parking lot size, probably because of the high cost of land in California. Parking lots in the South and some states in mid West are much larger than this.

I haven't used my legos in years (in fact, I think I gave them to my sister), but it's still the only reason I would consider going to a mall

The Lego store and the candy store are the only reasons to go to the mall

Exactly. Especially until the 80s. Cars back then were just made to be colored gleefully.

Hiw Graji Du Suw They were also made from actual metal back then.

@@matthew8153 I don't mind plastic in cars when it's done well, because it's a light material that is pretty rugged. But now a days especially american or german cars look like plastic toys

I don't mind people having boring colored cars. Makes it really easy to find my green car in the parking lots

Let’s make a law that demands car makers and buyers to be more colorful

I bet id hate living in the Netherlands. I dislike bykes I walk or take public transport.

We need more bicycle space everywhere

@@khulhucthulhu9952 You just need to reduce the ammoun of room for cars. If trafic gets worse fewer people will driwe. And that space can be used for other things.

You can put 10× more bikes where you can normally put one car, so getting space for bikes is easier

@Jason Lane Screw not being overweight, screw poor people being able to get where they need to go.

This is an unrealistic expectation in suburbia.

Yeah the parking lots don't even look that good. At least in my country many parking lots will have bushes and trees in between the long rows of cars, making it feel at least a bit more natural. Other than that, Adequate public transport would be needed for anyone who doesn't have a car to benefit at all from this. Like what if a grandma wants to take her grandchildren to see a movie? What are the odds that a person that old can even drive a car safely, that's a huge risk to the safety of themselves and the people around them! And I don't think she would be able to walk that well all the way through a big parking lot either.

I live in a city in the Czech Republic, most 'mall parking' is located and built underground in order to combat this very problem.

Underground parking lots are a better idea. They are more expensive to build of course, but they take way less space than normal parking lots. Its very common where I live, but in the US, they probably dont build them due to their abundance of space.

The best parking lot if no parking lot. In many centres of Dutch cities are carfree. Yet they attract more customers, who come by bicycle, foot, or public transport. The Dutch government also forbade big box stores, so stores are always in residential areas. Close by, so they can reached on foot or bicycle.

That's people for ya

Glad I'm not the only person who spotted this

@ If you make smaller trucks, then you'll see them parked everywhere. If you make bigger parking spots, you'll see more bigger trucks occupying those spots. Smaller trucks may be the best option of the two, but none truly solves the problem.

He mentioned that at 11:35

Chris614 thanks for the time stamp

Jag2112707 who wants to live in an apartment? Especially one with views of a Walmart.

Wal-Mart employees shouldn't mind the view. Talk about a quick commute.

Walmart in the US have become the most common overnight homeless living in cars parking lots

Leave to Walmart to try to squeeze a dollar out of every square inch of property. In my city the nearest Walmart, built 20 years ago, has a too-small parking lot. They realized it would be too small but were hemmed in.

Yesteryear. A word I did not know exists. ☺️

Drn LOL😁

But a pretty busy one compared to the next year, as it turned out.

@@Codrarolloh you’re so right

thatcoolkidjoey it’s actually terrible. It blocks you from pulling through a space, makes longer vehicles stick out in the lane, and doesn’t let longer vehicles park.

In some states and localities it’s a requirement to have a certain amount of foliage in parking lots. It’s certainly that way In Arizona, USA

What drives me crazy is that the tree plot takes up a small part of the parking lot, and so some lots are smaller than others.

No, they’re horrible. Tree sap falls onto your car and is a pain to get off

⁠​⁠@@x-90that’s the law in many cases and places; good luck if you’re going to take up the challenge!

Yes! I'm sure I'll make a video about that at some point. Until then, I'd recommend checking out the book: Retrofitting Suburbia.

@@CityBeautiful I like the video, interesting to see a theory relate to practice! I'm thinking along similar lines, also for context I am UK based. Albeit with some knowledge (but not vast amounts) of UK transport planning codes from my civil engineering degree, I'm always astonished by the "minimum car parking requirements" which enforces a car culture (often with expensive vehicles which cost lots to run (fuel/maintenance/tax/insurance)). I don't have a car; I cycle pretty much everywhere (but am a passenger in my parents car for big family outings). I cycle because it is quicker, more convenient and cheaper than any other mode of transport (nb. being quick is not necessarily the same as convenience, although they are often linked e.g. a car could in theory be quicker but less convenient due to limited city centre parking at work). An interesting video would be what needs to happen in the US to improve the speed / convenience / cost / other attributes of better transport solutions (bikes / buses / rail / trams / car share / public transport etc.). Has this been implemented, is there a current best practice, what there ideas are there, and probably most importantly, what do the local population think/how have they changed their habits?

There are many suburbs that only want single family housing. The state government of California has gotten so fed up with this blocking of higher density, especially near heavy transit, that it is overriding local rules. The eruptions have been interesting to watch. The constitution of the US only recognizes the federal and state governments and the people. Cities are creations of the state. I think they are going to lose this one.

@@danielcarroll3358 Most zoning codes in the suburbs make building anything other than single family housing often simply impossible. It's really crazy, especially when there is plenty of demand for walkable suburbs.

As an American I really resent you smug European attitude of wanting to re-shape my country to be more like yours. It's really none of your business. Many Americans do NOT want to live in more dense environments. Who the hell do you think you are? People call Americans arrogant, when it's the Europeans who are the freakin textbook definition of the word.

I wonder how the European suburban experience compares

@@cruzgomes5660 In my limited European experience (I spent about 3 months in Luxembourg this year for work), the biggest difference to me is that city sprawl is much less common. Large cities are urban to their city limits, then it becomes almost completely rural - compared to the US where you have a suburban landscape before you hit a rural landscape. The result was a denser, more walkable city. With that said, you will still have smaller towns outside of a larger one (Luxembourgish examples being Bettembourg or Dudelange), but these are stand alone towns with their own city centers/ walkable shopping areas. Luxembourg is interesting because public transit is free, and you can travel from one town to another via train.

@@cruzgomes5660 it's completely different... we don't rlly do malls (or at least rarely). cars are just not as relied on (we can't, bc a lot of places are rlly old, so smaller streets and no room for parking). there are some stores i know like ikea and the makro that have big parking lots, but it doesn't compare to the sizes seen in this video.

This is so true. This video shows what 90% of the US looks like. I've been on cross country trips. I swear the only thing that changes is the natural scenery. Almost everywhere, especially near interstates, is identical. It's not fun or interesting.

As an outsider traveling frequently to several cities in the US I can confirm that as soon as you drive out of a downtown area everything looks the same everywhere . you can count on finding the same businesses close to each other.

Sam's too

Jordan Hamann I was about to comment the same thing. Checking the parking lot at 3pm would be like checking it on any other day close to the holidays. Everyone has gone home at that point.

@@MissMusical74 in europe peeps shop in the evening

The Sunrise Mall is a dead mall though.

@@justinxie9988 most malls are fading away, most are becoming strip malls it's because if how renting works and it's cheaper to rent a store then a place inside a mall

Um you know Korea don't favor capitalism much

Nevermind miss interpreted

They build roads for only a few vehicles to ride on them

Every friday is black friday: nothing left in the shelves.

Pedro Marcelino our great leader's capitalist holiday is THE VERY BEST, he is expert at keeping the shelves completely sold out

In N Out is actually pretty efficient, and that's not even a long line by their standards!

It's all about normalizing the activity. If you're constantly in your car, you don't notice it. It's also much easier to justify for "the big savings," that come with the Black Friday deals.

These shopping malls are comfortable for residents to get there by car, and mostly serve suburban residents.

@@flashsurfing Being stuck in traffic isn't comfortable. Americans complain constantly about it. Without realizing that the car-centricness they have inherently leads to inevitable congestion. Spending hundreds of millions widening roads doesn't fix the issue.

We apologize.

Im sorry for you.

Why am I not surprised

You might be exaggerating

Move to the Amish then

@@dude988 completely missing the point

@@thedriverisliterallyme5331 they don't have cars. Go, live your dream without forcing it on others.

I wish I could find a pedestrian-less city. All the restaurants and businesses would be drive-thrus.

which country?

@@correctionguy7632 Germany.

@@darealmeesta we do?

@@dude988 At least in Berlin, from what I know. Keep in mind i am no expert on that matter.

When you have a lot of land, it's cheaper to just spread out the parking than build something special for underground or rooftop parking.

It's not a waste, it's a financial decision by the property owner to attract retailers to rent space there. If the retailer doesn't have open air parking, I don't shop there.

That's one hell of a weird standard to have...

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Indeed. The content was interesting, but the video would be vastly improved by having background music.

Yuck I hate background music

The last thing this video needs is some stock Ukelele + whistling muzak

Thanks!

Yeah

I recall when I got my printer it was the only box in a big truck.

@@catprog Hopefully that was because you were last on the route.

@@Croz89 Seeing as though it was 6pmish I am thinking so.

Well how are you going to get a bed or a couch or washer or dryer home without a truck in the 1st place??? As far as T.V. in resant times they've become as easier to carry on a bus then a sack of potatoes

@@carlgharis7948 Well you really can't carry either on a bus very well, but the TV is likely to be simply too large rather than too heavy.

Why? My closest Walmart is near a lot of other stores

Planting those trees are a lot of work too. I've done it. We take extra care to really line them up in straight lines. It isn't something you think about really. Not unless you've done it yourself.

Ugh, that was my best of like five tries.

City Beautiful hahahah I laughed but I’d not know how to say it either. Btw, keep up the great work, much love from Brazil!

American dont walk hence they are fat. Symple.

You wouldn't probably drive from one end of the Target strip mall to the other, but you would definitely hop in the car to go to Best Buy or the Walmart. I actually counted all of the parking spaces in the Natomas area and it's over 5,000 spaces!

My family usually drives from one part of a strip mall to another part in the US.

I've found that most shoppers go to the store they're interested in then leave the center. If it's an internal mall then they might go store to store. It's not like the 70s or 80s when masses of people went shopping purely for something to do. Now people do their shopping online and go to the stores to see the items in person.

Screw the planet. We all only go around once. So I'm going around in style and comfort.