Quoted from rotordave:Insert cliche tourist cablecar and Alcatraz photo here ..
The hills really are steep. Yesterday we were driving up a hill and the car behind me started wheelspinning cause the front wheels lost traction. In the dry ... imagine in the wet ...
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I used to drive for Fedex 25 years ago, and Hyde street (and the wharf) was once part of my route. I remember seeing panicked tourists lose traction when stopped on the cable car tracks.
The trick is to just roll backwards off the tracks to get the tires back on the asphault. They would be too nervous to figure it out.