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11BulletCatcher posted:They are. And they don't work either. Wiring is 50 years old after all. My reverse lights work, but not usually when it's actually in reverse. It had a powerglide originally, but the PO put in a TH350. The detents are on the transmission end, but the reverse switch is on the car end of the linkage, so when the car is actually in reverse and when the pointer thinks it's in reverse are different. Other than that, all the wiring works except the "BRAKE" indicator in the dash (for the parking brake) is intermittent, and the resistor pack is burned out for the blower motor. Mine's only 2 years newer than yours, too, and my truck is older and doesn't have any wiring problems except for where the PO brutalized it for the trailer plug. So don't blame the age!
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My car has "brake force" lights that illuminate the LEDs full power (which are incredibly bright) and I'm guessing it's designed to shock people awake. It's possible to have them on all the time but I don't see a reason to blind people, and I think the transition is one of the things that helps grab attention. I'm noticing people using their phones more and more these days, eyes down while driving rather than just talking. It's getting unnerving.
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Das Volk posted:My car has "brake force" lights that illuminate the LEDs full power (which are incredibly bright) and I'm guessing it's designed to shock people awake. It's possible to have them on all the time but I don't see a reason to blind people, and I think the transition is one of the things that helps grab attention. I didn't know BMW had actually put that on production cars already, neat  It's probably the most elegant solution, no weird flashing or anything, just brake lights that are suddenly gently caress-off bright. Apart from possibly being a bit too bright according to legislation, they also stay within the "brake lights must have constant illumination while braking" rule.
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Oct 7, 2013 07:32
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On the 2006 U.S. E90 I've seen the extra brake lights are actually the rear fog lights, which aren't otherwise enabled (the switch is removed for them, but you can put it in).
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Oct 7, 2013 07:40
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Maybe a stupid question, but I've noticed that the LED floods in my basement have a sight delay to turn on compared to the incandescents. Is there any delay issue with brake light LEDs?
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Maybe a stupid question, but I've noticed that the LED floods in my basement have a sight delay to turn on compared to the incandescents. Is there any delay issue with brake light LEDs? None that I've ever seen, from looking at cars with normal brake lights and LED CHMSLs, the LEDs light up instantly while the normal brake lights take a fraction of a second to warm up. Also on cars with normal indicators and LED repeaters in the wing mirrors, the difference is obvious. Your LED floods are probably just made to be cheap, perhaps there's a power supply that needs to start up or something, they're not made for instant response.
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CharlesM posted:On the 2006 U.S. E90 I've seen the extra brake lights are actually the rear fog lights, which aren't otherwise enabled (the switch is removed for them, but you can put it in). Yeah, these are also the lights that come on with adaptive braking when you slam on the brakes. You can actually modify a stock switch to complete the circuit and not have to buy the $120 Euro switch.
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That's actually a good use of the rear fog lights, especially if they're symmetrical. It's not like anyone understands how to use them in fog, anyway.
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KozmoNaut posted:None that I've ever seen, from looking at cars with normal brake lights and LED CHMSLs, the LEDs light up instantly while the normal brake lights take a fraction of a second to warm up. Also on cars with normal indicators and LED repeaters in the wing mirrors, the difference is obvious. Agreed. I'd bet that the power converter (probably 120V to 400V DC rectify-double/APFC converter, then 400V to whatever LED voltage buck/boost and PWM driver) just takes a few fractions of a second to start up. On a car, it's going direct from 12V to LED driver/PWM system, so it takes a lot less time even without careful design of the driver circuit.
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They're different units on the post-facelift cars when they switched to the LED clusters. I've been caught in super heavy fog enough that I'm considering seeing if the European switch mod works on the later cars as well.
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When did it ever become acceptable for people to use the center turn lane as a merge lane? Just because you might have to wait a few seconds more to safely turn left from a side street doesn't mean "Hey, I'll just use the center turn lane as my own personal acceleration lane. Somebody will let me in eventually!" No. In fact, if I see someone doing that I'll make it my own personal mission to make sure they know the fact that the center turn lane is for traffic that is already on the street trying to decelerate and turn left. I swear to god oncoming SUV, I'll play loving chicken in my shitbox 1992 Accord. And guess what motherfucker? I ain't gonna be the one that blinks. Oh I'm sorry did I inconvenience you and your mewling crotch spawn because you had to slow down for someone using the center turn lane for it's loving god given intended purpose? Good, I hope you roll that loving monstrosity and it kills your entire brood. God knows the gene pool needs a little bleach in it around here.
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Oct 7, 2013 18:25
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Huge_Midget posted:When did it ever become acceptable for people to use the center turn lane as a merge lane? Since the day they were created, depending on what state you are in. Many states vehicle codes see them as "auxiliary lanes" to be used for any purpose of "reasonable distance" but not as a through lane. They are a terrible idea that appear to be put in practice because it's the cheap way out of otherwise expensive traffic issues.
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Huge_Midget posted:When did it ever become acceptable for people to use the center turn lane as a merge lane? Just because you might have to wait a few seconds more to safely turn left from a side street doesn't mean "Hey, I'll just use the center turn lane as my own personal acceleration lane. Decades and decades ago? The center lane in many states is for both turning left from the street and turning left onto the street. It is still not a "plow your way into traffic" lane. If you're not out in bumfuck nowhere, turning left without stopping in the center lane may in fact be impossible.
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Huge_Midget posted:When did it ever become acceptable for people to use the center turn lane as a merge lane? That's what I was taught to do in driver's ed. If you're in heavy traffic, you can make sure that the closest lanes are empty, the turn lane is empty, then pull into the turning lane, then merge into traffic from there.
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Huge_Midget posted:When did it ever become acceptable for people to use the center turn lane as a merge lane? Just because you might have to wait a few seconds more to safely turn left from a side street doesn't mean "Hey, I'll just use the center turn lane as my own personal acceleration lane. Somebody will let me in eventually!" No. In fact, if I see someone doing that I'll make it my own personal mission to make sure they know the fact that the center turn lane is for traffic that is already on the street trying to decelerate and turn left. I swear to god oncoming SUV, I'll play loving chicken in my shitbox 1992 Accord. And guess what motherfucker? I ain't gonna be the one that blinks. Oh I'm sorry did I inconvenience you and your mewling crotch spawn because you had to slow down for someone using the center turn lane for it's loving god given intended purpose? Good, I hope you roll that loving monstrosity and it kills your entire brood. God knows the gene pool needs a little bleach in it around here. When did it become acceptable for you to somehow become the one true anointed traffic arbiter and make an act you consider unsafe ten times worse? I hope one of the SUV's plays with you and crushes your self-righteous rear end so we get better posts in the forum.
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Huge_Midget posted:When did it ever become acceptable for people to use the center turn lane as a merge lane? Just because you might have to wait a few seconds more to safely turn left from a side street doesn't mean "Hey, I'll just use the center turn lane as my own personal acceleration lane. Somebody will let me in eventually!" No. In fact, if I see someone doing that I'll make it my own personal mission to make sure they know the fact that the center turn lane is for traffic that is already on the street trying to decelerate and turn left. I swear to god oncoming SUV, I'll play loving chicken in my shitbox 1992 Accord. And guess what motherfucker? I ain't gonna be the one that blinks. Oh I'm sorry did I inconvenience you and your mewling crotch spawn because you had to slow down for someone using the center turn lane for it's loving god given intended purpose? Good, I hope you roll that loving monstrosity and it kills your entire brood. God knows the gene pool needs a little bleach in it around here. That's what it is for, fuckwad. QuarkMartial posted:That's what I was taught to do in driver's ed. If you're in heavy traffic, you can make sure that the closest lanes are empty, the turn lane is empty, then pull into the turning lane, then merge into traffic from there.
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Huge_Midget posted:When did it ever become acceptable for people to use the center turn lane as a merge lane? Just because you might have to wait a few seconds more to safely turn left from a side street doesn't mean "Hey, I'll just use the center turn lane as my own personal acceleration lane. Somebody will let me in eventually!" No. In fact, if I see someone doing that I'll make it my own personal mission to make sure they know the fact that the center turn lane is for traffic that is already on the street trying to decelerate and turn left. I swear to god oncoming SUV, I'll play loving chicken in my shitbox 1992 Accord. And guess what motherfucker? I ain't gonna be the one that blinks. Oh I'm sorry did I inconvenience you and your mewling crotch spawn because you had to slow down for someone using the center turn lane for it's loving god given intended purpose? Good, I hope you roll that loving monstrosity and it kills your entire brood. God knows the gene pool needs a little bleach in it around here. Rage much? Like it's been said, plenty of places allow it and some places encourage it. I don't agree with making the left turn and just sitting there waiting for a break, or taking a mile to merge. But if you see a gap coming, I'm totally cool with jumping into the suicide lane and using it briefly to get yourself up to speed to meet the gap. There are one or two intersections here locally where that is the only way to make a left hand turn (they suck because it's a semi-blind intersection, but to be fair, there is no legitimate legal left hand turn for opposing traffic to make at those spots). What is unacceptable to do with a suicide lane is (and I've seen all of these): 1) Passing 2) Getting into it to make a turn that's still 1 mile down the road (usually used by someone who is too impatient with current traffic flow) 3) Riding it to get into a left turn lane (and conversely, honking/raging at someone who is keeping you from doing so because their left turn happens before the intersection) 4) Merging against traffic turning left 5) Blocking someone from making their turn 6) Using it as a break-down lane and/or standing to read your google map directions 7) Cut off someone's turn 8) Making a right turn into a suicide lane, then attempting to merge
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It's one thing to turn into the center lane, stop, and wait for traffic in the lane you are wishing to merge in to reach a point in which you can safely merge. It's another loving thing entirely to turn into the center lane, reach the speed limit of that street, and then stay in that lane for 4 or 5 blocks trying to force your way in front of someone because you're in a goddamn hurry. Jesus you assholes can't detect hyperbole. YF19pilot posted:What is unacceptable to do with a suicide lane is (and I've seen all of these): This is the kind of poo poo I'm talking about.
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YF19pilot posted:6) Using it as a break-down lane and/or standing to read your google map directions I'd rather see a broken-down car in a center turning lane than a normal traffic lane (gently caress the google maps person though.) e: I don't think I've ever experienced someone using the shoulder to merge, every time I see something like that happening its "I'm using the shoulder as my own personal shortcut past all of this stopped/slow traffic to the next exit, three miles ahead." VV Geoj fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Oct 7, 2013 |
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Oct 7, 2013 20:25
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Are people who use the shoulder as a merge lane still douches?
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Huge_Midget posted:When did it ever become acceptable for people to use the center turn lane as a merge lane? I missed a light the other day because someone in the oncoming lane decided that my left turn lane was a perfect lane to turn into the parking lot to my right. Just sat there with their blinker on, facing the wrong way over the double yellow line, waiting for a gap.
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KozmoNaut posted:I didn't know BMW had actually put that on production cars already, neat As long as they somehow fade after a few seconds because nothing sucks more than being stuck in a queue (when it's dark and rainy) behind someone that has gently caress-off bright light and insists on having their foot on the brake at all times. Pretty much blinds the hell out of you.
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Geoj posted:I'd rather see a broken-down car in a center turning lane than a normal traffic lane (gently caress the google maps person though.) Yeah, I meant more the "instead of pulling off the road/into a parking lot I'll just sit here and fumble with whatever bullshit I need to do," rather than an actual broken down car. I don't think I've actually seen a broken down car in the suicide lane, unless you count accidents.
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Das Volk posted:They're different units on the post-facelift cars when they switched to the LED clusters. I've been caught in super heavy fog enough that I'm considering seeing if the European switch mod works on the later cars as well. I found it weird that some of the last E46s went to LED tail lights but then the E90s went back to regular for a while.
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Huge_Midget posted:When did it ever become acceptable for people to use the center turn lane as a merge lane? Just because you might have to wait a few seconds more to safely turn left from a side street doesn't mean "Hey, I'll just use the center turn lane as my own personal acceleration lane. Somebody will let me in eventually!" No. In fact, if I see someone doing that I'll make it my own personal mission to make sure they know the fact that the center turn lane is for traffic that is already on the street trying to decelerate and turn left. I swear to god oncoming SUV, I'll play loving chicken in my shitbox 1992 Accord. And guess what motherfucker? I ain't gonna be the one that blinks. Oh I'm sorry did I inconvenience you and your mewling crotch spawn because you had to slow down for someone using the center turn lane for it's loving god given intended purpose? Good, I hope you roll that loving monstrosity and it kills your entire brood. God knows the gene pool needs a little bleach in it around here. When I drove a car hauler, I used to just stop and unload in those all the time.
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Huge_Midget posted:When did it ever become acceptable for people to use the center turn lane as a merge lane? Just because you might have to wait a few seconds more to safely turn left from a side street doesn't mean "Hey, I'll just use the center turn lane as my own personal acceleration lane. Somebody will let me in eventually!" No. In fact, if I see someone doing that I'll make it my own personal mission to make sure they know the fact that the center turn lane is for traffic that is already on the street trying to decelerate and turn left. I swear to god oncoming SUV, I'll play loving chicken in my shitbox 1992 Accord. And guess what motherfucker? I ain't gonna be the one that blinks. Oh I'm sorry did I inconvenience you and your mewling crotch spawn because you had to slow down for someone using the center turn lane for it's loving god given intended purpose? Good, I hope you roll that loving monstrosity and it kills your entire brood. God knows the gene pool needs a little bleach in it around here. Depending on the state, it IS a merge lane. Yeah, I had no idea you could use it as such for awhile. http://www.dmvnv.com/pdfforms/qtlaws05.pdf InterceptorV8 fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Oct 8, 2013 |
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9axle posted:When I drove a car hauler, I used to just stop and unload in those all the time. In South Philly, there's places (such as South Broad) where people literally park in these, and the PPA seems to leave them alone. http://goo.gl/8YOd7f
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Jared592 posted:I've seen a lot of that in tighter areas, and really, I can't imagine where else you'd realistically be able to unload. It took me less then 15 seconds to find a shirtless guy.
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Jared592 posted:In South Philly, there's places (such as South Broad) where people literally park in these, and the PPA seems to leave them alone. I spent a week in Philly a few years ago for work and that was so common I figured that's what the center lanes were for.
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InterceptorV8 posted:Depending on the state, it IS a merge lane. Yeah, it says merging vehicles can use them to merge for 50 feet. Being generous and doubling that to 100 feet is still well within the realm of acceptable to me. It's the loving soccer moms in their SUVs that will literally go a block and a half trying to merge that make me want to murder them.
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Huge_Midget posted:Yeah, it says merging vehicles can use them to merge for 50 feet. Being generous and doubling that to 100 feet is still well within the realm of acceptable to me. It's the loving soccer moms in their SUVs that will literally go a block and a half trying to merge that make me want to murder them. I think we need to look at this problem. Ban Soccer. If there isn't any Soccer, there won't be any Soccer Moms and this problem will fix itself. 
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Huge_Midget posted:Yeah, it says merging vehicles can use them to merge for 50 feet. Being generous and doubling that to 100 feet is still well within the realm of acceptable to me. It's the loving soccer moms in their SUVs that will literally go a block and a half trying to merge that make me want to murder them. That poo poo is why I hate driving the Fairlane. Not only is it long and low, it doesn't have the greatest visibility off to the sides and it's one of those cars that seems to provoke people to block me merging. People also seem to sit hard up its rear end no matter what speed I'm driving too. No problems with either at all with the Niva. Checked both speedometers with GPS too. Some cars just seem to bring out the inner rear end in a top hat in people. Like big black SUVs with stick families on the rear window.
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Jared592 posted:I've seen a lot of that in tighter areas, and really, I can't imagine where else you'd realistically be able to unload. That lane is double-yellow on both sides. Are you sure that's a turning lane?
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In Philadelphia, "turning lane" is pretty liberally interpreted. That'd typically be a turning lane before it'd be a parking lane.
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Those are legitimate parking spots in Philadelphia. They're occupied pretty much 24 hours a day. It's been that way since cars were invented. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8WW2_6pYIM FogHelmut fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Oct 9, 2013 |
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Well, not exactly "legitimate", but the PPA leaves you alone there. It's been that way forever, and it's sort of just a quirk of South Philly. There's a bunch of different theories as to what precipitated the beginning of the practice and when it started.
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So I just moved to Novato in the Bay Area and commute down the 101 to SF... I noticed a lot of police activity on the marinwood exit for some reason and I saw this report the other night. http://news.kron4.com/features/marinwood-drivers-behave-badly/ Traffic gets congested between Novoto and San Rafael since there's a bottleneck with no real side street way to get through the area, you have to take the 101. Some drivers figured out that they could hop in an exit/mege lane that's a few miles long to skip traffic, get to the marinwood exit then head right through back onto the highway again. Said exit ends in a left turn only lane but drivers have been ignoring that so, now angry residents and the police are staking out that ramp all morning this week. And people still blow through a left turn only lane even with 5 cop cars parked on the bridge.... I'm amused. Try could fix it with a concrete island or by forcing all traffic to merge into the main highway. Them again people. May ride the shoulders. :p Big K of Justice fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Oct 9, 2013 |
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Were you in SoCal before? Do people not do that there? It's kinda common depending on the layout, unfortunately. People do it on the 24 West before Caldecott tunnel, for example.
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Geared Hub posted:So I just moved to Novato in the Bay Area and commute down the 101 to SF... I noticed a lot of police activity on the marinwood exit for some reason and I saw this report the other night. Or they could just put in a light and regulate the intersection with that in mind. It sounds to me like some people found a handy way to help alleviate some of the congestion and the nimbys are getting up in arms about it. There's actually a semi-similar situation in my town: people failing to notice a sign change because they're familiar with the area and change is too difficult of a concept to grasp. We have a rail line running through town, and since it's a fairly wealthy area the town jumped at the chance to become a "quiet zone" when that law came into effect. For those who don't know, quiet zones are areas where trains are not allowed to blow their horns at crossings except in emergencies (normally it is required at all crossings, 2 longs, 1 short, 1 long). The law however states that either the gates must block the road completely in both directions, or there must be a median dividing the road at the crossing to prevent people from going around the gates. For some reason the town chose to lengthen the gates at two roads AND turn them into one-way streets. Naturally, two years later people still occasionally treat them as two-way streets. Probably because they're pretty much the only one-way streets in a town with lots of narrow two-way streets. Frankly I think quiet zone laws are a stupid idea, but then, I like the sound of train horns. Disgruntled Bovine fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Oct 9, 2013 |
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