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bolind posted:It happened today! I flashed my brights (two long ones, as to convey friendliness, if that's at all possible) at a white Hyundai with no rear lights and then he turned them on! This never happens. He was probably brake checking you but didn't have any brake pads in the car.
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spog posted:I followed a Triumph Spitfire on a unlit dual carriageway, with no rear lights, but fully-working headlights (a rarity for a British car of that age that they worked). Headlights but no tails on a vintage Triumph? Someone would have to armwrestle the Prince of Darkness.
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90's Nissan Quest, 7:30 last night, going 80 up RT3 with no lights, full of kids, mom driving on cell phone, dad passed out in passenger seat, discounted Christmas tree tied to the roof. Christmas tree decides that two bits of twine wont keep it down and that sucker flew off. That's tree #4 I have dodged this december 
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spog posted:What else could be done? Morse code? A scrolling led sign in your rear window with the message "TURN ON YOUR HEADLIGHTS YOU DOOFUS." I know we've all considered that, right?
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xzzy posted:A scrolling led sign in your rear window with the message "TURN ON YOUR HEADLIGHTS YOU DOOFUS." I couldn't behave with such a thing. Texting while Driving would take on a whooole new dimension 
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I got as far as pricing out parts to build one and then realized I would probably become the victim of road rage very quickly.
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Beach Bum posted:I couldn't behave with such a thing. Texting while Driving would take on a whooole new dimension They're only about  , too..http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-12V-Red-LED-Message-Sign-Moving-Scrolling-Display-Board-for-Car-shop-windows-/251395542985 eBay posted:Support :English character,digital,punctuation & Russian Блядь! Блядь! Блядь!
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So it's snowing in Seattle. Everyone knows what that means! I came into work about 2 hours late to let the roads clear up a little bit. During my wait, I watched a guy wreck outside my apartment because he thought his SUV could drive like it can when it's dry. Slammed it sideways and pretty hard into a curb. Today was my first time driving my RWD Volvo in the snow, as well as driving stick in the snow; so I was taking it nice and easy. During my 8mi little adventure, I saw several tank commanders, including some in grey/silver cars without their lights on. Then there were the guys in the SUVs / Brotrucks that were doing 40 - 50 down city streets. One of them was riding my tail for a few miles even though I was in the right lane and the only car on the road. Why don't you get around me? I trust myself behind the wheel in snow, but man, I almost never drive in it because of the other drivers around here are so drat stupid and impatient. My rig this morning: 
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Solar Coaster posted:So it's snowing in Seattle. Everyone knows what that means! There is a reason why I am sitting in my office at my house instead of the real office downtown. Not only is it the last day before the holiday shutdown, but there was no way in hell I was going to risk some rear end in a top hat hitting my new car. I had to drive my girlfriend to school this morning, so I had a chance to try out the new Jetta in the snow. Did surprsingly well on the stock tires. And I might have taken advantage of the big empty parking lot at her school to play with the handbrake. I was half tempted to go for a drive in my e30, but apparently the battery did not like sitting for a couple months unused.
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Roxbury SW and Meyers Way headed down to Georgetown were disappointingly clear of snow/wrecks, but up in Arbor Heights things were delightfully slick at 9am. I very nearly got the Buell out for some real shenanigans, but decided that wrestling the bike out of the shed and through my snowy backyard wasn't worth it. Hopefully this year we will have another Seattle SNOWPOCALYPSE, it's entirely downhill to work, and my rock skis could use some more asphalt treatment on the edges.
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This is more of a 'these are the pedestrians who occasionally share the roads with you when they cross', but on the way into work just now I saw a lady who had decided the best way to get traffic to stop for her to cross was to push her stroller out onto the road with her child still in it. And this was instead of walking about 30ft to a proper crossing with traffic lights and stuff too 
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Icedude posted:This is more of a 'these are the pedestrians who occasionally share the roads with you when they cross', but on the way into work just now I saw a lady who had decided the best way to get traffic to stop for her to cross was to push her stroller out onto the road with her child still in it. Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia is one of the most dangerous roads in the country. Mostly because pedestrians do just this and die constantly. Don't get me wrong though, most of the drivers over there are assholes too.
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Work has me traveling the Boulevard quite a bit. It is a nasty stretch of road. I also take it to get to my mom's house; my wife medicates before that trip. One of the worst fatal car accidents I investigated happened there, when newlyweds were rear-ended by a drunk driver while sitting at a red light, and were trapped in the car while it burned. Just about every tree is scarred.
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As someone who has driven a Uhaul i can't imagine how slow this thing was driving when it got pulled over.
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Wonder what MPG that box truck was getting.
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"A". A mile per gallon.
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Bovril Delight posted:Wonder what MPG that box truck was getting. I think it was probably in the GPM, gallons per mile, field honestly.
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Bovril Delight posted:Wonder what MPG that box truck was getting. I'd be willing to bet its more on the order of "how many gallons per mile" it was getting. e:f/b
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Toucan Sam posted:As someone who has driven a Uhaul i can't imagine how slow this thing was driving when it got pulled over. Pfft, haters... 
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0rganDonor posted:Pfft, haters... I was thinking the exact same thing.  
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Toucan Sam posted:As someone who has driven a Uhaul i can't imagine how slow this thing was driving when it got pulled over. I have an acquaintance that lost his second food His first venture was an airstream he converted, and mounted two big commercial-sized propane tanks to an improvised platform on the aft end, and didn't adjust the trailer CG, so it only had like 20 pounds of tongue weight. That one got squirrelly and smeared itself all over the turnpike as well. Did I mention that after the first time he miraculously didn't loving kill anyone, he used kickstarter to fund his second 
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I read that as a totally different type of tank and started looking up how to get it on my license.
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Toucan Sam posted:As someone who has driven a Uhaul i can't imagine how slow this thing was driving when it got pulled over. Richard Scarry approved.
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Elmnt80 posted:I read that as a totally different type of tank and started looking up how to get it on my license. In the UK, if you passed your car test during 1990-1996, you were automatically allowed to drive Agricultural Tractors, Road Rollers and Tanks.
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spog posted:In the UK....... Road Rollers Now you're just making up words. You know that we know you guys do this to us, right?
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Motronic posted:Now you're just making up words. You know that we know you guys do this to us, right? What do you call this? 
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Measly Twerp posted:What do you call this? Steamroller.
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Enter Char posted:Steamroller. Where does the coal go?
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That is a rip off of the CATERPILLAR CS433E VIBRATORY SMOOTH DRUM ROLLER. No longer powered by steam.
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Elmnt80 posted:I read that as a totally different type of tank and started looking up how to get it on my license. You don't need a special license to drive a tank on the road. So long as it has road treads and you follow all the weight and width restrictions that we on the commercial side follow and are not driving it for profit, you're golden.
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Elephanthead posted:That is a rip off of the CATERPILLAR CS433E
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0rganDonor posted:You don't need a special license to drive a tank on the road. So long as it has road treads and you follow all the weight and width restrictions that we on the commercial side follow and are not driving it for profit, you're golden. If I'm driving a tank around on public roads, one way or another, I'm getting some money.
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Who would stop you from driving a tank anyway? Someone with a bigger tank?
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Fart Pipe posted:Who would stop you from driving a tank anyway? Someone with a bigger tank? Generally guns are involved. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Nelson
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So many idiots driving silver cars with no lights in the fog this morning.
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 Must be nearly time for the tour down under again, so many spastics in Lycra on the roads again. That road train of arrogance would have been 200m long and doing no more than 25kph in a 100kph zone.
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Ferremit posted:
gently caress you, cyclists have the right to the road too, and riding in a big gently caress off group like that means that they're less likely to get killed by manchildren like you.
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Cyclists have the right to ride single file and should get out of the way when traffic needs to pass, not block the entire road for a distance too long for anyone to pass them.
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