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xzzy posted:Spent the last week or so touring around New Mexico, and while the populated areas have some borderline suicidal drivers that will weave all over the place with no warning That's just the natives headed to the grocery store to get another handle of whiskey at 9am (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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That's what my prejudiced rear end thought at first, but then I noticed everyone does it. White, native, old, young. Wasn't just on the reservations either, I saw it the most in Albuquerque. People would randomly decide to drift into another lane, even if it happened to be on the other side of a yellow line.
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http://metro.co.uk/2016/08/15/driver-killed-three-friends-by-coasting-down-a-hill-to-save-petrol-money-6069113/quote:Three young men died in a car crash when their friend ‘coasted’ down a hill to save petrol money. loving hypermilers.
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Aug 17, 2016 15:36
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Doesn't that waste gas too? The engine now has to idle to power the AC and all the other electronic stuff. By leaving it in gear, a modern fuel injected engine can cut the fuel and let gravity turn it over, thus powering all that other stuff for you.
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Aug 17, 2016 16:18
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I'm more amazed people still use the telegraph.
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Aug 17, 2016 16:33
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Gravity idling the engine turns the compressor, too.
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Aug 17, 2016 16:38
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KozmoNaut posted:I found this in the Schadenfreude thread, and it's absolutely glorious. Sounds like Boston on an average Thursday.
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PenisMonkey posted:I'm more amazed people still use the telegraph. It's South Wales - where electricity is still considered magic. and indoor toilets are confined to the super-rich.
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Aug 17, 2016 16:53
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I read that as "and the super-rich are confined to indoor toilets" 
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Aug 17, 2016 16:55
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spog posted:http://metro.co.uk/2016/08/15/driver-killed-three-friends-by-coasting-down-a-hill-to-save-petrol-money-6069113/ Stupid to be sure but the article isn't exactly clear on how being in neutral caused or contributed to the accident. Did he ride his brakes until they faded? Not enough vacuum to boost the brakes? Sounds like it was just lovely driving that led to the accident and they just happened to be coasting at the time...
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Aug 17, 2016 17:29
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Geoj posted:Stupid to be sure but the article isn't exactly clear on how being in neutral caused or contributed to the accident. Yeah, on examination it's not so clear. i did track down a more detailed article: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/jail-young-driver-who-admitted-11742401 quote:The collision happened at around 10.30pm on Sunday, October 11, when the five young men were travelling towards Merthyr Tydfil town centre from Cyfarthfa Retail Park, after a previous trip to McDonald's at Rhydycar, Cyfarthfa Retail Park and Tesco. I guess being in neutral helped the car gather speed beyond a safe amount - though probably he would still have done that if he were in gear. Unlike my friend who used to turn off his engine to save fuel and to scare his passengers by showing them the ignition key while decending. He stopped when he discovered that this enabled the steering lock and removed the brake boost.
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spog posted:It's South Wales - where electricity is still considered magic. and people still point at aeroplanes.
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spog posted:
How long did it take him to 'discover' these unknowable mysteries?
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TotalLossBrain posted:How long did it take him to 'discover' these unknowable mysteries? As I recall, it was somewhere between "Hey Girls! Watch this!" and "Ahhhh! Oh blimey, I've poo poo meself"
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Aug 17, 2016 20:48
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One of the two keys for my old Crown Vic was so worn out I could pull it out while the car was running. That was fun to gently caress with people, and kind of nice when just stopping in to a friend's house since I could leave the car running but still lock it without having to carry both keys around.
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TotalLossBrain posted:How long did it take him to 'discover' these unknowable mysteries? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx-Pz042vyg
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Aug 17, 2016 22:23
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Aug 17, 2016 22:35
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My dumbass brother did that while I was towing a CRX behind another car. He was in the CRX and for some retarded reason decided to take the key out of the ignition and the wheel locked up on him. Luckily it was a three lane road and no one else was near us at the time, could have ended up badly.
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Aug 18, 2016 00:44
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That's it, I'm buying a dashcam. Just had an old man in a second gen Escape not only pull out right in front of me off of a side street and into the next lane over, he also randomly swerved into my lane just as my front bumper lined up with his rear. I'd be on the hook for rear ending him if I hadn't been able to stop in time. Pretty sure he was completely oblivious as to what he nearly did too 
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how the gently caress? Did the steering wheel lock or something? I mean I know it's tough to turn without power steering, but that wheel wasn't budging with 2 people fighting it.
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Geoj posted:That's it, I'm buying a dashcam. Just had an old man in a second gen Escape not only pull out right in front of me off of a side street and into the next lane over, he also randomly swerved into my lane just as my front bumper lined up with his rear. I'd be on the hook for rear ending him if I hadn't been able to stop in time. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P8F3LD0/ <-- get one of these if you're in doubt. (If you're in a cooler climate you can save some $$$ and get the battery model)
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:how the gently caress? Yes, that final turn was sharper than the ones before and the wheel locked after it was turned that far.
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nitrogen posted:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P8F3LD0/ <-- get one of these if you're in doubt. (If you're in a cooler climate you can save some $$$ and get the battery model) Just get the capacitor model. I have the battery model and I'm pretty sure Geoj is in my area (NE Ohio). The battery lasted about two months in to its first summer in a white car parked mostly outside.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Some absolute oval office decided it would be fun to try to scare a cyclist by deliberatly swerving off the freeway and pass as close as possible to the cyclist on the dedicated bike lane a full THREE METERS from the freeway edge. Some years ago I was riding my bicycle down the highway on the shoulder, completely out of the traffic lane and inconveniencing no one, when a black primered 260z passed me at high speed with only inches to spare. In his eagerness to give me a thrill, the driver was apparently watching me in his mirrors after he passed me, rather than paying attention to the fact that he had angled toward the highway's shoulder to get closer to me, and was now headed off the road. As I watched, he suddenly realized that he was heading for the shoulder going about seventy + MPH (it was a fifty five zone, and he had likely sped up to make it a more memorable experience for us both) and he over corrected. The rear end came around, and for just a moment it looked as though he might lose it and roll his car - but sadly, he managed to keep it mostly pointed straight and recover.
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When they say the off ramp is 30mph, it's probably wise to listen.  No idea on specifics, no cops or ambulance was on scene so I must have gotten there long after the fact. Just a lone tow truck operator trying to decide how the gently caress to get this thing back on the round rubber things. Was half hoping to see "SWIFT" on the side after the earlier conversations about them.
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xzzy posted:When they say the off ramp is 30mph, it's probably wise to listen. Con-way seems to be one of the better companies out there, and their offices were competently staffed whenever I visited them while working for Werner. Surprised to see them in a roll over like that. Oh and whenever I'm taking a ramp like that in the truck I slow way down and gently caress everyone else, I don't want to flip over like that guy. I can inconvenience someone for 10 extra seconds or shut down a highway for hours and lose my job and or life. 10 seconds it is.
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xzzy posted:When they say the off ramp is 30mph, it's probably wise to listen. Yer a Chicago guy, right? Take a look sometime at the noise wall on the outside of the ramp from NB I-55 to NB I-294 sometime. DOZENS of scrapes from trucks disregarding the 25mph speed limit (or whatever it is - I don't live there anymore). I'm saw a truck tipped over about 45 degrees leaning on the wall one time a few years ago.
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How absolutely blind do you have to be to drive through a roadblock? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYPmhEac6mw
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Aug 20, 2016 00:42
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That "Hey, fuckwit!" at the end.
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dc9_1471897294
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=518_1471616285
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I don't even know what to say about this http://www.wthr.com/article/amazing-video-teen-ejected-from-police-car-during-crash
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Perp seems awfully well versed in getting out of handcuffs. Also, shouldn't he have been liberated of his loving zippo before being stuffed in the back seat?
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Cop gets a pretty good skid on before he bounces over that curb. 40 hours of autocross for the whole department.
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Aug 23, 2016 14:40
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Kid looks like an rear end in a top hat. I declare him guilty.
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Aug 23, 2016 14:45
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Rough ride gone wrong?
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"Rough ride" being a "let's do figure eights until he pukes" thing? Edit: "Let's do gymkhana until he's in a wheelchair", apparently...  'murica.
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Good morning Spokane! This was, of course, just before 8 AM this morning, at the intersection of a major E/W through street and the northbound half of the biggest N/S route. When I got there at about ten 'til 8, the container was grounded halfway into the right lane going east, and... uh, well, I was trying to clear the intersection safely with the sun in my eyes and wasn't just loving rubbernecking like *every other single vehicle*, so I dunno if it was blocking all the left lanes under the bridge or not. I do know the flatbed was stopped maybe fifty feet from the scalping.  13 feet, 10 inches, posted all over the bridge itself, and a few blocks back on both sides of the street.
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Spotted another victim of DRLs and perma-backlit gauges, but probably a new high (low?) score for stupidity. I10W, I think it was somewhere between Palo Verde and Quartzsite, so middle of fuckin' nowhere with zero street lights. Sun completely gone so no ambient light, and cruising at 75+ with no lighting at all from the rear. Couldn't see him at all until you were practically on top of him already. Amazingly, after the third time I flashed him with the headlights, he actually turned them on!
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I make the L.A. to Phoenix run fairly often to visit my parents so I get to see all sorts of entertaining and dangerous I-10 shenanigans. Gotta get the RV to the Rock & Gem show as fast as possible!
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