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This is amazing. What is the older boxy car that starts in the middle of the formation?
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Its a Toyota Century isnt it? e: yea it definitely is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Century shy boy from chess club fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Dec 22, 2016 |
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I'd love to see a comparison video with the US president's motorcade. Pretty sure in the US they'd barge into the merge without looking and if you got too close they'd unload their magazines into your engine block/your face.
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Dec 22, 2016 20:30
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xzzy posted:I'd love to see a comparison video with the US president's motorcade. Here's one from the same place. They just shut down the road instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9gJp3FVd2o
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Dec 22, 2016 20:51
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xzzy posted:I'd love to see a comparison video with the US president's motorcade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbIZoX-Uezw In Chicago they don't merge, they shut down the expressway. In some cases the city also lowers electronically-controlled gates at entrance ramps for a period of time.
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Michael Scott posted:
Goddamn it just never stops. At first I thought even the train was part of the escort.  Shutting down that stretch of road for any purpose is cruel and unusual punishment.
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slurry_curry posted:I had a similar run in with a cyclist wearing all black, no lights/reflectors on the bike at all, sitting in the shadows between the right lane and little right turn lane at a light. Would have run him over(granted I was going to straddle both the right/right turn lanes, but it was late on an empty road), but saw him at the last second and avoided him. Already had my window down and said "Hey man, you should really get some lights or something, I just about ran you over since you were almost invisible." He just started yelling back at me "gently caress you, I don't need any loving lights." followed by a bunch of random expletives, so I just made my right turn and drove away. Around here this kinda stuff isn't solely with bicyclists - I've seen plenty of people walking in the road or crossing the street after dark without looking and wearing dark clothes. I can't count the number of times I've come close to turning an idiot into paste because I can't see them until they're in my headlights, I've taken to honking and scaring the hell out of them now because gently caress people like that.
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Re: peds. In California at least, entering during a flashing don't walk is legally jaywalking. That said, don't loving honk at them, jesus. If you hit a ped in a crosswalk (assuming you don't have a green light), reflective gear or not, that is on you entirely. The idea that crosswalks are a signal that you have to watch carefully for peds and loving stop for them seema lost on people. Yeah, peds should realize they are hard to see when dark, but someone walking to dinner shouldn't be expectes to wear a loving reflective vest on top of his suit.
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gently caress, I wish people would use the crosswalks. It's awful when there's a crosswalk less than 100 feet from where someone decides to jaywalk. Even worse when they're wearing all black at night. Just a few days ago I saw a huge group of people (15-20) decide to try darting across a fairly busy 6-lane highway. Half of them stopped in the median, and one of them ran out in front of oncoming traffic. 
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Dec 22, 2016 22:11
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I had that exact thing happen a few days ago leaving work. It was already completely dark out and I was approaching a light that had turned green within the last few seconds. Suddenly out from between some of the stopped cars a guy in a dark coat with a dark hat and blue jeans just steps right out in front of me. I had to emergency stop from about 30mph, and stopped probably less than 5 feet away from him. The guy didn't even so much as flinch or look at me so I'm guessing either he had balls of steel, or was on something. Either way it was very distressing and annoying.
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Yeah, those are real products. He just didn't trim them.
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Dec 24, 2016 07:20
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California Highway Patrol won't let you use those.
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Dec 24, 2016 07:25
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Something like that but reusable would be awesome since it looks like a tenth of the effort of hanging chains. Don't imagine it lasts long, though.
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Dec 24, 2016 07:27
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I had sno claws on my motorcycle.
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FogHelmut posted:California Highway Patrol won't let you use those.
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Ben Hur?
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I will jaywalk like a bastard but I carefully time it so that no one needs to stop or slow down to accomodate me. Then some retard decides to be oh so helpful and slam on the brakes for me because why not, and gets mad when I stare at them because they didn't need to stop and the other 3 lanes of traffic haven't aligned, so gently caress you I am not walking in front of them.
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InitialDave posted:Out of interest, why? They said so on Facebook https://m.facebook.com/1546974278847871/photos/a.1547549818790317.1073741831.1546974278847871/1844629312415698/?type=3 Best I can figure is that they are not approved because they won't last more than a few miles before disintegrating. FogHelmut fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Dec 24, 2016 |
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Dec 24, 2016 17:19
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Yeah, I figured out as a young man that if an idiot can fit their car through safety cones, railings or poles, they will. It might be cones around a trench, doesn't matter. They'll head right for it and go straight through. Of course, I figured it out doing tank dips at a petrol station where I was the object in the way and people would try to drive through the safety cones I had set up to protect me. It's also how I lost my job when this loving idiot clipped me and I smashed the five metre long dip pole over his car. But in lighter news, I was driving home tonight around midnight and a car coming up behind me had both it's headlights and fog lights on, but one of each was broken and on opposite sides . Honest to god, in the dark it looked like the car was tilted over at a 30° angle and confused the hell out of me until he finally got close enough that I could see what was going on with it.
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InitialDave posted:Out of interest, why? Cal highway code 605 states it must be a "link type" traction control device, and that CHP reserves the right to ban any device at will. So, they just can and did, I guess.
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Sure officers have discretion and can write you a ticket for basically anything, but those ties might be ok for getting out of a bind. I have read they are not really effective anyway.
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I don't see how they could be effective, the instant the tire starts to lose traction the plastic is gonna get torqued and probably snap the zip tie locky bit.
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I mean, some plastics have pretty high tension figures. With a wide, lower tie, I can see them helping (as said) in a pinch. Not necessarily defending them outright.
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They are not meant for travel, just to get you unstuck if you get stuck in snow. If you're spinning your wheels trying to get out the spikes on these are supposed to be able to pull you out, but then you take them off before traveling.
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This goon is an asshat.
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Speaking of asshats, went on a Christmas Eve run to Costco for some foodstuffs, which is about a 20 mile one-way drive for me. It was pouring rain. Visibility down to under 50 yards, and that's being pretty optimistic, speeds on I-10 were down to 50mph or so. Somehow, at least 5% of the drivers on the road were too loving stupid to consider that maybe they should turn on their headlights in these conditions.
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I really dislike people who drive slow and erratic just because they are looking for a place. A lot of that when driving to christmas dinner...
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The Locator posted:Speaking of asshats, went on a Christmas Eve run to Costco for some foodstuffs, which is about a 20 mile one-way drive for me. It was pouring rain. Visibility down to under 50 yards, and that's being pretty optimistic, speeds on I-10 were down to 50mph or so. I was also on the 10. We've done 150 miles today, all westside. gently caress this gay earth.
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xzzy posted:Most goons are asshats when you get down to it.
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Saw a dude driving home yesterday who had the dome light on, reading what looked to be a bible held at chest height and dictating to a Bluetooth earpiece. I trailed him for about 20 minutes through multiple freeway interchanges until I got to my exit.
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FCKGW posted:Saw a dude driving home yesterday who had the dome light on, reading what looked to be a bible held at chest height and dictating to a Bluetooth earpiece. 
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Today was my first day back in the Northeast in a while. It was filled with the usual lovely driving, undertaking, and tailgating. But the best part was watching two cars honk at each other because one of them sat at a green light (I think). They then turned on to the two lane road I was on, and both assholes were hanging out their windows yelling at each other. rear end in a top hat 2 almost ran into me because he was focused on rear end in a top hat 1. Then I ended up next to both in a turn lane. Their argument was "You motherfucker" "you don't know me, bitch rear end" "I'm a bitch rear end for calling you a motherfucker?" Ad infinitum. Grown men acting like children is always entertaining.
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FCKGW posted:Saw a dude driving home yesterday who had the dome light on, reading what looked to be a bible held at chest height and dictating to a Bluetooth earpiece. So, what do you guys do when you see someone like this on the highway, do you speed up and try to put some distance between them, risking them rear ending you? Or do you slow down and keep an eye out ahead of them, trying to anticipate if they will crash?
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There's some prepper dude that does (or used to, I'm not sure) a daily, hour-long podcast which he records on his commute to Houston. I've listened to a couple a few years ago and they were, umm, interesting. Edit: I should clarify that his commute was him driving his station-wagon by himself on I-10. While rambling about prepper things. TotalLossBrain fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Dec 25, 2016 |
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FCKGW posted:Saw a dude driving home yesterday who had the dome light on, reading what looked to be a bible held at chest height and dictating to a Bluetooth earpiece. About 10 years ago I was nearly run off the road by a semi, turns out the driver was studying from a college textbook he had balanced on the steering wheel. How these people are still alive is beyond me.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Yeah, I figured out as a young man that if an idiot can fit their car through safety cones, railings or poles, they will. That's why those stupid little poles should be traded out for retractable bollards instead  Raise them as soon as the light goes yellow, it won't take people long to learn the cost of being stupid and reckless
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ArthurDent posted:So, what do you guys do when you see someone like this on the highway, do you speed up and try to put some distance between them, risking them rear ending you? Or do you slow down and keep an eye out ahead of them, trying to anticipate if they will crash? He was driving surprising well, especially in a construction zone. Stayed in his lane and merged at the right times. Live and let live in that situation.
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