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sleepy.eyes posted:Being pulled over for completing an overtake as quickly as you can is some weapons-grade BS. I was told in driving school to do it as quickly as possible. There should probably be some clarification.
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It depends on the state, but many states allow for exceeding the speed limit when passing on a 2 lane road. Passing lanes of course don't apply, which is stupid.
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Feb 27, 2017 21:21
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The Locator posted:I happen to know this from personal experience. I wasn't even going all that fast, but the oncoming headlights happened to be attached to a Montana State trooper car. I was in a similar situation. Ended up getting tagged at 70 in a 55 on a long straight because I wanted to pass a truck before we got into the curvy mountain roads.
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Deeters posted:I was in a similar situation. Ended up getting tagged at 70 in a 55 on a long straight because I wanted to pass a truck before we got into the curvy mountain roads. I think mine was similar but I don't remember the exact numbers, since it was in '99, might have been 65 in a 55. This in a state where, at the time, it was perfectly legal to go 160 on the interstate if the conditions were appropriate.
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Feb 27, 2017 23:13
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I think my favorite ticket was when I passed someone who was doing 25 in a 30 for several miles before there was finally a spot to pass and I got up to 40. Thanks, Delaware!
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Feb 27, 2017 23:19
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The Locator posted:I think mine was similar but I don't remember the exact numbers, since it was in '99, might have been 65 in a 55. This in a state where, at the time, it was perfectly legal to go 160 on the interstate if the conditions were appropriate. If I recall, you could also drink a beer as you drove, provided you weren't legally intoxicated.
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Feb 27, 2017 23:37
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The Locator posted:I think mine was similar but I don't remember the exact numbers, since it was in '99, might have been 65 in a 55. This in a state where, at the time, it was perfectly legal to go 160 on the interstate if the Highway Patrolman judged that conditions were appropriate. Fixed. Only time I ever got pulled for speeding was a highway, when I passed Captain Inconstant And Slow Speed and was pulling away about ten over. Got one of the last "energy conversation" five-dollar "tickets" for it, too.  Not everyone in the state could handle speeding well... or just normal driving, for that matter. There used to be entire *forests* of accident crosses on all the major highways and side-roads leading out of Great Falls in the '70s.
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Feb 27, 2017 23:52
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The more recent no speed limit thing had the strange effect of decreasing highway deaths https://www.motorists.org/press/montana-no-speed-limit-safety-paradox/ Although trying to drive 100 on mt highways in a car built in the 60s seems like not such a good idea.
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jamal posted:The more recent no speed limit thing had the strange effect of decreasing highway deaths Freeways yes, state highways no. "Hey, is the shoulder stripe supposed to be in the grass?" Not that you'd notice the shoulder much because you were busy looking out for cows/deers/elk/horses/antelope/why is someone herding sheep across the highway in the middle of the day/bears/buffalo (limited availability). State 200 east of Lincoln used to have the only serious "slow down, this speed is *not* a suggestion" turn I'd ever seen, until I hit the full-on hairpin on the east side of Coeur d'Alene before the freeway was completed
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Feb 28, 2017 00:15
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This is my memory of Montana in the last month before they abolished the "Reasonable Speed" signs.... Had to take my own car for that, my company car up there was governed to 118'ish. Over the course of a season (I worked for a hotel chain at Glacier) I spent many hours testing that governor.
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Feb 28, 2017 05:05
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The Locator posted:This is my memory of Montana in the last month before they abolished the "Reasonable Speed" signs.... Yep, most of the cars I've driven have been governed to right around that speed due to the factory tire speed rating being right around 120. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_code#Speed_rating
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Feb 28, 2017 06:26
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Michael Scott posted:Yep, most of the cars I've driven have been governed to right around that speed due to the factory tire speed rating being right around 120. Never really thought about it, but that makes perfect sense from a liability standpoint.
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:State 200 east of Lincoln used to have the only serious "slow down, this speed is *not* a suggestion" turn I'd ever seen, until I hit the full-on hairpin on the east side of Coeur d'Alene before the freeway was completed That would be the infamous 'Rainbow Bend' I think. It was redone/rebuit/re-engineered some years back to be a bit less vicous. The last company rig I drove maxxed at 96 (and I found that out on hwy 200 this side of rainbow bend).
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Feb 28, 2017 08:41
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PT6A posted:If I recall, you could also drink a beer as you drove, provided you weren't legally intoxicated. That too. The friendly officer would certainly make you do stupid human tricks if they saw you tipping a brew, but if you weren't spifflicated they'd send you on your merry way.
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Feb 28, 2017 08:45
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Another instant justice vid https://gfycat.com/FirmGenerousEchidna
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Feb 28, 2017 08:50
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Reminds me off an intersection with a merge just like that. Albeit the yield sign is in the counter intuitive direction but every morning I nearly merge into the side of someone because they fail to yeild right of way. Like the times it's happened now is measured in the hundreds.
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Feb 28, 2017 15:31
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The Locator posted:This is my memory of Montana in the last month before they abolished the "Reasonable Speed" signs.... Nice post/av combo there 
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Feb 28, 2017 16:21
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These are the buses you share the road with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwEnLmvL--Y (I curse, so maybe NSFW with sound on?)
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This truck doesn’t actually spend much time on the road. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0gcs9kyeUE Escaped inmate.
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Mar 1, 2017 08:07
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Platystemon posted:This truck doesn’t actually spend much time on the road. That woman in the Corolla is pretty lucky to be alive.
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Mar 1, 2017 15:07
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Looks like them Duke boys are at it again...
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Mar 1, 2017 20:53
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This is the Jeep that was in the ER parking lot  
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Mar 1, 2017 22:07
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I've seen people do that to fit tall stuff into their garage, but not for actual road use.
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Mar 1, 2017 22:33
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If Trump sees that flag we're going to get another Executive Order... 
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After status of the truck in that dukes of hazzard video: Airbages and crumple zones are pretty cool yall.
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Mar 2, 2017 00:38
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It also landed on an occupied car, just to the right of the truck in that photo
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Sigma posted:This is the Jeep that was in the ER parking lot These colors don't run.
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Mar 2, 2017 03:30
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But they do fade. Red is the hardest due to make UV resistant without a UV topcoat.
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Apparently it's a white supremacist flag.
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Sigma posted:This is the Jeep that was in the ER parking lot  Then there's also this entire thread.  And this thread. 
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Mar 2, 2017 18:52
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:
oh wow layitlow forums. I worked for a hydraulic hose company and we were their go-to supplier of lines in the los angeles area. It was something I arranged, actually. All their bouncing puts a lot of pressure on the hydraulic lines and their meets were basically hop until the lines bust. We made them lines with the highest strength stuff we had and it still wasn't enough.
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Pretty sure this wasn't the autopilot's fault. 
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Phanatic posted:Pretty sure this wasn't the autopilot's fault. Yeah nope I have no explanations for that other than "he's a loving idiot."
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Phanatic posted:Pretty sure this wasn't the autopilot's fault. That looks like it's about 3 miles from my house, southbound 121. There's no signage out signaling that there's a new traffic pattern, they just changed it this last weekend.
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Mar 2, 2017 22:20
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Smoke from the battery or cooling system? Cammer was following too close.
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:That looks like it's about 3 miles from my house, southbound 121. There's no signage out signaling that there's a new traffic pattern, they just changed it this last weekend. Yep, this is exactly where I thought it was.  Southbound 121 going over Sandy Lake.  Southbound 121 bridge over Sandy Lake. You can see the NTB building on the right by the service road, same as in the gif. Just across the bridge there's a reroute onto a newly paved portion of the highway.  Streetview is updating because of the reroute, so here's a view from the northbound lane. You can see the red arrow I put on here, that's the newly paved portion.  The newly paved portion is an overpass that goes over the on-ramp, it follows the red line I've drawn. Then there's fresh blacktop to get it to the old service road, a few hundred feet of old service road, and blacktop back across the median to the original flow. This whole portion of highway is a 70 mph limit, so if there's no traffic it's a sudden right after cresting a bridge. Besides there being ongoing construction in this area for the last two years, there's no adjusted speed limit signs out, most of the work has been done away from the flow of traffic. edit: JUST MAKING CHILI fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:Yep, this is exactly where I thought it was. No, because you're linking to the gallery page and not the image.
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:Content: Page ago, but those straps are a thing. They sell them. My folks have a set on their Rav4 for hauling their canoe (nothing else to tie off to). Depending on the profile of the sides of your hood - i.e. not the clamshell nonsense a bug sports, they can actually work pretty well.  http://www.orsracksdirect.com/thule-529-hood-loop-strap.html E: these exist as well if you don't feel like using a fender bolt (or don't have whatever torx your fancypants car uses). 
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I use those all the time for my kayak but based on the hood I'm not sure he has them in properly, or he's using a strap under the whole thing. I can assure you my hood doesn't look like that when they're in use. Fake Edit: They also go more towards the front, not way up by the windshield.
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Michael Scott posted:Smoke from the battery or cooling system? Cammer was following too close. Probably smoke from the front left tire that now has bodywork jammed against it and/or isn't spinning very well.
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