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Any debris on the highway/interstate is worth a 911 call, even just big hunks of tire tread from a blowout. Some idiot is gonna swerve and cause a wreck. I call that poo poo in whenever I see it and the dispatchers have never had an issue with it.
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May 20, 2017 22:35
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We have 101 for "non emergency" stuff in the UK, it basically auto-connects you to the correct main station desk/control room for the area you're in at the time.
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Almost got into a 6+ car pileup today. I'm driving down a rural highway on my way to a rock quarry in the middle of no where which is one lane in each direction, not divided, 55 mph speed limit, and every so often widens just a bit to include a dedicated turn lane for whatever side country road is considered "important". I'm not sure why, but the road a packed in both directions, I can see 4 cars ahead of me and at-least two behind me, all doing 45mph because someone clearly isn't comfortable doing the speed limit. Whatever. All of a sudden, the cars in front of me panic stop, I panic stop, and luckily the car and uhual truck behind me don't rear end me. I'm wondering WTF, when I see some car on a side road must have gotten impatient waiting for a gap, and decided to just go, causing the panic stop situation. Said idiot decides to proceed into the oncoming lane, which causes them to panic stop, thankfully no collisions. Now, with heavy traffic stopped in all directions, the idiot pulls into a turn lane, sitting the wrong way, and starts motioning that everyone else should go, they'll wait for an opening to join the oncoming traffic. Thankfully traffic in my lane started moving since the obstruction was cleared, and I was able to get the gently caress out of the area before something happened.
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Geoj posted:Encountered what was possibly the stupidest bro driving a lifted F-250 earlier this week during a trip to Costco. I was cruising in the middle lane of the highway, he was sitting about two carlengths back in the left lane just pacing me. Video from this. Prior to 3 minutes is a bunch of back and forth watching him in my mirrors if you want to see it.
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Family reunion finished, I'm heading out of Houston back home on I-45 North earlier today. I'm finally far enough away that the highway has FINALLY gone down to 2-lanes each way (quite a ways out but still somehow effectively Houston as anyone who'd driven through/around Houston knows). I'm sitting in the right lane and I see a semi with one of them car-delivery-trailers jam-packed with cars going off to some dealership coming down on the on-ramp ahead of me. He's a big loving truck loaded with cars, I'm driving a tiny decade+ old PT-Cruiser, he has to merge and traffic's still reasonably thick so that he'll be there for five minutes looking for an opening big enough to accelerate into if he has to stop. Oh and the on-ramp is kinda-awkward since the frontage road is above the main highway at this point, leading to more hassle for the truck. "Hmm, well there's a space here for me to scoot over into the inside lane and let him over." Thinks I. "It will be about perfect for the truck to slip in and I'll honestly move back over to my lane for space once he's in anyways since he's a big honking truck and won't really be accelerating." The moment I do that the grey SUV I slipped ahead of suddenly rockets out from behind me and out into the lane I just occupied, and the truck wants to occupy. I'm not sure if they were upset that I happen to dare to be ahead of them, or if the driver of the vehicle suddenly saw me make a gap and "idiot highway racecar" AI took over. Either way this fuckwit was suddenly zooming right into the space that I'd cleared for the truck, forcing the semi to slam on the breaks and come to a complete stop anyways to avoid T-boning this SUV and driving it straight into the grass median. And that is my contribution to "idiots nearly awarding themselves a Darwin Award for not respecting long-haul cargo trucks."
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May 21, 2017 05:50
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There's a tight merge/yield on my usual commute, and without fail, some dumbass in the left lane will be doing the world's longest overtake when I try to make room for traffic merging on the short ramp. I think part of the problem is it's at the bottom of a hill, so people unconsciously speed up, but not enough to overtake quickly.
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Driving this morning I had an SUV in the lane next to me rocketing past me to hit every red, it'd be green by the time I got to it, they'd build up speed, rocket past me to the next light which would inevitably be red, but green by the time I got to it and they'd build up speed and rocket past me and..... I got a good laugh out of it at least. Traffic was light enough this morning that nobody interrupted their Sisyphean efforts to beat the red.
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May 21, 2017 12:12
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"Like a glove"
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PCOS Bill posted:Driving this morning I had an SUV in the lane next to me rocketing past me to hit every red, it'd be green by the time I got to it, they'd build up speed, rocket past me to the next light which would inevitably be red, but green by the time I got to it and they'd build up speed and rocket past me and..... My brother drives like that and it drives me nuts. No matter how much I explain to him that the lights are timed so you can just never stop with some luck and adherence to the speed limit he just keeps on doing it anyway.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:"Like a glove" 
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Video title is stupid, it's more like a fancy shed. The dude just drives off oblivious to the destruction though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHET0jxi_3A `Nemesis fucked around with this message at 23:26 on May 21, 2017 |
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May 21, 2017 23:21
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Powershift posted:the sattelite cam caught an idiot doing the exact same thing I may be a worthless poster but I wanted to point out that photos at those zoom levels are taken by aircraft instead of satellites 
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Michael Scott posted:I may be a worthless poster but I wanted to point out that photos at those zoom levels are taken by aircraft instead of satellites What are planes but extremely temporary satellites only capable of fractions of an orbit.
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May 21, 2017 23:39
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`Nemesis posted:Video title is stupid, it's more like a fancy shed. The dude just drives off oblivious to the destruction though. Looks like he ran the red turn signal too
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May 21, 2017 23:50
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sleepy.eyes posted:My brother drives like that and it drives me nuts. No matter how much I explain to him that the lights are timed so you can just never stop with some luck and adherence to the speed limit he just keeps on doing it anyway. It depends on the area and often the time of day. My morning commute is with the lights for "rush hour" (or at least what university avenue in Madison Wisconsin gets for rush hour) , but even still the lights are timed so that if you're going the speed limit, you'll catch a lot of red, but at 5-10 over (what traffic tends to go) you'll catch the end of greens. I'll occasionally accelerate hard if I think it'll help me get to the front of the line for the next red, because then there's a decent chance that I'll catch mostly greens the rest of the way. Traffic tries to all do that but you always get two cars side by side matching each other's speed and ruining it for everyone, or tons of people that think going past 2000 on the tach is going to explode their car. It's partly an issue of poor timing, but I don't think complaining about that sort of thing will go anywhere.
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May 22, 2017 00:07
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Thank you City of Calgary, it was really swell of you to shut down a whole bunch of streets downtown for an entire long weekend. Because there's no people who actually live here, right? Every. loving. Long. Weekend. Why not inconvenience commuters for a change instead of loving over residents again?
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shortspecialbus posted:It depends on the area and often the time of day. My morning commute is with the lights for "rush hour" (or at least what university avenue in Madison Wisconsin gets for rush hour) , but even still the lights are timed so that if you're going the speed limit, you'll catch a lot of red, but at 5-10 over (what traffic tends to go) you'll catch the end of greens. I'll occasionally accelerate hard if I think it'll help me get to the front of the line for the next red, because then there's a decent chance that I'll catch mostly greens the rest of the way. Traffic tries to all do that but you always get two cars side by side matching each other's speed and ruining it for everyone, or tons of people that think going past 2000 on the tach is going to explode their car. It's partly an issue of poor timing, but I don't think complaining about that sort of thing will go anywhere.  , except here it’s fifteen mph over (or fifteen mph under).
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shortspecialbus posted:It depends on the area and often the time of day. My morning commute is with the lights for "rush hour" (or at least what university avenue in Madison Wisconsin gets for rush hour) , but even still the lights are timed so that if you're going the speed limit, you'll catch a lot of red, but at 5-10 over (what traffic tends to go) you'll catch the end of greens. I'll occasionally accelerate hard if I think it'll help me get to the front of the line for the next red, because then there's a decent chance that I'll catch mostly greens the rest of the way. Traffic tries to all do that but you always get two cars side by side matching each other's speed and ruining it for everyone, or tons of people that think going past 2000 on the tach is going to explode their car. It's partly an issue of poor timing, but I don't think complaining about that sort of thing will go anywhere. Sunday, 6:10 AM. I rode straight through town at 3 mph over the limit and caught every green on the way (about 12 of 'em). Feels good, man.
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Platystemon posted:
Remember, lights timed for 35 are also timed for 140
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PCOS Bill posted:Remember, lights timed for 35 are also timed for 140 Every German car driver knows this. Except the VW folks minus Porsche.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Every German car driver knows this. Except the VW folks minus Porsche. What about Audi?
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May 22, 2017 01:42
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I once got a string of green lights on Highway 100 in Milwaukee County. It was weiiiiiiiiiiird.
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dee eight posted:Sunday, 6:10 AM. I rode straight through town at 3 mph over the limit and caught every green on the way (about 12 of 'em). Feels good, man. I hate it when the lights go into late night mode, where they disregard timing and steet priority and cycle the moment any car arrives on a side street. Yeah it’s annoying to sit at a red light for any length of time when there’s no one around, but I’d rather wait at a light for a short while once at the beginning of my trip than double the time it take to travel along the arterial. Most of the time those lights are avoidable anyway if you plan around them, avoid left turns and stick to bigger streets. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 05:49 on May 22, 2017 |
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May 22, 2017 05:47
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Michael Scott posted:What about Audi?
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Platystemon posted:
Part of the problem is it's not exactly timed consistent either. There's some stretches where you want to be going 5 over, and some where you need to be at least 10 over and have accelerated fairly quickly. But only some of the time, because it's not a 1:1 cycle between the lights because of some larger streets that merge in that screw up the consistent timing. But if you try to zoom to the front of a line and be the first to a red light, and then accelerate fairly quickly off of it, it still greatly improves your chances of skipping several long red lights. But I'm sure I still get people shaking their heads at me trying to race to a red light because it doesn't always work out because of said hosed up cycles.
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shortspecialbus posted:Part of the problem is it's not exactly timed consistent either. There's some stretches where you want to be going 5 over, and some where you need to be at least 10 over and have accelerated fairly quickly. But only some of the time, because it's not a 1:1 cycle between the lights because of some larger streets that merge in that screw up the consistent timing. But if you try to zoom to the front of a line and be the first to a red light, and then accelerate fairly quickly off of it, it still greatly improves your chances of skipping several long red lights. But I'm sure I still get people shaking their heads at me trying to race to a red light because it doesn't always work out because of said hosed up cycles. I think that's more because of the move to sensor based timing. I know most of the smaller streets, especially later at night, will only cause the larger street to go red if a car is there.
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Geoj posted:Video from this. Excuse my ignorance but why were you "cruising in the middle lane"? Both the other lanes seemed rather empty...
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iospace posted:I think that's more because of the move to sensor based timing. I know most of the smaller streets, especially later at night, will only cause the larger street to go red if a car is there. Sure, but during what amounts to Rush Hour you have some lights on say (i'm making these up, the ratio is the important bit) 30 seconds main road, 15 seconds side road green and some lights on 30 main 20 side, some 30 main 30 side, and so forth. It gets screwy because of Allen Blvd and Whitney Way, and Midvale Blvd to a point. The timings for all the other lights aren't really set to sync with those very well, which is why rushing helps sometimes, if you get into a lucky pattern.
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Warthog posted:Excuse my ignorance but why were you "cruising in the middle lane"? Both the other lanes seemed rather empty... Goon rules of a three lane highway: A) don't cruise in the right lane, it's for merging. B) don't cruise in the center lane, it's for fast traffic C) don't cruise in the left lane, it's for passing only. So stay home and shovel Doritos into your mouth.
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Warthog posted:Excuse my ignorance but why were you "cruising in the middle lane"? Both the other lanes seemed rather empty... Middle lane avoids merging/exiting traffic. I generally operate on the idea that the left lane is for passing only, otherwise if you're not blocking anyone or being blocked stay where you are. If I were to frequently encounter faster moving vehicles coming up behind me in the center lane I'd move over into the right, but that rarely happens as I drive faster than 95% of other traffic and this area generally isn't congested enough for me to be a hindrance to anyone.
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Everybody thinking like that will result in two congested left lanes and an empty right one... happens around here all the time. Just keep as far to the right as possible, move to the middle when needed (merge ahead, slow car in front of you). Go farther left when there's a c.ar cruising in the center lane.
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Warthog posted:Everybody thinking like that will result in two congested left lanes and an empty right one... happens around here all the time. VVV I love your avatar. Cage fucked around with this message at 20:30 on May 22, 2017 |
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May 22, 2017 20:25
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There's multiple lanes for a reason, and it's not so we can all putter along single file in the right lane like idiots
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I find it great when semis travel in the middle lane when driving through a city with a crapload of exits.
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`Nemesis posted:Video title is stupid, it's more like a fancy shed. The dude just drives off oblivious to the destruction though. I was so distracted by the music that I got confused by the empty trailer. Then the video froze and an arrow pointed to the house! Thank goodness as I would've missed it. More people need to edit graphics onto their dashcam videos. Get the csonkastrator going.
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Warthog posted:Everybody thinking like that will result in two congested left lanes and an empty right one... happens around here all the time. You may have missed the part where I stated that I drive faster than most other traffic on the road. Law enforcement here gives you 10 over the posted limit on a limited access highway before even thinking about pulling you over, so that's what I typically average. The only people faster than me are ones who blatantly disregard the speed limit and emergency vehicles. In addition, I mentioned if traffic conditions warrant it I'll move into the right lane so I won't be a rolling roadblock. This rarely happens. I think you'll find that like most AI regulars I'm not the person you need to be worried about when it comes to hogging lanes. I'm either going to pass you as quickly as possible before moving right again, or else if you're going faster than me I'll gladly let you by so you can be ticket bait.
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Geoj posted:You may have missed the part where I stated that I drive faster than most other traffic on the road. Law enforcement here gives you 10 over the posted limit on a limited access highway before even thinking about pulling you over, so that's what I typically average. The only people faster than me are ones who blatantly disregard the speed limit and emergency vehicles. In addition, I mentioned if traffic conditions warrant it I'll move into the right lane so I won't be a rolling roadblock. This rarely happens. I like the amount of irony in this post. It was quite blatant.
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Colostomy Bag posted:I find it great when semis travel in the middle lane when driving through a city with a crapload of exits. 
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Yeah? I think I5 through Sac is a good example of his point the right 2 lanes are a mess of highways merging and splitting with short on ramp runs. Put through traffic to the left and semis in lane 2 (of 4-5) and everyone's life is better. Up here in Chico on 99 we even do it one better. All through traffic is directed to the left lane including trucks because the onramps to the elevated section of the highway are terrible and the merge is like three dashes long.
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