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killa-pope posted:US denotes a federal highway, not an interstate. Right. And Interstate 75 runs nowhere near Plano, Texas, which is why I was wondering if the OP meant to write "US 75" rather than "I75".
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ulmont posted:Right. And Interstate 75 runs nowhere near Plano, Texas, which is why I was wondering if the OP meant to write "US 75" rather than "I75". Considering US 75 goes through Plano and the first picture he posted literally has a US 75 street sign in it...
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Jun 15, 2017 15:57
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Craptacular posted:Considering US 75 goes through Plano and the first picture he posted literally has a US 75 street sign in it... Listen, it is of the utmost importance that we confirm whether this happened on US75 or I75.
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ulmont posted:Right. And Interstate 75 runs nowhere near Plano, Texas, which is why I was wondering if the OP meant to write "US 75" rather than "I75". My fault. The post had been corrected to US75 by the time I read it, and I missed that your in your quote it said I75.
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Jun 15, 2017 18:49
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I don't even know what's real anymore
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Jun 15, 2017 19:56
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There are no guns on the roof of the cars so it's definitely not Interstate 76.
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Jun 15, 2017 20:07
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Powershift posted:There are no guns on the roof of the cars so it's definitely not Interstate 76. Hell yeah. 
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Jun 15, 2017 20:12
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Elsa posted:I don't even know what's real anymore Pretty much how I approach driving in this day and age.
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Jun 15, 2017 21:40
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Colostomy Bag posted:Pretty much how I approach driving in this day and age. I had a bus cut me off pulling out into the street yesterday. "I got my nose into traffic between cars so now you stop for me." If it was a passenger car it would have been fine but there's you know, 60 feet of bus behind the driver. It was close, too. If I accelerated and moved outward I would have won. Or lost, but gotten paid or something. I have pictures of the bus' plate and "how's my driving" info but I'm just going to sit on it. I just hope the driver thinks about what he's doing with a bus full of people without someone having to mess with his livelihood.
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Jun 15, 2017 23:14
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Saw a city bus stop to pick up a passenger and then just proceed through the red light as soon as traffic petered out enough to make it.
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Jun 15, 2017 23:26
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sleepy.eyes posted:Saw a city bus stop to pick up a passenger and then just proceed through the red light as soon as traffic petered out enough to make it. Some buses get their own early signal with reds in both directions. so they can get across multiple lanes to make a left at the next intersection. immediately after making a stop on the right.
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Jun 15, 2017 23:32
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Calgary is a very smart city run by people of impeccable intellect. They recently upgraded our LRT to support 4-car units, instead of the previous 3-car units. This involved a lot of rebuilding platforms and such, but apparently what they failed to consider is that there are several signals where a stopped 4-car train will block an intersection. I've counted three of them just in my general area, but I suspect there could easily be more! They've managed to gridlock a significant portion of downtown with their stupidity, and I've actually seen emergency vehicles blocked by a stopped train as well, which is a significant safety issue. What a bunch of dunces...
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Jun 16, 2017 00:49
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Elsa posted:I just hope the driver thinks about what he's doing with a bus full of people without someone having to mess with his livelihood.
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Jun 16, 2017 01:24
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Krakkles posted:He won't. He couldn't complete his left turn until I backed up, and I took pictures first. He saw me taking pictures of the info on the side of the bus. I went past that driveway later in the opposite direction and they had someone with a stop sign, and I assume it's because someone knew about it. Just looked up the private bus company's yelp reviews and by the looks of it no one will care.
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Jun 16, 2017 02:44
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FBS posted:This afternoon, northbound US75 in Plano: Similar accident today, drunk driver rear-ended a semi and paralyzed himself. At least he won't be back on the road.
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Jun 16, 2017 05:11
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I think we need a rule limiting how long one car can squat the only lane trying to turn left before they have to give it up and either continue straight or pull over and wait for oncoming traffic to clear. This poo poo is a daily obstacle.
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Attention lovely loving VW bus driver: when you get overtaken at night, turn your loving hibeams off. You drive a VW bus; don't tell me you're not familiar with being passed. The dickhead in question later caught up to me due to his insistence that 70 km/h is a reasonable speed to do in a 50 km/h marked construction zone.
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Javid posted:I think we need a rule limiting how long one car can squat the only lane trying to turn left before they have to give it up and either continue straight or pull over and wait for oncoming traffic to clear. This poo poo is a daily obstacle. As a corollary to this, yesterday I got stuck behind a guy trying to turn right out of a parking lot right into a very, very, busy intersection. Naturally, he wanted to turn right out of the lot then immediately go across four lanes of traffic so he could make a left in 100 feet. After about a minute of this he turned right out the lot, then just stopped again in the road with his left blinker on. Myself and everyone else had to go around him in the 'right turn only' lane and I like to imagine he's still there.
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Jun 16, 2017 18:36
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https://i.imgur.com/UdmASDh.gifv It seems weird to me that auto-braking after a collision is detected is not a thing. I guess the development of braking assist will eventually fix this, but it seems like it should have been pretty simple to have a "did we hit something? drop anchor!" trigger.
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Jun 16, 2017 19:17
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At least like ten people + a camera caught that so the minivan is paying for every dime of damage.
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Jun 16, 2017 19:39
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xzzy posted:https://i.imgur.com/UdmASDh.gifv What would braking after the collision do in this case?
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Jun 16, 2017 20:33
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http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/a-family-involved-in-an-127241/ When we was coming back from a holiday in Belgium we got caught in the tailbacks from this, took about two hours to get from a few miles north of Canterbury to J7 of the M2. Given the reports said it was a single vehicle accident I figured it was someone driving like an idiot, but the inquest unearthed a whole boatload of stupidity.
Parents and driver of the loving year folks. Thank god he killed only himself with his cuntish driving.
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Jun 16, 2017 20:38
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FCKGW posted:What would braking after the collision do in this case? The golf potentially wouldn't have rolled into the versa or whatever the third car in the line is.
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xzzy posted:It seems weird to me that auto-braking after a collision is detected is not a thing. I guess the development of braking assist will eventually fix this, but it seems like it should have been pretty simple to have a "did we hit something? drop anchor!" trigger. It is, e.g. http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/technology/braking-and-stability-systems Although that looks like a Polo in the middle of that bunch of shunts, and it looks like it's not available on Polo.
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xzzy posted:It seems weird to me that auto-braking after a collision is detected is not a thing. Seems to me there's a potential downside of a car being able to decide to fully apply the brakes all on its own.
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Jun 16, 2017 20:53
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Phanatic posted:Seems to me there's a potential downside of a car being able to decide to fully apply the brakes all on its own. Depending how pedantic you want to be, cars have had that capability for a couple decades now.  Fortunately ABS systems are designed to disable on fail, instead of locking up all four corners.
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Jun 16, 2017 21:09
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xzzy posted:The golf potentially wouldn't have rolled into the versa or whatever the third car in the line is. The golf was already on the brakes seeing as it was stopped.
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FCKGW posted:The golf was already on the brakes seeing as it was stopped. Obviously. The point is when they were rear ended their foot came off the brake because they were getting ragdolled. It's the same reason you don't turn your wheels when waiting to make a left turn, when you get hit there's a period of time where you're incapable of controlling your vehicle and a turned wheel means you roll into oncoming traffic.
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Jun 16, 2017 21:18
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This happened in my neck of the woods. http://wane.com/2017/06/14/driver-to-avoid-prison-for-142-mph-fatal-crash/ Even say you were traveling 70 in a 50, getting rear ended at 142 (and then plowed underneath a semi and dragged for a few hundred extra feet for good measure...) I honestly can't believe how the person who did that to you could survive at those speeds.
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Javid posted:At least like ten people + a camera caught that so the minivan is paying for every dime of damage. The description is even more bizarre. Dude in front decided to just slow/stop to see the accident.
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Ludicro posted:Parents and driver of the loving year folks. Thank god he killed only himself with his cuntish driving. Couple years ago a pregnant woman and her unborn child died in an easily survivable head on because she wasn't wearing her seatbelt, leaving behind a two year old. People called her a 'wonderful mother'.
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Jun 16, 2017 23:15
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I work in auto insurance and today I totaled a PT Cruiser. Deus vult.
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Jun 17, 2017 05:01
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Eifert Posting posted:I work in auto insurance and today I totaled a PT Cruiser. Every day we stray further from God’s light.
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Jun 17, 2017 05:22
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Are you okay? good thing it wasn't a real car
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alright I sort of wanted one throughout high school. Really are you alright? What happened
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Jun 17, 2017 05:34
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Elsa posted:alright I sort of wanted one throughout high school. Uhm, he works for auto insurance. Someone else crash an PT cruiser, his insurance company sent him and he said "yup, it's totaled." Pretty sure he's ok other than working for an insurance company.
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Jun 17, 2017 05:41
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Elsa posted:alright I sort of wanted one throughout high school. I determined that the value of the car was lower than the cost of repairs. For whatever reason my company won't let me value PT Cruisers at zero dollars.
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Eifert Posting posted:I determined that the value of the car was lower than the cost of repairs. but what about the printed wood paneling??!
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https://gfycat.com/SlowUnnaturalArgusfish
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Interesting way to go for the Texas Longhorn hood ornament look.
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