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BigPaddy posted:It would be fine if they would using machine vision to find potential problems and point them out. Big red flashing reticle around kids about to walk out into the street or highlighting cars that are on a collision course. Throw in a point system for missing them and there we go. Missile Lock!
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Missile Lock! Hopefully the emphasis is on the "Miss" bit there...
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davebo posted:But how much of that 2-3mpg increase was just due to driving 10mph slower? Of course I'm comparing drafting to driving 70mph not in proximity to the truck. I'm not an idiot. Disgruntled Bovine fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Aug 10, 2017 |
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Sometimes these things just kind of sort themselves out. http://i.imgur.com/ZviYvGW.gifv
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antisodachrist posted:Sometimes these things just kind of sort themselves out. I'm glad of it.
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Crossposting Dick Danger, MotoVlogger chases down a hit and run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjsdQxINryQ
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Bogatyr posted:Crossposting what a goddamn dork.
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sneakyfrog posted:what a goddamn dork. Paul Blart motorcycle cop
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Not really sharing the road with this one, though
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Aug 11, 2017 00:11
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Might be a good time to show how most under ride bars don't really work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT3G-kcKN70
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Sigma posted:Might be a good time to show how most under ride bars don't really work: Yeah well that's just what you get for not buying a Tahoe, for which they appear to work just fine 
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FBS posted:Yeah well that's just what you get for not buying a Tahoe, for which they appear to work just fine I love how trucks and SUVs are safer than cars and sedans because a vehicle that rides higher can just drive up on the hood of a car.
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Sigma posted:I love how trucks and SUVs are safer than cars and sedans because a vehicle that rides higher can just drive up on the hood of a car. my first car accident: A dipshit in an early Neon ran a red light at 55mph. I was THIRD in line turning left and he pegged me drat near at speed. Luckily I was driving my dad's Ram1500 and basically just monster trucked the poo poo out of his hood. If I was driving my Ranger I'd probably be dead or at least turbo-hosed. If/when I have kids I'm gonna put them in the biggest, slowest hunk of metal I can find.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:If/when I have kids I'm gonna put them in the biggest, slowest hunk of metal I can find. Swap a 1.6l into an early 70s buick electra 225.
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Sigma posted:Might be a good time to show how most under ride bars don't really work: On the other hand, I don't think under ride bars were also meant to handle a car getting rear ended and pushed into the under ride bar by another tractor trailer.  They really should be designed with that also in mind plus factor of safety (or a generous enough factor of safety to account to that situation) but as usual it's probably made to be cheap and just barely within regulation if that. Edward IV fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Aug 11, 2017 |
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Edward IV posted:On the other hand, I don't think under ride bars were also meant to handle a car getting rear ended and pushed into the under ride bar by another tractor trailer. They're also build to be lightweight, since having a heavy (robust) under ride bar means less payload.
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FBS posted:
The whole car becomes a blind spot when you leave your eyeballs in the back of a semi.
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The Ferret King posted:The whole car becomes a blind spot when you leave your eyeballs in the back of a semi. But think of the mpg's you'd get drafting that close!
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Edward IV posted:On the other hand, I don't think under ride bars were also meant to handle a car getting rear ended and pushed into the under ride bar by another tractor trailer. If the under ride bar were strong enough to prevent that, you'd just end up folding the car up between two 18 wheelers.
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EightBit posted:If the under ride bar were strong enough to prevent that, you'd just end up folding the car up between two 18 wheelers. What if we replaced the underide bard with a ramp? If you rear-end a trailer you would pull a sick jump instead of being decapitated, and if you're rear-ended by another rig you might make it to low Earth orbit.
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EightBit posted:If the under ride bar were strong enough to prevent that, you'd just end up folding the car up between two 18 wheelers. Just make the car out of what they make the under ride bar out of.
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WolframAlpha says a car would be going 46mph after falling 70 feet, so I believe it.
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Really if you're going to fall that kind of distance there's probably nothing better for you to be in than a car. Long as you got your belt on I imagine the crumple zones work more or less the same as they would in an accident. Seems like it'd tend to fall engine first as well since it's so heavy
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:WolframAlpha says a car would be going 46mph after falling 70 feet, so I believe it. Looks like a 435i coupe.  Which puts it at about 3,775 lbs. Going 46mph, that's 3.6204e+5 Joules. That's a lot of force. Here's a scarier thought: quote:Last September, a sport utility vehicle plunged from the ninth floor of the same parking garage.
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sleepy.eyes posted:Bad safety system or not, who the gently caress manages to drive off a parking garage? In this case, the woman admitted she confused the brake and accelerator pedals and blasted right through a barrier.
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sleepy.eyes posted:Bad safety system or not, who the gently caress manages to drive off a parking garage? This kinda looks sketchy as hell: https://goo.gl/maps/wdLvwaB9uWw I can't look inside, but it doesn't look like there is any lip or anything other than some wires which who knows how well secured or made they are.
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nm posted:This kinda looks sketchy as hell: Aahaha, holy poo poo. I'm a bit more understanding now,
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Yeah I always gently caress up that ramp in Saints Row 2 as well.
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sleepy.eyes posted:Aahaha, holy poo poo. I'm a bit more understanding now, If one car falls off your garage, it was probably a lovely driver. If two fall off your garage in a matter of months, you probably have a hosed up garage.
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dee eight posted:Swap a 1.6l into an early 70s buick electra 225. Save yourself the trouble and find a 80s-era Volvo 240DL nm posted:This kinda looks sketchy as hell: https://goo.gl/maps/pNcdeKYCatw Also sketchy as hell, but at least the pipes look like they'd hold a lot better than those wires. Nonetheless, I steer clear of parking decks with hosed up designs like those.
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Domestic Amuse posted:Save yourself the trouble and find a 80s-era Volvo 240DL
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I long for an unmolested 240. Do they exist for under 5k?
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Rare use of blinker from a BMW.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:I long for an unmolested 240. Do they exist for under 5k? There's a few around my neck of the woods https://gainesville.craigslist.org/cto/d/classic-1991-volvo-240-sedan/6257735597.html I picked up a '93 classic wagon for like $3k a few years back, haven't checked prices in a few years though because that car pissed me off.
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