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Jonny Nox posted:I failed my first attempt before the instructor even got in the car. Signal light burned out. Took three tries to get my license (Great State of Alabama). Attempt #1 failed after I couldn't release the parking brake, because the release cable for the foot-activated pedal came apart.  Instructor just  and walked the 100 feet or so back to the DMV office.Attempt #2 failed after trying to make a left at an T-intersection with a loving UPS truck blocking my line of sight to the right. Check to make sure it's all clear and just as I pull out, a pickup comes hauling rear end from the right and I panic stopped just in time. Failed  Attempt #3 goes off without a hitch.
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Bumming Your Scene posted:It's people following too close that eat up all the road gators and ladders lying across the lanes. Those are the main reason I don't follow so close. True story. Driving back in the dead of night from Miami to northern bumfuck Alabama along a rural four-lane road with very, very light traffic. So my sleep-deprived mind somehow thought it would be a good idea to hang back some 20 or 30-odd feet from an 18-wheeler up front. Said big rig straddles over what looks like a big-rear end patch of red dirt. "Oh, I'll just straddle my car ov*WHAM*" Car gets knocked into neutral somehow. I keep coasting until I manage to get it back into drive and stop at the first gas station I see. Cue the next 15 minutes spent wondering 1)what the hell I just ran over, 2)is my car hosed and 3)who the gently caress's gonna give me a tow and a ride some 250 miles back home (protip: get roadside assistance). Local cop shows up wondering what the hell's going on, I explain what happened and he sets off down the road in the opposite direction and comes back minutes later. Turns out I ran over a dead dog. The only damage was a bent muffler, a torn-up air dam and the putrid smell of dead dog meat every time the catalytic converters got nice and warm for the next couple of weeks. Lesson here is don't drive up another driver's rear end and don't drive when you're dead tired, no matter how much you try to will yourself into going a bit longer. 90s Solo Cup fucked around with this message at 09:13 on Jan 10, 2014 |
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some texas redneck posted:My car took an odd approach to the cluster (you know, in case sticking the cluster in the middle of the dash, instead of in front of the steering wheel, wasn't odd enough)... I remember the Lexus Optitron gauges. Beautiful to look at, but drat if you knew whether the lights were on or not unless you looked at the rest of the backlighting or double checked the light stalk to make sure. Next best solution: just leaving the automatic headlight feature on. 90s Solo Cup fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Jan 13, 2014 |
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Fucknag posted:From my Facebook feed (this is in NYC): And no one says poo poo about the Sierra in the background because that's a truck and ground clearance and poo poo.
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Feb 23, 2014 05:11
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GOT A EXTRA TITTY posted:Most people don't realize there are other human beings in the vehicles around them, nor do they understand the implications of shining bright lights into others' eyes. I've had countless drivers pull up alongside with those bright-rear end high beams in just the right spot where it bounces off the driver-side mirror and straight into my eyes. My passive-aggressive solution to this? Readjust the mirror outward until the beam bounces right back at them. Most people get the message and either back off, blow past or just switch off the high beams.
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Mar 2, 2014 09:39
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LloydDobler posted:
Many people would rather be doing anything other than driving, which makes me yearn for the day when automated cars take over. It'll finally transform car interiors into what most people want all along - glorified parlor rooms in which they can read Facebook or play Candy Crush until they "magically" arrive at their destination or tumble horrifically down a steep cliff due to an error in Google Car traffic pattern algorithms.
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Mar 7, 2014 18:16
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MrYenko posted:In a perfect world, every time three lanes has to merge down to two, or two to one, there would be three warning signs. At the first one would be a giant flailing arm inflatable tube man, to draw attention. At the second one would be a thirty foot tall grim reaper, holding the "Right Lane Closes, Merge left" sign in his bony hands, out over the lanes. RPGs are wasteful. Besides, the sight of a huge gently caress-off gun alone should serve as an effective deterrent and a powerful diarrhoeic for wrongdoers. EDIT: Read about zipper theory. Let's use the GAU on left lane loafers and road-raging shitbirds, instead. 90s Solo Cup fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Mar 15, 2014 |
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Mar 15, 2014 02:12
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Ansith posted:Had someone refuse to let me merge onto the highway today, to make it worse it was pouring rain which is never great in my XC. I can't remember the last time anyone tried pulling this poo poo on me. I'd just merge in anyway and let the paint chips fall where they may. It also helps to drive a car that looks like it came straight out of the Thunderdome. People usually give you a wide berth regardless.
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Mar 27, 2014 18:26
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 The above shows a two-lane road with a center turning lane that fans out into six lanes at the intersection and shrinks back to two lanes and a center turning lane again. The red and blue lines? Traffic in the red lane goes straight. Drivers in the blue lane think they can go straight until they're confronted with the dedicated right turn, at which point they either dive back into the red lane (to the consternation of people already in the red lane) or slow down and crawl along until they can get back in the proper lane. Some people use the blue lane to blast past the long line of traffic that inevitably builds up during rush hour. Sometimes you get to see a drag race between two assholes who don't want to cede their place in traffic. It's late at night, traffic is low and the lights for this particular road are timed short in favor of the massive eight-laned monstrosity in the photo. I'm sitting at the light all by my lonesome until I get the green, only to see a pair of headlights about two hundred feet behind me in the rear-view mirror and closing fast. Apparently some tool in a Camry figures he can not only beat the yellow, but also yours truly. I make it across the intersection only to get cut off by this asshat (a few feet away from the gas pump canopy in the pic) who then proceeds to book it down the road at 60-65 mph (legal speed limit? 35), only to spend the next mile or so parked on the bumper of an old pickup until said asshat turns off on another street. 
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Apr 7, 2014 07:44
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SocketSeven posted:I am angry. ANGRY ABOUT MERGING. Not that zipper merging's catching on with the general driving public: quote:Despite its 10-year presence on state roads, more than 60 percent of the people who participate in online forums sponsored by the agency to talk about transportation issues said they were unaware the zipper merge is an acceptable driving technique that is included in the latest edition of the Minnesota Driver’s Manual. Because the number of people who've actually read the latest driver's manual can be counted on one hand. 90s Solo Cup fucked around with this message at 10:08 on May 25, 2014 |
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May 25, 2014 10:05
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SyHopeful posted:454SS was wayyyy post-malaise, as well as the Syclone, both generations of SVT Lightnings, SVT Raptor, and the SRT-10 Ram. Not really agreeing with the random guy who said trucks are the new musclecars, but you seem to have forgotten some good and recent examples of sport trucks. Today's quad-cab truck is more or less a stand-in for the body-on-frame full size sedans of old. I see shades of Ford LTD every time I see a F-150 in Lariat trim. Jersey barriers. Lots of them.
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May 27, 2014 20:26
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Pretty Boy Floyd posted:http://ask.metafilter.com/263242/Accidentally-drove-20000-miles-without-changing-the-oil-Now-what Most people treat their cars the same way they treat their appliances: they just use them until they break in some catastrophic way, then they either fix them and go for Round 2 or dump them for another one. Preventative maintenance? What's that? 
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Jun 11, 2014 01:15
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blk posted:I was driving home yesterday behind a new Malibu and the driver flicked his cigarette out the window. I stopped and picked up the butt, then caught up with him (long, straight street with no turn offs) and followed the remaining 1/2 mile until he stopped at a long light. I got out and knocked on his window, which he rolled down, and told him "Don't do it again," before flicking his own butt in his face. He was too shocked to say anything; nobody else was around so I turned around behind him and went home. In a Stand Your Ground state, b) would most definitely apply.
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Anything ever come of this, aside from the Camry driver getting his plate # blasted all over Jalopnik and the rest of the web?
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Jul 25, 2014 10:10
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Sagebrush posted:loving Ontario It's the Virginia of Canadian provinces.
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Oct 2, 2014 08:56
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BraveUlysses posted:My main grind is that cars should have two options: when you leave your headlights on and turn off the car, the lights turn off and no buzzer sounds (like subaru does) and then you never have to turn them on or off again. I have the opposite problem - turning on the headlights turns all of the dashboard lighting OFF. Unless I give the dash a good whack, which brings everything back on. Such are the joys of owning a shitbox. At least GM simplified the process by having a giant pushbutton on the dash that turns the headlights and a smaller button that turns on the parking lights.
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jaegerx posted:I just don't understand this If she was an animal, natural selection would have already taken its course.
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Geirskogul posted:With bedbugs you take no chances, and hold no prisoners. Explains why I don't buy used furniture. Mexican plates. Folks in
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quote:I like to drive in the lane that gives me the most distance between me and the vehicles ahead of me. That's for my SAFETY. But if that's the passing lane, then I do go fast enough to justify being there. I'm more likely to pass than be passed, anyway. 
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The Locator posted:I can't believe that dude actually ran into that kid multiple times. Glad to see him get plopped into the police car at the end. That would certainly be assault with a deadly weapon at the least if it happened here. What I'm wondering is why hasn't the government smartened up and put bollards in the middle of those sidewalks. Getting your car hosed beyond belief by one of these is the best behavioral modification tool money can buy.
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Jan 23, 2015 05:33
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Crotch Fruit posted:The number one reason I want autonomous cars is to put an end to left lane hogs. . . But I think there is an alternate solution, we just need to install a device that delivers a shock to the steering wheel every time you are in the left lane. Start out with a small "pay attention" shock and increases over time to near fatal levels. It's either that or a wholesale reform of driver testing/licensing that preludes getting your driver's license out of a cereal box. Guess which option's on the table?
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Nightflame posted:first roadrager i've had ... (only been licensed afew years) I remember a road rager thought I'd cut him off in a parking lot, then preceded to block me in after I parked and tried to open my car door (which was fortunately locked). So I started reaching under the seat and rifling through the glovebox (to grab a knife I usually kept in the car). The guy quickly figured I was reaching a gun and promptly hosed off. My temperament is a bit too volatile for me to go carrying a gun around, so I don't own one, which was good for that guy, I guess.
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krnhotwings posted:Today, I was in the inner lane of a double protected left turn, and as I was going, this lady in the other lane was cutting into my lane at the start of the turn. By the middle of the turn, half of her car was in my lane. I was honking at her the whole turn, and she was just completely oblivious. I was watching her and she made no indication that she even realized that I was honking at her. It's amazing how often this occurs. Whenever I walk home from work, I watch cars making left turns at various double protected turns, and almost always the cars cut over the white line. Is it that loving hard to follow a painted white line on the road? Laying on the horn for a full 15 seconds straight should earn you a pair of taser prongs to your forehead and a 50,000-volt jolt to wake you up from being a complete rear end in a top hat. That's right, I'm talking to you Mr. Black Lexus GX570 with Gwinnett County plates. I don't remember your plate number, but I'll always cherish how much of a stupid sonofabitch you were.
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Pixelated Dragon posted:
The only way your hubby will cut that poo poo out is if he gets the poo poo knocked out of him by a fellow road-rager. Or gets shot. But seriously, tell him to cut that poo poo out.
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InterceptorV8 posted:http://bcove.me/8lpie1ov I wouldn't shed a tear if the shooter had somehow gotten himself wedged in between the drive axles of that guy's truck.
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Mooseykins posted:
Still no excuse to use your car as a battering ram because some prick biker had words. There's gotta be criminal charges behind that poo poo.
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I'll just leave this here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHTUMGx-NUE @ 2:07 
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antisodachrist posted:These are the roads you share a car with. And that's why I dare not drive over the damned things. That, and they wreak havoc on my tires and suspension.
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Watched an rear end in a top hat in a brand-new Suburban nearly lose it cutting across a lane of traffic just to get to an exit at the last moment, then ride the shoulder to pass the car he nearly hit, bringing him close to the concrete barrier on his right. When it happened, all I thought was how he nearly came close to loving up my dinner plans by almost getting into an accident.
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Safety Dance posted:I was at O'reilly the other day, getting lug nuts for the Jeep. It's busy, I stood in line for a few minutes before someone could help me. The phone rang, and the lady who was helping me answered it. I assume he got put on hold forever.
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dennyk posted:I was the only one who actually read the weather forecast before Atlanta's "Snowpocalypse" a couple years ago and decided to work from home. Everyone else in the office drove to work, bailed at noon along with the rest of the city, and spent the next eight to thirty-six hours sitting in traffic. I read the forecast, but figured "bullshit, it's the south, things couldn't get THAT bad." I should have known better, having lived through the 1993 "Storm of the Century" and all. And that's how I wound up spending the next 6 hours in traffic. 
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PT6A posted:Do you not have a horn? People in front of me get a 2-second grace period from the light turning green to when their brake lights go off, or they get notified by way of my horn that they are holding up traffic, until such time as they move their asses. Considering the recent spate of road rage shootouts, I don't bother with the horn. If at all possible, I simply maneuver around the person and go about my merry way. Leave the idiots to be dealt with by other idiots. By the way, don't be the guy (or in this case, gal) who decides to cruise alongside a school bus at about 5 under the limit in the passing lane. Which meant that she had to stop whenever the bus stop. Which meant traffic jamming the gently caress up for a good 1/4-mile, since no one could get past her or the bus. And don't get incensed when someone finally gets fed up with the poo poo and gives you a light horn tap so you can wake the gently caress up, pass the loving bus and let everyone else through. Uthor posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GxSsPFYv9A God really does look after fools and drunks, doesn't he? Darwin would have had that oval office's head for an ornament.
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xzzy posted:My solution is to crank the handbrake in the middle of the intersection, and as my car spins around swing my hand cannon out the window and pop six rounds into the rear end in a top hat's radiator. I dare anyone to tailgate this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHHj8IavEjk
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kastein posted:After half a mile of their tomfoolery I flicked the high beams to wake them up and they responded by brake checking me and intentionally preventing me from passing (flooring it every time I got an opportunity to pass on the right, then braking and matching speed with the people in the other two lanes when I got back behind them) for several miles. I don't even bother. If there's an empty lane available, I'll take it and blitz past the offending rear end in a top hat. If not, I'll hang back and wait until there's an opportunity to blitz pass said rear end in a top hat. Flashing the lights only lets them know it's GAME ON. Blowing past them and cutting back into the passing lane at 10-15+ usually wakes them right up without giving them an opportunity to gently caress with you.
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Cakefool posted:Does the idea of treating the substance abuse not occur to you at any point? That's a namby-pamby soft-headed liberal decision that does nothing to satiate the average American's lust for punitive justice. Better to just jail them for the next decade or so while doing nothing to treat the drunk-driving problem at its source.
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Everyone should learn how to drive in a 60s-era pickup with a sloppy three-on-the-tree, a straight-six and no power steering. That'll put some hair on your chest.
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Philip J Fry posted:Trying to park at the train station for gameday...thanks, douchebag. My fantasy involves an aluminum racing jack, four tire dollies and a couple of friends to relocate this rear end in a top hat-toting conveyance into the middle of the street. In reality, I would have found out who handles the parking enforcement and let them know what was up.
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EightBit posted:Passing on the right is illegal in many jurisdictions, as is cruising in the left lane and not getting over when you are slowing down other traffic. Which one is more dangerous - undertaking an inattentive idiot or getting said idiot upset to the point of road-rageyness by flashing your high beams at him/her? KozmoNaut posted:Around here, not keeping right is a ~$150 fine, while passing on the right is a ~$300 fine and a mark on your license (if you get 3 marks within 3 years, you'll have to retake it, to the tune of ~$750). Sounds like your local jurisdiction has its priorities hosed up. It should be the other way around.
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KozmoNaut posted:Nah, because by just cruising in the left lane, you're passively (or passive-aggressively) being an rear end in a top hat. By passing on the right, you are actively doing something that is considered dangerous. Moving out of the left lane solves the latter, in most cases. I stand by my assertion. 
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MrLonghair posted:And now I remember that Euro-style plates are growing in popularity in China. And the sky isn't blue in the video! I bet it's Taiwan.
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