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Once I missed the interchange going going from I-91 to I-89 and decided to use the services vehicle lane to pull a U-turn, only to see a trooper sitting on the shoulder behind me. I pulled directly to the shoulder and turned my engine off and waited for him to drive up to me. When he got to my window, he chuckled, wrote me a non-fine warning and told me to have a nice day and drive safely.
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2015 21:33 |
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http://jonathanturley.org/2015/02/02/north-carolina-woman-charged-in-road-rage-incident-caught-on-tape/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDr_J_pLg0A
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# ¿ Feb 3, 2015 21:53 |
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Wow, that is an amazing "gas does not equal brake" crash. You can see the car jump forward right before it hits.
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# ¿ Feb 14, 2015 15:55 |
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crocodile posted:saw this genius today... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzkWTcDZFH0
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# ¿ Jul 11, 2015 04:01 |
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http://hoodline.com/2015/07/wiggle-stop-in-to-protest-stop-sign-enforcement-cyclistsquote:The Wigg Party, a local community organization, is protesting the SFPD Park District's plans to step up traffic enforcement against cyclists via a "Stop-In," which will be held tonight at 5:30pm, starting near Waller and Steiner streets along the Wiggle. Participants in the Stop-In will bike single-file from stop sign to stop sign, coming to a full and complete stop at every intersection (and in all likelihood, snarling traffic in the process). The organizers say they want to draw attention to their belief that the new restrictions will slow traffic, without enhancing safety. These are the roadkill cyclists you share a road with.
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# ¿ Jul 30, 2015 03:23 |
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FogHelmut posted:I'm driving up 330 towards Big Bear, CA, which is a 5500' climb up a mountain over about 15 miles, mostly one lane with a few passing zones. It's dark and I'm unfamiliar with this road and I don't want to fall off of the mountain, and I had just been proper hosed by rush hour traffic on 91 through Riverside. Wow, that is something. I've driven up and down Rim of the World Highway four or five times, but only during the day. I can't imagine doing it at night and with that much bullshit.
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# ¿ Nov 13, 2015 03:11 |
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That reminds me of all the old people who drive into buildings out in Buffalo, NY. I searched for a few articles and apparently someone made a custom Google map with dozens of crashes and links to news reports: https://goo.gl/6jfoWx
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2016 04:54 |
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Here is the shifter for the Jeep that killed Yelchin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUWVYrpd-3g What a mess
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# ¿ Jun 23, 2016 22:57 |
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It's amazing there weren't more deaths
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# ¿ Dec 19, 2016 00:20 |
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ulmont posted:https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/how-subarus-came-to-be-seen-as-cars-for-lesbians/488042/ The Subaru Outback might as well be the state car of Vermont, followed by the Toyota Prius, and then the Jetta (less so after the emissions recall).
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# ¿ Jan 7, 2017 18:38 |
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xzzy posted:This guy owns. That was a great one shot video. He looked at the camera instead of the screen; tracked himself and the frame very well; and was very fluid in his speech
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2017 22:04 |
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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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PCOS Bill posted:I came to a stop sign crossing a two lane one-way street with no stop sign for them. There was a car coming down in the right lane, the lane closer to me, who decided to be "nice" and stopped at the intersection and tried to wave me through. I shook my head at them and waited for them to go, and as they started rolling a car came flying down the left lane past them. If I HAD been dumb enough to go when they waved at me, I likely would have been t-boned, and been rightfully at fault. I've taken to crossing my arms or picking up my hands palm forward when people try waving me through an intersection. I don't trust the judgment of a numbnuts who wave people on.
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# ¿ May 5, 2017 18:17 |
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nitrogen posted:That's one "bad"behavior I indludge in and will never stop: when asshats refuse to let people merge, I will stop and let 4-5 people merge while sitting g in front of them.
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# ¿ May 17, 2017 20:56 |
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Thumposaurus posted:We have restricted street parking in our neighborhood since in the past people would park on the street and walk to the bus stop to go downtown. True http://buffalonews.com/2017/05/16/tonawanda-sub-eater-may-move-new-street/
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# ¿ Jun 23, 2017 02:31 |
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https://twitter.com/TommyMcFLY/status/879121617288273920
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# ¿ Jun 26, 2017 20:15 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NIla9CpUC4
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# ¿ Aug 6, 2017 02:51 |
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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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# ¿ Aug 11, 2017 03:38 |
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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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# ¿ Aug 11, 2017 03:59 |
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Target fixation doesn't care what you think
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2017 23:49 |
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These are the Uber drivers you share a road with: https://twitter.com/KrisGoldsmith85/status/949291333860110338 Follow the link and scroll to the top
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# ¿ Jan 6, 2018 02:38 |
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Comedy taking a claim against the highway department option?
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# ¿ Mar 30, 2018 22:07 |
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jamal posted:Next time you're at a mall, grocery store, walmart etc just take a look at the tires on a few cars around you in the parking lot. It's pretty scary. Which reminds me that I need to track down a replacement winter tire for the one that got sliced open. And there's a new version of the altimax arctic and I haven't been able to find anyone with the old ones in my size. California is scary for that reason. People have no idea their tires are gone until they have to start or water hits the ground Sigma fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Nov 15, 2018 |
# ¿ Nov 15, 2018 17:34 |
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Meanwhile, in New York State you can get failed on inspection if your windshield wipers have a tear
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# ¿ Jan 21, 2019 07:57 |
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xzzy posted:My complaint with car snow removal is there's no profit in them so basically every option out there is a wobbly lovely piece of plastic that needs replacing every fall. Where's the high end snow brush + ice scraper combos? Snow Joe makes a really great telescoping snow broom with a scraper. It is very sturdy and being able to use two hands to pull down snow from your roof makes the job really fast: https://www.snowjoe.com/products/snow-joe-telescoping-snow-broom-with-ice-scraper They also make a brass blade ice scrapper that is better than any plastic hand tool you can buy: https://www.snowjoe.com/products/snow-joe-edge-ice-scraper-with-brass-blade Also, everything from that company has a two year manufacturers warranty. This might sound like a shill post but they're the only company I've found that makes snow removal tools worth a drat.
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# ¿ Jan 26, 2019 00:53 |
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Places with extractive industries usually have well maintained roads and infrastructure because energy companies lobby hard
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2019 04:25 |
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Haifisch posted:I have family in Michigan and they gleefully informed me that several governor candidates in the last election(including the one who won) campaigned on fixing the goddamn roads. Whether or not that will translate to actually fixing the roads remains to be seen. Cash strapped towns are actually un-paving roads: https://www.wired.com/2016/07/cash-strapped-towns-un-paving-roads-cant-afford-fix/ This is going to become a lot more common in states like Vermont that had low gas taxes for ages and never grew their transportation general fund before the recession. A few years ago there was talk about tearing down and abandoning bridges that we structurally unsound instead of repairing or replacing them Sigma fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Mar 9, 2019 |
# ¿ Mar 9, 2019 19:59 |
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I’ve witnessed multiple fender benders and at least one major accident after folks tried to wave other drivers across a multi-lane arterial road next to a large intersection. It is always people trying to pull into the same Wendy’s parking lot, too. I like Wendy’s, but not enough to need a neck collar and a backboard.
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# ¿ Jun 6, 2019 15:18 |
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sleepy.eyes posted:Saw a dump truck with "Stay back 500 feet" on back. Think they expect anyone to actually do that? Signs like that are more about giving legal warning in case someone is dumb enough to follow closely and get their windshield cracked from a flying rock
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# ¿ Jun 6, 2019 17:10 |
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Phanatic posted:You mean “to deter people from trying to be compensated when a corporation violates the law, fails to secure a load, and causes damages.” This is also true
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# ¿ Jun 6, 2019 18:18 |
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That guy could buy a couple 10 buck tarps and some tie straps, but that would be too easy
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2019 21:36 |
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It's gonna cost some major money to regrade the rail slopes on either side. Never thought that a state or business would come up with money to fix infrastructure
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# ¿ Oct 19, 2019 14:13 |
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Now that is some good environmental storytelling
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# ¿ Jul 27, 2020 13:07 |
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It’s amazing how one auto manufacturer will solve a problem like that and a few years later make a common system indecipherable to match an aesthetic redesign. Not all of them are as poorly designed or dangerous as the parking brake selector in the Jeep that killed Anton Yelchin, but I shouldn’t need a manual to figure out headlights on a car
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# ¿ Sep 16, 2020 16:43 |
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Discernibly Turgid posted:How has nobody commented on how great it is that the driver of the car is actually listening to, “Smooth Operator “ as all of this goes down? That’s my favorite part. Not quite at the level of “HOLY poo poo. Pisssss”, but close https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUz9xCTOPRw
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# ¿ Oct 18, 2020 15:08 |
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My favorite self driving car people are the ones who insist that all roads be smoothed and leveled to make it easier for existing technology, as if the US could do that or the money wouldn’t be better spent on public transportation
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# ¿ Oct 28, 2020 03:08 |
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Pave the earthquote:Section 1: the future of the earth http://msherman.tripod.com/pave_faq.html
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