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Those single spoke steering wheels make me feel vaguely uncomfortable when I look at them. 
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Next time you're out driving take a moment to notice how many people are driving around with their center brake lights out. So. Many.  How?
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Dead Cow posted:I failed my test (California) the first time for "coming out of a complete stop in 2nd gear". I didn't come to a complete stop at all, the light had turned green well before I got to the intersection, and my car wouldn't even go into first because I was going too fast (I took it out of gear to get ready to put it into first for the stop, the light turned green, it wouldn't go into first so I put it back into second) A friend of mine took his driver's test in a Honda Accord 5 speed and failed for "shifting too late" when (according to him) he shifted at 2.5-3K. He retook the test in an automatic car and passed easily. 
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Dec 12, 2013 02:32
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InterceptorV8 posted:How about when it goes from single lane to passing lane and the fucker that was doing 50 is now doing 75 so you can't pass in the safe passing zone, and then they drop back down to 50 when it's two lane again. This won me an involuntary $150 donation to the State Police a few weeks back. I was behind a Ford Escape that was doing anywhere from +5 over the speed limit to -10 under seemingly randomly (use your cruise control people I know you have it) and when my side of the highway opened up to two lanes I threw it down a gear and booted it past the guy... ...right when a state trooper comes over the hill in the other lane. I must have got his attention because he threw on the anchors and flipped a bitch right there. I knew he had me so I dropped back behind the Escape and pulled over. I'm sure the Escape driver was amused, at least. 71 in a 55.  loving stupid and I was surprised myself. I usually cruise at around 60, I promise.
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xzzy posted:I had a chat with a state trooper last summer for the same reason, mountain road, some cowboy in his pickup drifting between five over and ten under. I put up with it until a passing chance opened up, out my foot down and as soon as I crossed lanes I saw the cruiser about a quarter mile ahead. He pulled over, let me pass, then flipped on the roof lights. Yeah the guy was kind of a dick to be honest* but eh 16 over is a bit much. Lesson learned.  Actually after I drove off some guy in a Mazda 3 flew past me and next thing I know the same trooper was whipping around me to pull him over. He was really working that particular stretch of highway that day I guess. *He had asked me if I knew how fast I was going and before I could form an answer/excuse he told me the guy I was passing was doing 61 so I didn't need to pass him since he was already doing over the speed limit. I'm not sure what the radar/lidar technology is these days but I didn't know they could tag two oncoming vehicles within a second or two. Previa_fun fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Jan 7, 2014 |
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Jan 7, 2014 06:23
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TrueChaos posted:I'll occasionally flash my lights to try and get people out of the left lane, but I stopped doing this because no one knows what it means anyway and it really pisses some people off.
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Jan 12, 2014 01:45
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nsaP posted:Last summer was real tempting when people started driving with their windows down. I'd be out riding and see the typical 'distracted driver' ahead and eventually end up next to them at a light, only to see their face full of phone. I really wanted to just grab it and chuck it off the road, then take off. I actually considered grabbing it and tossing it in their passenger seat. In reality I just mime talking on a phone and swerve around my lane and hope that it gets thru, provided they've looked away from the phone. Technology is advancing much faster than the legislation (who's surprised there?) too. Apparently people think driving while wearing Google Glass is acceptable 
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Jan 14, 2014 08:33
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All that single-pane glass  Possible  http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/7343022218/in/set-72157626646768526/ I hope that's a wig. 
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Jan 28, 2014 21:52
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leica posted:Seriously dude? Have you seen the dash cam videos from other countries? Road rage isn't just a national phenomenon. Yeah. Bad driving always has been and always will be a global phenomenom and I bet a lot of us are more guilty than we let on. There's always someone going "I'm never driving in Russia huuuhhh!" on the dashcam vids but it's only 'cause of the prevalence of dashcams over there in the first place we even get to see these driving experts. If every car in Alabama was fitted with a dash cam I guarantee YouTube's "Alabama Car Crash" channel would be horrifying. (I picked a random state, no offense to anyone here from AL  )
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Feb 6, 2014 09:32
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Vindolanda posted:Wish  Here you go.
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Feb 12, 2014 18:50
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Uthor posted:Related to my earlier post about slow fucks in the left lane and all this new talk about trucks: This. Oh god this every single loving day. I always mentally picture IntercepterV8s avatar when it happens "Right Side Suicide "
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May 21, 2014 08:25
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A couple of years ago they put in a roundabout near where I work that I go through every day. It's been around long enough that most people don't really have that much problem with it now but there is something about it that I've always thought was off: Overhead view: https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1118574,-94.158008,142m/data=!3m1!1e3 Street view approaching the roundabout from the north side from the expressway exit: https://www.google.com/maps/@36.112598,-94.158442,3a,75y,151.5h,82.15t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1slXYMaYYdQDcizEFIshDZgg!2e0 The problem I see is that according to the sign you can make a left from either the outside or inside lane. This creates an obvious cross/collsion point, right? Not to mention that I see people cutting the lanes inside/outside at random, though with all the dashed lines it's a bit ambiguous if that's how it's intended to be done or not. Is this roundabout poorly designed or am I an Idiot on the Road? Edit: Going to work I approach this from the north, enter the roundabout in the left/inside lane, and exit at North Hills Blvd in the left lane. Previa_fun fucked around with this message at 09:02 on Jan 16, 2015 |
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Jan 16, 2015 09:00
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eriddy posted:Is it illegal to accelerate quickly? Like if you floor it from a red light (without spinning your tires or screeching) and you don't go over the speed limit of the road can you be pulled over? I got pulled over for this several years ago. I was driving home from picking a girlfriend up from work and was just bored/dumb enough to really get on it leaving a light when I noticed the car in the left turn lane suddenly switch lanes to follow me. Then the blue lights came on. Only got a warning, though. I'm fairly sure I never actually hit 40mph which is the speed limit on the road I was on. I was in my '95 Toyota Previa, too.
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Jan 20, 2015 05:50
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I always use the parking brake even when driving an automatic because I hate that stupid little lurch/roll an automatic car will do when you take your foot off the brake while it's only in P.
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Aug 12, 2015 08:27
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9 and 3 fo' lyfe. 
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Sep 7, 2015 00:06
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From the annals of "What did you think was going to happen?  "
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Dec 29, 2015 08:00
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I used to try to use flash-to-pass but it got me flipped off and brake checked more times than it had it's desired effect. Nobody in America* understands it as "please let me pass" and therefore interprets it as "gently caress THIS GUY FLASHING HIS loving LIGHTS AT ME!" I used to try to be really good about never passing on the right and allowing people plenty of time to move over but now if I have a gap to get around a left lane dawdler I take it. I still don't pass trucks on the right, though. *At least in Arkansas.
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Dec 30, 2015 10:17
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xzzy posted:I read somewhere once that a four way stop improves flow up to a point, but I don't see it myself. Pick whichever road gets more cars and get rid of their stop signs, leaving them in for the cross street. Yeah honestly gently caress four-way stops. I go out of my way to not have to deal with this intersection: https://www.google.com/maps/@36.0485465,-94.1808229,228m/data=!3m1!1e3 Four lanes north/south and east. At night time or during heavy traffic (look at the stadiums nearby) it's basically thunderdome.
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Snow Cone Capone posted:According to the imgur comments, apparently I'm in the wrong for...using the passing lane to pass a truck? Not giving the cop an opening to get into the passing lane? Imgur commenters probably want you to immediately pull over and blow the cop and let him finish in your maga hat. Alternatively a lot of "left lane is for PASSING!!11" people really get mad even if you're actively passing traffic and just not driving as fast as they want to drive.
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Geoj posted:I think the biggest issue in Ohio is the terrible condition of the roads owing to this being a red state, with predictable politics/policies. Gas taxes are regressive as gently caress tho
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Mar 9, 2019 17:16
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Backing into spots is safer and there's a reason most fleets train their drivers to back in when possible.
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May 4, 2019 07:11
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In my area the bigger problem with buses are people passing them on the shoulder/sidewalks while they're stopped because Americans are loving antisocial psychopaths these days. See:
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Fornax Disaster posted:The police broke up a meet of street racers on the weekend and in addition to the expected BMWs and 350zs they impounded a Buick Roadmaster! hell yeah state sponsored theft owns
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Jul 28, 2019 00:07
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Also why the gently caress would they need to keep the car as "evidence." Either you caught the driver street racing or you didn't what is having the car going to prove.
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Jul 29, 2019 07:14
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Tesla is so goddamn stupid
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slidebite posted:My aggressive/rear end in a top hat driver index which is 98.39% accurate, 19 times out of 20 and not with a single shred of confirmation bias: Mazdas. I think the zoom-zoom marketing must have gone to people's heads because I see more aggro Mazdas than any other Japanese make. Not me of course I am a perfect driver.
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