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FogHelmut posted:I lived in that area for most of my life, no one else was falling off the road, especially the person running from him. He's a huge moron. Most people run all-season tires. High performance summer tires with even a little bit of ice or snow on the road will slip and slide at the slightest provocation.
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I know a great many people who refuse to accept the need for snow tires, and they all have the same basic assumption: the risk of snow is getting stuck. They don't think about cornering or braking as issues. If they wreck, they will say "the car just wouldn't stop," mentally file it all under act of god, and continue driving around on inadequate tires.
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nsaP posted:LMAO just saw that Manzi (The guy who's brake he grabbed) rides for the team that Fenati just signed with. Also just saw that they have reconsidered the contract they offered him a week or two ago. "I want you to know that now that I am on your team, I will cheat and attempt to injure other riders just as hard on your behalf!"
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NoWake posted:I'm the person with AWD and summer tires you share the winter wasteland with. I find it decidedly unfunny Same thing happened to me about three years ago. I've never been so scared behind the wheel, including the times I was actually in accidents. Accidents are over in seconds. Getting home safely took me fifteen minutes. That was 900 seconds trying to guess what crazy thing my car would do next. That spring I replaced my summer tires with all-weathers. I can live without peak performance of I get to live.
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Nov 18, 2018 06:35
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On behalf of USS Lexington, CV-2, I demand that we bring back turboelectric propulsion for everything.
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xzzy posted:I despise all the "STOP FOR PEDESTRIANS IN CROSSWALK" signs that towns around me have put up because the when people see a pedestrian anywhere near a street corner they drop anchor. That's not what the sign says. Agreed, and that goes double for me when there are pedestrian islands in the road. I think I shouldn't be required to stop until they reach the island, but as far as I can tell, that's not what the law says. So what good is the island?
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Let's all carry full sets of wheel dollies in our trunks so that nobody can ever park us in.
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LloydDobler posted:Why wouldn't you think it's a runaway truck using it for its intended purpose? It seems like the dash is not too far above the height of the guardrails, which would be the wrong perspective for a truck.
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Sep 23, 2019 14:44
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My wife, who insists she is a perfectly good driver, think it's OK to just force her way onto a highway here in the US if nobody will let her in. Then she yells at the guy she cut off for not letting her in. I try not to let her drive while reconciling myself to the reality that someday my beloved will kill herself or someone else in traffic.
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slidebite posted:It certainly shuts off headlights, and maybe the main interior light, but I turned on everything including the map lights.. something stayed on I'm sure either way. It was 100% dead - not even the slightest glimmer of life. As soon as I put the pack to it, everything lit up so I am pretty sure the hard switch does it. I don't recall if it was a good samaritin or the garage attendant that had a jump pack, but I had it started literally 15 seconds after hooking it up. It sold me on those little packs. Those things kick rear end. My kid's ancient shitbox's battery died and I couldn't start it with an AC-powered battery tender / jump starter nor a jump from my car. A portable battery pack fired it right up, and it's been near that car ever since.
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You can flash your brights, turn on your left blinker, etc, without messing with adaptive cruise control. Following too close is not a prudent communication technique. At least on my car, the manual says the shortest ACC distance is about 1.4 sec, which would definitely be too close without the computer being ready to hit the brakes.
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The USA needs a nationwide law that says if there are three or more lanes (in a given direction, not total), trucks are banned from the leftmost lane. Two lanes is harder since the trucks need to be able to move over for traffic entering the highway.
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Jun 5, 2020 18:35
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KozmoNaut posted:
KozmoNaut, where do you usually drive? Your experience sounds nice but not typical of the roads in the USA.
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One of the interesting bits of the boot Digital Apollo was that the guys building the lunar module guidance system developed it to the point where it could auto-land under most circumstances, and the pilots would just be bystanders until/unless something went wrong. The astronaut with the most knowledge of the system - I think it was Dave Scott - told them no astronaut would ever use it. It wasn't that they didn't trust it, it was that if the ostensible pilot wasn't already flying when something went wrong, the time it took him to orient and react might be longer than they had. He understood that back in 1970 and yet the auto industry can't accept it.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:If there's a Tesla in your hedgerow 
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One world, one people, one slab of asphalt.
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