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CarForumPoster posted:Did you get to 1996 and just decide well thats it guys theres no more music to listen to? Hah, I didn't even realize that. The radio stations out here do tend to go into 90's mode sometimes.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Do you just delete all music older than a few years to keep others from thinking you're out of touch? We're so two thousand and late.
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Lol if you permit any sort of distraction while driving. Cupholders? Have a drink when you're not driving. Radio, MP3 player, CD? Turn off the noise, focus on driving. Passengers? They are to sit quietly. A navigator in the front passenger seat is permissible when needed, but they must avoid extraneous chatter and just focus on providing the driver with accurate information about the route and conditions.
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That but unironically
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Leperflesh posted:Cupholders?
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I hate it when coins rattle around in a cupholder. It's a distraction to driving. Put your coins in your pocket or something. OR  Useful for paying tolls and whatnot. ...just make sure it doesn't rattle.
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My car came fitted with coin holders, which I thought was cool even though I never go through toll booths. Then I realised they were American-sized coin holders and absolutely no use to me in Australia. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Apr 6, 2017 |
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Leperflesh posted:I hate it when coins rattle around in a cupholder. It's a distraction to driving. Put your coins in your pocket or something. Useful for paying like, one toll. Northern Illinois, you'll need the bills drawer from a cash register if you wanna drive around without an EZ pass.
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Whenever I'm in a newer car, I get distracted by all the touch screens, buttons, controls, etc. It's insane, no wonder they need self-driving cars, let you concentrate on operating a drat spaceship. I drive beaters and antiques, so I'm accustomed to the bare minimum stuff needed to operate a car. It's kinda nice, simple, to the point, gets the job done.
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fickle poofterist posted:Tollbooths still exist? Oh yeah.
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fickle poofterist posted:Tollbooths still exist? Mostly as a begrudged obligation in Illinois. Hell, some of them are just the old coin basket funnel kind. For a 95 cent toll. On the Edens Spur there's a cash toll plaza that I blow by on open road toll with ipass, it has like 6 lanes and only two ever open at the most. They really don't hide the fact that cash tolls are going the way of Blockbuster at all.
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Shere posted:Mostly as a begrudged obligation in Illinois. Actually, the continued talk here in Cincinnati is for the replacement bridge for i-71/75 across the ohio river is for it to be a toll road to make up the cost for the bridge. The current bridge is both really really old and also handling loads 2-3x what it was designed to do. Mainly because i-75 and i-71 are main north/south arteries in the midwest/east coast area.
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My wife and I were in wisconsin for a while this summer and we drove down to chicago and took some various other roads and such in northern illinois. And holy crap, the tolls are stupid. OK if you don't have the electronic transponder thing and you just get off the road at a random exit, you better have exact change. There's no human to pay, there's no change machine, and if you want to connect to their website or call in to pay, welp, hey it's down today? Or something. And you'll pay a fee to pay your toll, and you need to know how much your toll was because the website sure doesn't know! Also really annoying, google maps just insists that you should drive through the easy pass, if you read the road signs and head for the tollway toll booth it just can't deal with it. More generally I've noticed google maps navigation just doesn't believe that drivers might need to use toll lanes, and oh yeah, it tells you to use the lefthand tunnel when driving east on highway 24 through the caldecott tunnel between oakland and walnut creek, CA, even though both tunnel bores go to the same place. I'm pretty sure that's one of the major causes of people swerving across the split at the last second to use the lefthand tunnel. Sorry about the rant but gently caress you google maps, fix your poo poo. Anyway yeah, toll roads should be required to either have a human being you can pay, or have a free payment system usable by cell phone. And probably also have a place you can pull over and use a change machine or something, too. And warn you with a sign before the on-ramp that you'll need exact change if you don't have a pass, telling me that poo poo halfway down the onramp is really not helpful you know?
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I believe both google maps and waze have options to avoid toll roads.
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:I believe both google maps and waze have options to avoid toll roads. They do, but if you just routinely tell it to go from A to B, it doesn't explicitly warn you out loud that there's a toll. I have it turned off because at home, I'm often driving across a toll bridge. Another gripe, why won't my ez pass transponder for the bay area work elsewhere? Why haven't we loving standardized these things across the country? Come the gently caress on.
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JuffoWup posted:Actually, the continued talk here in Cincinnati is for the replacement bridge for i-71/75 across the ohio river is for it to be a toll road to make up the cost for the bridge. The current bridge is both really really old and also handling loads 2-3x what it was designed to do. Mainly because i-75 and i-71 are main north/south arteries in the midwest/east coast area. What I meant is IL makes your life an unending hell if you don't have the toll transponder. Also some of the areas with open road tolling charge you DOUBLE the e-toll to pay cash at the booth. They really want residents to get the hint, and also catch out of state drivers and milk them for every cent. It's miserable.
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I hate manned tollboths that sneak up on you. This is a fun one from the last time I was in Oklahoma. I was on US 177 going north and my GPS said to take US 412 west to get to Enid. It didn't bother to tell me it was a toll road. Once you're on the clover there's no choice but to go. I had no cash, and the toll attendant was nice enough to say "guy before you overpaid and I didn't have change, I'll just take it out of that!" Just get tolltags like the rest of the civilized world, Okies! 
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Leperflesh posted:Another gripe, why won't my ez pass transponder for the bay area work elsewhere? Why haven't we loving standardized these things across the country? Come the gently caress on. you'd be asking multiple parties with multiple governing laws to cooperate across state lines. Like gently caress will that happen. Sorry.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:you'd be asking multiple parties with multiple governing laws to cooperate across state lines. Like gently caress will that happen. Sorry. EZPass works in 16 states. I haven't paid a toll manually since Ohio joined the network. Every other system seems to be state by state unfortunately.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:you'd be asking multiple parties with multiple governing laws to cooperate across state lines. Like gently caress will that happen. Sorry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_Ahead_for_Progress_in_the_21st_Century_Act MAP-21 was supposed to have that set up by October last year, not sure how it has gone.
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fickle poofterist posted:Tollbooths still exist? Yeah. We still have them in Mass. Although some of them were eliminated in Boston and now if you don't have EZpass they record your plate and you pay the amount the tools originally cost.
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insanity at the gas station, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSrL7hbp36M
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Lime Tonics posted:insanity at the gas station, Gooooooodddddddd, that dumb girl yelling at the cop about the truck.
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Krakkles posted:Ha, I live near here. Goddamnit, this. Shut the gently caress up, lady, and let the cop go after the actual problem.
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Godholio posted:Goddamnit, this. Shut the gently caress up, lady, and let the cop go after the actual problem. Even for Youtube comments this lady is getting it rough, she was trying (though admittedly failing) to help. Luckily the SUV is so goddamn stupid he can't even run from the cops right.
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Dude in the pickup decided to be a hero and prevent the white suv from leaving, which could have made things a lot worse. That was dangerous. Just note the license plate and let the fucker leave, it's not worth endangering everyone by escalating the situation.
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Stay away from my frye's! That's how this thread works right? We post when we recognize where we live? The most exciting thing I use my dash cam for is when I forget to take a picture of the house I'm inspecting. I just pull it from the dashcam. That's pretty sweet.
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Leperflesh posted:Dude in the pickup decided to be a hero and prevent the white suv from leaving, which could have made things a lot worse. That was dangerous. Just note the license plate and let the fucker leave, it's not worth endangering everyone by escalating the situation. I'm sure he would have, at least until the SUV guy hit him too. Then what the gently caress "should" you do?
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The answer is still "don't escalate the situation." Part of me is on the truck driver's side, but on the other hand, that SUV driver is clearly crazy about getting the gently caress out of there, and what do you do when he starts shooting or driving up on the sidewalk to get away? I'd love to hear the aftermath. Why this happened, is the driver of the semi ok, etc.
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BMW drivers are courteous and polite and never drive like morons when speeding isn't appropriate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj-w0ecgmzM
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Measly Twerp posted:I'm sure he would have, at least until the SUV guy hit him too. Then what the gently caress "should" you do? You should accept that a lunatic with a car is a potentially deadly situation, and that allowing them to leave instead of trying to be a vigalante hero is the smart move. Your car is damaged, that's a much better outcome than maybe the lunatic hits a pedestrian while you're trying to prevent them from leaving, or maybe they're armed, or maybe you simply don't have all the facts and there is a compelling reason for someone to flee the scene, such as an imminent medical emergency or they are themselves trying to escape from someone who is trying to kill them, or whatever. In fact, by using your vehicle as a weapon to try to stop someone else, you may be (probably are) committing a felony. You might not be charged if your use of a deadly weapon was justified, but preventing a suspect from leaving the scene does not justify lethal force, ethically or (in most cases) legally. And just to bring it to full relevance: having a dash cam means greatly increasing the chance that in an incident like this, after the bad guy runs away, you can provide sufficient evidence to the police that they can easily get a conviction based on more than just eyewitness testimony. So what you "should" do is make note of the license plate, save your dashcam video, and once the immediate danger is gone, you can find out if anyone is hurt, contact the police, etc.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:BMW drivers are courteous and polite and never drive like morons when speeding isn't appropriate. Would it be possible to move your dashcam to the top of the windshield? Than angle doesn't show the road as well, and half the picture is just the dashboard and hood. Running a wire up the A pillar and across the headliner is pretty easy in most cars, just take your time and it isn't too bad.
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chrisgt posted:Would it be possible to move your dashcam to the top of the windshield? Than angle doesn't show the road as well, and half the picture is just the dashboard and hood. I could probably figure out how to get power off the mirror-area console (there're lights and such up there too) but effort.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:I could probably figure out how to get power off the mirror-area console (there're lights and such up there too) but effort. I had a mechanic do it for my DR550GW-2CH sometime back. I think it was about an hour's time since I brought all the parts.
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18 Character Limit posted:I had a mechanic do it for my DR550GW-2CH sometime back. I think it was about an hour's time since I brought all the parts. What'd'cha use for 12VDC to 5VDC?
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Cocoa Crispies posted:What'd'cha use for 12VDC to 5VDC? I believe he hooked the included power line to the appropriate accessory voltage (my requirement that the thing be off when the car is off). Cars aren't my skillset, so I handed it to a professional.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:What'd'cha use for 12VDC to 5VDC? Rexing Hard Wire Kit Mini-USB Port https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXC2329/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_qsf7yb6C1VTHJ E Support 12v Car Add-a-circuit Fuse TAP Adapter Mini ATM APM Blade Fuse Holder Pack of 5 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SUTYYS2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apip_bGKBVXfaqLKQy Use a fuse tap in the fuse panel under the driver's side or whatever for switched 12v power
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chrisgt posted:Idiots all around: Well hello, local person. Didn't think there were any other goons in the immediate area. That end of Hogan and the entire length of Stillwater both give me driving anxiety. Seems like it's nothing but inattentive old people and tourists.
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