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Tesseraction posted:I'm assuming America doesn't use a points system like in the UK - if you're caught speeding you can get 3-6 points on your licence, which if you get 12 in a three year period you're disqualified from driving for a set period of time - up to 6 months if it's the first time, 1 year the second, and over 2 years if you've racked up 36 points / three disqualifications within a three year window we have points but if you're white they'll pull you up to the clerk's desk on the morning of your court date and say "if you can pay a $100 ticket for it today in cash, we'll make this a headlight out ticket instead of 15 over"
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akadajet posted:It depends on where you live. In VA they have a points system. In TX, no. Blade Runner posted:There are points but as far as I know most states don't put any on your license for speeding unless it's something like 20+ miles over ah, yeah I guess the federated nature means it will vary this way
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Jonny 290 posted:we have points but if you're white they'll pull you up to the clerk's desk on the morning of your court date and say "if you can pay a $100 ticket for it today in cash, we'll make this a headlight out ticket instead of 15 over" lol, and of course it's malleable this way
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Tesseraction posted:I'm assuming America doesn't use a points system like in the UK - if you're caught speeding you can get 3-6 points on your licence, which if you get 12 in a three year period you're disqualified from driving for a set period of time - up to 6 months if it's the first time, 1 year the second, and over 2 years if you've racked up 36 points / three disqualifications within a three year window when i got pulled over for going 77 in a 65 i paid a dial-a-lawyer like $50 to get it changed from a moving violation to a glorified parking ticket. didn't change the price, but as far as anyone is concerned there was no moving violation basically, when it comes to driving and cars, everything in america is completely fuckin busted LanceHunter posted:Having driven from Austin to Dallas (and back) via I-35 to visit family this holiday, I feel that this is a bit of an exaggeration. I set my cruise control to near speed limit, stayed in the middle lane, and mostly kept to the flow of traffic. Occasionally I'd be passed by faster drivers, occasionally I'd pass a slower driver. But there was only one case of a car going anywhere near 20 miles over the limit and swerving around me. if anything i'd argue that long stretches of freeway/highway driving are less likely to have the suicidal traffic weaving morons. i see them way, way more often in town on the freeways (vegas).
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Blade Runner posted:There are points but as far as I know most states don't put any on your license for speeding unless it's something like 20+ miles over until fairly recently, you could wind up in jail for going 11 over in virginia. back when the national limit was 55, they set the reckless driving threshold at 80 and never raised it even as the speed limit was raised back to 70
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qirex posted:you’re the responsible speeder and definitely not part of the problem thank you
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qirex posted:lol at people posting walls of text because they like to go fast vroom meanwhile pedestrian deaths are climbing but don’t worry, you’re the responsible speeder and definitely not part of the problem if you're a pedestrian walking on the freeway than I can't help you.
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qirex posted:you’re the responsible speeder and definitely not part of the problem i don't speed on residential roads, generally go with the flow of traffic, and don't go too fast for conditions, so yes, i am
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The_Franz posted:i don't speed on residential roads, generally go with the flow of traffic, and don't go too fast for conditions, so yes, i am yeah, if you're speeding on a local road, you're a moron.
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qirex posted:lol at people posting walls of text because they like to go fast vroom meanwhile pedestrian deaths are climbing but don’t worry, you’re the responsible speeder and definitely not part of the problem I live in NYC, the limit could be 5 and I would not be at risk of speeding on an average day
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qirex posted:lol at people posting walls of text because they like to go fast vroom meanwhile pedestrian deaths are climbing but don’t worry, you’re the responsible speeder and definitely not part of the problem im not gonna actually engage with this argument but do want to mention that it's a bit below your normal post quality
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akadajet posted:It drops from 75/70 to 55 in town here, generally. ah, i learned somethig new today!
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Tesseraction posted:lol, and of course it's malleable this way kind of varies theyll let you off with something less of you make it to the court date in a lot of places because tickets usually are handled at 1 court session for a bunch of people in a month so they do plea deals for 50 people rather than 50 full trials
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oh i bet non americans or especially ppl who havent driven in texas would love to learn about texas frontage onramps/exits population too spread out + no money for proper highway design, just create local access roads parallel to the freeways and draw little ramps on and off them. oh and the frontage roads are 2-way so you better stop in case there's oncoming traffic
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Jonny 290 posted:oh i bet non americans or especially ppl who havent driven in texas would love to learn about texas frontage onramps/exits idk man, I generally like this style of highway. better than dealing with cloverleafs.
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people that drive slower than me are idiots and people that drive faster than me are maniacs
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polyester concept posted:people that drive slower than me are idiots and people that drive faster than me are maniacs yeah we'll just have to disagree here i think
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Jonny 290 posted:oh i bet non americans or especially ppl who havent driven in texas would love to learn about texas frontage onramps/exits This is somehow much better than every road I've ever seen in Jersey
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Jonny 290 posted:oh i bet non americans or especially ppl who havent driven in texas would love to learn about texas frontage onramps/exits theres a ton of these in florida too and they are absolutely terrifying
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i like driving through town in grand rapids. the speed limit is still like 70 but it feels dangerous to go that fast so often people are driving like 5 under it’s weird.
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I hope musk is forever trapped in a Tesla on autopilot that’s stuck behind a big rig passing another trailer with a +2mph speed differential while a cop car is cruising up behind with just enough speed that to match its flow of traffic puts you in that +6-8mph danger zone for getting pulled over
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Anybody else love that thing where some mario andretti in a pontiac vibe left-lanes around you to do 15 over only to get caught at the next light, you time it and coast a bit and get the green as you sail through at like 30mph as you watch their suspension unweight from yet another full-throttle drag race launch driving smooth is best driving.
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Jonny 290 posted:yeah we'll just have to disagree here i think was trying to break up the careposting with a poo poo post
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Beeftweeter posted:he seems to think twitter is a news site and is saying that tweets get more viewers than primetime cable news. it's basically one of musk's "twitter is ALIVE" posts oh lol I missed that because who would treat views on a tweet as being the same as viewership of news channels? lol, lmao even.
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99% of my interactions with cars https://twitter.com/drewtoothpaste/status/1598716624701382659?s=20&t=s1BdLFGTDghtOvMp6nxf2g and that's if they stop in the first place anyway tsla is up, did ark buy another million shares?
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im not sure, it aint gonna work tho
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qirex posted:anyway tsla is up its down like 20% over 5 days so idk
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rotor posted:its down like 20% over 5 days so idk    
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:oh lol I missed that because who would treat views on a tweet as being the same as viewership of news channels? lol, lmao even. I mean, he doesn't even understand that views === accesses of the data at all from Twitter's logging perspective, including non-display accesses from other internal process as at Twitter, hence why 0 follower priv accounts see their tweet views go up while the account owner isn't accessing it. Expecting him to understand how Neilsen counts viewers (let alone know about any of the intrinsic misses in their process and how they compare to Twitter's data issues) is asking way too much.
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Jonny 290 posted:oh i bet non americans or especially ppl who havent driven in texas would love to learn about texas frontage onramps/exits the only problem I can see here is that there's no merge lane into the smaller road so if there's traffic you have to stop to get into it and can't just join in the merge. otherwise looks pretty normal to me 
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Beeftweeter posted:some crazy volume today a lot of buying doing little but giving other people an opportunity to sell?
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Chalks posted:a lot of buying doing little but giving other people an opportunity to sell? Yeah, kinda feels like institutional investors carefully exiting their positions without dumping and crashing it while the notoriously retail heavy Tesla ownership holds even more of the bag.
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can’t let it dip below 100, musk will yell at them
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frontage roads are great when they have weird, inscrutable names like one of my vegas favorites, Dinkledorf Rd. it's such a fun word to say Beeftweeter posted:some crazy volume today we need a "listen to tesla" in the same style of listen to buttcoin. mabye make it so the pitch changes with price
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qirex posted:lol at people posting walls of text because they like to go fast vroom meanwhile pedestrian deaths are climbing but don’t worry, you’re the responsible speeder and definitely not part of the problem
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Achmed Jones posted:the left lane is for passing, not cruising. go to a different lane. people dont have to speed, they want to speed and make up excuses why it's the correct and right idea. it's obviously not the biggest transgression in the world or something, but lordy just be honest and admit to being a little bit selfish sometimes. we all do it occasionally right? like 10 years ago i was driving to work and just idly mathing it out while doing 80 in a 70 and i was like, oh this is saving me at best 3 minutes.
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:the only problem I can see here is that there's no merge lane into the smaller road so if there's traffic you have to stop to get into it and can't just join in the merge. do you understand that there is traffic coming onwards on the lane you have to stop at, and that the oncoming traffic does not have a stop or yield sign? that's not a one way road, that's my point
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