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Crustashio posted:That is a classic example of trying to out-engineer stupidity. I will now be using that as a reference when people ask me to design crap like that at work Now if I were the engineer asked to solve the original problem (Which is summarized as: Old people become crap at driving eventually.) I would have made the brake pedal like a torque wrench. Takes 2-3 pounds sitting on it before there's a slight "snap" feel to it and pedal travel begins... Like how the turn signal switch eventually snaps into the "on" position. Or like Honda high-beam stalks and wiper stalks, but without the "make contact before the mechanical detent" part that comes in handy on the hi-beams... I can also only imagine that an octogenarian pedal-foot drives some ABS systems absolutely batshit insane and is probably the root cause of some accidents where they wound up in the median on an otherwise nice weather day...
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Sponge! posted:Now if I were the engineer asked to solve the original problem (Which is summarized as: Old people become crap at driving eventually.) I would have made the brake pedal like a torque wrench. Takes 2-3 pounds sitting on it before there's a slight "snap" feel to it and pedal travel begins... Like how the turn signal switch eventually snaps into the "on" position. Or like Honda high-beam stalks and wiper stalks, but without the "make contact before the mechanical detent" part that comes in handy on the hi-beams... I would have simply had a contact switch that, when released, would turn on the brake lights. Simply and easy.
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# ? May 27, 2012 04:40 |
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Remove one leg from every senior citizen.
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Cakefool posted:We use Kone's at work, I'm sharing that one out. Do you have a link or more info? Original Polish: http://www.portalmorski.pl/zegluga/zegluga-promowa-i-roro/31931-wypadek-w-gdynskim-porcie-prom-uderzyl-w-suwnice Decent++ English site: http://gcaptain.com/stena-ferry-knocks-container-loading/ This event is no fault of Kone's but still makes a good cast study , so you know what the scene might look like if a similar collision and collapse happens. Seems everybody made it out alive from this one, but quite smashed up. Ghosts n Gopniks fucked around with this message at 15:23 on May 27, 2012 |
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Pretentious Turtle posted:Remove one leg from every senior citizen. This is the obvious solution. tbf I've seen plenty of this from every age group. The problem is that 99% of American drivers are fuckwits and invent new ways of being bigger fuckwits every day.
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# ? May 27, 2012 05:06 |
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Maker Of Shoes posted:This is the obvious solution.
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# ? May 27, 2012 05:23 |
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Maker Of Shoes posted:This is the obvious solution. Which is why my next new car is going to need a backup camera. Because fuckwits can't be bothered to use their mirror or crane their neck to check behind them. Are they more likely to check the camera?
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tater_salad posted:Which is why my next new car is going to need a backup camera. Because fuckwits can't be bothered to use their mirror or crane their neck to check behind them. More and more, I am looking forward to self-driving cars and a special license to drive without one.
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tater_salad posted:Are they more likely to check the camera? Only if it can send/receive SMS and Facebook.
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Sponge! posted:Now if I were the engineer asked to solve the original problem (Which is summarized as: Old people become crap at driving eventually.) I would have made the brake pedal like a torque wrench. Takes 2-3 pounds sitting on it before there's a slight "snap" feel to it and pedal travel begins... And then bean-counters look at the price of retrofitting existing vehicles with new brake pedals vs a complimentary brake flush. And the lawyers look at the fact that your device mechanically inhibits brake actuation. And marketing looks at the bad PR from a recall. Or you could develop a NEW and IMPROVED brake fluid that will HELP you stop BETTER, instead of admitting there is a problem.
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# ? May 27, 2012 06:38 |
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Wire the horn to the brake lights. No one will step on it unless they need it.
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# ? May 27, 2012 07:11 |
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Fire Storm posted:No, you see, now drivers can blame the camera and take away any personal guilt! You'd be amazed at how many people tell me they didn't see anything and/or their backup sensor didn't detect anything when they back into poo poo.
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Maker Of Shoes posted:This is the obvious solution. I've seen plenty of cars driving around here with the brake lights permanently on. It's either electrical faults or people resting their left feet on their brake pedals, I guess. Some of them have had the distinct smell of toasted brakes about them.
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KozmoNaut posted:I've seen plenty of cars driving around here with the brake lights permanently on. It's either electrical faults or people resting their left feet on their brake pedals, I guess. Some of them have had the distinct smell of toasted brakes about them. Worst thing is people driving with their rear fog-lights permanently on. If it's dual sided fog-lights you can just hardly see the brake-lights. gently caress-lights.
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Sir Cornelius posted:Worst thing is people driving with their I totally agree.
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# ? May 27, 2012 12:20 |
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1/3 of drivers in my city drive with their fogs on at night. 10% drive with their high beams on, day or night. God I hate driving in this city.
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Bovril Delight posted:You'd be amazed at how many people tell me they didn't see anything and/or their backup sensor didn't detect anything when they back into poo poo. Yup, some lady rammed her hitch receiver into the middle of my wife's hood because her ultrasonics didn't pick anything up. Problem being that the lady was driving an Escalade and my wife had a Tiburon so the sensors were probably pinging the windshield because the Escalade's bumper is so high. The whole thing was a cock-up, actually. She was on the cell phone and stopped in an intersection halfway because she was about to run a red light, so she threw it in reverse to get out of the cross traffic. And she wasn't supposed to be driving that truck because it was her husband's company vehicle. Dumb all the way around.
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revmoo posted:1/3 of drivers in my city drive with their fogs on at night. 10% drive with their high beams on, day or night. God I hate driving in this city. My favorite is all the assholes who use them in winter, when the roads are covered in a highly reflective substance. If I'm driving someone else's car, the first thing I do is turn the goddamn things off.
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DELETED posted:My favorite is all the assholes who use them in winter, when the roads are covered in a highly reflective substance. If I'm driving someone else's car, the first thing I do is turn the goddamn things off. I like when people turn on their highbeams in a snowstorm. Yeah, sure helps your visibility by lighting up all those snowflakes.
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There's a fine line where in light snow (at night) highbeams really help but then it starts snowing a bit more heavily and HOLY gently caress I can't see poo poo!
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tater_salad posted:Which is why my next new car is going to need a backup camera. Because fuckwits can't be bothered to use their mirror or crane their neck to check behind them. To be fair, as belt lines get higher, rear visibility is going to suffer, and there's a blind spot behind the rear bumper that can easily obscure small children. Also, did you know you can get a ticket for driving with fog lights on? Happened to a friend of a friend a few days ago.
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Huh? What does it say on the ticket, like, what was the actual violation?
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The Rocket Salad posted:Huh? What does it say on the ticket, like, what was the actual violation? If it's anything like 'round these parts, you can run either your low beams, your fog lights or your DRLs, but you must run one of them during the daytime. Run more than one of them and you get a ticket for unnecessary use of lights or some such. It's to prevent people from blinding each other with walls of light. At night you must run your low beams at all times, or high beams if at all possible without blinding people. Rear fog lights are only allowed during severely impaired visibility and when there are no other cars immediately behind you.
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Neptr posted:To be fair, as belt lines get higher, rear visibility is going to suffer, and there's a blind spot behind the rear bumper that can easily obscure small children. We have laws for this, too. "Use of fog lights in unsuited conditions" or something. But the cops don't enforce it because it's easier to collect revenue sitting behind a laser camera.
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KozmoNaut posted:If it's anything like 'round these parts, you can run either your low beams, your fog lights or your DRLs, but you must run one of them during the daytime. Run more than one of them and you get a ticket for unnecessary use of lights or some such. But still, that's a lame ticket. How much?
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The Rocket Salad posted:I have a green car and I like to drive around in the woods and hills so I keep the fogs on to be just a little bit more visible to oncoming traffic, since I really blend-in with the foliage in the shade - except for the fact that I'm moving considerable faster than the trees. Minimum ticket these days is 1000 DKK or ~$170 for any traffic-related offense, if you're in or on a motorized vehicle. It's a bit cheaper for cyclists.
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The Rocket Salad posted:I have a green car and I like to drive around in the woods and hills so I keep the fogs on to be just a little bit more visible to oncoming traffic, since I really blend-in with the foliage in the shade - except for the fact that I'm moving considerable faster than the trees.
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Headlights + fogs = I don't know maybe I just like the little green light on the dashboard.
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# ? May 28, 2012 00:35 |
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Sir Cornelius posted:Worst thing is people driving with their This 100 times.
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For the record: I don't drive with my fogs on. However, what's the problem with them? They're generally low to the ground and not especially bright. Unless we're talking about Daylighters or something. Edit: I definitely get the rear fog light hate.
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Godholio posted:For the record: I don't drive with my fogs on. However, what's the problem with them? They're generally low to the ground and not especially bright. Unless we're talking about Daylighters or something. Rear fogs are the big issue, but I've been blinded a few times by people on the opposite side of the road with their front fogs on. Even if it's not blinding you, it's still distracting. edit: Also retardedly distracting to see it in your rear-view mirror. Worth a £60 fine in the UK I believe.(Improper use of Lamp) ToG fucked around with this message at 07:31 on May 28, 2012 |
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Godholio posted:For the record: I don't drive with my fogs on. However, what's the problem with them? They're generally low to the ground and not especially bright. Unless we're talking about Daylighters or something. Fog lights are typically as bright as your low beams, just aimed down so that they don't seem all that bright. other than the rear fogs being an issue, front fogs reduce your ability to see distant things by lighting the gently caress out of the road right in front of your bumper. Also, some people mistake their fogs for their normal lights and end up driving at night with only their fogs on.
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I'll say this: Don't use your fog lights at night if there's no fog. Your irises pinch close with the bright lights lighting up the sides of the road close very close to your front bumper, and you end up losing a good deal of contrast in your vision as a result. In daylight, it doesn't make any difference.
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The best is when it's someone in a raised up pickup with improperly aimed $60 Canadian Tire headlights.
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KozmoNaut posted:It's a bit cheaper for cyclists. They're finally starting to enforce actual traffic laws for cyclists here, but its too late. Stop signs are not half-yield signs. Hell, here the local cyclists ride on a shoulder-less state highway (55+mph)and ride 3 wide like a bunch of idiots. I ride my bike a lot, but I can't imagine being killed or ruining someone's life by being such an idiot to ride like that.
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ToG posted:but I've been blinded a few times by people on the opposite side of the road with their front fogs on. Even if it's not blinding you, it's still distracting. That should be a ticket for having improperly focused fog lights, like there technically is (although not enforced) for headlights. They should be focused low and wide, with the top cut low enough that they land below any other car's bumper.
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# ? May 28, 2012 18:17 |
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Also Fog lights are really annoying when it rains cause they nicely reflect of the wet street back into the the eyes of other drivers!
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Shai-Hulud posted:Also Fog lights are really annoying Yes.... I'd totally be posting pictures of the rings/bearings/piston-heads/burnt-valves/etc from my recent engine rebuild, but I *still* don't have it back.(28 days and counting...) With any luck Wednesday will be a day of horror for us all.
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# ? May 28, 2012 20:27 |
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Just saw this video of SEMA car crushing on Autoblog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GNiL8V-vQQ I wonder why they do this with pre-production cars and press cars. Couldn't they part them out, or title them as salvage and sell them at auction? For lovely cars it's not so bad but watching Vipers and other limited production cars get crushed is a bummer.
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bidikyoopi posted:I wonder why they do this with pre-production cars and press cars. Liability. Only way to make sure nobody makes a claim about pre-production vehicles is to destroy them. And have video evidence.
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