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goobernoodles posted:In hindsight I shouldn't have said a word for the kid's sake but something tells me that kid is already used to that sort of bullshit. Nah, don't feel bad. She's probably the kind of person who would nearly cause an accident and chase the other person down and berate them about how she has children in her car! and they are a horrible person for daring to exist in her universe. Such people should be called out for their shitbag behavior, and are far more of a negative influence on their child(ren)'s life than you ever could.
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Noticed something a bit stupid about drivers around here when filling up the car today. Some of the other cars who arrived at the station were tearing onto the forecourt at about 15-20 mph, slamming on the brakes when they got to the pumps, and then reversing back when they inevitably overshot. And this wasn't a one-off idiot, 5 different cars did this. I was worried one of them would rear end me while I was filling up. I could maybe understand if the station was slightly just off to the side of a road and people were just coming straight in off of it, but this is a supermarket gas station, and the way you have to go to get in from the only road in or out is pretty convoluted too:  (Old photo, there's now a mini-roundabout where that white dot is and a divider meaning you have to go around it. That roundabout only serves the supermarket parking lot too.) Makes me wonder what goes through these people's minds sometimes. Also, there's a real bad case of 'me too'ing red lights around here. Not a night goes by where I don't see three or four idiots go through a light that's been red for a while because the car in front went through. Even the police do it  Thank god I'm not doing deliveries any more after Monday. Icedude fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Jan 11, 2014 |
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Jan 11, 2014 00:43
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InitialDave posted:Lots of modern cars with DBW do this. Cunts. Well, Toyota really needed to do damage control, and adding that feature was one way. Besides, I would say only a fraction of a percent aren't automatic transmissions here in the U.S.
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Jan 11, 2014 02:17
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I was on the highway earlier, going the speed limit because it was foggy and raining. Started gaining on an early '00s Galant with a burned out headlight, moved over to pass, and suddenly they start pulling ahead. Fine, I'm in no hurry, so I move back over and almost immediately start gaining on them again. Move over to pass again, they speed up again, rinse/repeat. I know this game, it's my least favorite rear end in a top hat driver move because it is so deliberate. So I drop the hammer to get far away from them, the only solution I have found that works. They kept up to about 85mph before giving up, and once I had returned to the speed limit I never saw them again.
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Jan 11, 2014 03:50
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Terrible Robot posted:I was on the highway earlier, going the speed limit because it was foggy and raining. Started gaining on an early '00s Galant with a burned out headlight, moved over to pass, and suddenly they start pulling ahead. Fine, I'm in no hurry, so I move back over and almost immediately start gaining on them again. Move over to pass again, they speed up again, rinse/repeat. I know this game, it's my least favorite rear end in a top hat driver move because it is so deliberate. So I drop the hammer to get far away from them, the only solution I have found that works. They kept up to about 85mph before giving up, and once I had returned to the speed limit I never saw them again. The better way to play this game is to continue to stay in the left lane, preventing them from slowing down unless they want to stop playing games. Then use them as a bait car for cops.
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Jan 11, 2014 04:19
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Why am I seeing more and more people driving their cars at night with no lights on? Yeah, the city I live in is well-lit at night for the most part, but that's still no excuse. 
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Jan 11, 2014 05:26
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Devyl posted:Why am I seeing more and more people driving their cars at night with no lights on? Yeah, the city I live in is well-lit at night for the most part, but that's still no excuse. instrument clusters that light up with the lights off
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Jan 11, 2014 08:19
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ijustam posted:instrument clusters that light up with the lights off ..and idiots who confuse their DRLs for low beams. That reminds me, I need to do a slight mod to have both reverse fog lamps on. Useful for tailgaters as well as the blinding snow.
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Jan 11, 2014 08:30
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That is one problem I don't have because the guy I'm passing doesn't usually notice until I am going 20-30mph faster than he is. The other day I did have a car appear to accelerate as I was going by which kind of annoyed me but it didn't really matter because I was nearing the top of 4th. The trick is to hang back a little and get a run as a possible passing opportunity comes up. Although on a mountain road in montana it is more of a necessity because you never have much space or visibility. I was pleasantly surprised to have a bait car the other day. Some guy in an Audi was in a big hurry to get by me and then didn't drive any faster than I was going, but got lucky with passing lanes and built a slight gap. Then he pulled into a small town gas station a half an hour later.
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Jan 11, 2014 08:40
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Beach Bum posted:Protip, assholes: If I can't see all of both of your headlights in my mirror and the largest distinguishable feature is the manufacturer logo YOU'RE TOO loving CLOSE. If they're far enough for me to see the logo, I'm happy. Well, less annoyed. I often have people so close that I can't see their drat hood. This includes SUVs. I drive a compact car... I'm going to toss the flaky dashcam on the back window now that I have a replacement. The seller is willing to replace it, but round trip shipping will take at least a month, and shipping alone via the cheapest option is still nearly $20 (and lacks tracking), so gently caress it, I'll just deal with it as a secondary camera.
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Jan 11, 2014 10:27
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Terrible Robot posted:I was on the highway earlier, going the speed limit because it was foggy and raining. Started gaining on an early '00s Galant with a burned out headlight, moved over to pass, and suddenly they start pulling ahead. Fine, I'm in no hurry, so I move back over and almost immediately start gaining on them again. Move over to pass again, they speed up again, rinse/repeat. I know this game, it's my least favorite rear end in a top hat driver move because it is so deliberate. So I drop the hammer to get far away from them, the only solution I have found that works. They kept up to about 85mph before giving up, and once I had returned to the speed limit I never saw them again.
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Jan 11, 2014 11:12
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ijustam posted:instrument clusters that light up with the lights off Who the gently caress invents this? I swear to god half the loving subarus in all of seattle have owners who don't understand that DRLs are not low beams.
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Jan 11, 2014 17:47
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BraveUlysses posted:Who the gently caress invents this? I swear to god half the loving subarus in all of seattle have owners who don't understand that DRLs are not low beams. It was super foggy out today and the only people with their lights on we're people driving older cars 
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Jan 11, 2014 18:08
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BraveUlysses posted:Who the gently caress invents this? I swear to god half the loving subarus in all of seattle have owners who don't understand that DRLs are not low beams. Dashboards are pretty much a disaster across the board these days. Many new cars on the lower end of the cost scale have clusters that aren't attached to the headlight switch/dimmer at all. That is, they're always full bright. But the fancy digital speedometer is attached to the dimmer. Automakers literally have no idea how to make a useful user interface.
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Jan 11, 2014 18:08
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My sister has a Mazda6 who's dash is lit up full blast all the time. But, she actually has it set lower with the dimmer switch, which only kicks in when her lights are on. So, her gauges are actually brighter with the lights off than with the lights on. At least she knows to use her lights.
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Jan 11, 2014 18:46
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xzzy posted:Automakers literally have no idea how to make a useful user interface. Full-LCD dash clusters that can be customised in appearance give generic car buyers a raging hardon, when what's best for driving are clear, simple gauges. If I have revs, speed, fuel and whatever "do my engine be hosed?" data can be clearly communicated, everything else can go in a centre console or binnacle display etc. HUDs always struck me as being a very good idea, though.
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Jan 11, 2014 18:53
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BraveUlysses posted:Who the gently caress invents this? I swear to god half the loving subarus in all of seattle have owners who don't understand that DRLs are not low beams. That is just uncalled for. One if my favorite things about the outback we used to have is you could leave the headlights on all the time since they turn off with the ignition. I must admit I have driven for a while in my jsw at night before I realized I hadn't turned my lights on. At least vw puts a big DRL light on the speedo to remind you. I had some rear end in a top hat try to get hit by me last night when I was driving downtown around 8. It was raining a bit, but being Seattle you would think people would be used to it. Just cruising down the second to right lane at 65, when someone gets on i5 and decides they have to be in my lane despite there being no one else in the right lane. While going about 45mph. I saw him coming and still had to brake really drat hard to not drive into the back of him. I really need to order a dashcam....
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Jan 11, 2014 19:17
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Negromancer posted:That is just uncalled for. One if my favorite things about the outback we used to have is you could leave the headlights on all the time since they turn off with the ignition. I must admit I have driven for a while in my jsw at night before I realized I hadn't turned my lights on. At least vw puts a big DRL light on the speedo to remind you. My parents' Forester has a big light on the speedo, too! That comes on when you turn on the lights... Why???
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Jan 11, 2014 19:21
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Negromancer posted:I had some rear end in a top hat try to get hit by me last night when I was driving downtown around 8. It was raining a bit, but being Seattle you would think people would be used to it. Just cruising down the second to right lane at 65, when someone gets on i5 and decides they have to be in my lane despite there being no one else in the right lane. While going about 45mph. I saw him coming and still had to brake really drat hard to not drive into the back of him. I really need to order a dashcam.... Seriously, I see this poo poo all the loving time. And then you can't pass because some minivan is in the left lane going exactly the speed limit.
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Jan 11, 2014 19:46
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The right lane is the new fast lane on the 401 in Ontario. gently caress the haters, if that lane is wide open for miles I'm using it if no one else will.
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Jan 11, 2014 20:48
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Ughhhh, had one of those "overtake in the 40 limit then not open it up properly on the fast bits" people tonight, Polo TDi. Luckily they turned off after a few miles. The thing is, they were behind me through several village -> open road -> village transitions, so they most definitely had seen me bugger off as soon as I was back in the higher limit, what on earth made them think that being behind me was going to ruin their point-to-point speed? Drive slow on slow bits and drive fast on fast bits you twats. And then the usual case of people ignoring road markings and drifting sideways into my lane on a large roundabout. At least they gave off the "dozy bastard" aura enough that I was already giving myself some distance from them.
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8ender posted:The right lane is the new fast lane on the 401 in Ontario. gently caress the haters, if that lane is wide open for miles I'm using it if no one else will. This is true. I just wind up using whatever lane is open and lets me get around people. I'll occasionally flash my lights to try and get people out of the left lane, but 
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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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Previa_fun posted:I stopped doing this because no one knows what it means anyway and it really pisses some people off. I only get pissed when people do it when I'm completely walled in by traffic.
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Jan 12, 2014 01:48
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When that happens I'll wedge over and let the idiot pass into my former blocked-in spot, then get right back behind them and flash my lights at them. Turnabout is fair play.  E: Maybe that makes me the guy you share the road with, I don't really care tbh.
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Jan 12, 2014 01:54
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Fucknag posted:When that happens I'll wedge over and let the idiot pass into my former blocked-in spot, then get right back behind them and flash my lights at them. Turnabout is fair play. If you're not as far right as you safely can be, then yes, you are one of those assholes, and you're holding up traffic.
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Here's a new one to me: I was heading down the motorway, doing 65-70 in the slow lane (the land rover isn't light on its feet), when I see a car come hammering up the fast lane, slow down then swing in behind me. A small, baby-poo brown boxy hatchback. It then straddled the dashed line between the lanes, still behind me, as I squeezed to the left (or as far left as a car the size of a continent can go) and then shot in front of me in the passing lane. It slowed down for a while in front of me, straddled the dashed line in front and then shot off again in the fast lane. It felt like meeting the huge bald tattooed man in the pub who is drunk and mentally unstable enough to either bite your ear off or buy you a drink - I have never been more unsure of another driver's intentions.
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Jan 12, 2014 02:22
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Re: Light chat: I don't truly know how hard it is for some people to turn their lights on, but I would imagine if you really need your lights (i.e. it's super dark) it's pretty loving obvious if they aren't on.
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Jan 12, 2014 02:28
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Tha Chodesweller posted:Re: Light chat: Fog seems to be the major issue around me. It gets foggy pretty often in Chicagoland and about 10-20% of drivers will have their lights on during BAD fog as legally required.
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Jan 12, 2014 02:32
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These are the (virtual) people you share a road with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtSDYugGwVs
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Jan 12, 2014 02:44
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Uthor posted:My sister has a Mazda6 who's dash is lit up full blast all the time. But, she actually has it set lower with the dimmer switch, which only kicks in when her lights are on. So, her gauges are actually brighter with the lights off than with the lights on. My F150's dash dims when the lights are on, too - this makes sense to me because it illuminates bright enough to be visibly illuminated during the day, and it can be kind of distracting at night. I've ticked the brightness down a bit more because the LCD in the center is brighter than everything else and it kind of gets annoying at night.
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I've definitely seen cars that have the instrument cluster always illuminated, but it gets dimmer when you turn the headlights on. It's pretty unnecessary to have it lit up during the day, but at least it makes sense that you don't want it to be super bright at night. I have a friend that's probably not too terrible of a driver in the scheme of things, but I hate driving with him because he's always either on the throttle or on the brakes. His throttle modulation is fine, but it always bugs me when the light turns red ahead of us and he stays at the exact same speed coming up to it and then brakes pretty late.
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Jan 12, 2014 02:49
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Tha Chodesweller posted:Re: Light chat: Cause they have DRLs and their headlights are on at night, but they don't realize their taillights aren't on.
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Jan 12, 2014 04:42
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0rganDonor posted:I only get pissed when people do it when I'm completely walled in by traffic. When I do this it's because some dickhole four or five cars up is holding everything up and I'm hoping the guy in front of me will pass the flash along. It's not personal.
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Jan 12, 2014 04:51
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Seems like the easy fix is to just have DRLs turn on the tail lights too.
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Tha Chodesweller posted:Re: Light chat: It's hard enough for people, that bicyclists around here will tell you that they are legally protected against financial liability if you run them over. And then they just bike off into the night with a black coat on, no lights and often not even reflectors on the heap of scrap metal they call a bike. But hey, at least when they're stuck in a wheelchair with a severed spinalcord, they won't have to pay for damages to your car. Same with fog lights, every time it's pouring down in bucket loads, there will inevitably be some Belgian on my route driving with their fog lights on, blinding everyone around them with the glare off the wet tarmac. Yes, I know that in Belgium the law is retarded and it requires drivers to blind everyone with fog lights in heavy rain, but I'd appreciate it if they realised that it's illegal everywhere else. As for DRLs, I really wish there was a rule that required cars with DRL to be fitted with automatic headlights. Even on a 7000 euro driving appliance the cost of a phototransistor isn't going to break the bank.
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Jan 12, 2014 05:30
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xzzy posted:Seems like the easy fix is to just have DRLs turn on the tail lights too. If it would get lights on in the dark, fog or rain I would be 100% behind all lights (except fogs) hardwired on.
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Jan 12, 2014 06:03
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But think of all the extra tens of dollars you would spend on tail light bulbs over the life of a car!
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Deedle posted:Even on a 7000 euro driving appliance the cost of a phototransistor isn't going to break the bank. Yeah, but the manufacturers would rather sell you the phototransistor at a 15000% markup and call it an option.
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Deedle posted:It's hard enough for people, that bicyclists around here will tell you that they are legally protected against financial liability if you run them over. And then they just bike off into the night with a black coat on, no lights and often not even reflectors on the heap of scrap metal they call a bike. The Black Ghosts strike again! Almost mowed over a lady wearing all black walking a black dog at 10:30 at night just the other day. 
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