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SocketSeven posted:Google cannot convince me that you aren't an rear end in a top hat. Neither can your posting, apparently. You are the person we share a forums with.
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Holy poo poo you people get mad when people point out you merge like assholes.
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May 25, 2014 06:57
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I was in complete agreement till I saw the who was posting.
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May 25, 2014 07:04
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Man, also with the whole "let people on the onramp merge" debate, nobody is proposing that you suddenly slam on your brakes to let a 92 year old grandpa merge at 30mph. But generally you can see a car coming up the ramp from far enough away that in moderate to heavy traffic you can adjust your speed either by taking your foot off the accelerator (you goddamn tailgating leadfoot bastard,) or if you're at the tail end of a line of cars, speeding up a little bit, both of which have less of an effect on the flow of traffic than someone having to merge from a full stop because nobody could be arsed to give them 40 feet of open road. Of course, if you're driving in PA this all flies out the window because for some reason everyone likes to stop at the head of the ramp when there's more than two cars on the highway until I lean on my horn.
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May 25, 2014 07:12
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Speaking of on-ramp merges, I was driving behind a guy that was driving 45 MPH on an on-ramp. The ramp is rather long, and he was just cruising at 45 for the entire length of the ramp.. I think he might've been dicking around on his phone as well.
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May 25, 2014 07:35
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 But seriously, you guys are pretty lovely. If traffic is light, speed up/slow down/change lanes, whatever floats your boat. If traffic is heavy, generally it's also moving pretty slow, so really you're just being an rear end by making sure you're one whole car length closer to your destination. The occasions where traffic is both so locked up that you cannot take one of those three actions, and yet moving fast enough that you'd cause a jam by slowing down a tiny bit are vanishingly rare, and trying to argue using that tiny chance as the default is asinine. Doing that, while at the same time mocking someone else for only presenting one link to something that proves you wrong, is trolling of the absolute highest caliber.
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May 25, 2014 08:56
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krnhotwings posted:Speaking of on-ramp merges, I was driving behind a guy that was driving 45 MPH on an on-ramp. The ramp is rather long, and he was just cruising at 45 for the entire length of the ramp.. I think he might've been dicking around on his phone as well. As the owner of a car with 100hp of fury, I hate this poo poo. I need to whole on ramp to get up to freeway speeds. Speed the gently caress up
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May 25, 2014 09:01
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SocketSeven posted:I am angry. ANGRY ABOUT MERGING. Not that zipper merging's catching on with the general driving public: quote:Despite its 10-year presence on state roads, more than 60 percent of the people who participate in online forums sponsored by the agency to talk about transportation issues said they were unaware the zipper merge is an acceptable driving technique that is included in the latest edition of the Minnesota Driver’s Manual. Because the number of people who've actually read the latest driver's manual can be counted on one hand. 90s Solo Cup fucked around with this message at 10:08 on May 25, 2014 |
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May 25, 2014 10:05
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nm posted:As the owner of a car with 100hp of fury, I hate this poo poo. I need to whole on ramp to get up to freeway speeds. Speed the gently caress up Probably the most dickish poo poo I do on a semi-regular basis is pass people on on-ramps (when its a 2/3 lane ramp up to the meter) because they simply will not get up to speed to merge. I'd rather quickly pass and make it 1 slow merging car instead of 2.
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May 25, 2014 10:05
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Chinatown posted:Probably the most dickish poo poo I do on a semi-regular basis is pass people on on-ramps (when its a 2/3 lane ramp up to the meter) because they simply will not get up to speed to merge. I do this regularly and for the same reason. Unless there are a few truckers having an elephant race on it, since it is a two lane entrance ramp that starts out flat and leads into a long grinding hill with a slow vehicle lane that no one uses because IM NOT SLOW DAMMIT I AM DOING ALMOST THE SPEED LIMIT WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME  E: while I am glad you guys had your sperg slapfight over merging, it is tedious as gently caress to read, can you hug it out or something?
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May 25, 2014 12:54
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nsaP posted:Okay. I do this, I also drive a car. I can tell you that I can hear more of the road riding with earbuds than I can in my car with the windows up and the radio on. Especially so if the A/C or heat is cranking. Often times I hear and react to sirens long before cars. Jesus now that sounds loving stupid. I own earbuds, and I love my earbuds for the simple fact that when there is music playing I cant hear a drat thing in the world around me, it's kinda nice when I can be staring straight at my wife and watching her jaw move but hear nothing but the sweet music. Zipper merging is a cute theory and I don't care how many times studies with professional drivers show it to be "15% more effective" I still it think it sucks for the simple fact that it requires cooperation(  ) between you and the assholes in the other lane.Venusian Weasel posted:Pickup drivers are the worst. I've had three bad experiences with them in the last week. My most hated vehicles on the road are pickups, anything Dodge, and anything BMW. Years ago I remember a pickup owner telling me that muscle cars suck, pickups are the new muscle cars, his half ton pickup was faster than a Corvette. . . As for Dodge, I believe their entire marketing is designed to attract the worst low life scum of the roads. The vehicles are dirt cheap (  quality), they slap the "HEMI" badge on everything to try to convince you it's a race car, and every Dodge vehicle has an aggressive front end to ensure that they will only attract the real rear end in a top hat drivers. BMW is self explanatory.
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May 25, 2014 14:21
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Crotch Fruit posted:Years ago I remember a pickup owner telling me that muscle cars suck, pickups are the new muscle cars I heard/read that somewhere a few years ago, too. This was when manufacturers focusing on SUVs and cheap cars were crap, but you could buy a stripped down pickup with RWD and a V8 for cheap (especially with the relaxed emissions on trucks) and go drag racing. Not sure if it was true, but sounded plausible to me.
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May 25, 2014 14:37
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I agree with SocketSeven! Down with ncraP!!
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May 25, 2014 15:33
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IRC Crew is the worst. ncraP president for life. Wait you can go less than 100 on on-ramps?
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May 25, 2014 15:55
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I agree with SocketSeven! Down with ncraP!! Whats hilarious is that I never even stated that zipper merging was wrong, inefficient, or anything like that. All I ever said was that the people who advocate blasting down an empty lane at 60 mph, that then end up at a dead stop in front of a traffic cone, begging to be let into a line of already stopped traffic, are assholes. All the zipper mergers then stepped up and proved what assholes they are.
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May 25, 2014 17:40
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I have at least ten copies of various zipper merging studies (done by scientists) in the passenger seat at all times. Whenever I fear getting run off into the shoulder when trying to merge I just fling them out the window and scream "IT'S MORE EFFICIENT ACTUALLY" until my throat goes raw and flecks of blood fly out of my mouth into the wind.
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May 25, 2014 17:47
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I just drive a 25 year old American SUV with mismatched rattlecan touchups on all the various fender and door dents and take my merge as is my right. You will let me zipper merge or I will add another color to my passenger door.
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May 25, 2014 18:01
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You go ahead and do that in front of the state trooper that sits in front of all highway construction zones. 
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May 25, 2014 18:03
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Last time I did it he stood up and clapped.
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May 25, 2014 18:04
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If everyone waits until the end of the merge lane, then traffic is going basically the same speed in both lanes and you don't get those guys you hate so much speeding past everyone down to the end of the merge cutting in front of you. Instead you get two lines of cars taking turns going into one lane.
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May 25, 2014 18:15
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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:I have at least ten copies of various zipper merging studies (done by scientists) in the passenger seat at all times. Whenever I fear getting run off into the shoulder when trying to merge I just fling them out the window and scream "IT'S MORE EFFICIENT ACTUALLY" until my throat goes raw and flecks of blood fly out of my mouth into the wind. You sir are awesome. When I ride my bicycle I alway ride in the center of whatever lane I want even if traffic is going 50mph. I scream at every driver going past, "It's my right to be here! Bicycles deserve a full lane! The law doesn't specifically say bicycles have to stop!"
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May 25, 2014 19:13
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Crotch Fruit posted:Jesus now that sounds loving stupid. I own earbuds, and I love my earbuds for the simple fact that when there is music playing I cant hear a drat thing in the world around me, it's kinda nice when I can be staring straight at my wife and watching her jaw move but hear nothing but the sweet music. You can hear plenty with headphones in on a motorcycle. I usually have earplugs in but if I want to listen to music I have a set of Etymotics (Ety kids to be precise) that I like. You can easily hear cars and sirens and random parts falling off of my bike while wearing either. The Ety kids are especially nice as they block a ton of outside noise and they are limited to a safe db so I can just turn my iphone all the way up and have my music/podcast/navigation at a nice safe volume. Either way, unless you want to be deaf after a few years you're wearing some sort of sound blocking device while riding. Crotch Fruit posted:My most hated vehicles on the road are pickups, anything Dodge, and anything BMW. Years ago I remember a pickup owner telling me that muscle cars suck, pickups are the new muscle cars, his half ton pickup was faster than a Corvette. . . As for Dodge, I believe their entire marketing is designed to attract the worst low life scum of the roads. The vehicles are dirt cheap ( I agree 100% on the Dodge drivers. You forgot that to complete the look you need to install a set of Chinas best 20+inch chrome and black wheels. I'll add that ever since Kias/Hyundai successfully aped design details from enough cars to look expensive they seem to be the new BMW. I guess since the economy is poo poo the pissed off middle manager types can't afford a lease on a 3 series or a used 5 anymore so they get a shiny Korean Mercalike and proceed to floor it everywhere, cut everyone off and change lanes at least 5 times/mile during rush hour. Bugdrvr fucked around with this message at 19:32 on May 25, 2014 |
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May 25, 2014 19:26
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If you guys think that drivers of certain types of vehicles display different qualities of driving when they're as ubiquitous as BMWs and Kias you are succumbing to confirmation bias. Unless genderweirdgreedo has some studies on aggressive driving by car brand mixed in with all the other reports he carries in his front seat idk
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May 25, 2014 19:43
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I can't stop giggling at this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfxUfEw7EUk&t=103s
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May 25, 2014 19:54
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 I wonder what kind of excuse that shitstain had for the nice police officer afterwards.
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May 25, 2014 20:47
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EVA BRAUN BLOWJOBS posted:I can't stop giggling at this one: Yeah, I couldn't stop watching that over and over. I'm not sure what you could do in that situation. Seems like the truck driver did everything he could. Which was swear and stop his vehicle.
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May 26, 2014 02:38
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Did I miss something? The wikipedia article that nasP linked in defence of zipper merger explicity states:quote:The late merge method has not been found to increase throughput
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May 26, 2014 04:09
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SanitysEdge posted:Did I miss something? The wikipedia article that nasP linked in defence of zipper merger explicity states: The poo poo you selectively edited out of your quote.
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May 26, 2014 04:32
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looks like a clear case of unintended acceleration to me! Beach Bum posted:Also, sometimes I just like to wring out my car and hear the pleasant noises. Is pleases my stupid lizard brain to make it go "vroom-vroom" It's not fun until you're going full opposite lock through a roundabout atomicthumbs fucked around with this message at 07:00 on May 26, 2014 |
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May 26, 2014 06:56
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rscott posted:If you guys think that drivers of certain types of vehicles display different qualities of driving when they're as ubiquitous as BMWs and Kias you are succumbing to confirmation bias. Unless genderweirdgreedo has some studies on aggressive driving by car brand mixed in with all the other reports he carries in his front seat idk This is not confirmation bias! It's stereotyping.  
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May 26, 2014 12:51
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SanitysEdge posted:By what method are you guys measuring efficiency? How fast they themselves can get to work during a traffic jam of course! Who cares about the fact you setup a standing wave in traffic leading to hours of congestion, they need to make sure they merge at the last possible second, not in 50, 100, or 200 yards before, where there still were gaps.
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May 26, 2014 14:12
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fMyIPiJOjI "Ok drivers, if you don't want me to not let you merge onto the highway, don't be driving when I'm passing by that entrance ramp"
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May 26, 2014 15:00
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Jesus gently caress that video quality belongs in the horrible
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May 26, 2014 15:59
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEzhxP-pdos
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May 26, 2014 18:25
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SocketSeven posted:How fast they themselves can get to work during a traffic jam of course! Who cares about the fact you setup a standing wave in traffic leading to hours of congestion, they need to make sure they merge at the last possible second, not in 50, 100, or 200 yards before, where there still were gaps. The only thing that makes you tolerable is picturing the ignorant rage on your face as I trundle by and merge in the correct place.
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May 26, 2014 18:32
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Crotch Fruit posted:Years ago I remember a pickup owner telling me that muscle cars suck, pickups are the new muscle cars. This was actually true, in the malaise era when the emission and fuel efficiency standards that car makers couldn't figure out how to deal with without destroying performance didn't apply to trucks. With the current muscle/pony car renaissance and the manufacturers no longer making anything like the Lil' Red Express/Silverado 454SS anymore, I'm pretty sure it's no longer true. I seriously doubt his truck is faster than any C5 or later Corvette, either.
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May 26, 2014 20:40
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Crotch Fruit posted:This is not confirmation bias! It's stereotyping. stereotyping is confirmed and reinforced by confirmation bias as this thread is such a perfect example of
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May 26, 2014 20:55
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Crotch Fruit posted:This is not confirmation bias! It's stereotyping. Wait, I just bought (traded for) a Type 1, and I'm not deluded by the fumes-  ...oh.
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May 26, 2014 21:00
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Galler posted:Jesus gently caress that video quality belongs in the horrible
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russian_drivers.txt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnQNpJrnHOg Didn't we have a conversation recently about someone threatening Russia's supremacy for bad driving? This seems like it should fix that nicely. Which I could understand the guy trying to defend his decisions.
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