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xzzy posted:russian_drivers.txt Turn on closed captioning. Not everything is captioned and not all of it makes sense, but there's enough.
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Theris posted: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. 454SS was wayyyy post-malaise, as well as the Syclone, both generations of SVT Lightnings, SVT Raptor, and the SRT-10 Ram. Not really agreeing with the random guy who said trucks are the new musclecars, but you seem to have forgotten some good and recent examples of sport trucks.
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May 27, 2014 17:56
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On the other hand even the nuttiest domestic factory musclecars aren't putting up numbers like mildly worked late-model diesel trucks. The ones not running coal-tunes, that is
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May 27, 2014 18:03
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I spent the weekend driving my sister and all her stuff from Ann Arbor, MI back to Orlando. Took I-75 the whole way, and drivers were mostly courteous until we started approaching the Tennessee-Georgia border. Went from good highway manners (left lane mostly clear, and the few slower drivers would move over long before we caught up to them) to rolling roadblocks, people doing 10 under in the left lane, people running up behind us doing 95 on long downhill sections, etc. Just past Atlanta, one particular driver apparently had a mutual death wish. I'm in the right lane with a ~15-car gap ahead of me, 3 cars to my left. A jackass in a work truck is merging from a very long onramp. He slows down as the car ahead of me passes, then slooowly starts merging into my lane, hitting his brakes repeatedly, and he eventually comes to a full stop in my lane with nowhere for me to go. I ended up having to slam on my brakes (with a semi now uncomfortably close behind me) and wait until the cars to my left pulled ahead enough that I could swerve around him (there was a barricade to the right so that wasn't an option). The semi barely missed the guy, too, although he was able to get over sooner. It triggered a screaming match between me and my sister that she still isn't talking to me because of. 
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May 27, 2014 19:20
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May 27, 2014 19:40
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Had another loving idiot try to kill himself with my box-van today. Some tatted up biker looking dude on a moped (  ). He was coming down the road I was turning right onto, rolls up to the stop sign, doesn't stop, looks to the right (away from me), doesn't look left at all, starts to pull out as I start making the right, only to suddenly decide to make a u-turn directly in front of me. He almost dumps it when he finally notices me, I get on the brakes and dive back to the left to avoid turning him into burger. I just don't loving get how you can a) not look both ways and b) not hear/see the bigass white box truck. edited for left/right confusion Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 04:15 on May 28, 2014 |
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May 27, 2014 20:25
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SyHopeful posted:454SS was wayyyy post-malaise, as well as the Syclone, both generations of SVT Lightnings, SVT Raptor, and the SRT-10 Ram. Not really agreeing with the random guy who said trucks are the new musclecars, but you seem to have forgotten some good and recent examples of sport trucks. Today's quad-cab truck is more or less a stand-in for the body-on-frame full size sedans of old. I see shades of Ford LTD every time I see a F-150 in Lariat trim. Jersey barriers. Lots of them.
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May 27, 2014 20:26
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Better yet, rows of hydraulic bollards embedded into the sidewalk.
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May 28, 2014 02:49
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xzzy posted:russian_drivers.txt Those dudes have a death wish. All it takes is one even crazier driver to turn them into bloody paste on the sidewalk.
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May 28, 2014 07:03
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I know it's fox but I really hope that Washington keeps up on this or more states actually would enforce it if it's law there for people driving slow in the left lane. Link Of course it'll still probably be ignored.
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May 30, 2014 16:58
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Tangential, but local Fox affiliates seem to be pretty sane for the most part, it's the cable Fox News channel that has all the crazy.
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May 30, 2014 17:03
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Well, you guys were right about BMW drivers. The left lane was a turning lane that was backed up for ~30 cars, I was driving in the middle lane and out of nowhere a brand new 5 series comes out of the left lane, no turn signal, maybe 20 yards from me on a 40 mph road. I blared on the horn and had to swerve into the right lane to avoid wrecking both our cars
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May 30, 2014 17:04
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I just saw someone driving a Mustang this morning cross two highway lanes and a painted divider at a freeway split doing about 40mph with no turn signal. If you're doing something that stupid, illegal, and dangerous, it might be a good idea to at least indicate what stupid thing you're attempting to do with a turn signal.
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May 30, 2014 17:11
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Holy poo poo when will people stop merging onto a freeway doing ~75mph at 45. What the gently caress.
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May 30, 2014 17:21
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I'm constantly amazed how many terrible, habitual tailgaiters I see driving. It doesn't seem to matter what speed, or how many people they finally pass, they will tailgate each and every person they follow. for gently caress's sake why don't people realize how loving stupid this poo poo is
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May 30, 2014 17:25
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BraveUlysses posted:I'm constantly amazed how many terrible, habitual tailgaiters I see driving. It doesn't seem to matter what speed, or how many people they finally pass, they will tailgate each and every person they follow. 99% of the time I will end up being right behind these assholes at the next light. They get nowhere, put everybody around them in danger, and in general impede the flow of traffic. gently caress habitual tailgaters and traffic weavers.
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May 30, 2014 17:27
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Chinatown posted:Holy poo poo when will people stop merging onto a freeway doing ~75mph at 45. What the gently caress. Yeah it's the worst. Hey, that really long ramp that you just drove up on? You use that to get up to highway speeds, not the highway!
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May 30, 2014 17:49
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Driving my beetle home at a blistering 64 last night. Coming up on my left is a pickup with an RX8 right on his rear end. It's hard to explain, but the way traffic and the lanes were, I was pretty sure the RX would pull behind me, then pass me on my right (an exit only lane) to get around both me and the truck. Sure enough, he pops behind me right up my trumpet, and I brace for the inevitable dick maneuver to my right. But...he never moves over, he just sticks on my rear end. By this time, the truck is well far gone, so I expect someone whose being so aggressive in tailgating to pass on my (now open) right, but again he doesn't budge from his perch. So, I slow down calmly to around 55 to encourage him to move around, but he still stays. Thinking it may be a cop or something, in addition to a very slow sweeper truck coming up, I move left to see what this guy does. As I move over, he speeds up slowly back to the limit until he comes up to the sweeper, and just hangs inches from his bumper. When I pass both, I look over, and (from what I can see) it's just a middle aged guy in a button-down, diving seemingly normally and attentively). I see people like this multiple times a day on the freeway. Were they born, raised, and taught to drive in a constant LA Rush Hour simulator or something? 
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May 30, 2014 18:03
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Tha Chodesweller posted:Yeah it's the worst. Hey, that really long ramp that you just drove up on? You use that to get up to highway speeds, not the highway! I was in Ohio two weeks ago and I got onto an onramp behind a car and he accelerated on the ramp. It's the first time I've seen someone do that in YEARS. It literally never happens in my city, period.
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May 30, 2014 18:18
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I see that a ton on a little linking highway cause the onramps and off ramps will share a lane, so people use them to go one exit. Nevermind everyone behind trying to merge. Luckily you can see these people coming usually, and give them plenty of space, and still be able to merge. But that's cause we have plenty of land. I remember some entrance ramps in Louisville that were about 100 feet long after a 180 degree turn and traffic was doing 70.
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Geirskogul posted:Driving my beetle home at a blistering 64 last night. Coming up on my left is a pickup with an RX8 right on his rear end. It's hard to explain, but the way traffic and the lanes were, I was pretty sure the RX would pull behind me, then pass me on my right (an exit only lane) to get around both me and the truck. Sure enough, he pops behind me right up my trumpet, and I brace for the inevitable dick maneuver to my right. But...he never moves over, he just sticks on my rear end. By this time, the truck is well far gone, so I expect someone whose being so aggressive in tailgating to pass on my (now open) right, but again he doesn't budge from his perch. So, I slow down calmly to around 55 to encourage him to move around, but he still stays. Thinking it may be a cop or something, in addition to a very slow sweeper truck coming up, I move left to see what this guy does. As I move over, he speeds up slowly back to the limit until he comes up to the sweeper, and just hangs inches from his bumper. When I pass both, I look over, and (from what I can see) it's just a middle aged guy in a button-down, diving seemingly normally and attentively). I'll bet he's hypermiling.
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May 30, 2014 18:43
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hypermiling a vehicle with atrocious mileage or terrible driver, which is more likely?
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May 30, 2014 18:46
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Venusian Weasel posted:I'll bet he's hypermiling. When I was young and stupid(er) I used to follow waaaaay too close behind semis, like less than a car length, for the drafting you see. I'm lucky to be alive today.
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May 30, 2014 18:46
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Saw this one today. When someone is driving a car that sounds like it's powered by chainsaw engine full of ball bearings, don't honk at them to accelerate away from a stop light faster. It's probably already going as fast as it can.
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May 30, 2014 20:29
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BraveUlysses posted:I'm constantly amazed how many terrible, habitual tailgaiters I see driving. It doesn't seem to matter what speed, or how many people they finally pass, they will tailgate each and every person they follow. it IS annoying as hell. Especially at night, when the person behind you has his brights on. sod the windshield spraying game. I have been known to put a wheel or two onto the median while at speed. Hope you enjoy sound of gravel against your paintwork. fuckers.
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May 30, 2014 22:39
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buttcrackmenace posted:I have been known to put a wheel or two onto the median while at speed. Hope you enjoy sound of gravel against your paintwork. You are the problem with America. So by your logic, if someone is verbally annoying them should throwing rocks be the solution? I understand that someone tailgating you is a dangerous activity, both for you and the other vehicle, but intentionally running off the road so as to throw rocks at their car/windshield is you making a decision to involve yourself in a malicious activity.
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May 30, 2014 22:59
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If they were at a safe following distance, there wouldn't be an issue  His example is more like sneezing a few times when an incredibly close talker (aka completely unaware of personal space awful person) is buttonholing you.
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May 30, 2014 23:02
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Five lane road, left two lanes are left turn lanes, middle two lanes are go straight lanes, and the right lane is a right turn lane. I'm in the right most left turn lane. The giant old SUV (Suburban?) in the left most go straight lane. We're chilling at the light. The SUV pulls a (giant) car length ahead of the stop line. The left turn arrow turns green and they start to creep. I think they're going to blow through the intersection, but as I'm taking my left, they start getting close. As I pass them, they amble between me and the car that was behind me and complete the left turn like no big deal. Oncoming traffic also has two left turn lanes, so there where four lanes of cars turning through the intersection and there's not a lot of room for error. I wonder how frightened the oncoming traffic was seeing an unexpected SUV coming toward them during a protected turn.
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exempt posted:You are the problem with America. So by your logic, if someone is verbally annoying them should throwing rocks be the solution? I understand that someone tailgating you is a dangerous activity, both for you and the other vehicle, but intentionally running off the road so as to throw rocks at their car/windshield is you making a decision to involve yourself in a malicious activity. Yeah, I have no problem with this, tailgating is dangerous. I don't trust my own reflexes that much, like hell I'm going to trust someone else's. That said, I generally just get out of the way if I get tailgated. Let them bother the next guy. I recently narrowly avoided rear ending a guy on the highway, because I WASN'T tailgating. I was following a bit close (4-5 car lengths at ~65 mph) when suddenly a whole bunch of feathers flew over my car. In the second it took me to focus on the feathers, think "what the gently caress" and focus back on the car in front of me, he SLAMMED on his brakes. I did so as well, as traffic was too heavy to change lanes, but I swore I was going to hit him. I would have too, if my brakes hadn't been better than his. Turns out someone a few cars up had hit a duck and slammed on their brakes. I saw several ducklings running along the side of the highway before everyone decided that sitting still in the left lane was a bad idea. If I had been tailgating I would have hit the guy. Fortunately the fellow behind me was significantly further back. Disgruntled Bovine fucked around with this message at 23:19 on May 30, 2014 |
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May 30, 2014 23:12
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Yeah, I have no problem with this, tailgating is dangerous. While I agree that tailgating is dangerous, the easiest and safest way to deal with it seems to be to simply tap your brakes with your left foot (enough to turn the brake lights on, not to slow down). In my experience this deals with the large majority of the tailgaters, who are tailgating because they aren't paying attention to driving.....this makes them do that.
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May 31, 2014 01:02
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I've done that and had people back off, then haul up closer than they were before, like "HOW DARE YOU FLASH YOUR LIGHTS AT ME?" You just can't loving win, it seems.
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Fucknag posted:I've done that and had people back off, then haul up closer than they were before, like "HOW DARE YOU FLASH YOUR LIGHTS AT ME?" Sometimes you can't, but taking the lest dangerous remedy first seems to be a reasonable course of action. You know what you can do after that if you are seriously worried for your safety? loving turn off and then go back. Let them be ahead of you. This is the difference between pretending you are worried about safety but really being butthurt and ACTUALLY being concerned about safety.
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May 31, 2014 01:39
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Motronic posted:Sometimes you can't, but taking the lest dangerous remedy first seems to be a reasonable course of action. Thank you.
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May 31, 2014 01:46
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Motronic posted:Sometimes you can't, but taking the lest dangerous remedy first seems to be a reasonable course of action.
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May 31, 2014 01:53
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The last place I want a lovely driver is directly behind me. Let the lovely driver go first. Not only can you keep an eye on them, when they are speeding and tailgating, they find all the cops for you.
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May 31, 2014 02:51
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So at the first of the year the interstates in (not chicago) IL went from 65 to 70 mph. Apparently a bunch of people didn't get the memo and haven't noticed the 70 mph signs as I passed a ton of people today that were doing 65. I don't really care because they were all in the right lane but it was just weird how common it was.
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May 31, 2014 03:08
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They raised the speed limit on the interstate here to 70 about a decade ago. Every single day I pass dozens of cars still insisting on going 65. 
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Whenever I'm on the highway in Illinois everyone's driving at least 80, because I drive right at 70 and people regularly blow past me. It was that way when the limit was 55 and is that way when it's 70. 
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xzzy posted:Whenever I'm on the highway in Illinois everyone's driving at least 80, because I drive right at 70 and people regularly blow past me. I've always driven 75 and I continue to drive 75. I just spend less of my time on the lookout for cops, now.
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