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At Sears I once pulled in a customer car that had not only stick-on bubble mirrors, but the owner had replaced the rearview with an extra-wide, extra-tall unit with a slight fisheye curve. I'm talking 5-6" tall by 24" wide. With the rear pillars, roof and backseats in the way, it didn't give any field of view at all over a standard mirror, and made what you could see through the rear windshield even smaller. It wasn't some wierd car that came that way, it was like a Camry or similar.
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My truck has those convex mirrors stuck on, I don't use them much but they don't really get in the way because they're on oversized towing mirrors. I don't really get the hate, though.
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Jul 4, 2014 06:54
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As a person that drives ambulances daily, I couldn't live without those stick-on mirrors (and the factory installed fisheye mirrors on the Though they could take our rearview mirror right the gently caress off and I wouldn't notice. I only use it when we have a violent patient who's strapped down, and I'm keeping an eye on the rear cabin to hit the brakes if they break loose. "Dog in the road!"
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Jul 4, 2014 06:58
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Holy poo poo, I'm surprised I didn't get into an accident today. I drove from San Diego to LA with numerous people not signaling and cutting me off, and I ran across several accidents, one of which occurred right behind me.
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Jul 4, 2014 07:26
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Well, 50% of the time, I see those stick on mirrors being used to replace a regular mirror that was broken off.
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Jul 4, 2014 12:57
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Geirskogul posted:Though they could take our rearview mirror right the gently caress off and I wouldn't notice. I only use it when we have a violent patient who's strapped down, and I'm keeping an eye on the rear cabin to hit the brakes if they break loose. What, you can't turn hard enough to knock them against one of the interior walls?
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Jul 4, 2014 12:59
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mungtor posted:The part that always confuses me is that they slow to a crawl for the drop - which is nothing. But then they slam into the lip where the torn-up section stops at 80 mph without a care in the world. And they'll do it that way over and over again. Some massive middle-aged wannabro douchebag in my neighborhood drives a huge-rear end Dodge Ram with SRT-10 badging. It's definitely not an SRT-10, because it's got the stock body, stock hood, no tonneau cover and so on. In the context of a European city, it's absolutely the most ridiculously stupid thing on the road. This morning, I saw him slow down to ~10kph for several speed bumps  I can drive over those particular bumps at ~30kph in my sedan, no problem (more like 60kph on my bike amirite).
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Jul 4, 2014 13:14
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Ugh, bus lanes.  Specifically, a lovely design of bus lane. It used to stop just before a junction, and only be active a couple of hours a day. Now it's buses-only 24/7, and has been extended a couple of hundred feet farther along. Unfortunately, this extension goes over the junction and a pedestrian crossing, and the markings for these take precedence over the bus lane marking (signs are still there) until it reappears briefly after the crossing for its official new ending point - so on first approach, it's not that obvious it does extend that far, especially if you have more than a decade of being used to it ending at the old position. This is all a couple of hundred feet short of another junction. The outer lane is a regular lane, but following it all the way down drops you into a right-turn-only position, and so you must get over at some point to carry on ahead (the most common direction for traffic). People queuing for the second junction back up to the point where they reach the new ending point of the bus lane, but then people joining the queue back up into the bus lane itself, often pretty much to where it used to end before. So if you come along in the outer lane, wanting to get in that inner lane, you have these options: 1) Wait like a melon in the "correct" lane for, parallel with the end of the queue, so you can follow it along when it starts to move and only pull in once the bus lane ends - legal, polite to people queuing in the bus lane, but impedes innocent traffic wanting to just carry on in that normal lane. 2) Queue in the bus lane behind everyone else. Best for traffic flow and means you're queuing behind those who arrived before you, but illegal - if the plod decide they want to ruin your day, of course (no bus lane cameras, thank gently caress. Yet.) 3) Follow the "legal" lane to where the bus lane ends, and cut in there. This is the correct legal manoeuvre, should not really mess up traffic flow, but makes the people already queuing in the bus lane (who should not be there, mind) think you're a complete dick bullying your way in, with the resultant attempts to block you coming in and/or expressing their opinions on your parentage and onanistic habits. Note that this doesn't really block the people wanting to stay in that right lane, as the road is open enough by that point that they can get around you. Leaving aside that it is a bloody stupid bit of road design, and was far better before they changed it (very rare to have traffic flow issues or buses getting blocked), what say you for best technique to navigate it? I go with option 1) if it's clear enough I'm not going to hold up people behind me who do want to get to that right-only filter, or option 3) if it's busier. I don't like feeling like I'm "pushing in", but the fact other people ignore bus lanes should not force me to also break the law just because they get upset about being "cut up by some wanker who won't queue (illegally) like the rest of us".
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Jul 4, 2014 13:43
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Moppingest posted:
I got chased once for about 10 miles - and I do mean chased, if I had a passenger I would have made them call 911 - by a couple of dickbags in an Escalade because I had to pass a line of cars that they were in, in two moves, one of which involved moving back in line in front of them with plenty of room. They didn't even need to hit the brakes and I started the next pass a few seconds later, but they decided they wanted to chase me all the way back into town.
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Jul 4, 2014 14:26
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Seat Safety Switch posted:What, you can't turn hard enough to knock them against one of the interior walls? That is harder and either or both makes a mess and throws your paramedic around. Your medic will not be happy about this.
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Jul 4, 2014 17:10
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Motronic posted:That is harder and either or both makes a mess and throws your paramedic around. Your medic will not be happy about this. Yeah, but if he wanted to be happy at work, he'd have restrained that guy a little better.
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Jul 4, 2014 17:52
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Yeah, but if he wanted to be happy at work, he'd have restrained that guy a little better. Well, you try not to be a dick and strap the poo poo out of everyone, but something things go from calm to lovely before you know what happened. At that point, all bets are off and you're getting 2" tape across your eyebrows for c-spine support.
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Jul 4, 2014 18:06
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About 80% of my calls are behavioral transfers, and about half of those are from a specific place where every single patient they have is court ordered and petitioned. So, on 40% of my calls, restraints are required. Of course, the company I work for gives us two choices in restraints: those lovely single-use white nylon ones with the thinnest foam ever created as padding, or those red and blue reusable velcro ones. Again, of course, I use the velcro ones. Unfortunately, everything at our company is old as poo poo, so even when I do the pre-flight checklist poo poo and inspect the restraints and they look good, they sometimes still fail, especially on our Terry Crews-buff patients. And gently caress what my partner (usually another E - I run BLS most days) sometimes thinks about not having to strap down their ankles. Bitch they're court-ordered for restraints and I've seen some flexible patients gently caress stuff up with just their feet. What Motronic said is true about the swerving, along with a few more reasons: swerving all over the road in traffic is much more dangerous than just a quick stop (if someone rear ends the ambulance, they were too loving close and it's not our fault); patients are facing backwards in the ambulance, and if they break free and start getting up, a quick "dog in the road" stop usually knocks them back down on the gurney, which is padded and less prone to injure them, and puts them in position so my partner can sit/hold them down in a safe manner until I can stop and get back to help re-restrain; and it's easier for my partner to grab onto a handrail and brace themselves against a predictable change in motion forwards, instead of an unpredictable shaking to both sides. And while we have medical tape, we also carry standard white duct tape if we really need to restrain somebody (  ), though most of the time it gets used for bariatric patients who are so curled up or just so fat that we have to tape their folds up over the edge of the gurney so they don't get pinched when we put them into the ambulance ( )
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Jul 4, 2014 19:40
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The M3's US market mirrors are terrible. They're required to do a standard mirror on the left and a convex on the right, and the German versions have this nice curving blind spot glass. I recently saw a car with those stick-on convex mirrors and thought it looked like a cheap way to accomplish it, but on closer inspection they looked nasty and were likely too small to be of much help.
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Jul 4, 2014 20:25
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Das Volk posted:The M3's US market mirrors are terrible. They're required to do a standard mirror on the left and a convex on the right, and the German versions have this nice curving blind spot glass. I recently saw a car with those stick-on convex mirrors and thought it looked like a cheap way to accomplish it, but on closer inspection they looked nasty and were likely too small to be of much help.
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Jul 4, 2014 21:30
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blk posted:Yesterday I saw a Mini parked across four spots, a car behind me started laying on the horn when I pulled over for a fire truck, and some idiot kid on a bike ran a stop sign right in my path - I slammed on the brakes and missed him by 2 feet; he looked like he was making GBS threads himself. New Mini or old Mini?
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Jul 4, 2014 22:04
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InitialDave posted:I'm amazed you haven't just bought a Euro mirror glass for it, then. It's outrageously expensive. E: Holy poo poo I just looked it up - $426 on ECSTuning for the glass, one side only...that's even more outrageous than I thought! MrChips fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Jul 4, 2014 |
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Jul 4, 2014 22:40
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Unless I'm very much misunderstanding what it is you want (wide-angle blindspot glass as opposed to flat or 2D convex), it's like  aftermarket.
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Jul 4, 2014 22:59
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What happens when people are dead-set on doing things a certain way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-WQT9SbntQ
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Jul 5, 2014 04:53
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MrChips posted:E: Holy poo poo I just looked it up - $426 on ECSTuning for the glass, one side only...that's even more outrageous than I thought! You probably shouldn't go by what ECS charges for anything, their whole business model appears to be "overcharge outrageously for everything." Even shipping. They wanted $25 to ship me some headlight wires that would fit in an envelope and I live less than 20 minutes away from them (wouldn't do local pickup either.)
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Jul 5, 2014 05:39
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Geoj posted:You probably shouldn't go by what ECS charges for anything, their whole business model appears to be "overcharge outrageously for everything." I don't know, I've always had good luck with ECS  3/4 of the time they have the cheapest prices and they're almost always the cheapest to ship to me, even if I forget to choose the "don't rape me with brokerage fees kthx" shipping option.
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Jul 5, 2014 06:25
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Das Volk posted:The M3's US market mirrors are terrible. They're required to do a standard mirror on the left and a convex on the right, and the German versions have this nice curving blind spot glass. I recently saw a car with those stick-on convex mirrors and thought it looked like a cheap way to accomplish it, but on closer inspection they looked nasty and were likely too small to be of much help. I still like Honda's solution to this on my CR-V. They have the majority of the driver's side as flat, but the outer 1/4 or so is convex. I'm guessing they made the flat part just large enough to please DOT.
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Jul 5, 2014 06:34
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IOwnCalculus posted:I still like Honda's solution to this on my CR-V. They have the majority of the driver's side as flat, but the outer 1/4 or so is convex. I'm guessing they made the flat part just large enough to please DOT. Saab has been doing that for years. I remember it on some of the earlier 9-3s. It threw me off for awhile every time I drove one. It's very cool once you get used to it though.
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Jul 5, 2014 06:52
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MrChips posted:It's outrageously expensive. Yeah ECS does overcharge quite a bit. The real deal part is about half that, the trouble is getting your hands on it, but I speak enough German that I'm going to try my luck with big dealerships like Frankfurt or parts at Welt in Munich. Someone has to be willing to throw it in a box and DHL it to me.
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Jul 5, 2014 10:29
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ijustam posted:What happens when people are dead-set on doing things a certain way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-WQT9SbntQ 3:20 & 11:00 are the "highlights"
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Jul 5, 2014 16:25
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People standing just a few feet away with all that tension on the chain.  Remind me to never use ROAD Transport Inc.
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Jul 5, 2014 16:41
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Bovril Delight posted:People standing just a few feet away with all that tension on the chain. A guy around 11:15 even says that, "There's a lot of tension in that chain and it can really gently caress you up." What an understatement, considering it's at face level
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Jul 5, 2014 17:48
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It is my understanding that chain is the least likely to violently snap back (except for something like Dyneema) if it breaks under tension, and will typically rebound directly at the anchor point rather than whipping around, so while the actions in that video are far from safe, it wasn't as dangerous as if they'd been using cable.
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Jul 5, 2014 18:42
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I drove from Portland to pretty much Longview on i5 at around 5 yesterday, made a return trip at around midnight taking i5 to i205, and I really have nothing to complain about. Really. Aside from the guy in the SUV running his DRL's in the left lane, and people going slightly under the speed limit at times, I didn't really see any idiots. I'm a little shocked by this considering it was the 4th of July and all. Side note, I really enjoy it when pedestrians decide that crossing in front of moving cars is a smart idea. I had a lady step off the sidewalk, walk in between parked cars, and walk out in front of me after I made a left turn. She was completely oblivious to everything around her. I stopped and gave my horn a couple of taps. She drat near had a heart attack when she realized that, you know, a car was driving in the street.
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Jul 5, 2014 18:44
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XK posted:It is my understanding that chain is the least likely to violently snap back (except for something like Dyneema) if it breaks under tension, and will typically rebound directly at the anchor point rather than whipping around, so while the actions in that video are far from safe, it wasn't as dangerous as if they'd been using cable. Yes, chain will fly back towards the anchor point. But the further it flies the more it bunches up. A break in the right place would have hit several people at several points in that video.
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Jul 5, 2014 18:45
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Raluek posted:My truck has those convex mirrors stuck on, I don't use them much but they don't really get in the way because they're on oversized towing mirrors. I don't really get the hate, though. I added a set of little bitty fish eyes to my regular sized truck mirrors, they keep me from having to adjust anything to see when I'm backing up. They add a stunning view of my rear tires. I think they're pretty great.
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Jul 5, 2014 18:45
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XK posted:It is my understanding that chain is the least likely to violently snap back (except for something like Dyneema) if it breaks under tension, and will typically rebound directly at the anchor point rather than whipping around, so while the actions in that video are far from safe, it wasn't as dangerous as if they'd been using cable. Oh well in that case they were completely safe standing next to the chain. Thanks for the chain physics lesson.
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Jul 5, 2014 21:51
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LloydDobler posted:In Oregon it doesn't even have to be two one ways. You can turn left on red onto a one way from a two way. You can do this in North Philly, as well. Although it is customary to be firing a TEC-9 out the window while doing it. Can't tell you how many times I'll see a '90s Buick (it's always a '90s Buick with the driver's seat cranked down at a 60 degree angle) do this move, even better when it's down a one-way that is going the opposite way.
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Jul 6, 2014 00:48
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Saw a car almost get creamed three times in 30 seconds getting on the interstate. The on ramp starts as two lanes and the right lane merges into the left. They didn't start merging or even slowing down until too late and just missed my rear quarter panel doing so. Then, another lane merges into the ramp from a different road. A semi was coming up that. They neither accelerated in front of the semi or braked to let it by, instead got forced into the shoulder by the trailer before whipping around in front. Finally got onto the interstate and there's a short lane so you can accelerate and merge with traffic. They didn't accelerate and just merged lackadaisically cutting off a Suzuki Swift inches from their bumper.
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Jul 6, 2014 16:17
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Uthor posted:The on ramp starts as two lanes and the right lane merges into the left. They didn't start merging or even slowing down until too late and just missed my rear quarter panel doing so. Hmmmm. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jul 6, 2014 16:41
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Two pickup stories for the price of one Driving down 290 into Chicago, I notice a beat up 90's F250 with a lift kit and a dog hanging out of the rear window. The both of us get off on the same exit and he starts driving a bit like you'd expect, driving in the parking lane to pass people, doing hard stops in front of people who try to pass him, just being a dick to anyone who dares be on his road. Half a mile of dickish driving later, he's only 3 cars ahead of me and his engine starts smoking. He goes another 3 blocks leaking thick white smoke and aggressively driving before he pulled over to look at it. The second guy is in a heavily modded diesel Chevy next to me at a stoplight and for an late 80's-early 90's truck it looked and sounded amazing. At least it did, until it he floored it off the light, spewed black smoke, with his extra loud blowoff valve, only to be stuck next to me at the next light. I love the idea of having a big rear end, lifted truck, especially a diesel, but I don't want to be even tangentally associated with those  assholes
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Jul 6, 2014 17:35
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Haha, I passed a bro-truck (Chevy HD3500 with stacks and a huge lift) broken down on the side of the road today as well, made me smile.
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Jul 6, 2014 19:12
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Yesterday I passed a brodozer doing 65 and towing a trailer only marginally larger than a Radio Flyer wagon. While passing, I suddenly noticed my car was being pelted by chunks of rubber flying off the trailer's tire, it was completely flat. I briefly thought about trying to honk or something to alert the driver, but he had already let me know passing him was a threat to his manhood and sped up to try to keep me out of his lane. Instead I simply accelerated a little more and smiled as I continued on with no fucks given.
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Jul 6, 2014 20:08
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The Door Frame posted:The second guy is in a heavily modded diesel Chevy next to me at a stoplight and for an late 80's-early 90's truck it looked and sounded amazing. At least it did, until it he floored it off the light, spewed black smoke, with his extra loud blowoff valve, only to be stuck next to me at the next light. Are fake blow off valves on diesels a thing now? I didn't think even smoke tuned stack owning bro truck owners were that gullible.
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drzrma posted:Are fake blow off valves on diesels a thing now? I didn't think even smoke tuned stack owning bro truck owners were that gullible. Who knows, all I know is that I heard a high pitched pssst! noise when he let off the gas
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