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iForge posted:What ails people that they are cool with going 15-20mph UNDER the speed limit in the left lane of the highway? Its ALWAYS a loving Prius too. gently caress you, Captain Earth! It's the speed limit. Maybe you should slow down 
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iForge posted:What ails people that they are cool with going 15-20mph UNDER the speed limit in the left lane of the highway? Its ALWAYS a loving Prius too. gently caress you, Captain Earth! In my experience everyone going 20 mph under the speed limit is driving an old-but-not-that-old pickup truck with no cargo or trailers.
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Sep 18, 2014 01:29
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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:In my experience everyone going 20 mph under the speed limit is driving an old-but-not-that-old pickup truck with no cargo or trailers. It's not my fault that my truck has a progressive shake anytime it goes over 50. (96 Ford F250 with structural rust.)
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Sep 18, 2014 01:33
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It is, however, your fault if you're in the left lane.
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Sep 18, 2014 01:45
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Cage posted:These are the people you park in a parking lot with: Maybe they're owned by the same person and they just want to give lots of space to other people.
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Sep 18, 2014 01:55
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iForge posted:What ails people that they are cool with going 15-20mph UNDER the speed limit in the left lane of the highway? Its ALWAYS a loving Prius too. gently caress you, Captain Earth! Some lady in a Corolla today was doing this on the toll and getting passed on the right at 80mph. When I got around her I used my hazards and then my right turn signal hoping she'd get the hint, but nope.
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Sep 18, 2014 02:00
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CharlesM posted:Maybe they're owned by the same person and they just want to give lots of space to other people. That's Cage's Mustang.
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Sep 18, 2014 02:00
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Cage posted:These are the people you park in a parking lot with: Looks like a typical day at my office.
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Sep 18, 2014 02:33
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iForge posted:What ails people that they are cool with going 15-20mph UNDER the speed limit in the left lane of the highway? Its ALWAYS a loving Prius too. gently caress you, Captain Earth! Now imagine these people on local roads that are predominately single lane and have very few passing zones. That's what my commute tends to be like, especially in the morning, even though it is only 15 miles each way. 
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Sep 18, 2014 02:51
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I wonder if these people are the ones that always complain about tailgaters?
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Sep 18, 2014 02:54
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Edward IV posted:Now imagine these people on local roads that are predominately single lane and have very few passing zones. That's what my commute tends to be like, especially in the morning, even though it is only 15 miles each way. Get a car that accelerates quicker or alternatively, a motorcycle.
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Sep 18, 2014 03:24
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While grabbing lunch at work today I encountered a pair of excellent drivers. In the image below I am the green arrow, about 200 feet back when the red arrow on the left, idiot #1, pulls up into the median with half of her car in my lane, and stops. Idiot #2 the other red arrow, then proceeds to pull up between me and idiot #1, also mostly in my lane. There is heavy traffic in the right lane which is where I assume these two wanted to go, because they both sit there in my lane as I pull up to them, stop, wait about 5 seconds, then proceed to lay on my horn. I continue to do so for a solid 15 seconds while idiot #2 gives me dirty looks, before the right lane clears enough for her to pull into it. Idiot #1 continues to sit for another 3-4 seconds before giving up and pulling out in my lane, maintaining a brisk 5 mph until traffic clears enough in the right lane for her to move over. Both of them then proceeded to go straight at the light immediately to the left of this image, which they could have just as easily done from the left lane. Both of them had phones glued to their ears, which is illegal in Massachusetts. WHAT THE gently caress? Disgruntled Bovine fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Sep 18, 2014 |
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Sep 18, 2014 03:35
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nsaP posted:Get a car that accelerates quicker or alternatively, a motorcycle. I should be clear that, aside from local highways which I only travel on for a few miles, there are literally only two passing zones in my commute and there is almost always opposing traffic that obviously make it impossible to use. And as for a motorcycle in New Jersey, I prefer to live and not be horribly crippled and maimed when I eventually get into an accident thank you very much.
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Sep 18, 2014 03:47
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QuiteEasilyDone posted:It's not my fault that my truck has a progressive shake anytime it goes over 50. (96 Ford F250 with structural rust.) Yeah, it is your fault for not maintaining your vehicle well enough to drive down a highway at the speed limit. I would love it if licensing and inspections were much more thorough, but that would require an actual public transportation system. The nearest bus stop from me is like 4 miles away for example.
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Sep 18, 2014 04:11
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Edward IV posted:
Sack up. Accidents only make me temporarily crippled.
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QuiteEasilyDone posted:It's not my fault that my truck has a progressive shake anytime it goes over 50. (96 Ford F250 with structural rust.) Actually yeah it is get off the loving road if you can't handle the speed limit I'll allow exceptions if you've got your hazards on and you're limping to the nearest shop
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Sep 18, 2014 04:15
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Lots of single lane winding roads around here with no opportunity to pass, so I encounter a lot of slow people here. If my pickup can go the speed limit around the curve, so can your loving prius.
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Sep 18, 2014 04:16
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Only time I slow down the Prius is in a 35 mph or slower area so I can get all smug off driving on electricity. Anywhere else? I'm at the front of the pack.  Though I drove it through some mountains last week, holy hell is it bad climbing a hill. And I don't even get a bonus coming down the other side because there's no button to tell it to drain the battery beforehand.
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Sep 18, 2014 04:20
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CharlesM posted:Maybe they're owned by the same person and they just want to give lots of space to other people.  Raluek posted:That's Cage's Mustang. 
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Sep 18, 2014 04:27
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GENDERWEIRD GREEDO posted:Actually yeah it is get off the loving road if you can't handle the speed limit Okay it's more like anything over 90 will cause it to be vibrationally active, but that thing has no business going that fast.
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Sep 18, 2014 04:27
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jamal posted:
How do the two relate?
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Sep 18, 2014 04:38
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Cage posted:The person on the left is me. I figured, I was just being silly. :P I do park my own cars close together in my apartment garage though, as it's a tight fit in there.
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Sep 18, 2014 04:40
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General_Failure posted:How do the two relate? It's good thinking to beef up the public transportation system if you're going to be scrapping 1/4 of the cars on the road.
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Sep 18, 2014 04:50
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Geirskogul posted:It's good thinking to beef up the public transportation system if you're going to be scrapping 1/4 of the cars on the road. And maybe more than that in drivers
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Sep 18, 2014 04:53
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General_Failure posted:How do the two relate? Pick a few random places within 50-100 miles of yourself and then figure out how to get there without a car.
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Sep 18, 2014 05:05
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Just remembered this post. The rider didn't seem to do anything wrong to me? The car was cutting it on poor visibility turns.InterceptorV8 posted:http://youtu.be/s9ePl3Il6D0 You mean like dis?  Ya got me! I take a late entry tho to nail dat late apex if the road is clear, I'll take a wider line if not. Oncoming traffic usually isn't at that part of the road, they're tight in toward their own apex. Besides, double yellows don't really count for motorcycles anyway. We're too laid back to care http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0bc_1410996136 Oh except for this fella http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5da_1410851865
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Sep 18, 2014 06:32
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iForge posted:Lots of single lane winding roads around here with no opportunity to pass, so I encounter a lot of slow people here. If my pickup can go the speed limit around the curve, so can your loving prius. They can sure do the speed limit and above in the straights in the passing zones though. Do I do 80 mph in the passing zone with a blind curve on a hill up ahead, or get stuck behind this guy for another 45 miles?
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Sep 18, 2014 14:35
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nsaP posted:The rider didn't seem to do anything wrong to me? Assuming you just let boxing in a car and not allowing them to leave (probably breaking some kind of false arrest/unlawful detention statute unless that guy was off duty law enforcement and failed to mention it) slide, sure, he did "nothing wrong." nsaP posted:Besides, Fixed...
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Sep 18, 2014 16:37
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xzzy posted:Only time I slow down the Prius is in a 35 mph or slower area so I can get all smug off driving on electricity. Anywhere else? I'm at the front of the pack. If you're at the front of the pack, then that means you are the slowest person in the platoon
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Sep 18, 2014 17:12
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Devor posted:If you're at the front of the pack, then that means you are the slowest person in the platoon Not if they're shrinking in my mirrors.
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Sep 18, 2014 17:17
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I love to drive my Mazda fast down the winding road home that leads through vineyard-strewn hills (and past a grow op). Last night I dreamed I was doing that and failed to make a turn, my car flying off the road and cutting gouges through rows of grapes that would have otherwise been next year's wine. I've decided to slow down.
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Sep 18, 2014 21:10
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Indiana state troopers pulled a new one that I've never seen or heard of before. Section of I-70 is being resurfaced, and I was driving west over it the other night. At one point I noticed that the eastbound lanes were 100% vacant, for like 5 miles. They hadn't moved any traffic over to the westbound lanes either, it was just a long stretch of pavement with absolutely no one on it. Then finally I saw police lights show up in the distance and I figured there had been a massive wreck or something. But it wasn't that either. It was a pair of state troopers driving side by side at about 35 MPH, blocking both lanes, roof lights lit. They were basically escorting every single car on the road through that construction zone. Once I passed the police, there was at least 10 miles of bumper to bumper traffic stacked up behind them. Seems like a real rear end in a top hat thing to do, I'd be livid if I was stuck in that mess. Also, this rear end in a top hat:  He cruised a good 15 minutes straddling the line because he really, really wanted to get past the traffic in front of him and was unable to decide which lane was faster (spoiler: neither really, the left lane was creeping ahead at maybe 1-2 mph faster than the right lane).
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Sep 18, 2014 21:27
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xzzy posted:Indiana state troopers pulled a new one that I've never seen or heard of before. Section of I-70 is being resurfaced, and I was driving west over it the other night. At one point I noticed that the eastbound lanes were 100% vacant, for like 5 miles. They hadn't moved any traffic over to the westbound lanes either, it was just a long stretch of pavement with absolutely no one on it. It's a rolling roadblock, it gives the work crews enough time to do a full section of the road without shutting the road down completely. Now they don't have to worry about diverting traffic, or assholes jumping the cones/accidents and the crews get access to a full width section of the highway. For example: rolling roadblock gives a 90 minute window of no traffic to hoist and place bridge spans over a highway section. https://www.workzonesafety.org/fhwa_wz_grant/atssa/atssa_rolling_roadblocks
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Sep 18, 2014 22:40
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Interesting, I figured they'd just close the road entirely when hanging large stuff like that over a road. I guess it makes sense, but I'd still be mad getting stuck in it. 
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Sep 18, 2014 22:49
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xzzy posted:Interesting, I figured they'd just close the road entirely when hanging large stuff like that over a road. It looks nasty, but it's also really good for short windows while still moving traffic. Ex from FL in 2003: Several rolling roadblocks on westbound I-4 will begin at 8 p.m. today so equipment can be moved from the westbound shoulder to the median at the C.R. 557A bridge. The roadblocks will begin at U.S. 27 (Exit 55) and end at the bridge. West of Lakeland, I-4 motorists will experience brief rolling roadblocks in both directions starting at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday or Friday so a crane can be moved from the Kathleen Road (State Road 539) bridge to the Bella Vista Road bridge. The eastbound rolling roadblock will begin at 8 p.m. at S.R. 39 (Alexander Street/Exit 21) in Hillsborough County; the westbound rolling roadblock will start at 10 p.m. near S.R. 33 (Exit 38). That could take 10-15 minutes to drive a crane across the road maybe? make a traffic jam that slows everyone down for 20 minutes or shut down the whole section between the nearest 2 exits with all the pain in the rear end of having to dump the traffic onto surface streets, route through towns or bumfuckville, then back onto the highway. The detour could be longer in both time and gas/miles than the roll/block too.
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Sep 18, 2014 22:57
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xzzy posted:Interesting, I figured they'd just close the road entirely when hanging large stuff like that over a road. I've seen this. They're doing bridge work along my daily commute, and whenever they need to do something significant, they close it at some odd off-hour on a weekend. It was pretty neat to see an overpass one day, and nothing the next.
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Sep 18, 2014 23:56
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Hmm... I've only seen single car rolling roadblocks here in California. Like so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31fZIBxFd9I I'd never seen that happen before (and I had been driving for about 18 years at that point), so it was weird as hell to me. I think I've seen it about 3 times since then.
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Sep 19, 2014 00:32
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TWBalls posted:Hmm... I've only seen single car rolling roadblocks here in California. that's not a rolling roadblock, that's just a CHP officer seeing how many times he can change lanes without hitting the marker bumps
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Sep 19, 2014 02:06
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I've seen only one rolling roadblock thing in GA. It was surreal seeing the highway so clear. Also the other day a guy ran across the highway in front of me (5 lanes) in flip flops. Then he jumped over the 6ft concrete median. I assume he died shortly thereafter.
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This week in Dallas I have seen at least 5 different people who have put the VOID license plate sticker on their cars license plate. In Texas you only need the window sticker in the front and the license plate one only says VOID and has big text all around it saying you don't need to use it. Reading comprehension is very hard.
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