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I went to vote ( ) and, well, this guy at the local library. For reference, the red rectangle is where the car was "parked".  The front lot was full, but there were approximately two cars in the back lot 50 feet away.
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I was next to a car in traffic who was honking at the guy in front of him because he wasn't blocking the box. The car in front of me wasn't blocking the box either, then got some space and pulled ahead. The honking car to my left zoomed forward cutting me off and then back into the left lane, blocking the box.
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Nov 5, 2014 02:01
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wolrah posted:Is it bad that I have for a long time really wanted to do a PT Cruiser convertible with the wood panel crap and all the standard Autozone stick-on bits, but with a built SRT-4 drivetrain underneath? Isn't this basically what the PT GT was minus the intercooler and with a more restrictive intake manifold (both thanks to the tiny engine compartment)?
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Nov 5, 2014 02:35
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FogHelmut posted:I was next to a car in traffic who was honking at the guy in front of him because he wasn't blocking the box. The car in front of me wasn't blocking the box either, then got some space and pulled ahead. The honking car to my left zoomed forward cutting me off and then back into the left lane, blocking the box. What is this "box" you speak of? Is this something I'm supposed to know?
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Nov 5, 2014 02:49
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PT6A posted:What is this "box" you speak of? Is this something I'm supposed to know? An intersection. In reference to signs that many of them have saying "Don't block the box." 
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Nov 5, 2014 02:55
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I took it to mean the center of an intersection.
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Nov 5, 2014 02:56
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I've had people go insane for not wanting to stop in the middle of an intersection. Even more so for a small cross-street. 
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Nov 5, 2014 03:16
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I give those people a thumbs up. It enrages them so much more than a middle finger.
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Nov 5, 2014 03:22
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FogHelmut posted:An intersection. In reference to signs that many of them have saying "Don't block the box." Ah. I've never seen a sign like that, and I've never heard it called a box before, but I agree with you that people who block intersections are terrible people who deserve our scorn.
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Nov 5, 2014 03:29
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I haven't read through 190 pages (too many threads to keep track of), but man, Canada's Worst Driver makes me want to take public transport everywhere. God there are some bad drivers on that show.
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Nov 5, 2014 03:34
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MrKatharsis posted:I give those people a thumbs up. It enrages them so much more than a middle finger. I've started doing this lately, too. They don't know how to respond.
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Nov 5, 2014 03:42
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SpannerX posted:I haven't read through 190 pages (too many threads to keep track of), but man, Canada's Worst Driver makes me want to take public transport everywhere. God there are some bad drivers on that show. The latest season is particularly traumatic as a few of the drivers are pictured driving on thoroughfares that I take every day.
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Nov 5, 2014 03:43
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PT6A posted:Ah. I've never seen a sign like that, and I've never heard it called a box before, but I agree with you that people who block intersections are terrible people who deserve our scorn. In NY, blocking the box is socially equivalent to disseminating child pornography.
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Nov 5, 2014 03:45
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A Melted Tarp posted:In NY, blocking the box is socially equivalent to disseminating child pornography. I thought that was one of the best signs in NYC
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Nov 5, 2014 04:02
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I've watched a trucker lean on the horn for an entire light cycle at a car that darted out and managed to block the entire opposite lane from entering the junction when their light changed. 
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Nov 5, 2014 12:04
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Seat Safety Switch posted:The latest season is particularly traumatic as a few of the drivers are pictured driving on thoroughfares that I take every day. I know! The lady that used to drive from CB to HFX to see her daughter passed by exits I drive on a weekly basis and that freaked me out, but then there are tons of poo poo drivers around here. Why can't they accelerate in a merge lane and get up to the highway speed? Hell, a kid was killed last Friday by someone blowing a stop sign 3 blocks from my house on the same road I was cut off on my bike and broke my leg! Needless to say I don't ride MCs anymore, too many stunned people looking at their phones instead of driving around here.
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Nov 5, 2014 14:23
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SpannerX posted:Why can't they accelerate in a merge lane and get up to the highway speed? Could be wrong (it's been a good few years since I passed my test) but here in the UK, that'll fail you — not merging at speed. The rule of thumb is basically that you need to be doing 60mph when you leave the merge lane — more if you plan on immediately heading into the middle lane to get past lorries etc.
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SpannerX posted:I know! The lady that used to drive from CB to HFX to see her daughter passed by exits I drive on a weekly basis and that freaked me out, but then there are tons of poo poo drivers around here. Why can't they accelerate in a merge lane and get up to the highway speed? Hell, a kid was killed last Friday by someone blowing a stop sign 3 blocks from my house on the same road I was cut off on my bike and broke my leg! Needless to say I don't ride MCs anymore, too many stunned people looking at their phones instead of driving around here. But but but SPEED KILLS. IT KILLS!! SPEED KILLS!!!!
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Jeherrin posted:Could be wrong (it's been a good few years since I passed my test) but here in the UK, that'll fail you — not merging at speed. The rule of thumb is basically that you need to be doing 60mph when you leave the merge lane — more if you plan on immediately heading into the middle lane to get past lorries etc. Nobody I know was taken on the highway as part of their driving test. I know this has been stated many times, but the US licensing requirements are so loving simple it's no wonder people can't drive for poo poo here.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Nobody I know was taken on the highway as part of their driving test. I know this has been stated many times, but the US licensing requirements are so loving simple it's no wonder people can't drive for poo poo here. Pretty sure you only go on the highway for CDL (at least in PA). And for me it was only about 2-3 miles, hit the exit and return on local roads.
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Nov 5, 2014 15:07
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SpannerX posted:Why can't they accelerate in a merge lane and get up to the highway speed? In my case, anemic 4 banger + auto trans + uphill ramp = 50 mph at the end of the merge lane if I really mash it. There is one onramp in my town that I never use. I'll drive 10 blocks to use one that is longer and gives me a better look over my shoulder.
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Nov 5, 2014 15:10
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The one I'm thinking of in particular is actually down hill with a long run before you even get to the point where you can merge. It drives me absolutely nuts. (It's old people, every single time).
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Nov 5, 2014 15:14
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SpannerX posted:The one I'm thinking of in particular is actually down hill with a long run before you even get to the point where you can merge. It drives me absolutely nuts. (It's old people, every single time). There's one I use pretty regularly which is similar to that. It's probably 1/3 of a mile long, all downhill and almost perfectly straight. If I stomped on it I could probably be doing over 120 by the time I hit the merge point, yet every other time I use it I'm stuck behind someone merging at 50 mph onto a highway everyone does 70+ on. It's insane.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:There's one I use pretty regularly which is similar to that. It's probably 1/3 of a mile long, all downhill and almost perfectly straight. If I stomped on it I could probably be doing over 120 by the time I hit the merge point, yet every other time I use it I'm stuck behind someone merging at 50 mph onto a highway everyone does 70+ on. It's insane. Here's the ramp I'm talking about :  It goes from an 80 kph to an 80 kph highway, and they still can't get up to speed on that. It's drat near straight, and the sight lines are wide open.
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People failing to merge drives me nuts. I grew up in Ontario and drove on the 4XX highways all the time. When I moved to Winnipeg, the first thing I learned is that merging was a totally foreign concept. This intersection is the bane of my existence:  Turning east onto Bishop Grandin there is a merge lane that is at least 150' or more. Traffic on Bishop is only 80 KM/h so that's ample time to get up to speed and merge, but 90% of drivers stop mid-way on the turnoff and wait for the lights to change and traffic to clear completely. If someone is coming south and makes the left on the advanced left turn, some people will sit through that entire cycle as well.
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Nov 5, 2014 15:59
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TKIY posted:People failing to merge drives me nuts. I grew up in Ontario and drove on the 4XX highways all the time. When I moved to Winnipeg, the first thing I learned is that merging was a totally foreign concept. Any kind of adequate driving is a foreign concept in Winnipeg, especially with the rampant perimiteritis that hole suffers from. And the rest of us who live (or used to live) outside of Winnipeg laugh at the bad drivers :P
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SpannerX posted:I haven't read through 190 pages (too many threads to keep track of), but man, Canada's Worst Driver makes me want to take public transport everywhere. God there are some bad drivers on that show. Oh man thanks for mentioning this. I love this show but I can only find it on youtube so I never hear when new seasons start. Usually that works out because by the time I find out there are four or five episodes I can shotgun but it looks like it just started two weeks ago. It's my only reality tv guilty pleasure.
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TKIY posted:If someone is coming south and makes the left on the advanced left turn, some people will sit through that entire cycle as well. To be fair, about 90% of the morons we share a road with think a proper left turn means to barrel directly into the farthest right lane of the road they are turning onto, so I can sort of understand being timid on the merge.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Nobody I know was taken on the highway as part of their driving test. I know this has been stated many times, but the US licensing requirements are so loving simple it's no wonder people can't drive for poo poo here. For anyone who doesn't realize just how bad it is in this country, this is the route I was directed to follow for my driving test in 2002 in Medina, Ohio:  From what I've heard through friends' younger siblings it hasn't changed much other than that the BMV is now in the building at the center of the block they had me circle. They still basically just go around the block. Standard five cone "maneuverability" test, then around the back of the strip mall. Left at a light on to the 35 MPH main road, another left at a light, right at a light, right at a four-way, right at a light, and right back in to the parking lot. Nothing remotely challenging, no speed limits higher than 35, all lefts are protected. If you can gently caress this up cars are not for you, IMO. wolrah fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Nov 5, 2014 |
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wolrah posted:Wouldn't the hipster drive the PT Cruiser as-is "ironically" or whatever? I see it as more of a sleeper, basically the small FWD equivalent of a Roadmaster Wagon with an LS swap. I used to want to do a first-gen Caravan with the Shelby Daytona motor, but the time where those shells were cheap and plentiful has long since passed in road salt country so the PT+SRT4 combo is basically the more readily available equivalent. Don't forget this classic: Turbo Minivan!
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wolrah posted:For anyone who doesn't realize just how bad it is in this country, this is the route I was directed to follow for my driving test in 2002 in Medina, Ohio: Ha! Your test was far more complicated than mine was back in 03 in Chardon, OH. Drive out of the BMV cross rt44. Pull into a development, turn around in the first cul de sac, and return to BMV. The only "tricky" part was when you are driving through the parking lot of the BMV there is a painted stop mark on the pavement with no red sign and if you blow that you fail. After watching 90% of drivers act like total loving retards on 480 every day I feel like its well within my rights to buy a $500 beater and drive it into the Ohio statehouse as means of protest against the abysmal driving standards set by my god awful state.
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An idea occurs: it seems to me that a large part of really lovely driving behaviour comes from a failure to be able to navigate in unfamiliar territory and/or a great fear of what to do after one has missed one's turn. Upon reflection, I don't think "how to unfuck yourself when lost" was ever a skill that was taught in drivers' ed. Having gone on a godforsaken wild goose chase today*, more or less, but having never put anyone in danger as a result, I'm thinking this is perhaps a skill we should focus on. * Other Calgary drivers: are there any ways of getting back across the accursed goddamn CP tracks than taking Blackfoot north to Deerfoot or south to Glenmore? That's an area of the city I'm unfamiliar with, but jesus gently caress did it seem like I wasted a lot of time trying to find a crossing before I finally gave up and backtracked to Glenmore.
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wolrah posted:
I didn't even have a "maneuverability" test: Turn left at the stop sign, then right at the next one, then go down this side street and parallel park, then do a couple more turns, never even getting anywhere near the only reasonably busy street in town, and then get back to the start point. Can't fully remember for sure, but the only thing I got dinged for was either stopping too short of a stop line, or stopping just over the stop line. My parallel parking was clunky as all hell, I'm sure, but it wasn't even mentioned. No k-turn or anything like that either. 10 minutes, tops. Not Ohio, unfortunately, but a small town in upstate New York.
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The most difficult part of my driving test was trying to park on an incline (for all of those hills in Chicago), but my car's parking brake was rusted together, so he just said whatever and gave me my license
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When I took my test in FL there was no road test. It was pull into this small fenced in lot with a 15 MPH limit (in reality you did the whole thing at idle speeds), turn left, pull into a slanted parking spot, back out, turn right, do a 3-point turn. drive to parking lot, park. Get license.
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When I took the driving test after my 4-year stint in Japan, I drove around a few blocks speeding 2-4 MPH the whole way and mumbling to myself to remember to drive on the right. She told me I was speeding a bit but let me pass anyway. ...got a ticket 2 days later for failing to change to the left lane when passing a couple cops stopped on the shoulder.
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toplitzin posted:When I took my test in FL there was no road test. My FL test was so slow that I had to ride the brake the entire time. The whole test was done in the 5mph parking lot at the DMV.
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PT6A posted:An idea occurs: it seems to me that a large part of really lovely driving behaviour comes from a failure to be able to navigate in unfamiliar territory and/or a great fear of what to do after one has missed one's turn. Upon reflection, I don't think "how to unfuck yourself when lost" was ever a skill that was taught in drivers' ed. Having gone on a godforsaken wild goose chase today*, more or less, but having never put anyone in danger as a result, I'm thinking this is perhaps a skill we should focus on. If you're in the Alyth, 58th to 26th ave, abandon hope because it's Blackfoot or bust. and most of the side shortcuts slam you back into Blackfoot or Glenmore only with more traffic at slower speeds. Any crisis down there and traffic is just not moving. The one glimmer of hope is that 11th street north of blackfoot becomes 12th and that will get you slowly onto memorial around the zoo at St. Georges, but you and 10 000 other people will be using it and you have to use Ogden or Highfield to get there. No direct route from Alyth. Foothills industrial is one large CP rail trap. If you're between Glenmore and 130th; Barlow onto Shepard will sneak you around, but the left turn onto Glenmore West is an eternity in itself due to the short left turn fighting Ogden. Cut through Ogden to Blackfoot and back onto Deerfoot. North of Glenmore, 50th ave onto Ogden, but traffic is a bitch or 50th onto Barlow - Deerfoot. 52nd is an alternative with one CP line to jump, but all the construction at Peigan makes it a pain. There is Stoney, with connectors at 114th and Glenmore but the connectors northbound are 17th and 16th Ave, so you're looking for Memorial you're backtracking or if you're into the north west, it's a long circle back. The plus side is with Stoney you're at 120+ the whole way round. Fuller9x fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Nov 6, 2014 |
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Fuller9x posted:If you're in the Alyth, 58th to 26th ave, abandon hope because it's Blackfoot or bust. and most of the side shortcuts slam you back into Blackfoot or Glenmore only with more traffic at slower speeds. Any crisis down there and traffic is just not moving. The one glimmer of hope is that 11th street north of blackfoot becomes 12th and that will get you slowly onto memorial around the zoo at St. Georges, but you and 10 000 other people will be using it and you have to use Ogden or Highfield to get there. No direct route from Alyth. Glenmore didn't work badly once I finally got there, but I was trying to be clever and I thought the 26th/25th Ave. connector didn't have a level crossing (oh boy, it very much does!) so I had to backtrack significantly to get back to Glenmore. If I'd just gone south on Blackfoot when I was on 58th, everything would've been hunky dory. It's a good thing Memory Express is cheap and awesome, because I'd never put up with that location otherwise. This was the second time in a row I caught a CP train leaving there...
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