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PCOS Bill posted:Updated 8:38 PM EDT Aug 13, 2012. The kid's either long-dead or long-learned-his-lesson (whether that be "shaped up" or "is in juvie") Actually, he shot up a mall in Pittsburgh over the weekend.
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Sagebrush posted:Actually, he shot up a mall in Pittsburgh over the weekend. Well, I guess I should have waited to make that post until after he goes to jail.
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Feb 10, 2015 20:07
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xzzy posted:The 100% pointless eco mode they've been putting on the Prius reverses everything.. jack poo poo happens until about 85% throttle at which point the car switches into "oh so you actually do want to accelerate? HERE YOU GO" and dumps every single bit of power it has to the tires. Eco will turn the engine off sooner. In normal mode the engine will warm up to 130F before shutting off automatically for heat. In eco it's 110F. It will also turn down the AC. But yes it does also remap the throttle in a very noticable way. Supposedly sport mode gives you more VOLTS  but I haven't seen any evidence for that.
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Feb 10, 2015 22:27
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Fucknag posted:I blame electronic throttles and non-linear fuel maps that open the butterfly 80% of the way at a quarter pedal. Some of these cars, you try and drive smoothly but the smallest possible foot movement results in the car surging forward until you back off. Then you mash the gas when you actually need power and it barely has any left to give. My 2008 Sonata's throttle is kind of like this. It's not so bad in higher gears, but I hate it when I get stuck at a light behind one of those people who refuse to touch the gas pedal and I literally don't have enough throttle granularity to accelerate as slowly as they do, so I either have to let them get a huge head start or I have to keep pressing and releasing the gas pedal so I don't rear-end them.  Edit: It's even more fun when my engine is still cold and I get behind someone who actually accelerates slower than my car does at idle. 
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Feb 11, 2015 00:26
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Uthor posted:This is totally true. If I don't up shift with my mom in the car, she freaks out that I'm driving too fast. If I am speeding in the highest gear and everything is quiet, she has no problems. I once got screamed at by some guy from his yard for basically this reason. I was giving a friend a ride home in high school and when I went to make the left into his neighborhood I chirped the tires a little (pickup with an empty bed + stick). Then stayed in first for a couple seconds at ~20mph which must have sounded fast to this guy because he started to scream at me about speeding. My mom would get mad when I would floor it in her '96 4.3 Blazer and made it kick down because "I was going to break something". Do the exact same thing now in her EB Escape and she doesn't even notice. It was warm out today after snowing a lot the past few weeks and I was behind no less than three cars with covered back windows from snow that was clearly on their roof yesterday.
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Feb 11, 2015 00:52
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Is Russia launching nuclear warheads at us? 7 mile trip home was like some Mad Max poo poo, people not happy with anyone driving the speed limit, MUST GO 70 MPH FOR ONE BLOCK TO GET TO RED LIGHT! It was like 1 psychopathic piece of poo poo per mile, I'm gonna smoke weed about it.
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Feb 11, 2015 03:03
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Extra posted:Back in high school some dude walking his dog was hooting and hollering when I was going all of 15 mph down a street in a loving 119hp 3500lb ford ranger which could barely manage going up a slight grade at 55 mph. There was a douchebag on my parents' street who always did this when I was in high school. He also had a school zone sign printed on a sandwich board with "Children Playing" underneath, which he was wont to put on his driveway. Until the day he moved, I downshifted every single time I went by his house -- but I never sped.
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Feb 11, 2015 03:42
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Every time I see one of those "drive like your children live here" signs I'm tempted to stop and do a rolling burnout while waving wildly ala Australian burnout competitors. Because if I ever have kids you can drat well bet I'm doing burnouts for them.
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Feb 11, 2015 05:50
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On the other hand, people in the neighborhood drive 40 with their high beams on all the time here and it pisses me off. Someone managed to hit and kill a deer a few years ago. On a 25mph street.
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Feb 11, 2015 06:11
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Bumming Your Scene posted:Is Russia launching nuclear warheads at us? 7 mile trip home was like some Mad Max poo poo, people not happy with anyone driving the speed limit, MUST GO 70 MPH FOR ONE BLOCK TO GET TO RED LIGHT! It was like 1 psychopathic piece of poo poo per mile, I'm gonna smoke weed about it. These people drive me loving nuts too. they're too stupid to realize they're wasting gas and not getting anywhere any faster.
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Feb 11, 2015 06:18
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Being in the ghetto we have a combination of people doing 50 because they give no fucks, 10 because they give no fucks, riding dirt bikes at WOT because they give no fucks, ATVs on the streets because they give no fucks... and yet there's only the occasional "drunk guy in a van hits an entire line of parked cars and flees the police" ... I love home.
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Feb 11, 2015 07:46
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first roadrager i've had ... (only been licensed afew years) sits up my car's rear end for about 5 minutes while traffics flowing, then cuts me off in thick traffic, barely missing the front of my car. then moves into the breakdown lane and gets alongside me. and starts whacking my car with a cricket bat... while driving at about 70km's an hour... on a busy freeway in just after 5pm traffic.
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Feb 11, 2015 13:14
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kastein posted:Every time I see one of those "drive like your children live here" signs I'm tempted to stop and do a rolling burnout while waving wildly ala Australian burnout competitors. Because if I ever have kids you can drat well bet I'm doing burnouts for them. I downshift and punch it because a) my kids like loud, fast things, and b) I taught them to stay out of the loving street.
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Feb 11, 2015 13:56
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BraveUlysses posted:These people drive me loving nuts too. they're too stupid to realize they're wasting gas and not getting anywhere any faster. The best is people with "sports" cars in downtown Denver. Like, woah, bro, nice WOT for a half second as you reach the red light at the next block. So cool. Hope you like single digit MPG as well.
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Feb 11, 2015 14:30
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This morning I was behind a car that was tailgating the hell out of a semi in the passing lane. The trucker got over as soon as he could but there was another slow car in the right lane and he started losing steam. Seeing this, I gave him space to get back into the left in front of me and flashed my lights. He could barely believe it and got over while flashing all his trailer lights, and got back up to 74 which is pretty good for a truck (I had only been doing 75 myself) and we passed a bunch of slow traffic to get to open road. Then when I eventually went past him he waved and flashed his lights again. It felt... good? 
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Feb 11, 2015 17:08
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Nightflame posted:first roadrager i've had ... (only been licensed afew years) Lmao what the gently caress?? You could drive your whole life and never get beat with a bat while on the move Jesus Christ. What did you do?
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Feb 11, 2015 18:40
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eriddy posted:What did you do? With the kind of person who would smash someone's car with a cricket bat while driving, I would guess "existing in his universe."
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Feb 11, 2015 18:59
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From the Schandenfreude thread in PYF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ahIVoQ9ME 
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Feb 11, 2015 19:22
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That's what you get driving on the wrong side of the road.
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Feb 11, 2015 19:29
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Unsure if completely retarded or just no respect for the law. Either way, they shouldn't be on the road.
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Feb 11, 2015 21:16
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I'd bet either foreign or drunk.
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Feb 11, 2015 21:19
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Read the description.
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Feb 12, 2015 01:12
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That's now how you do it this is the proper way.
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Feb 12, 2015 02:49
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Powershift posted:That's now how you do it "I have made a terrible mistake"
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Feb 12, 2015 03:54
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eFQbhkrfZE
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Feb 13, 2015 01:48
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Quality video.
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Nightflame posted:first roadrager i've had ... (only been licensed afew years) I remember a road rager thought I'd cut him off in a parking lot, then preceded to block me in after I parked and tried to open my car door (which was fortunately locked). So I started reaching under the seat and rifling through the glovebox (to grab a knife I usually kept in the car). The guy quickly figured I was reaching a gun and promptly hosed off. My temperament is a bit too volatile for me to go carrying a gun around, so I don't own one, which was good for that guy, I guess.
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Feb 13, 2015 03:00
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God drat it. I'm driving home tonight, getting off the freeway because there's a traffic jam up ahead, another guy gets the same idea. Exit ramp is backed up, I'm sitting in line. He drives over the goddamn median (shoulder?) into the side of my Mustang. Like, pulls along side, makes like he's going to merge in, then literally attempts to merge in. rear end. Hole.
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Feb 13, 2015 09:10
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I honked at a guy for sitting at a green light, so he proceeds to drive 10-15 under the speed limit and drop his speed/speed up. I laughed, flipped him off, and turned on a different street. Also, if you're in Portland, try to zipper merge on the Steel Bridge after 5 o'clock. It's so much fun.
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Feb 13, 2015 09:27
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I've been driving a Suburban for work the last few days and everyone let's you in. Compared to the Miata this is great. 70k road tank owns.
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Feb 13, 2015 14:28
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Driving in to work today, and there was a train/vehicle collision that ended up with the train blocking three major east/west routes at surface crossings. I had to double back at an intersection, as many people were, to get an alternate route. However some people just weren't patient enough to get to the intersection to turn around, and tried crossing the wide, sunken median between the east and west lanes. This is in Winnipeg, in winter. We just had a good foot of snow in the last three days. I saw no less than three cars stuck in the median spinning their all-season tires helplessly.
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Feb 13, 2015 17:28
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How are there so many train/car accidents? It's a loving train. It's pretty obvious where it's going to be, and they aren't exactly small. One day in Calgary last year, we had no fewer than three accidents involving cars running into trains on the same day.
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Feb 13, 2015 17:42
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PT6A posted:How are there so many train/car accidents? It's a loving train. It's pretty obvious where it's going to be, and they aren't exactly small. I have no clue. During the drive in they were saying there was a separate vehicle/train collision on the highway just outside of the city and that the car was currently on fire. I haven't been able to find a link to confirm that though so I left it out of the post. It wouldn't surprise me if it was true because *idiots*.
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Feb 13, 2015 18:10
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Probably the majority of them are assholes who stop on the tracks at red lights instead of taking a iota of though processing and stopping before the tracks.
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Feb 13, 2015 18:17
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Here I hear that most train/car accidents are at level crossings.
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nsaP posted:Here I hear that most train/car accidents are at level crossings. I hear that most drownings occur near water.
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Wednesday evening I was getting on the highway to run out to Monroeville from the west side of Pittsburgh, I'm 1/2 way into the travel lane at the end of the merge point disappearing when the woman who was in the lane I was entering, behind me a few car lengths back, suddenly decides NUH UH THAT AIN'T HAPPENING and comes flying up next to me from two car lengths back and trying to push me back out of the lane and into the shoulder, bumper almost brushing the car ahead of us a few times, laying on her horn the whole time. The guy in the left travel lane wasn't very impressed either, and had to basically stand on his brake to get out of her way when she pulled her act of crazy. Of course in the end I outcrazied her and held the lane while she eventually dropped back with her high beams on and laying on her horn for a mile at 15mph
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PT6A posted:How are there so many train/car accidents? It's a loving train. It's pretty obvious where it's going to be, and they aren't exactly small. This one will always be my favorite.
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There was one that I saw on my way to work a couple of years ago. A Marta bus got hit by a train a couple of blocks from my apartment. http://ajc.com/news/news/local/marta-bus-hit-by-train-in-decatur-no-injuries/nXyxz/ The driver said she got stuck on the level crossing. Given the intersection where it's at, I am not surprised.
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