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Geoj posted:Content: I don't think I'll ever own a factory performance model. My position was recently eliminated and I lost my company car as a result so right now I'm driving my brother's first-generation MS3 until I get my severance package and my unemployment checks start coming in so I can throw about $1000 at my Focus to get it roadworthy again. Heh, as a lifelong sportbike rider, I feel your pain. Seemingly, everyone who rides wearing flipflops and shades in lieu of gear, or everyone with a fartcan and a bodykit on a hatchback wants to race. Can't I just go to work in peace?
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I rented a boxster last week and no-one even hinted that they wanted to race the middle-aged lady 
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Apr 9, 2015 04:24
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Flint Ironstag posted:Heh, as a lifelong sportbike rider, I feel your pain. Seemingly, everyone who rides wearing flipflops and shades in lieu of gear, or everyone with a fartcan and a bodykit on a hatchback wants to race. Can't I just go to work in peace? ADV dork supremacy 
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Apr 9, 2015 04:38
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Safety Dance posted:ADV dork supremacy For years, I have thought about buying a KLR, doing the doohickey, and riding off into the sunset. Then I get another sportbike, because I do love that inline 4 rush. Just for safe highway merging, of course. I love all kinds of bikes, yet keep coming back to sportbikes. My own personal heroin.
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Apr 9, 2015 05:00
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Three separate times this week I've almost been hit while waiting to pull out of exit-only driveways by people trying to pull into them. This last time I was sitting at the bank when some guy almost plowed into the front of my car like I didn't even exist. This is like three months after my car was totaled by an unlicensed driver who cut her turn so short that she hit me head on while I was sitting at a stop sign. ...I think I need a dash cam so that there's some video evidence of what happened when I'm inevitably killed in my car.
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Apr 9, 2015 05:14
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Flint Ironstag posted:For years, I have thought about buying a KLR, doing the doohickey, and riding off into the sunset. Then I get another sportbike, because I do love that inline 4 rush. Just for safe highway merging, of course. I love all kinds of bikes, yet keep coming back to sportbikes. My own personal heroin. You wanna buy my Buell Ulysses? It's got all the ADV dorkiness and a hundred horsepower to boot.
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Apr 9, 2015 06:28
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I was sitting at a red light at the end of a highway off ramp. My light turned green, and in the second that I was putting the car into gear I had noticed a girl in an Accord approaching the intersection at a high rate of speed. I realized she wasn't going to stop in time, and she didn't, slamming on her brakes and coming to a stop about 3/4 of the way across the intersection. She put the car in reverse and backed all the way back across to where she should have stopped.
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Apr 9, 2015 15:04
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Was in the leftmost of a dual left- turn lane earlier today when the RAV4 in front of me decided he really needed to get into the rightmost left-turn lane mid turn. So he put on his indicator. And stopped. In the middle of the intersection. Everyone in the other turn-lane kept going, so he couldn't get in, so he sat there until the light turned and no one else was coming, and finally completed his turn. All the honking in the world by myself and the guy behind me did nothing, he ignored it all.
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Apr 9, 2015 17:54
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In the Boston area there are lots of Rotorys or Traffic Circles if you will. 99% of people do not know how they work and so will no give way when they are supposed to almost crash into me. This is usually followed with horn blowing and swearing in what can only be described as Bostonian Celtic before I drive away.
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Apr 9, 2015 20:09
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Not sure if it's possible to get just the video link for this (from a news station), so just posting the link to the page. http://www.10news.com/news/video-drunken-woman-wanders-onto-i-15-freeway Drunk woman meandering around on I-15 at night.
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Apr 9, 2015 21:00
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Geoj posted:Seems like every shitlord driving a car with a DOHC engine wants to race me now. Had some jackass in a beat to poo poo Accord pull up to me at a light. Engine was surging and blasting clouds of blue smoke, check engine light is on, etc. I accelerated at a roughly normal pace to 60 (in a 50 MPH zone) and settled in...about 20 seconds later this guy passes me bouncing off the rev limiter and leaving a cloud of burned oil smoke in his wake. Imagine having a red Prelude (S, not even Si/VTEC, with F22 engine.  ) Kids in rustbucket Hondas solicit races from me all the time. I don't know if it's cuz I live right next to a high school or what, but it's terrible.
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Apr 9, 2015 21:48
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The Locator posted:Not sure if it's possible to get just the video link for this (from a news station), so just posting the link to the page. Linked from the news story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s502HgQn7Vo
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Apr 9, 2015 22:10
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buttcrackmenace posted:Linked from the news story. Jesus 
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Apr 9, 2015 22:56
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Did you see the other video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzOmt9OKU-w
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Apr 9, 2015 23:09
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gently caress both of these loving stupid loving drivers. Jesus christ. first video, looks like a puddle of puke right at the driver side of the car.
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Apr 9, 2015 23:24
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BraveUlysses posted:gently caress both of these loving stupid loving drivers. Jesus christ. Not puke... If you notice when she stands up she's pulling up and zipping her pants before stumbling all over the highway.
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Apr 9, 2015 23:31
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The Locator posted:Not sure if it's possible to get just the video link for this (from a news station), so just posting the link to the page. Everyone in that video was being really loving stupid, including the cameraman. The shoulder of an Interstate is never a safe place to stand; you should either stay in your car or get a very long way off the road, preferably somewhere behind a barrier. Standing right where the next car that comes along is going to swerve when the driver realizes there's an obstacle in the middle of the road is particularly dumb. The motorcyclist trying to direct traffic by standing in the middle of the loving freeway really takes the cake, though. 
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Apr 9, 2015 23:34
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toplitzin posted:Not puke... *blinks* *sigh* why couldnt that semi have smeared the poo poo out of her? what a stupid gently caress
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Apr 9, 2015 23:57
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Solar Coaster posted:Did you see the other video? Both this woman, and the one in the story I linked are lucky as hell to be alive. What the gently caress...
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Apr 10, 2015 01:26
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BraveUlysses posted:*blinks* You fuckers thought I was kidding when I said that these people just PISS ON THE loving INTERSTATE.
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Apr 10, 2015 04:06
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InterceptorV8 posted:You fuckers thought I was kidding when I said that these people just PISS ON THE loving INTERSTATE. My sis tells a story of her sister in law coming home from somewhere drunk, making the driver pull over on the interstate, and taking a poo poo out in the grass, then complaining about the mosquito bites on her rear end.
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Apr 10, 2015 04:22
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Is that the same cameraman in both videos?
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Apr 10, 2015 06:08
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The people you share the road with often can't remember they have a physical key: http://wavy.com/2015/04/08/mystery-surrounds-dead-keyless-car-remotes/
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Apr 10, 2015 22:46
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Deeters posted:The people you share the road with often can't remember they have a physical key: http://wavy.com/2015/04/08/mystery-surrounds-dead-keyless-car-remotes/ quote:Worlds is okay with the interruption if it is for official testing or military operations. "We might as well let them do what they got to do," said Worlds, as the TSA agent fingered his prostate oh-so-gingerly.
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Apr 10, 2015 23:15
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Deeters posted:The people you share the road with often can't remember they have a physical key: http://wavy.com/2015/04/08/mystery-surrounds-dead-keyless-car-remotes/ Kind of terrible, but one guy says that he expects his car to lock when he presses the button. Kind of his fault for not pressing it until he hears the horn bleep, though. Although when I was still driving my mom's 4Runner when I was younger I got in the habit of just hitting the lock on the door as I exited. Never had an issue with that.
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Protocol7 posted:Kind of terrible, but one guy says that he expects his car to lock when he presses the button. Kind of his fault for not pressing it until he hears the horn bleep, though. Don't most systems work where one click locks the doors, and two clicks beeps the horn and arms the alarm?
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Apr 11, 2015 04:26
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Protocol7 posted:Kind of terrible, but one guy says that he expects his car to lock when he presses the button. Kind of his fault for not pressing it until he hears the horn bleep, though. I can sit and hit lock on my keyfob all day and it will never honk. Flashes the lights though.
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Apr 11, 2015 04:44
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Gonna share the road today, its Honda Day and I live on the route between the turnpike and the race track. Already hearing them fart cans. Pretty sure this is the cops' in my town favorite day of the year.
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Raluek posted:Don't most systems work where one click locks the doors, and two clicks beeps the horn and arms the alarm?
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It's me, I'm the people you share a road with. Some dude was going like 90kph on the motorway in the middle lane while texting, looking down at his phone for long periods of time. So I got in front of him and applied the brake pedal just enough to put the brake lights on and not actually brake. I could see in my rear view mirror that he got surprised and dropped his phone, and then he got absolutely pissed off at me, started screaming and going through his full repertoire of obscene gestures. Then he sped off at way above the speed limit. I am a bad person. It was so worth it, though.
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Apr 11, 2015 16:19
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KozmoNaut posted:It's me, I'm the people you share a road with. You really are.
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Apr 11, 2015 17:11
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PCOS Bill posted:You really are. I mean, if you cut him off and did this 10 feet off his front bumper, poo poo yes. If you slowed down (you specified you didn't, but ...), yes. But the dickhole was texting and you used legitimate signal lights to get his attention back on the road? No, you're really not the bad guy in that story. Cue: the usual suspects replying that I don't know what the gently caress I'm talking about.
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Apr 11, 2015 22:08
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david_a posted:Both cars I've had with fobs had configurable settings in the car's UI somewhere whether to honk and how loud. I've never seen the behavior you describe though, one click on lock is all it takes. Unlocking always seems to be one click, driver's door; two clicks, all doors. Both my mom's '03 Odyssey and my dad's '04 Ranger behave that way 
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Apr 11, 2015 22:25
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KozmoNaut posted:It's me, I'm the people you share a road with. feh. Try that next to them with an air horn. Mucho laughs.
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Apr 11, 2015 23:24
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StormDrain posted:What's the ratio of cars with the fuel filler on drivers vs. passenger side? I would bet the odds are you drive a car with the filler on the drivers side. '14 FocusST, passenger side tank.
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Apr 11, 2015 23:30
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I passed some lady doing 20 in a 35 the other day with her face buried in her phone (there had been a school zone about a mile back). I slowed down and honked my horn for like a half second before speeding back up. Then I hear her horn blowing for like 15 seconds as she speed up next to me going like 50, middle finger extended, shouting (presumably) obscenities through her closed window, before she had to slam on her brakes to make the turn into (again presumably) her neighborhood. Like, sorry I pissed you off that much by making you notice your own bad driving lady, but come the gently caress on.
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I passed a guy who was doing 20 in a 35 today, changed lanes to get in front of him about six car lengths up (two lanes each direction), and he laid on his horn and nearly rammed me from behind flying up my rear end.
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InterceptorV8 posted:You fuckers thought I was kidding when I said that these people just PISS ON THE loving INTERSTATE. Let me set this up. We were in Eastern Kentucky on US gently caress if I care, 4 lanes with a median, but still with stop lights every few miles. I was still a trainee, so I was riding shotgun while my dad was driving and explaining how to slip shift while revving high because sometimes the red light fucks you. Anywho, he had reached 6th gear (which is a screaming 20mph) and just started yelling "PUPPY PUPPY PUPPY PUPPY" as he slammed on the brakes. Up ahead, on the shoulder of the US Highway, a couple of wonderful fat white fucks were taking a picnic or a potty break for the dogs or gently caress if I care, they had their three dogs unleashed and fancy free. Two people grabbed two dogs, but the third bounded into the lane and just wanted to make friends with the first thing he saw and by golly the first thing he saw was a Freightliner. The dog was in the center of the lane, cowered down into the 'please don't kill me' position, and that saved his life. The truck came to a stop, the dog ran out from behind the steer tires, and Dad let loose the air horn at the rear end in a top hat dog owners that decided to take a break on the shoulder without putting puppy on a leash. edit: and there was 4 wheeler traffic so it's not like he could swerve to miss the puppy. That said, proper truck driving protocol for 'obstacle in the road' is to hit the brakes and hope for the best, because swerving will just flip the trailers and hit what you were trying to miss in the first place. CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 11:05 on Apr 12, 2015 |
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And now imagine what it's like for train drivers when there's something (or someone) on the tracks. I've talked to a guy who drives freight trains and hit a guy who was committing suicide by train. He said that the absolute worst thing about hitting a person is that there isn't even the slightest imperceptible bump when you hit. All you can do is jam the brakes hard, look away and count the seconds before you dare look again.
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Don't you at least hear something? Though I suppose the sound of someone turning inside out and bitesize will get lost against the gentle backdrop of a braking freight train.
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