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b-minus1 posted:I ran a red light last night for the first time. It was at the top of a hill of a road I had never driven. I was staring straight ahead and not on my phone, I have no explanation, no excuse. It simply did not register in my head to stop.Thankfully there were no cars in the intersection, as it was late at night. I did that a few weeks ago. I saw the light was red and was moving my foot to the brake, but then I.. didn't. No one in the lanes who had greens were moving except for one car turning left who was creeping in all timid and... I just didn't stop. It was weird.
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Novo posted:i've adopted a really chilled out driving style as i've gotten older and i still make great time. pretty much every pushy idiot i run across on the highways or off ends up at the next red light with me. You only see the bad ones, if you wanna hurry drive right you gotta concentrate and think about how to get around slow fucks. Not waste time getting mad being on the horn or revving neutral
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Jun 6, 2016 15:44
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:You only see the bad ones, if you wanna hurry drive right you gotta concentrate and think about how to get around slow fucks. Not waste time getting mad being on the horn or revving neutral Successfully driving fast is about planning and lane choice. Anger is for when you step out of the vehicle.
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Jun 6, 2016 15:49
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when i see people who look like they're in a hurry but aren't driving like complete dicks, I'm much more inclined to let them pass than the assholes who zoom up outta nowhere going 30 over and get 3 inches from my bumper before i ever even have a chance to react
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Jun 6, 2016 15:53
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If you don't want to do the left turn on red thing or take too long to turn right or whatever I don't really care (unless you're doing it because you're looking at your phone fuuuccckk youuu) but please stay out of the left lane on highways unless you're passing or driving real fast that lane is not your personal lane it is for passing and maniacs doing like 30 over OK get outta there on a related note passing on the right is also bad and you should not do it (unless you reeeaaaalllly need to)
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Jun 6, 2016 16:36
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Monkey Fracas posted:If you don't want to do the left turn on red thing or take too long to turn right or whatever I don't really care (unless you're doing it because you're looking at your phone fuuuccckk youuu) but please stay out of the left lane on highways unless you're passing or driving real fast People doing 10-20 under in every lane but the right one 
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Jun 6, 2016 16:54
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tbh i try to make it a point to stay out of the left lane unless I'm passing, but let's face it people are dicks and are gonna tailgate you even if you're going 20 over in the middle/right lane. there's always those few assholes on the road.
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Jun 6, 2016 16:57
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I'm honking irl right now
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Jun 6, 2016 16:58
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https://youtu.be/tw429JGL5zo
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Jun 6, 2016 16:59
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People who pass on highways but at a relative speed of 2 MPH 
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Jun 6, 2016 17:03
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Go Fast or Go To Hell (bumper sticker includes a few fake bullet holes you can affix around it)
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Jun 6, 2016 17:04
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Monkey Fracas posted:If you don't want to do the left turn on red thing or take too long to turn right or whatever I don't really care (unless you're doing it because you're looking at your phone fuuuccckk youuu) but please stay out of the left lane on highways unless you're passing or driving real fast Passing someone on the right is a game. For max points, do it without exceeding the speed limit and get the person you passed super pissed.
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Jun 6, 2016 17:14
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There is no right or wrong on the road. There is only me and everyone else. There is only rage. What I'm trying to say is don't honk at me if I'm slowing you down, but also don't slow me down. I'm an rear end in a top hat.
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Jun 6, 2016 17:39
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RedMage129 posted:There is only rage. Rip and tear!
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Jun 6, 2016 18:11
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Drunk Nerds posted:Idgi basically instead of blanket banning moving into the junction if you're turning across the opposite lane but there's oncoming traffic blocking you because it's not usually a problem, they just paint a big hashed yellow box over junctions where it would be and you're not allowed to today it was 28 degrees and some fucker managed to bring traffic to a dead stop for an hour+ in a 20 mile radius by crashing their car presumably pretty spectacularly I spent the rest of my drive home working out how many people they would have had to have delayed to waste more of other people's lives than they might have wasted of theirs by presumably dying, it's in the low hundred thousands and they probably managed it I hope they're proud (and not dead, maybe)
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Jun 6, 2016 18:28
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People are stupid bozos and can't drive very well; I can't wait until robot cars are commonplace.
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Jun 6, 2016 18:50
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Roylicious posted:People are stupid bozos and can't drive very well; I can't wait until robot cars are commonplace. They sure will be fun to hack!
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Jun 6, 2016 19:03
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turns out it was some guy failing to jump off a bridge
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Jun 6, 2016 19:10
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a digital orc posted:tbh i try to make it a point to stay out of the left lane unless I'm passing, but let's face it people are dicks and are gonna tailgate you even if you're going 20 over in the middle/right lane. there's always those few assholes on the road. some people, especially SUV drivers, just prefer to drive bumper to bumper, and i for one pray for their deaths
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Jun 6, 2016 19:27
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Zyklon B Zombie posted:I was sitting in the left turn lane the other day with a solid wall of oncoming traffic, and the guy behind me honked at me. I'm not sure if he just wanted me to plow straight through a semi-truck Terminator style or what. People are really angry driving for some reason. As my dad would put it "you weren't being aggressive enough"
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RFC2324 posted:They sure will be fun to hack! I'm in your CPUs phreaking your trannies
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Jun 6, 2016 21:05
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Roylicious posted:I'm in your CPUs phreaking your trannies I actually love that this is already a problem, and we don't even have cars that are fully automated yet. https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/
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Jun 6, 2016 21:13
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Whenever I go to a certain Starbucks, I need to drive across a four lane busy road. Most who leave the intersection can make a turn on red. But not me. And they always honk, even if the light is red. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Jun 6, 2016 21:21
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476 in PA, the section known as "The Blue Route" is a broken road and people drive on it like monsters. The breakdown lane becomes a normal lane of traffic during rush hour. Onramps have traffic lights to try to make people act like humans. There's this one area where there's a lane on one side for a half a mile that just appears then disappears for no discernable reason and it causes problems. It's a good place to learn how to drive.
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Jun 6, 2016 21:25
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cheerfullydrab posted:476 in PA, the section known as "The Blue Route" is a broken road and people drive on it like monsters. The breakdown lane becomes a normal lane of traffic during rush hour. Onramps have traffic lights to try to make people act like humans. There's this one area where there's a lane on one side for a half a mile that just appears then disappears for no discernable reason and it causes problems. It's a good place to learn how to drive.
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cheerfullydrab posted:476 in PA, the section known as "The Blue Route" is a broken road and people drive on it like monsters. The breakdown lane becomes a normal lane of traffic during rush hour. Onramps have traffic lights to try to make people act like humans. There's this one area where there's a lane on one side for a half a mile that just appears then disappears for no discernable reason and it causes problems. It's a good place to learn how to drive. I know what area you're talking about and it's one of the worst 
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Jun 6, 2016 21:34
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tbf its really annoying to be sitting in line at a light and literally see the "loose rope" poo poo. pay attention next time and you'll never un-see it: imagine a loose rope tied from the rear of a car to the front of the car behind him and when it gets pulled tight the other car starts moving. it'll happen wtih every car in the gd line. motherfuckers just hit your goddamn GAS PEDAL
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Jun 6, 2016 21:36
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sounds like a good feature tbqh
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Jun 6, 2016 21:41
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XMNN posted:basically instead of blanket banning moving into the junction if you're turning across the opposite lane but there's oncoming traffic blocking you because it's not usually a problem, they just paint a big hashed yellow box over junctions where it would be and you're not allowed to I still don't see the problem this fixes. If a left turn would cause problems for the cars behind it (such as when there are two lanes moving the same direction, and a left-turning car stopped in the intersection would prevent other cars from going around it) just put a drat "no left turns" sign. If not, then let people sit in the intersection. What is the issue here? Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Jun 6, 2016 |
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Jun 6, 2016 21:55
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I hate honkies too.
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cheerfullydrab posted:476 in PA, the section known as "The Blue Route" is a broken road and people drive on it like monsters. The breakdown lane becomes a normal lane of traffic during rush hour. Onramps have traffic lights to try to make people act like humans. There's this one area where there's a lane on one side for a half a mile that just appears then disappears for no discernable reason and it causes problems. It's a good place to learn how to drive. lol I can't even think of an onramp around here that doesn't have a traffic light and all the highways have lanes that appear/disappear for no reason. You think PA is hell you should come on down to LA/SD sometime where people swerve into oncoming traffic to get into a turn lane on the reg.
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Drunk Nerds posted:I still don't see the problem this fixes. Anyone turning left can never be the cause of blocked traffic at a four way intersection. It's not physically possible. either You can't turn left because cars are blocking you, in which case they're blocking the traffic not you, or you turn left and get out of the intersection. I've seen this a few times in rush hour, too many cars go to the next light and there's not enough room so now there's a solid wall of jerks across the intersection. A car trying to turn left is just as stuck as the rest of the poor fuckers in that clusterfuck. Terrible urban planning is the tits. E: it was even better when they tried to install red light cameras and nobody paid the fines they got in the mail because gently caress them and the state court said the cameras were illegal anyway because automatically generating fines skipped the regular legal process. Pvt.Scott fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Jun 6, 2016 |
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It boggles my mind how bad driving seems to be a regional contagion. Los Angeles, people generaly drive Drive East two hours. As soon as you hit the Arizona border, you'll constantly see people doing retardo poo poo like: - Tailgating a massive truck that is passing another truck - Tailgating a line of cars tailgating a massive truck that is passing another truck - Honking at people who have the right of way. I saw several times people turning on a green light being honked at by someone at a red light who wanted to turn into the same lane. - Being fat - Being old Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Jun 6, 2016 |
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Jun 6, 2016 22:05
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Pvt.Scott posted:I've seen this a few times in rush hour, too many cars go to the next light and there's not enough room so now there's a solid wall of jerks across the intersection. A car trying to turn left is just as stuck as the rest of the poor fuckers in that clusterfuck. Terrible urban planning is the tits. It's not terrible urban planning in that case. It's dumbass driving. Is there space for your car at the end of the intersection? Yes>> enter intersection. No? Wait until room opens up.
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Jun 6, 2016 22:07
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:You are supposed to wait until it's clear that those people are stopping and not running the red light before you turn left in front of them... Jesus christ. Yes, hence the part where I said you would be stuck waiting while the cross traffic (which now has a green light) moves towards you while you wait patiently to make sure you don't get obliterated by idiots running reds (i.e. by waiting until it is clear those people are stopping).
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Drunk Nerds posted:It's not terrible urban planning in that case. It's dumbass driving. Is there space for your car at the end of the intersection? Yes>> enter intersection. No? Wait until room opens up. It's not always that simple because until the line ahead of you settles, there's almost always room. Or sometimes you wait, and the line on the other side of the intersection compresses, leaving enough room for another car or two and the light is still green. The main problem is that the distance to the next light is long enough to make it difficult to judge when/if the line will overflow at problem intersections. Thankfully, regressive, ever-climbing local sales tax rates have been paying to slowly expand and improve the roads in the busiest parts of town. Need a new bridge? $0.005 sales tax hike! Widening roads? $0.005 sales tax hike! Before long you're paying an extra $0.02-0.03 on every dollar depending on how many projects the city is starting. Thanks for shouldering the burden, poors!
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Drunk Nerds posted:It boggles my mind how bad driving seems to be a regional contagion. Los Angeles, people generaly drive Yeah LA is hell but once you figure it out it's fine. Drive down to SD and I just mutter cuss words nonstop under my breath at all the morons doing moron things.
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Jun 6, 2016 22:25
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in america there is no driving test, there is only a parallel parking test and a 'did you piss off the fat old lady who smells like a mix of cigarettes, mothballs, and cat litter' test
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Jun 6, 2016 22:32
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Sheep-Goats posted:Also fine: The New York left, where you, being first in line in the left turn lane, bang out out a left just when the light changes before the oncoming traffic gets up to speed to fill the intersection. this is usually illegal btw
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California stops are illegal too but hey.
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