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TheKingofSprings posted:Why should being in the left lane be a problem anyways if you're going at the speed limit or 5 above it? Because I drive in Saskatchewan where the road is flat as gently caress and a straight line and going 130 isn't going to hurt anyone. I'm not going to tailgate you and I'll slow down accordingly but get outta the left lane.
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# ? Nov 8, 2016 22:07 |
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# ? May 30, 2024 06:18 |
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Speed isn't any more dangerous than any other road condition like rain or snow or dense traffic or high-speed winds. You probably shouldn't speed over ice past your local wal-mart on boxing day but dealing with difficult road conditions is a reality of driving and if you trust people to drive on slick roads (and maybe you don't) you can trust them to go fast on easy ones.
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# ? Nov 8, 2016 23:47 |
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Utgardaloki posted:Speed isn't any more dangerous than any other road condition like rain or snow or dense traffic or high-speed winds. You probably shouldn't speed over ice past your local wal-mart on boxing day but dealing with difficult road conditions is a reality of driving and if you trust people to drive on slick roads (and maybe you don't) you can trust them to go fast on easy ones. I think that's part of the problem: I see people driving waaay too fast for conditions all the time when conditions are crap, even though it's technically within the posted speed limit. I was on a 110 km/h section of the TC and I had to go 50 km/h to see properly with wipers on full (and the entire right lane was full of people going that speed, it wasn't just me), and people were passing going twice that in the left-hand lane. I guarantee they couldn't see poo poo, and were at significant risk of hydroplaning. It seems like the speed limits are designed for bad conditions and poorly maintained and/or large vehicles that can't handle well, as if it's meant to be a target speed, whereas the speed limit should be an absolute limit, and when you can't go that speed for whatever reason, you simply go slower.
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# ? Nov 8, 2016 23:52 |
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Like it or not speed limits are to accommodate for the fact that humans are fallable and reducing the speed limit by 10KM/H drastically reduces the severity of injuries in vehicle vs pedestrian accidents among other things. Also, every additional 10KM/H increases the the closure rate by 20KM/H which is often the difference between there being fatalities or not in a head on collision. On any undivided road you aren't going to see limits above 100 for this reason and even then it's rare. Sorry kids but you aren't ever going to get to whip along at 150 on any road, even in self driving vehicles, because poo poo happens.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 01:02 |
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The only ethical speeding is my speeding.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 01:04 |
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EvilJoven posted:Like it or not speed limits are to accommodate for the fact that humans are fallable and reducing the speed limit by 10KM/H drastically reduces the severity of injuries in vehicle vs pedestrian accidents among other things. I wasn't advocating for self-driving cars going at 150 KM/h--although they're much more capable of driving at that speed than a human could. Speed limits for freeways are fine between 80 and 120 KM/h by my standards. Any faster and we may as well just start building high speed rail everywhere which of course is never going to happen.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 01:05 |
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OSI bean dip posted:This problem is solved just fine with self-driving vehicles It's also solved with magic carpets
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 01:20 |
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GENDERED SLUR posted:It's also solved with magic carpets One exists in a fantasy world and one is here already.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 01:26 |
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How many people have already died letting their overpriced powerwheels drive for them?
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 01:37 |
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EvilJoven posted:How many people have already died letting their overpriced powerwheels drive for them? None? There is that one guy that knocked his head off watching harry potter with tesla's mis-named cruise control.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 01:50 |
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Good lord the Americans are actually going to do it.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 03:29 |
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The Butcher posted:Good lord the Americans are actually going to do it. Yes.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 03:38 |
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God loving help us all, I knew they were dumb but I never knew they were this dumb. Please, let this end the right way...
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 03:52 |
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PT6A posted:God loving help us all, I knew they were dumb but I never knew they were this dumb. Loving the new avatar bro! Worst case you have some alibi when we get the new white guy as president downstairs
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 03:59 |
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Canadians can be smug again.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 04:42 |
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Until the Trump Empire annexes us I guess.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 04:46 |
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If we elect Doug Ford as PM we can save ourselves from Emperor Trump
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 04:50 |
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My God is it actually going to happen?
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 04:51 |
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Risky Bisquick posted:If we elect Doug Ford as PM we can save ourselves from Emperor Trump Doug would kill to be Gauleiter of Canada.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 05:02 |
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I'm not sure why it depresses me so much, kinda like brexit did...
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 05:02 |
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Amazingly enough, if we were to reckon the date by the French Republican calendar then today would be the 18th Brumaire.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 05:11 |
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Immigration Canada's website is currently down due to server load.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 05:13 |
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Furnaceface posted:Immigration Canada's website is currently down due to server load. Hell of a way for the brain drain to reverse (at least for a while).
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 05:17 |
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Maybe now people will believe me when I say that polls do not matter anymore in this day and age.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 05:27 |
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This is horrifying and depressing. What the gently caress.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 05:36 |
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http://exiledonline.com/we-the-spiteful/ shoulda gone with bernard, america
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 05:36 |
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The real winner tonight is Kellie Leitch
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 05:40 |
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Dear PM Trudeau, Build a wall. thanks
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 05:49 |
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Posting from NY. I've thought a lot about it and Trudeau isn't so bad you guys.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 06:00 |
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w00tmonger posted:Loving the new avatar bro! That doesn't cheer me up at all. I was unintentionally a prick, and I was right to be called out for it. I feel sick to my stomach watching what's going on south of the border right now. I'm loving frightened.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 06:01 |
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https://twitter.com/NickKouvalis/status/796215424090152960
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 06:10 |
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What does a Canada without NAFTA look like?
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 06:16 |
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DariusLikewise posted:What does a Canada without NAFTA look like? well our manufacturing has been gutted and our housing bubble is likely to pop soon so we've got...resource extraction left. yeah. Will Trump actually be able to fulfill his promise though?? will he even bother? Who knows!
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 06:23 |
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Hahahahahahaha
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 06:25 |
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Its amazing that we somehow managed to have the least worst vote in the last 12 months.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 06:26 |
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Wistful of Dollars posted:Hahahahahahaha
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 06:27 |
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I was watching with family and we're all loving terrified but maybe there will be a reverse brain drain now that the anti-intellectuals are in power?
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 06:28 |
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I wouldn't expect those brains to go to a place whose economy is so intimately tied to a country led by a [list of insults and slurs].
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 06:35 |
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No one is leaving the States for Canada for the same reason our job creators don't leave when you tax them.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 06:38 |
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# ? May 30, 2024 06:18 |
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Anyway, back to talking about Liberal's libbing.
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# ? Nov 9, 2016 06:50 |