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spankmeister posted:Don't listen to this idiot. Driving with lights on during the day is way safer. I didn’t say it wasn’t safer. I said it was weird.
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Lights don't go on automatically in Australia, but the prevailing wisdom is that if you're driving in the country you should keep them switched on even in the day. Nobody does it in the city or suburbs, though, and I'm not really sure they're wrong.
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Jan 27, 2017 11:44
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Having your lights on whenever you drive is the norm here and it makes a car 1000x easier to spot, sometimes I've almost been surprised by a car because it's lights were off and it blended in so well with the road and surroundings. But if the car has the lights on, you'll spot it hundreds of meters away even if it's not in your direct field of vision thanks to the lamps. It's just such a loving useful thing I don't understand countries where they drive with the lamps off. I think the cops would stop you here if you forgot it, and cars will blink at you to say "hey dude you forgot the lights".
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Jan 27, 2017 12:15
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Atlanta simplifies things a bit in that you can just assume at any given hour the roads in both directions are solid lines of cars.
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Jan 27, 2017 12:24
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Hyperlynx posted:Lights don't go on automatically in Australia, but the prevailing wisdom is that if you're driving in the country you should keep them switched on even in the day. Nobody does it in the city or suburbs, though, and I'm not really sure they're wrong. My VE Commie has auto lights. Good fun when going through maccas as they spaz out flicking on and off as I go from the paying window to pickup window.
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Jan 27, 2017 14:47
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Jabor posted:Pretty much just big white goods at this point, I think. Perhaps some older kitchen appliances? Virtually everything these days has an actual microcontroller and hence at least some circuitry to turn AC into low-voltage DC. And a lot of portable appliances use that power circuitry to power the entire device, so you get it to be 110/230V agnostic for free. Electric heaters, electric stoves, blenders, mixers, toaster ovens, compressors, incandescent bulbs, fluorescent fixtures (they *can* run off DC of sufficient voltage, but if you do that the mercury tends to accumulate at one end of the lamp so fluorescent fixtures that run from DC actually use an inverter to convert to AC first). Think anything that's a big resistive or reactive load. Obviously running the resistive stuff off DC wouldn't be a problem, but the reactive stuff would be. spankmeister posted:Don't listen to this idiot. Driving with lights on during the day is way safer. That's not borne out by actual research. https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/811029 quote:The analysis found that DRLs have no statistically significant overall effects on the three target crashes. When combining Phanatic fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Jan 27, 2017 |
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Jan 27, 2017 15:10
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Phanatic posted:Electric heaters, electric stoves, blenders, mixers, toaster ovens, compressors, incandescent bulbs, fluorescent fixtures (they *can* run off DC of sufficient voltage, but if you do that the mercury tends to accumulate at one end of the lamp so fluorescent fixtures that run from DC actually use an inverter to convert to AC first). Think anything that's a big resistive or reactive load. Don’t modern fluorescent drivers rectify the the 50/60 Hz AC so they can operate at many kilohertz for greater efficiency and comfort?
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Jan 27, 2017 15:18
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Phanatic posted:That's not borne out by actual research. Um maybe you haven't heard but the people have decided that this is the era of alternative facts so you can take your scientific method and gently caress right off!
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Jan 27, 2017 15:18
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Just like a bumper car! 
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Jan 27, 2017 15:19
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Alternative fact: anybody in a white car with snow on the ground who doesn't have lights on just because its the daytime is the worst.
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Jan 27, 2017 15:23
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5er posted:Atlanta simplifies things a bit in that you can just assume at any given hour the roads in both directions are solid lines of cars. I still remember one of the last times I went to downtown Atlanta and for some reason one particular cloverleaf on the highway smelled exactly like the inside of a well-used gun range.
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Jan 27, 2017 15:39
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Volcott posted:What are these people saving their headlights for, double nighttime? It's hard to reach aaaaaall the way over there to turn on the headlights while driving and eating and texting at once.
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Jan 27, 2017 16:29
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Platystemon posted:Don’t modern fluorescent drivers rectify the the 50/60 Hz AC so they can operate at many kilohertz for greater efficiency and comfort? Electronic ballasts do, yes, you find those in CF lamps. The old-style fluorescent tubes still frequently use equally old-style reactive ballasts.
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Jan 27, 2017 16:35
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CannonFodder posted:It's hard to reach aaaaaall the way over there to turn on the headlights while driving and eating and texting at once.
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Jan 27, 2017 16:35
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Gorilla Salad posted:It's like indicating or using your wipers - if you wait until as late as possible, you'll be cooler than anyone else. No look, if I turn on my signal to merge, someone might try to move up so they can go ahead of me. So I want to make my driving as unclear as possible so people give me respect to move freely.
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Jan 27, 2017 16:40
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Mikl posted:Personally I just have my headlights on every time I'm driving, even during the day. Am I weird for doing this? Same here, but only because I I replaced my headlights with LED bulbs. I have DRLs, but when they're on/the lights are in the "off" position, it sends a lower volage through, and it causes LED bulbs to flicker, so I have to turn them to 'on' to stop that.
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Jan 27, 2017 17:24
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chitoryu12 posted:I still remember one of the last times I went to downtown Atlanta and for some reason one particular cloverleaf on the highway smelled exactly like the inside of a well-used gun range. Have been sent to downtown Atlanta on a business trip, that's pretty accurate.
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Jan 27, 2017 18:43
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PhotoKirk posted:Have been sent to downtown Atlanta on a business trip, that's pretty accurate. I think that was the same trip where I saw two guys beat up and rob another in the middle of the road. Not even a residential neighborhood; it was on a two-lane road leading to or from an interstate. I enjoy Detroit more than Atlanta.
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Jan 27, 2017 18:59
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Phanatic posted:That's not borne out by actual research. That is the only study that found no effect that I could find. From Daytime running lights in the USA: what is the impact on vehicle crashes in Minnesota? quote:Daytime running lights (DRLs) are a safety feature intended to reduce crashes by increasing the contrast between vehicles and the background. Currently, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Canada, Denmark, Hungary, and Iceland all require vehicle lights during daytime hours. Most of the studies of the effectiveness of DRLs have been done in Scandinavia. Finland was the first to institute DRL legislation in rural areas, and literature reports a 27% crash rate reduction [1]. In 1977, Sweden started requiring the use of daytime vehicle lights on all roads, and reduction of crash rates from 9 to 21% were reported by Andersson and Nilsson [2]. Norway began to require installation of DRLs in all new cars beginning in 1985 and use of daytime lights on all vehicles by 1988. A 15% crash rate reduction for crashes involving more than one vehicle was later reported by Elvik [3]. Lastly, Denmark has required use of DRLs on all roads since 1990, with a statistically significant 37% rate reduction for crashes involving a left turn in a study by Hansen [4]. A 1995 paper by Theeuwes and Riemersma criticized the odds ratio methodology of all these early studies [6]. In response, a meta-analysis of 17 studies by Elvik estimated a decrease in crash rate of 10–15% for multi-vehicle crashes and total crash reduction of 3–12% [7].
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Jan 27, 2017 19:01
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I constantly run into parked cars because they dont have their lights on. When will parking lights be mandated to be on 24/7?
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Jan 27, 2017 19:37
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DrBouvenstein posted:Same here, but only because I I replaced my headlights with LED bulbs. "Plug and play" LEDs have the same problems as ebay HID kits. The optics of your light assembly aren't designed for the light pattern emitted by an LED bulb. It may look brighter, in fact it probably does, but that brightness is almost certainly not being used optimally and is probably worse in at least one way (glare, foreground illumination, etc.) Right now there aren't really any good retrofit projectors for LEDs. The Toyota Corolla units are widely available but are generally considered to be worse than a standard HID projector retrofit. That'll eventually change of course, but a lot of the OEM LED lights aren't actually all that good either.
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wolrah posted:"Plug and play" LEDs have the same problems as ebay HID kits. The optics of your light assembly aren't designed for the light pattern emitted by an LED bulb. It may look brighter, in fact it probably does, but that brightness is almost certainly not being used optimally and is probably worse in at least one way (glare, foreground illumination, etc.)
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More HSE than OSHA but nice to see someone being held accountable: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38774080
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wolrah posted:"Plug and play" LEDs have the same problems as ebay HID kits. The optics of your light assembly aren't designed for the light pattern emitted by an LED bulb. It may look brighter, in fact it probably does, but that brightness is almost certainly not being used optimally and is probably worse in at least one way (glare, foreground illumination, etc.) Hmmm..interesting. I've noticed that foreground and just off to the side illumination isn't as good, but I have fog lights that I always keep on that fill in those areas. I also only replaced my low beams, not my high beams, so mostly just in-town driving where there's street lights.
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monkeytennis posted:More HSE than OSHA but nice to see someone being held accountable: "Gordon, of Dauntsey, Wiltshire - who was also banned from being a company director for 12 years - was driving in a truck in front of the lorry that crashed." Weird punishments in GB.
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Anta posted:That is the only study that found no effect that I could find. However, using the State Data System (SDS) from Florida, Maryland, Missouri, and Pennsylvania, a statistically significant 7% reduction in risk for relevant (including crash subtypes presumably affected by DRLs, such as opposite-direction) nonfatal crashes was identified, and DRL-equipped vehicles were associated with 28% fewer pedestrian fatalities brah can you not read
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Alereon posted:I have been almost run over several times because of forward-firing LED turn signals that are completely invisible from the side, especially on a sunny day. It's ridiculously unsafe. Unfortunately the cheapest LED modules out there don't do this and just have a single LED aimed out. These are pretty terrible for basically everything except maybe license plate illumination, but idiots buy them because they're just want "LED" and don't really care how they get it. DrBouvenstein posted:Hmmm..interesting. I've noticed that foreground and just off to the side illumination isn't as good, but I have fog lights that I always keep on that fill in those areas. I also only replaced my low beams, not my high beams, so mostly just in-town driving where there's street lights. For a normal headlight less foreground is actually a good thing. The area that fog lights cover really shouldn't be covered by normal headlights because at speed that nearby brightness hurts your distance vision. With PnP LEDs the usual problems are too much foreground, too little distant output, and a certain amount of glare (though less than a HID bulb in halogen optics).
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`Nemesis posted:I posted this in the schadenfreude thread, but it's just as good here You'd think if anybody were to know about this bridge, it would be the fire department. But then they plow a truck into it.
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`Nemesis posted:I posted this in the schadenfreude thread, but it's just as good here I love the guy at 1:15 who clearly thinks "oh this bridge looks a little low, better drive in the middle of the road!"
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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`Nemesis posted:I posted this in the schadenfreude thread, but it's just as good here Christ, its 10' 6" and has giant curbs that lust for car death.
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PostNouveau posted:You'd think if anybody were to know about this bridge, it would be the fire department. But then they plow a truck into it. What's with the cars randomly hitting each other?
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dexter6 posted:Crews typically are familiar with and roads that they are first or second due to, but that may have been a truck from out of the area. At least, I hope. Sudden curbs
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Synthbuttrange posted:Sudden curbs This is going to be my new synthcore band's name. Thanks.
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Anta posted:That is the only study that found no effect that I could find. Living in MN, I can say that before DRLs became standard, it was really common to see people driving in twilight without lights on, and by the time you noticed the car, it was blowing by you. I would chalk it up to people who started driving when headlights weren't necessary and didn't go by enough cars to notice that they actually need headlights until it was super obvious. Also, and this is anecdotal, but I've heard people remark on how quickly it goes from full sunlight to total darkness compared to elsewhere in the U.S., so there's more of a chance of needing to turn headlights on en route. Not sure if that's a north/south or a coasts/flyover country thing or what, but I could see there being variation in usefulness based on location.
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Jan 28, 2017 02:35
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evil_bunnY posted:However, using the State Data System (SDS) from Florida, Maryland, Missouri, and Pennsylvania, a statistically significant 7% reduction in risk for relevant (including crash subtypes presumably affected by DRLs, such as opposite-direction) nonfatal crashes was identified, and DRL-equipped vehicles were associated with 28% fewer pedestrian fatalities Uh, yes? My point is that the vast majority of studies found a small but significant effect, that sentence describes one of the many studies with that result.
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Jan 28, 2017 03:09
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Shut the gently caress up about headlights! 
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packetmantis posted:Shut the gently caress up about headlights! Thanks for enlightening us and correcting our course.
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Jan 28, 2017 04:36
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Who here loves cable management?
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The Archaic posted:Who here loves cable management? Not too shabby, but where are the wire labels?
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The Archaic posted:Who here loves cable management? This is the Cake Wars of cable management
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