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Goober Peas posted:That's a Tennessee thing. Memphis, Knoxville, and Chattanooga drivers are much the same. Chattanooga's specialty is refusing to change lanes to let you merge onto the highway. They'll run you into a bridge abutment rather than move over.
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Goober Peas posted:That's a Tennessee thing. Memphis, Knoxville, and Chattanooga drivers are much the same. People in Memphis are such anti-intellectual, degenerate, worthless morons. People in Memphis are too drat slow. They walk slow, talk slow, think slow, breathe slow, and drive slow.
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May 6, 2017 20:07
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Saukkis posted:I can somewhat understand the people dreading the arrival of their first roundabout. I've been driving through them since I had license, so they are nothing to me. But it was quite a weird feeling eperiencing those "double teardrop" junctions for the first time a couple years ago. "Why is this roundabout missing the round?". Funnily, Google doesn't know how to deal with those either, they show up as roundabouts in map view. If you take the two "halves" and put them together, as if the roundabout interrupted the highway, you get this: 
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May 6, 2017 20:34
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Theris posted:Roundabouts are one of those municipal policy proposals (also including, but not limited to, indoor smoking bans and expanded public transportation) where olds and stupids like to pretend that theirs is the first city to ever attempt <proposal> and the same stock arguments that turned out to be wrong in every other city that previously implemented <proposal> are definitely correct this time. Yep, the old and stupid demographic are usually the first to not bother to yield or stop, or clog up traffic playing the "no YOU go" bullshit like at intersections. Roundabouts are gaining traction around here and I actually like them, but I hear way too many morons complain because they're just plain ignorant or don't pay attention.
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May 6, 2017 20:35
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This is what we have in the East Bay... Four way stop, and some of those islands have gently caress off impervious to see through bushes in them
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May 6, 2017 22:27
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Goober Peas posted:That's a Tennessee thing. Memphis, Knoxville, and Chattanooga drivers are much the same. The red light thing is amazing. I've been stopped at a red light and has some jackass fly by me. I've never seen it so bad anywhere. LA has horrible aggresive drivers, but they mostly try to stop at red lights (because cameras). Deteriorata posted:Chattanooga's specialty is refusing to change lanes to let you merge onto the highway. They'll run you into a bridge abutment rather than move over. Roundabouts chat: Sacramento installed a bunch of traffic circles in the city. Traffic circles are not roundabouts and don't require everyone to yield and have stop signs on one side. The people without the stop signs use traffic circles as an excuse to test the slalom handling of their cars at speed. So loving annoying. It is like the worst of all worlds. nm fucked around with this message at 22:48 on May 6, 2017 |
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May 6, 2017 22:43
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Roundabout chat: The problem I have is people around me don't seem to understand what a "yield" sign means, so more often than not cars approaching the circle fail to yield to cars already in it. Almost got creamed here about four months ago in a similar fashion at this one:  SUV coming from the left didn't yield, slammed on my brakes and stopped just short of clipping his front bumper. He then proceeded to follow me for about five miles until I stopped at a traffic light, then he pulled along side me to scream at me. Asked if he knew what the upside down triangle sign that was white & red and said "yield" on it meant. Sometimes I want to carry a stack of the driver's education booklets they have at the BMV to pass out when I witness this level of stupidity...
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May 7, 2017 00:21
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nm posted:The red light thing is amazing. I've been stopped at a red light and has some jackass fly by me. Be on alert at stop signs too. At least in California they slow down for them.
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May 7, 2017 00:56
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http://i.imgur.com/9DYB01n.mp4
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May 7, 2017 01:30
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At least he stuck the landing.
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May 7, 2017 01:41
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That's the face of a man who knew exactly what was going to happen and he did it anyways because that's exactly what he wanted to do.
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Geoj posted:don't seem to understand what a "yield" sign means The real root of the problem.
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May 7, 2017 03:35
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nm posted:So I am in Nashville and holy gently caress. Maybe it's just me, but I didn't see anything of the sort when I was in Nashville a few hours ago. Then again, I've spent the past 5 years in Atlanta, where freeway aggression and general on-road assholery is a way of life.
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May 7, 2017 07:39
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The first roundabout that was installed by me was on a 30 mph road that had no stop signs intersecting with a 25 mph one that did. You could end up sitting at the 25 mph one for minutes waiting for the right moment, but the roundabout completely solved it.
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May 7, 2017 15:22
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Same day, two different roundabouts: First, some silly person in a Honda entering had to slam on their brakes to avoid scuffing against my door. The yield sign is there for a reason, silly person. Second, an old shithead stopped inside the roundabout to wave me in. That is NOT how roundabouts work, old shithead! Every newspaper, every TV station in the country should run a PSA about how roundabouts are supposed to work.
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May 7, 2017 20:29
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I lied, I really am petty. This dude parked as close to the handicapped spot as he could so I parked as close to him as I could while still being in the spot
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May 7, 2017 23:12
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 In downtown Boise City, OK, way out on the panhandle, there is a roundabout going around the courthouse. It's also the intersection of a bunch of US highways. I took the blue path all the time in a big rig because US 287 is the most direct route from Dallas / Fort Worth to Denver. Thankfully there is now a bypass for 287. CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 00:24 on May 8, 2017 |
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May 8, 2017 00:22
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On the way to pick up my rental car this morning we went past a car that had seemingly just been abandoned in the middle of turning right at a set of lights. No driver anywhere to be found, left with its hazards on in the middle of the junction  Also just now saw someone texting while driving. In the far left lane of the interstate. On a motorcycle. 
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May 8, 2017 01:01
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Icedude posted:Also just now saw someone texting while driving. In the far left lane of the interstate. On a motorcycle. I do this too. Change tracks. Check facebook. Order Indian food, you know.
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May 8, 2017 01:13
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Some doofus in an older F series (with a 6.0L) passed me on a double yellow line, stayed in that lane, and proceeded to attempt to roll coal on me, unsuccessfully. Twice. I didn't take the bait, but  at flooring it headlong into oncoming traffic for no good reason.
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May 8, 2017 02:07
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Roundabout chat... This is a fairly typical roundabout in Tijuana. 3 or 4 lanes (in theory, in reality 5+ sometimes because Mexico and no lane markings) from each direction. Some are controlled by traffic signals, some of which might be working sometimes. Unlike the unknown time in the distant past when Google maps got this image, there isn't a speck of paint on a single piece of pavement that I've ever seen in these things, and of course drivers, and especially taxi drivers in TJ just do whatever the hell they want regardless, so navigating through these can be fairly entertaining. See how the roundabout itself is supposed to have 4 lanes, but there is enough pavement for another 3 lanes outside of that area? Yea, guess what happens to all that extra pavement. 
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May 8, 2017 03:06
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For the record, you can turn off that poo poo ugly 3D mode by clicking the hamburger in the upper right and clicking the '3D on' text under the Satellite section. 3d buildings is cool when flying around the city. But when taking screenshots? Nah.
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May 8, 2017 03:59
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xzzy posted:For the record, you can turn off that poo poo ugly 3D mode by clicking the hamburger in the upper right and clicking the '3D on' text under the Satellite section. Speaking of cool 3D stuff, if you ever get a chance to play with a Space Navigator or something like it, do it. It lets you control a camera in 3D with one hand - you can do movement in the 6 axes, plus rotate around the three axes as well. I got to play around with one while we were presenting something using Google Earth. With a little practice you can make cinematic-looking movements while you track around a central object, in realtime. Fun as hell.
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May 8, 2017 04:10
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I still got my space orb 360 rolling around in a drawer, let me dig it out!
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xzzy posted:For the record, you can turn off that poo poo ugly 3D mode by clicking the hamburger in the upper right and clicking the '3D on' text under the Satellite section. Thanks, I did not know that.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:This is what we have in the East Bay... whoever implemented those can go the heck to gently caress, they're the worst combination.
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May 8, 2017 09:26
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430am and some lovely Hyundai hogging the left lane and driving down the highway with their brights on? Great start.
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May 8, 2017 11:28
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Why would you put stop signs at a roundabout?
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Watched someone nearly get tboned today because they went to change lanes as an idiot in a side street decided it was go time. Luckily there was space in front of me for the car to dodge out of the way. Not much later I came close to tboning someone else. One of the intersections I drive through daily has a merge lane to get onto the highway. There's often a queue of cars waiting and the person second in line nearly pulled out in front of me until they realised and pulled back into line to wait. In other news I got a lot of joy from sharing the road with a 2cv. The bloke was doing his best to keep the momentum going at all possible times. He flew past me at the bottom of a pretty steep hill and once the momentum had died a bit he ended up a little under the limit as we reached the top of the hill. I've not driven a 2cv but I've been a passenger in one and know it takes a fair bit of effort to keep it on the boil the way this guy was making it happen.
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fridge corn posted:Why would you put stop signs at a roundabout? It's not actually a roundabout, they put those in to slow down people running the stop signs.
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May 8, 2017 14:08
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Roundabouts rule. The only time they work poorly is if there's heavy, constant traffic that wants to all go in the same direction. There's a local one where a ferry load of cars is released into it (so, couple of hundred cars), and the all take either the second exit, so if you're waiting at the first exit you can sit there forever. It's an edge case though.
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May 8, 2017 14:17
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xzzy posted:It's not actually a roundabout, they put those in to slow down people running the stop signs. So why not turn it into an actual roundabout? 🤔
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May 8, 2017 14:26
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fridge corn posted:So why not turn it into an actual roundabout? 🤔 Have you ever driven in the Chicago Suburbs?
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May 8, 2017 14:35
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PYF roundabout.
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fridge corn posted:So why not turn it into an actual roundabout? 🤔 Poor planning, the ones I've seen have been in tight packed urban areas where they'd have to bulldoze buildings to make room, and good loving luck getting a city to actually intrude on MAH PROPERTY here America. I really only see proper roundabouts in areas freshly developed or the city happened to own all the land around the intersection.
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xzzy posted:Poor planning, the ones I've seen have been in tight packed urban areas where they'd have to bulldoze buildings to make room, and good loving luck getting a city to actually intrude on MAH PROPERTY here America. I really only see proper roundabouts in areas freshly developed or the city happened to own all the land around the intersection. ???  ???
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Some doofus in an older F series (with a 6.0L) passed me on a double yellow line, stayed in that lane, and proceeded to attempt to roll coal on me, unsuccessfully. Twice. Probably not the first time his equipment failed to perform when called upon.
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fridge corn posted:??? Good luck getting an F150 around that thing!
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xzzy posted:Good luck getting an F150 around that thing! The reason why there isn't an actual raised island in the middle of that roundabout is for that exact purpose. You're expected to drive over the middle of it
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When you enter a room, do you devour all the fun in it for sustenance or does it flee in terror?
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