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cageeeeeeeeeeeeeee posted:Its hard but the easiest way to fix this is to stop caring about it, it happens everywhere. Its even more important driving a manual. I could get super frustrated every day and put a lot more wear and tear on my brakes and clutch or I can make sure I leave a few minutes early, leave room and both me and my car will arrive at work in better condition. Where do you live? Because I'm telling you, in heavy bay area traffic you can try this and never, ever get home. You're literally going to have to park on the freeway to avoid closing the gap, or having it continuously closed by other drivers.
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And around Philly at least, if you make the gap just small enough to block "normal" cars, a Fiat or Smartcar is going to cram into that space at 1.5x the speed of traffic. Always Be Tailgating. If you want to shift your commute times to avoid it, leave home at 5am, and leave work at 9pm or later.
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Or be.a true capitalist and never leave work.
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Going from 75 north to 635 West in Dallas, it mashes 2 lanes down to 1 not once, but two times in 1/4 mile. I used to sit in line on the left and get all pissed off that the whole reason there was a line in the first place was people driving all the way up to the merge point on the right side then forcing their way in. I would start to float over the center line a little early and shake my fists in impotent anger as cars continued to pass me and drive another 15 car lengths up the road. Then one day it was like a switch toggled in my head and I was like, 'what I'm just waiting in this long line out of principle? So that I'll go to Heaven when I die? gently caress this.' Now I'm one of the assholes in the right lane, driving past 20 cars right up to the merge point. I'm never aggressive about it and if another car guns it to block me from getting in front of them, well I know exactly how they feel, ain't even mad. I just get behind them instead and go to work. Hell just this morning somebody jumped out into the right lane to try and block traffic, I just went around them. Haven't they worked out that zipper merging is the most efficient method for that kind of traffic anyway?
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Leperflesh posted:Where do you live? Because I'm telling you, in heavy bay area traffic you can try this and never, ever get home. You're literally going to have to park on the freeway to avoid closing the gap, or having it continuously closed by other drivers. I drive on stupid idiot-filled 101 in the bay area every day and I totally know what you are talking about, but I still leave a gap in front of me. I despise those with the car equivalent of restless leg syndrome, who jump between lanes endlessly the moment traffic becomes congested, only making the problem worse for everyone. I still keep a gap because I'm a stubborn bastard. I don't think it actually makes me get there much slower, if at all, though. I agree with you that the off ramps and on ramps are hosed and the biggest part of the problem. I try to avoid driving during rush hour if possible, but often can't avoid it. If 101 has depleted my soul, I will take 280 instead, but it's about 5-10 minutes slower on average. And it has it's own share of problems, namely people hitting their brakes when they turn a corner and are driving into the sun.
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Leperflesh posted:Where do you live? Because I'm telling you, in heavy bay area traffic you can try this and never, ever get home. You're literally going to have to park on the freeway to avoid closing the gap, or having it continuously closed by other drivers. I lived in the bay area and can confirm. (Cause its me doing the deed 101 life)
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fozzy fosbourne posted:I try to avoid driving during rush hour if possible, but often can't avoid it. If 101 has depleted my soul, I will take 280 instead, but it's about 5-10 minutes slower on average. And it has it's own share of problems, namely people hitting their brakes when they turn a corner and are driving into the sun. My commute for a couple of years was San Mateo to Dublin. 101-92-880-238-580. When I finally got laid off from that job it felt like I'd been released from purgatory. And that was in 2002-3, before traffic really got horrible. Takes No Damage posted:Then one day it was like a switch toggled in my head and I was like, 'what I'm just waiting in this long line out of principle? So that I'll go to Heaven when I die? gently caress this.' Now I'm one of the assholes in the right lane, driving past 20 cars right up to the merge point. I'm never aggressive about it and if another car guns it to block me from getting in front of them, well I know exactly how they feel, ain't even mad. I just get behind them instead and go to work. Hell just this morning somebody jumped out into the right lane to try and block traffic, I just went around them. I completely understand. And yet I also hate you furiously. These days I work from home 5 days a week and feel extremely blessed. I should quit my job because I've been here for 13 years and am definitely badly underpaid, but any other job is going to require me to commute at least a few days a week and so I think it's worth like the $20k-$30k a year more that I should be making to not be doing that.
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Leperflesh posted:Where do you live? Because I'm telling you, in heavy bay area traffic you can try this and never, ever get home. You're literally going to have to park on the freeway to avoid closing the gap, or having it continuously closed by other drivers. I do this when I'm walking.
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If California was an open concealed-carry state, there'd be daily murders on 101.
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Takes No Damage posted:Haven't they worked out that zipper merging is the most efficient method for that kind of traffic anyway? Yeah, I thought so too. I always just merge at the last moment and dgiaf, sometimes waiting until someone will let me merge. Here's the first thing I found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_(traffic) quote:In traffic engineering, the late merge or zipper method is a convention for merging traffic into a reduced number of lanes. Drivers in merging lanes are expected to use both lanes to advance to the lane reduction point and merge at that location, alternating turns. So it sounds like it's preferable to zipper merge.
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Leperflesh posted:My commute for a couple of years was San Mateo to Dublin. 101-92-880-238-580. When I finally got laid off from that job it felt like I'd been released from purgatory. And that was in 2002-3, before traffic really got horrible. Alternative plan: stay at your current gig and work from Colorado or Oregon or Hawaii!
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fozzy fosbourne posted:Alternative plan: stay at your current gig and work from Colorado or Oregon or Hawaii! yuuuup. There's complications - we have a lot of family here, and some of them are elderly or in failing health etc., so we're feeling a bit like if we go we'll really regret not being around for them. But I could sell my house and take the equity we gained nearly for free in the past 7 years and buy an equivalent house in a lot of other places outright. Or a decent house in, say, Portland, with lower payments and lower cost of living. My wife's career isn't quite as portable, but we'd manage. We talk about it all the time, it's so tempting.
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fozzy fosbourne posted:Yeah, I thought so too. I always just merge at the last moment and dgiaf, sometimes waiting until someone will let me merge. Yuup, this was me for years. They're cutting in line it's not fair  Then one day I realized, there is no line  Leperflesh posted:I completely understand. And yet I also hate you furiously. I both understand and accept your hatred. I used to be you, then I learned to stop worrying and love the So here's the bit I was talking about this morning with the attempted late-merge blocker, and 2 bonus things that don't deserve their own video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bffa9Tcos4I
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Just to be clear: if all you're doing is driving to the end of a two-into-one lane merge and then merging there, that's fine. It's lovely road setup and you're passing people who got into line early, but it's actually what the road designer intended so it's tough to fault someone for doing it. I'm complaining about people who wait until (or slightly after) the last second to merge onto an exit lane, and then when there's no convenient gap they fuckin' stop there in their non-exit lane, blocking everyone behind them and causing drivers in the exit lane to slam on the brakes, as they force their way into the exit lane, often driving across solid whites to do it. That is the main reason why 880 north is utterly hosed for a half-mile or more behind the 238 exit every evening, for example. Same for the 92 east exit off northbound 101. It is also the reason why the 580 offramp from westbound 24 backs up for a mile back on 24, because people take the left lane of that exit (for east 580) and then jam into the center (for west 580) lane at the last second, causing east 580 traffic to pile up behind them. It's made worse by that exit split being fed by an onramp from street level with cars trying to get across to the left lane for east 580. And even more worse because the onramp onto west 580 coincides with the big split with three left lanes headed to the bridge and three right lanes headed to merge with 880 east, so fucktons of cars trying to merge right at the same point where everyone from 24 is trying to merge left. Anyway yeah the 2-into-1 merge is just a necessary evil sometimes, no matter how you do it you're depending on people having merging skills and too many of them just don't.
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Leperflesh posted:Just to be clear: if all you're doing is driving to the end of a two-into-one lane merge and then merging there, that's fine. It's lovely road setup and you're passing people who got into line early, but it's actually what the road designer intended so it's tough to fault someone for doing it. Oh no absolutely gently caress these guys, if you're on the other side of a solid white line it is my goal in life to make sure you stay there, or at least cut off the next guy. We have a piece of poo poo called The Mixmaster here in Dallas where like 4 freeways all converge just south of downtown, so people on the left need to get right and vice versa. But at least in that case the chaos is contained to a known area, there's no excuse for stopping in an active lane of traffic to wait for a merge, take the next exit you self-centered pricks 
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Latest fun in 2 to 1 merging for me on the way home is the trucks. They'll go right to the end and then merge over. Which will by the nature of their size slow everything down behind them. Since this is the US though, this is a valid and legal tactic. Even if there were signs 3 miles back to start merging because the right lane ends soon. I just deal with it though. Not much else you can really do though. Luckily, this is Cincinnati, so the traffic isn't as miserable as it appears other people have it. Like, I haven't had any real footage captured on my dashcam in the year or so I've owned it now.
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Takes No Damage posted:Going from 75 north to 635 West in Dallas, it mashes 2 lanes down to 1 not once, but two times in 1/4 mile. gently caress that entire interchange (along with 30 <-> 35E), but especially gently caress the 75 -> 635 West portion (both north and south). If I never had to think about that ramp again, I would probably add 5 years to my life. Southbound to west isn't quite as bad, but I still equate it to hammering a finishing nail through my dick (instead of a roofing nail).
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Scruff McGruff posted:Australian dash cams will always be my favorite Goddamn, 1:46 perfect music sync.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:gently caress that entire interchange (along with 30 <-> 35E), but especially gently caress the 75 -> 635 West portion (both north and south). If I never had to think about that ramp again, I would probably add 5 years to my life. What boggles my mind is that there used to be two lanes that carried through the turn and they changed it down to one. That's why the shoulder is so huge, there's still plenty of room for that second lane 
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They did the same thing on the 30 West -> 35E North ramp recently. It was 2 lanes almost all the way (then necked down to 1, opening back up to 2 pretty quickly). Now it switches to 1 lane a lot sooner. Guess which ramp I take to work every day.. 
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Scruff McGruff posted:Australian dash cams will always be my favorite Guy broken down and while MC rider with camera pulls up, the broken down driver sees someone about to rear end him so jumps out of the car rather than be in it while it's hit. It does not go well. quote:those of you that know or don't know what happened here's a pretty good video to help explain what happened Fo3 fucked around with this message at 11:56 on Jun 25, 2017 |
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Yea... I think I'd rather have whiplash from the rear-end hit, that dude is lucky to be alive, that truck nailed him good. Seriously, run into a stopped car before driving into oncoming traffic... wtf.
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The Locator posted:Yea... I think I'd rather have whiplash from the rear-end hit So staying in the car if it was hit would have been more facial reconstruction problem rather than a case of whiplash if the ute did rear end the car. E: VV I didn't read it like that. More like he was getting out of the car to talk to the MC rider. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Jun 25, 2017 |
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Fo3 posted:The guy said he jumped out because he didn't have his belt on; meaning not just jumping out because he could, but meaning that he would be getting a face full of steering wheel and windshield if being rear ended at high speed while staying in the car. So they made the choice to leave the car rather than put a belt back on before impact. (E: I wouldn't say that was wrong, as who has ever timed how long it takes to put a belt on in a panic situation?) Maybe he'll learn to buckle up from now on? Nah...
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But that would be only whatever speed he bounced off the seat with, not the full force of the impact. And he jumped out into oncoming traffic so even if the truck didn't get him, another car easily could have.
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mobby_6kl posted:But that would be only whatever speed he bounced off the seat with, not the full force of the impact. And he jumped out into oncoming traffic so even if the truck didn't get him, another car easily could have. Actually if you watch the slo-mo zoom in on the bikes mirror, he jumps into the median, it's the truck that punts him into oncoming traffic.
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Fo3 posted:he would be getting a face full of steering wheel and windshield if being rear ended at high speed while staying in the car without a belt on. Actually, he'd be pressed very hard back into his seat. Still possibly neck-breaking, but not nearly as dangerous as a front-on collision without a belt, especially if the seat has a head support.
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Cage posted:Thanks for the link Google: "Adorama A118C" takes you to the product page. I wouldn't buy one from a dodgy 3rd party NewEgg Seller.
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http://i.imgur.com/iC4G8zA.gifv hmmm
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Lets see, saved by not having a seat belt. That'll be food to chuck for those groups of people. It saved a person this one time, so obviously, seat belts kill people. Also, if there was even one other person in that car, they would be dead.
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I just got my new Viofo A119S and ordered a hardwire kit with it. It says it has a low voltage detection in it for 11.6V, which seems to me that it'll keep powering the camera when the car is off, as long as its attached to a circuit that has power while off (stereo, for example) has anyone done this and not had it kill their battery? I plan on putting it on a circuit that doesnt get power while off because A) its chinese poo poo and I dont expect it to work properly and b) I have CCTV covering my car at work so 80% of its parked time is already covered should I need it. Just curious how well these things actually work (youtube seems mixed)
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11.6 is waaaaay too low
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The Locator posted:Yea... I think I'd rather have whiplash from the rear-end hit, that dude is lucky to be alive, that truck nailed him good. I’m thinking “how does he remember it?”
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Thinkware F50 with the actual Thinkware hard wire kit. Went over a bump one day and it stopped working. Confirmed I had the correct voltage at the plug with a multimeter. Easy fix, exchange the camera. Now the new camera doesn't work. Plugged it into the cigarette lighter plug and it powered up. Plug it in the hardwire kit and it doesn't. Yellow lead is on 12v constant and it gets 12v constant. Red is on 12v switched and it gets 12v when the ignition is on. My only idea is that somehow it's not getting amperage? Which wouldn't make much sense since the fuse I am using is the lighter fuse that powers the lighter adapter. Any ideas? Edit: Double checked the inline fuses and they are fine too. Edit edit: For shits I tried to measure amperage on 12v switched at the plug and it blew the in line fuse... So it gets amps. Edit edit edit: Even swapped circuits to the only other switched and moved the ground with no dice. Thinking it's actually the plug not making contact or something Laranzu fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Jul 3, 2017 |
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More of our local oblivious drivers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjmBdIF_YAM
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Zero VGS posted:Maybe he'll learn to buckle up from now on? Nah... And maybe he'll learn not to leave his goddamn car stopped in the fast lane. If your car breaks down, get off the bloody road There was even a median strip right there he could have pulled onto and been far less of a hazard to other road users. It reminds me of a Russian dash cam I saw a few years ago of a car load of idiots who stopped in the middle lane of a highway to change their tyre during heavy traffic. Yes they got hit and, yes, some of them died.
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Gorilla Salad posted:And maybe he'll learn not to leave his goddamn car stopped in the fast lane.
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And could have easily rolled to a stop where he would not be blocking a lane on a highway  Edit:  A different Russian tyre change on the highway video from the Terrible Car thread. drat, how many times has this happened? Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Jul 4, 2017 |
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Older lady gets "lost" and enters the rotary the wrong way. Honked at her the first time I passed her and was still oblivious, and didnt stop. Sadly I just replaced my old dash cam and forgot to turn audio on  .https://youtu.be/vlJsRc7_mjs
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Acky posted:Older lady gets "lost" and enters the rotary the wrong way. Honked at her the first time I passed her and was still oblivious, and didnt stop. Sadly I just replaced my old dash cam and forgot to turn audio on Yet another wrong-way driver on I-17 today killed some poor guy on a motorcycle today here in AZ. Caused 6 wrecks and closed the freeway. Wrong way guy was taken into custody. Luckily for me I was not in the area so have no dash-cam video of this.
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