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Gorilla Salad posted:As stupid as the bucket fillers are, this one worries me the most. That's diesel fuel, it's not going to go bang because of a static discharge.
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EightBit posted:That's diesel fuel, it's not going to go bang because of a static discharge. I always loved the look of terror on people's faces when we would be transferring diesel fuel from our boat to a barge and the guy holding the nozzle in the tank would be smoking. It was even better when you had to check how full the tank was, cause the only way to tell was to look into the top with a flash light. Again, all while smoking a cigarette. Gotta love Alaska.
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Gasoline has a higher flash point than an ember too. I watched my buddy's dad put out cigars in gass spills Just don't light a new one
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Just think how much simpler internal combustion could have been if it weren't for those pesky fuel/air mixture requirements!
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Gorilla Salad posted:
Yeah, file this under "pay poo poo wages and deliver no training" type of thing. Years ago if you had an attendant that paid attention they'd get pissed if you left the pump while filling and shut you off. Now? Bwahaha, they have all sorts of stupid poo poo to sell filling the counter and every other place they can't even see the pumps.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcK5Yrg-4Gg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdhKazppwAY
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nsaP posted:Gasoline has a higher flash point than an ember too. I watched my buddy's dad put out cigars in gass spills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2MfsMmki5U
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Let's never slow down!! https://twitter.com/chrisheys68/status/904377094632820736
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"Oh no my rear tires have lost traction! I know what to do!" *pulls ebrake* How are people this dumb still alive?
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wayfinder posted:Let's never slow down!! I'm all "That truck that just pulled up at the end is gonna get rear-ended, if only because the road has enough idiots we've seen three crashes so far." Sure enough, just before the end I watch it lurch forward as it gets hit.
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Hugh G. Rectum posted:"Oh no my rear tires have lost traction! I know what to do!" *pulls ebrake* Cage fucked around with this message at 22:09 on Sep 4, 2017 |
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My favorite dashcam vids are the ones where the camera car driver has enough time to read War and Peace between the moment poo poo starts going sideways in front of them and the moment of impact and they don't do anything. In other words: wayfinder posted:Let's never slow down!!
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Theris posted:My favorite dashcam vids are the ones where the camera car driver has enough time to read War and Peace between the moment poo poo starts going sideways in front of them and the moment of impact and they don't do anything. It's easy to Monday Morning Quarter Back these videos, but happening in real time there's a lot more brain inputs going on, add in reaction times and the potential for the driver to be vigilant but seeing disaster elsewhere, etc.
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Target fixation doesn't care what you think
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I saw a unicorn today. You're probably not gonna believe me because i couldn't get a pic, but i saw a lifted ram 3500 with the towing mirrors in the DOWN position. It was so odd it stood out.
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PCOS Bill posted:It's easy to Monday Morning Quarter Back these videos, but happening in real time there's a lot more brain inputs going on, add in reaction times and the potential for the driver to be vigilant but seeing disaster elsewhere, etc. Let's also not forget that dashcams can sometimes distort the field of view which makes distances look off sometimes. Still, in like 99% of dashcam videos including an accident involving the cammer, there always seem to be a few pretty obvious warning signs that the cammer misses.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-06/man-caught-driving-car-with-no-front-seats-in-toowoomba/8877230 Queensland man in a VN Commodore with no front seats gets busted by the cops, and found to have a suspended licence.
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Today I handled a total loss for a customer who had an eleven goddamned dollar per diem on his car. He owed about 150% again over what we valued the car at. He's basically buying his bank a reasonably priced take out dinner everyday. Somehow the bank gave him Gap coverage. I have half an inkling that he totaled the car on purpose to get out of the loan- and if he did more power to him. These are the banks you share the road with. Eifert Posting fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Sep 7, 2017 |
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This is not how to tow a car https://streamable.com/ibgld
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Eifert Posting posted:Today I handled a total loss for a customer who had an eleven goddamned dollar per diem on his car. He owed about 150% again over what we valued the car at. What
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When an insurance company is handling a car that's been declared a total loss and there's a loan on the car we ask the bank for something called a 10-day payoff. The 10-day payoff is basically freezing interest rates for those 10 days to give the driver a grace period. That way they can settle the value of the car and pay off the loan, or whatever part of the loan the value of the car can settle. After those 10 days the per day interest rate kicks back in. This loan was adding $11 to itself A DAY. Gap coverage is offered by banks and financing companies. It basically protects you from the additional amount you owe on the car after a car's been totaled. This guy had that coverage, which stopped him from owing 150% of the actual value of the car to the bank -AFTER the total loss was settled- at that interest rate. It's hard to express exactly how hosed this guy almost was.
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How large was the loan amount/percent and what kind of car was this? The way you describe it, it sounds like this guy bought a Bentley with an insane interest rate to result in $11 a day, am I understanding that right? It must've been a combination of an expensive car and close-to-usurious rate. Your first post was baffling until the second to explain it lol.
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Michael Scott posted:How large was the loan amount/percent and what kind of car was this? Or a Civic from a buy-here-pay-here-we-finance-anybody
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PCOS Bill posted:Or a Civic from a buy-here-pay-here-we-finance-anybody Ding
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FCKGW posted:This is not how to tow a car I cannot wrap my brain around this. Did he just hook a ratchet strap to the hood of the car and then the tailgate cable of the truck and drive off thinking that would be okay? What in the actual gently caress? THE TRUCK HAS A GODDAMNED TRAILER HITCH AND BALL 
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FCKGW posted:This is not how to tow a car Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AZVl_LyqIo
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Ahahaha Yobani v rot
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Eifert Posting posted:When an insurance company is handling a car that's been declared a total loss and there's a loan on the car we ask the bank for something called a 10-day payoff. 10 day payoffs don't stop interest from accruing. It's simply how much it'll take to payoff the car in 10 days, enough time for the payment to be received. Usually there is a small kickback on the difference between the payment and what's actually owed when it's processed.
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Had some dude in an Explorer weaving in and out of his lane. I'm passing him because he is doing under the limit, and honk when he starts moving towards me. His response is to jerk the wheel like he was gonna pit me, then slow way down and follow me until I pull off to do my errands. Probably thinks I'm a right rear end in a top hat, too. If I have to evacuate for Irma that'll be fun, too.
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It's not enough to block the crosswalk, people have to be smart about it too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iJvTSJaH9A
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I cannot wrap my brain around this. Not only that, but there is no one in the car. Who the gently caress would ever consider this an acceptable idea? 
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sleepy.eyes posted:Had some dude in an Explorer weaving in and out of his lane. I'm passing him because he is doing under the limit, and honk when he starts moving towards me. His response is to jerk the wheel like he was gonna pit me, then slow way down and follow me until I pull off to do my errands. Probably thinks I'm a right rear end in a top hat, too. Actually, I heard from more than a few people that during this, florida drivers were loving exemplary in the last day or two before the storm. They slowed down to give room for wrecks, but didn't slow below 30 to rubberneck, made room for people changing lanes and had a lack of people swerving in and out trying to dart from open spot to open spot in some vain hope of getting out faster. Even people who stayed said that people on the roads who were out immediately before and after the storm were incredibly courteous and polite drivers. They were severely creeped out. I expect that to snap as they all try to get back.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:Actually, I heard from more than a few people that during this, florida drivers were loving exemplary in the last day or two before the storm. They slowed down to give room for wrecks, but didn't slow below 30 to rubberneck, made room for people changing lanes and had a lack of people swerving in and out trying to dart from open spot to open spot in some vain hope of getting out faster. Even people who stayed said that people on the roads who were out immediately before and after the storm were incredibly courteous and polite drivers. They were severely creeped out. Funnily enough... Everything was on point up to and right after the storm. People were, more or less, using stoplights that were out as 4-way stops and all that good stuff. Then I get up today, pull up to a light that was out, stop, and get passed by a BMW who never even slows down and honks at the guy who's turn it was. Back to normal!
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I wonder if that's the same phenomenon that occurs on the first day of snow. Accident rates are actually down for a bit in the first day or two, as people drive more cautiously, slower etc.
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Wasn't there fewer accidents on dagen h because of that? People just drove more carefully for like 90 days.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Wasn't there fewer accidents on dagen h because of that? People just drove more carefully for like 90 days. ... and because of the big information campaign (and public interest) regarding rules of the road. Driver education probably pays a huge part in why most of Europe has much lower fatalities than the US.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqiYRyCqds4&t=110s Protip: If you have time to rev the engine eight times before reaching the offending vehicle, you weren’t cut off.
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Platystemon posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqiYRyCqds4&t=110s If he also wasn't doing nearly twice the speed limit, he wouldn't have had any interaction whatsoever with the other vehicle. How the gently caress does this poo poo get posted? Who watches that, edits it together like that and thinks "yeah, everybody else but me is a terrible driver, people will love this"
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Powershift posted:If he also wasn't doing nearly twice the speed limit, he wouldn't have had any interaction whatsoever with the other vehicle. Also, don't need to pass and yell at them, don't need to get involved again when the guy yells, don't need to speed at the vehicle, don't need to speed away at a pace where if someone actually cuts you off you die. Lotta bad decisions going on there. Just flip the guy the bird and get on with your day.
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