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sleepy.eyes posted:I pretty much fall into that, get up to speed quickly and generally don't do more than about 5 over, or the flow of traffic assuming it isn't pointless racing to the next red because idiots think it saves time. This is what I do, too. I think part of the reason is that people who accelerate slowly and speed aren't really paying attention to what they're doing, they're just doing whatever they feel comfortable doing. This is also why they will completely ignore changes in speed limits, meaning they can go from 20 under to 10 over or something. People who accelerate fast would go faster, if not for safety in the face of the unknown, and the law. I cannot rely on driving a speed that would feel comfortable on a given road, because it would be quite illegal, and it would be dangerous should something unexpected occur, so I need to monitor my speed and the speed limit to ensure I'm safe and reasonably legal.
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Lime Tonics posted:Self Appointed Motorway Police Why the gently caress is everyone just parked in the left 3 lanes? Do you Brits really have that much of a hard on for waiting in lines?
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Why the gently caress is everyone just parked in the left 3 lanes? Do you Brits really have that much of a hard on for waiting in lines?
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Freebie and the Bean remake? It took a long, long time but finally... a Freebie and the Bean reference. God bless you. 
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how not to u-turn, https://streamable.com/z5buh it's loud so turn speakers down.
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Lime Tonics posted:how not to u-turn,   
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Lime Tonics posted:how not to u-turn, That's not so loud, that'--- 
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Lime Tonics posted:how not to u-turn, poo poo like this is why I always drive assuming literally everyone else on the road is a loving moron that wants to kill me or drive me off the road. Some people just like in their own world and forget there’s other cars on the road. EDIT: if you pause right before the hot you can see For Sale painted on the van. Whoops.
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The greatest piece of advice my dad ever gave me was "driving is 10% what you're doing, and 90% what the assholes all around you are doing."
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:I always drive assuming literally everyone else on the road is a loving moron that wants to kill me or drive me off the road. Accepting this and knowing it to be true is half the battle.
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Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:Around here it's not even remotely uncommon to see people doing 25+ through mall parking lots. I'm honestly amazed I don't see way more accidents in the lots around here. Not even just mall lots, happens almost anywhere here. I almost got the front of my car smashed by a dumbass in my work parking lot, it's all 10mph and he is was easily doing 25-30. Then there's the tailgaters at my apartment complex who ride my rear end, then act shocked when I stop to reverse into a spot or slow down to pull in forward.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Not even just mall lots, happens almost anywhere here. I almost got the front of my car smashed by a dumbass in my work parking lot, it's all 10mph and he is was easily doing 25-30. Then there's the tailgaters at my apartment complex who ride my rear end, then act shocked when I stop to reverse into a spot or slow down to pull in forward. Had a guy honk at me (or it was the guy stopped behind him, who couldn't see my car around the corner) as I did a three point turn in my parkade, so as to make a corner without shearing the front of his car off or hitting the wall. It's not my fault you're in the middle of the goddamn lane and you were going too fast to use the convex mirror and stop in time so that we could both easily pass each other.
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Lime Tonics posted:Self Appointed Motorway Police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yco1deXOzN8
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Blue Footed Booby posted:That's the most American thing I've ever seen. Hearts and minds.
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Ever driver in the video goes home to google "how to make an IED"
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Ice roads, the south edition, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r31LwoYaN1k
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Lime Tonics posted:Ice roads, the south edition, 
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Please go find a hill that a bunch of cars are stuck on and try to recreate the flaming car picture from NC a few years ago.
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xzzy posted:Please go find a hill that a bunch of cars are stuck on and try to recreate the flaming car picture from NC a few years ago. Hills? In Houston?
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nm posted:I hope that bus had a dash cam. https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5ae_1516065309
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How many of those are flipped brotrucks?
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:How many of those are flipped brotrucks? It's Texas. All of them.
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Man, nothing identifies people who skimp on tires like a little bit of freezing rain. My commute is ~10.5 miles and I saw at least a dozen cars in various modes of destruction because they ping-ponged across the road a few times. A few were straight up abandoned because there were no more tow trucks available to haul them off. I'm a fairly late commuter and I'm sympathetic that things were worse a couple hours ago but for a region that likes to act smug about their ability to deal with bad roads this was a bit silly.
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xzzy posted:Man, nothing identifies people who skimp on tires like a little bit of freezing rain. Apparently things were just loving nuts this morning south of the city. I'm up in the northwest and it was pretty smooth sailing.
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Welcome to the South part deux: Spotted at the local Food Lion a few years ago:    It was gone when I came out.
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At leas they're in the lines!
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Imagine the sheer size and strength of the shopping cart that did that. 
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Trans-LoafWithTail posted:Imagine the sheer size and strength of the shopping cart that did that. Bubbles can fix it.
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Trans-LoafWithTail posted:Imagine the sheer size and strength of the shopping cart that did that. Thank you for being the one person on the internet with a game of life avatar that isn't a loving glider.
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nadmonk posted:Welcome to the South part deux: I had the same generation and color of that Malibu and that's the fate it deserves.
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Trans-LoafWithTail posted:Imagine the sheer size and strength of the shopping cart that did that. 
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Mein Kampf Enthusiast posted:around me it's usually a BMW or Mercedes SUV. Here it's an SUV of any kind, but falls predominantly on the smaller ones (CR-V, RAV4) and typically driven by a middle-aged idiot that's texting someone
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Hmm....lemme guess: * Found at fault for accident * Only had minimal liability coverage * No money to buy another car * Local LEOs could care less unless you're speeding or black
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I imagine the person who owns this is pushing around a shopping cart shaped like a car that some stores have for the kids to ride in.
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