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Jerry Cotton posted:His taxes paid for both lanes AND the shoulder so hell be damned if he isn't going to drive on all of them. I honestly can't figure out what was behind that. Severely drunk driver? A child or senior citizen behind the wheel that couldn't control the vehicle? WTF?
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LanceHunter posted:I honestly can't figure out what was behind that. Severely drunk driver? A child or senior citizen behind the wheel that couldn't control the vehicle? WTF? The road sign is in Cyrillic. Since it's Russia, I'm going to go with "all of the above."
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Jul 8, 2019 04:06
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LanceHunter posted:I honestly can't figure out what was behind that. Severely drunk driver? A child or senior citizen behind the wheel that couldn't control the vehicle? WTF? I sleep on the road a lot since I have late night drives a lot, and as many times as I get asked by cops if I'm ok (and they're clearly expecting an OD) drug use must be out of control on the road
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Jul 8, 2019 04:06
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Is this what happens if your car has a wing and you don't park facing into the tornado?
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Jul 8, 2019 04:27
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Jul 8, 2019 04:32
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it took me a moment to realize the wheel came off the white car in the dirt on the left. :v
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Jul 8, 2019 04:35
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At least the guy was wearing leathers. I saw a motorcyclist the other day hooning his bike in shorts and a tank top.
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Jul 8, 2019 04:41
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Jul 8, 2019 04:42
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Nenonen posted:Yeeaah, the chances of being killed or gruesomely maimed are way greater if you are tossed out of the car unless you happened to collide with a mattress factory or something. Just flying through the windscreen and landing on the asphalt, head first, at relatively low speeds is going to gently caress you up good. Or faceplanting on the windscreen and bouncing off like a ping pong ball. If it's not too late to share worthless car crash seat belt related anecdotes - back in the 1980's, shortly before I was born, a guy on my Dad's team was flung out of his Suzuki Samurai and was then crushed to death by said Suzuki Samurai as it rolled on its merry way down an embankment. Perhaps getting strapped into a metal box as it is flung off of a road is preferable to being thrown outside of the metal box where the rest of the world is happening at a speed that is vastly different than your own. Also, your metal box might loving crush you.
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Jul 8, 2019 04:49
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Jul 8, 2019 04:54
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Cojawfee posted:At least the guy was wearing leathers. I saw a motorcyclist the other day hooning his bike in shorts and a tank top.
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Jul 8, 2019 05:05
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Yawgmoth posted:My roommate just told me about a guy who was riding his bike without a shirt on and crashed. Went sliding across the road on his back. The word "peeled" was involved. Proven: T-shirt and jeans are PPE
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Jul 8, 2019 06:09
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Proven: T-shirt and jeans are PPE Unironically jeans were PPE in one lab I worked on. What we worked with would still set them on fire, but they'd give enough protection to remove your pants and run to the chemical shower before you got any major burns.
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Jul 8, 2019 06:34
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My neighbor may have been spared serious injury by not wearing his seat belt which was pretty shocking. He was pulling out of the single lane private road we live on while I was waiting to turn in along the adjacent 50mph highway. A SUV came up full or faster speed that he didn't see. Instead of slowing down they tried to go around me even though it's a no passing zone and my neighbor got t-boned on the driver side of his older Honda Civic. He hadn't put his seatbelt on yet so when he got hit he was thrown into the passenger seat. The side was crushed in more than half way through the driver seat. Had he been secured in with his seat belt he would likely have broken his legs or worse. He just had a cut on his left ear that got stitched up and he went to work later that day. It definitely was a fluke and I'm grateful there were no serious injuries, but wouldn't ever dare not wear one or ensure my passengers do. The entrance to our road was redone a few years ago to allow two cars to fit now so hopefully it'll never happen again.
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Jul 8, 2019 06:55
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evobatman posted:I've lost count of how many episodes mythbusters did where they had cars jumping from ramps, but I do know that through every single one of them, they never understood that the rear suspension will flip a car forwards when the front wheels leave the ramp. But the car was airborne before the ramp ended? 
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Jul 8, 2019 07:25
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Yeah, they always seemed to be more about "let's crash this car into a wedge" than they were about actually launching it off a ramp.
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Jul 8, 2019 07:27
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AzureSkys posted:My neighbor may have been spared serious injury by not wearing his seat belt which was pretty shocking. Well that's all the evidence I need to get one of this That Dang Lizard posted:Why bother doing all that when you could get one of these?
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Jul 8, 2019 07:45
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Dirk the Average posted:Unironically jeans were PPE in one lab I worked on. What we worked with would still set them on fire, but they'd give enough protection to remove your pants and run to the chemical shower before you got any major burns. That's standard practice for laboratory quantities of chemicals. Where you're not likely to work with more than a couple hundred milliliters of something. Pretty much to keep any spills off the skin long enough to take a nice, cold shower.
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Jul 8, 2019 09:03
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As motorcycle protection they're lacking though; regular denim has less abrasion resistance than does skin
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Jul 8, 2019 09:06
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Sorta tangentially OSHA-y but... Is there a sign a layperson would notice if an electrical substation is perhaps being overutilized? A very large new development started going in a few months ago and there's been a very sudden influx of heavy construction equipment to the substation across the road from my apartment complex; it almost looks like they're preparing to double the size of the thing. There are some kind of very large and very loud fans on some of the electrical equipment over there that turned on a couple months ago and have never turned off, as well. It feels very distinctly like someone forgot to mention to the power company that, oh yeah, 10,000 new homes are about to go in over the next couple years, all fed off this particular substation, and someone has finally realized that fact.
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Jul 8, 2019 09:35
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It seems just as likely that the utility found out about the planned load increase ages ago, and arranged things so that the upgrades would happen now, close to when that capacity is actually needed. Why would they do it early and tie up a bunch of capital in extra capacity that isn't needed yet?
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Jul 8, 2019 10:08
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TheMaskedUgly posted:As motorcycle protection they're lacking though; regular denim has less abrasion resistance than does skin I'm going to start wearing clothes made of skin, then!
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Jul 8, 2019 10:25
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Segmentation Fox posted:Sorta tangentially OSHA-y but... Any building project that intends to connect to the electrical grid at all ever has already had the utility look at and sign off on it before they even started construction. Nenonen posted:I'm going to start wearing clothes made of skin, then!
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Jul 8, 2019 10:27
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Nenonen posted:I'm going to start wearing clothes made of skin, then! That's pretty much what's recommended for motorcycle wear. Except it's treated skin and called leather.
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Jul 8, 2019 11:39
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Kevlar works very well doesn't it? Because it takes a lot of energy to disintegrate the fibers.
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Jul 8, 2019 12:16
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The Lone Badger posted:Kevlar works very well doesn't it? Because it takes a lot of energy to disintegrate the fibers. Yeah I've got some Draggin Jeans that are made with Kevlar, brilliant stuff. I don't ride anymore but still love them.
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Jul 8, 2019 12:23
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Denim gives you one second, leather gives you three. Kevlar stays intact. I high-sided my bike trying to avoid a deer. I slid about 20 feet on my back and my riding jacket was just slightly ripped up. But i was wearing jeans and for a brief amount of time i was on my side it went straight through and gave me an inch wide strip of road rash on my left calf, knee and thigh
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Jul 8, 2019 13:29
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FuturePastNow posted:That video does a good job illustrating the affect of vehicle center of gravity I love how the car that took out the monster SUV pickup was a sub-compact Nissan or something.
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Humphreys posted:Yeah I've got some Draggin Jeans that are made with Kevlar, brilliant stuff. I don't ride anymore but still love them. Leather is still the gold standard; kevlar is great but not quite as abrasion-resistant. Still, my favorite recent innovation is the personal airbag system to prevent some of the impact damage and reduce your neck's range of motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDRaSfP3zzA The fatality numbers in general for motorycles is super skewed because in many cases the rider is a dumbass (I think CA did a study claiming 47% of fatalities were drunk riders), or they wore inadequate gear like lovely half helmets or fashion leather that doesn't have protected seams.
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Jul 8, 2019 14:06
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Blindeye posted:Leather is still the gold standard; kevlar is great but not quite as abrasion-resistant. Still, my favorite recent innovation is the personal airbag system to prevent some of the impact damage and reduce your neck's range of motion: Not gonna lie, I expected these things to have airbags on the outside that made him look like the michelin man. I'm somewhat (ok a lot) disappointed.
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Jul 8, 2019 14:12
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Not gonna lie, I expected these things to have airbags on the outside that made him look like the michelin man. I'm somewhat (ok a lot) disappointed. Well if they were outside of the leather they'd pop as soon as the hit the asphalt, so sadly no Michelin man suit.
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Jul 8, 2019 15:02
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Yawgmoth posted:My roommate just told me about a guy who was riding his bike without a shirt on and crashed. Went sliding across the road on his back. The word "peeled" was involved. My mom was driving home last year when a motorcyclist sped past her at over 100 MPH. She caught up to him a while later and described where each body part was on the road.
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Jul 8, 2019 16:28
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They all stayed on the road?
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Jul 8, 2019 16:29
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Jul 8, 2019 16:34
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Gear chat: I don't care how hot it is, I don't get on the bike without being fully kitted out. Hitting a deer and being laid up for 15+ weeks the one time I didn't wear all my stuff was a healthy reminder.
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PathAsc posted:Gear chat: Yeah, the guy who got hit by the tire is definitely going to have some bumps and bruises in the morning, but it's just that. Michigan lifted its helmet and AND SURPRISE FATALITIES WENT UP. When I'm on my bicycle, I'm always rocking a bright green vest with reflective stripes, lights, and a helmet.
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Jul 8, 2019 16:47
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Phanatic posted:They all stayed on the road? It was a wide interstate.
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Jul 8, 2019 16:53
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PathAsc posted:Gear chat:
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Jul 8, 2019 17:04
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Willfrey posted:Denim gives you one second, leather gives you three. Kevlar stays intact. What? No. The best material for protective motorcycle clothing is leather. Motorcycle-grade leather uses the full thickness of the hide (rather than splitting it for weight, cost or softness as with most fashion leather) and is tanned for strength. It's stiff and heavy and takes months to break in but it's nearly indestructible. All high-end racing suits are leather. Several years ago one of the motorcycle safety organizations did an abrasion test where they sewed a patch of a test material to a sandbag, tied it to a rope, and dragged it behind a pickup truck going 60 miles an hour. They measured the distance from the point where it started dragging to where the patch wore through and spilled the sand, indicating how good the material was at protection from abrasion in a sliding crash situation. The bag made of racing leather was able to slide 50 meters before it wore through. The bag made of motorcycle-grade synthetic textiles (ripstop nylon with kevlar reinforcements) lasted 25 meters. The bag made of fashion-grade split leather lasted 4 meters. The bag made of heavyweight denim lasted 2 meters. If you're talking about like a thin leather jacket you got from Wilson's, then sure, that's not much better than a jean jacket. But a proper leather motorcycle jacket is still twice as good as the best synthetic materials.
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AzureSkys posted:My neighbor may have been spared serious injury by not wearing his seat belt which was pretty shocking. If he had taken the 5 seconds to put on his seatbelt he would have been delayed enough to avoid the accident 
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