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NoWake posted:If it's got an EZ-pass, absolutely. I keep the electrostatic bag it came with in the glove box, just in case something like this happens. While I find this somewhat comical I find it hard to believe. Hell due to my windshield, mounting the drat thing is in like some small area for it to read. So a delivery truck full of these in a covered steel box and able to read them befuddles me.
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Colostomy Bag posted:While I find this somewhat comical I find it hard to believe. Hell due to my windshield, mounting the drat thing is in like some small area for it to read. So a delivery truck full of these in a covered steel box and able to read them befuddles me. Yeah it's honestly pretty snopes-able story, but also note a lot of semi trailers have fiberglass roofs
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-09/tesla-on-autopilot-rear-ends-parked-police-car-in-connecticutquote:A Tesla Model 3 sedan hit a parked police cruiser with its hazard lights flashing on a major highway near Norwalk, Connecticut, over the weekend. The collision occurred around 12:40 a.m. local time Saturday, when a highway-patrol vehicle stopped to assist a disabled SUV in the left-center lane of Interstate 95, according to a Connecticut State Police report.
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xzzy posted:I'm gonna go with drunk based on the banged up bumper and visibly low tread on that tire.. they're clearly complete idiots so drunk driving is definitely in the cards. Yes, the parking job also looks suspiciously similar to the "waiting for a mate" guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6SMGrIaals
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I love when people get all pissy when you merge in front of them. Just came home from the grocery store, merged onto a road well in front of another Escape. I needed in their lane so I gunned it and merged in front of them with plenty of room to spare. They still saw the need to tailgate me aggressively and then flip me off as they drove past. I just filled my wiper fluid so they got a nice bath for their troubles. At no point did I ever inconvenience them so the rage is just hilarious to me?
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Dec 11, 2019 02:42
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But they wanted to be fiiiiiirrrssst!
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Don't you know? They're driving an Escape*! The road is theirs! All other vehicles need to move out of the way! *Also applies to any vehicle with the "Denali" tag or made by BMW PremiumSupport fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Dec 11, 2019 |
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It does seem to me that because the stress levels on the road are so high people just take everything personally. Like when you accelerate and merge in front of someone it seems to them as if you'd just farted in their faces while hands with raised middle fingers were protruding from your car's every window. I've started merging behind cars for this exact reason if at all possible – seems a bit more 'respectful', even if the more sensible way would be to gun it a bit and merge in front. It's dumb, but I hope little gestures like this have at least some calming effect.
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I generally pull in behind people as my first choice for the same reason, it's not worth sending someone into a blind rage. But on the other hand if they can't maintain a steady speed or hit the speed limit, my charity disappears real quick and I will gun it around them with no remorse.
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It's me. I'm the terrible driver. I'm waiting at a yield on green left turn light, waiting to turn left. Oncoming car put on their blinker and slowed to drat near a halt as they approached the intersection. I assumed they were going to turn left and there was no other oncoming traffic, so I start turning left and as I do the oncoming car FLOORS the gas, and blows their horn and goes straight through the intersection. I just gunned it through the intersection instead of waiting to be rammed by a homicidal maniac.
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Protocol7 posted:I love when people get all pissy when you merge in front of them. If you merge in front of me only to got 15mph, turn left immediately, or parallel park you're a dixk and deserve all the rage. People are also really bad at noticing that the car they pulled in front of actually had to panic brake to avoid a collision. I get a bunch of people pull out in front on my on 55mph roads and do a leisurely 25 with barely enough time for me to haul down to 25. Those people get the horn and maybe the finger. At minimum, if you're going to pull out in front of someone have the decency to not slow them down. Oth, yes lots of people don't want you in front of them for any reason.
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I get it, I do my best to not inconvenience people on the road the best I can. The guy was way behind me after I merged onto the road and had to be flooring it to catch up to me as I was already 10 over by the time he came up on my rear end. Not a major road, speed limit is 35mph. Just some weirdo who wants a reason to be mad.
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The person filming is a huge rear end in a top hat letting her get as far as to put the leaking bag of gasoline in her trunk. I mean even they argue with you, at least you tried. This is an internet comedy forum and all, but people say "go die in a fire" because it's one of the worst ways to go.
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Holy poo poo  How can you be a living, breathing adult human and think this is an even remotely reasonable plan?
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slidebite posted:Holy poo poo Some people really hate the idea of using reusable containers instead of disposable plastic bags.
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Protocol7 posted:I get it, I do my best to not inconvenience people on the road the best I can. The guy was way behind me after I merged onto the road and had to be flooring it to catch up to me as I was already 10 over by the time he came up on my rear end. Not a major road, speed limit is 35mph. I almost literally ran into an idiot behind the wheel of a box truck the other day. Getting on the interstate on my way to work, it's a bit slippery out (upper midwest, lots of snow already) but traffic on the highway is doing around 60mph. I'm accelerating down the ramp, which turns into a temporary 3rd lane and goes for a mile then becomes an exit only at the next ramp. Box truck signals and merges into the temporary lane in front of me, I figure he's getting off at the next exit and look back over my shoulder to try to find a gap in traffic. I pick a spot in front of the on coming semi and increase speed to get in front of him without being a problem. Whole process took maybe 3 seconds. Look forward again, and the box truck has turned on his hazards, dropped anchor, and was now at a complete stop, still fully in the lane, and less than 100 feet from the bottom of the ramp! So I have a semi to my left, who can't move because of cars to his left, a box truck roadblock in front of me, nowhere to go, and not enough space remaining to slow down. Fortunately for me the Semi driver on my left was awake and realized what was going on. He squished his semi as far as he could to the left which gave me just enough room to straddle the lane divider and squeeze past the box truck. I hope a highway patrol found that box truck and unleashed holy hell upon the driver...
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NoWake posted:The person filming is a huge rear end in a top hat letting her get as far as to put the leaking bag of gasoline in her trunk. I mean even they argue with you, at least you tried. This is an internet comedy forum and all, but people say "go die in a fire" because it's one of the worst ways to go. Yeah I agree, what is she going to call the cops on you for not letting her drive away with her Gasoline Bag?
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Protocol7 posted:I love when people get all pissy when you merge in front of them. Same happened to me a couple nights ago coming home from work, but it was a beat up, probably 10 year old Dodge Ram. Apparently merging ahead of someone with at least 2-3 car lengths of space is some kind of emasculating action so he blared his horn & threw his (one) bright headlight on like I was supposed to give a poo poo. Sorry not sorry, douche canoe.
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Jackass in left lane of the freeway going 20 under the speed limit. I move to pass him on the right, he speeds up to where he's pacing me, pulls out his phone and mouths "you're going on YouTube". Alrighty then.
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A lot of the dash cam channels are compilations of self-important assholes who easily could have avoided whatever traffic incident that occurred by not being a total rear end in a top hat. So, par for the course I guess.
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slidebite posted:Holy poo poo When I was a young man, I worked at a number of petrol stations and people would lose their poo poo at you if you caught them trying to fill anything which didn't meet the Australian Standard for a fuel container. I saw plastic bags - one guy even came into the store to 'borrow' one so he could take it back out and fill it up, many kinds of glass bottles, the plastic buckets we kept the squeegees in, soft drink bottles (lots of those) and once even a waxed cardboard box. When I refused to turn on the pumps and told them they'd need to get an approved container, they'd lose their minds and accuse me of just trying to force them to buy our horribly overpriced fuel tins. I'd say, "No mate, I'm actually trying to save you from killing yourself. You can either listen or leave." And I wish I could say most would listen. Or even a few. Also, I remember the guy who bought a newspaper because he was too cheap to buy a funnel. Or the lady who removed the oil cap from her engine and tried to put her petrol in there. When it comes to cars, people are idiots. Frightening idiots. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Dec 13, 2019 |
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I was driving the other night, around rush hour, so traffic was fairly busy. There was someone trying to turn left into my lane and obviously having a hell of a time with it because there was no traffic light there, and my lane was pretty much gridlocked. You may reasonably assume this person is the villain in the story, but it is not so; after waiting, they eventually found an opportunity to safely turn left and continue. No, the villain of the story is the second person who wanted to make this particular left turn, and was upset with how long the process was taking. They proceeded to pull into the oncoming lane beside the person who was originally attempting to turn left, and then they turned into the oncoming lane of the other road and "merge" into the lane I was in, apparently becoming quite aggrieved that people would not simply allow them in. It was one of the most bizarre manoeuvres I've ever seen, made all the more impressive by its absolute shamelessness.
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Protocol7 posted:A lot of the dash cam channels are compilations of self-important assholes who easily could have avoided whatever traffic incident that occurred by not being a total rear end in a top hat. So, par for the course I guess. I love these, or more specifically the comments on these. I follow a few motorcycle accounts and they occasionally put up videos of a rider essentially getting merged in front of or somebody pulling out of a side street with tons and tons of room with no reason for anybody to be displeased. The rider then either speeds up to make it seem like they were getting cut off so they can pull up next to the "cager" and bust their side mirrors off or they swerve out of the way of the perceived danger they were in, hit a curb and crash. I love the comments on these videos. They range from calling the rider a squid in some form or another to completely backing the rider while also saying that not only should the mirrors be busted off the car but also the driver of the car should be mortally wounded for the clear attempt on the rider's life.
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bigbillystyle posted:I love these, or more specifically the comments on these. I follow a few motorcycle accounts and they occasionally put up videos of a rider essentially getting merged in front of or somebody pulling out of a side street with tons and tons of room with no reason for anybody to be displeased. The rider then either speeds up to make it seem like they were getting cut off so they can pull up next to the "cager" and bust their side mirrors off or they swerve out of the way of the perceived danger they were in, hit a curb and crash. I saw one where a guy spun out after it had snowed wherever he was living. He said something about having bald all-seasons. Uh, yeah. No poo poo your car's gonna go careening off the side of an icy road if you have the worst possible tires for icy conditions? There's one channel too that has some guy who makes frequent submissions and he's always rear-ending people. It's, uh, pretty easy to avoid that if you're not a tailgating rear end in a top hat.
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Goober Peas posted:Jackass in left lane of the freeway going 20 under the speed limit. I move to pass him on the right, he speeds up to where he's pacing me, pulls out his phone and mouths "you're going on YouTube". That's when you point ahead of them all panicked like they're gonna hit someone & watch them hammer their brakes. Then glide on by & laugh like a maniac 
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Protocol7 posted:I saw one where a guy spun out after it had snowed wherever he was living. He said something about having bald all-seasons. Uh, yeah. No poo poo your car's gonna go careening off the side of an icy road if you have the worst possible tires for icy conditions?  "We were 30 minutes from home and had to get a hotel room even though there was only 2" of snow on the ground" "The wheel speed sensors went out & Tesla couldn't get replacements for 2 months, so the tires wore out super fast" "LOVE the car"
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redgubbinz posted:This is gonna take a whole lot of floorin! lmao what a fuckin' adventure NoWake posted:"We were 30 minutes from home and had to get a hotel room even though there was only 2" of snow on the ground" teslaowners dot tee ex tee
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Or the lady who removed the oil cap from her engine and tried to put her petrol in there. My ex had already put coolant in her washers and was about to put washer fluid in her oil when I wandered past on my way to the beer fridge and did an actual double take followed by the palms out arms extended nononononono thing.
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:My ex had already put coolant in her washers and was about to put washer fluid in her oil when I wandered past on my way to the beer fridge and did an actual double take followed by the palms out arms extended nononononono thing. As an auto tech, I have seen many fluids put into the wrong places. Putting transmission fluid or engine oil into the brake master cylinder is a popular one.
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Protocol7 posted:There's one channel too that has some guy who makes frequent submissions and he's always rear-ending people. It's, uh, pretty easy to avoid that if you're not a tailgating rear end in a top hat.
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:My ex had already put coolant in her washers and was about to put washer fluid in her oil when I wandered past on my way to the beer fridge and did an actual double take followed by the palms out arms extended nononononono thing. I did something similar after replacing my daughter's radiator in her Jeep. The coolant and washer tanks are next to each other. I pop both lids, go grab the washer fluid and then start pouring it in the coolant tank. I'm thinking, wth, it shouldn't take this much to top it off. And then I realized I was a dumbass.
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It's a Solara with....something grafted onto the rear. I want to say those are 4 Runner tails maybe?
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opengl128 posted:It's a Solara with....something grafted onto the rear. I want to say those are 4 Runner tails maybe? Explorer sport trac is the first thing I thought of, which is even weirder.
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