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LifeSunDeath posted:Had 2 cars in the top 4 and I've had one ticket in the last 10 years. well i have some bad news for you about what that graph is measuring man........
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Doc Hawkins posted:https://twitter.com/caraesten/status/1308278572897845250 I'm amazed that Mustangs aren't on there. It must be because they crash into the curb after leaving the cars-and-coffee.
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The White Dragon posted:well i have some bad news for you about what that graph is measuring man........  
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Mustangs don't have time to get above the speed limit before impact.
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Sep 22, 2020 19:51
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Cojawfee posted:Mustangs don't have time to get above the speed limit before impact. Can attest. Buddy of mine got a 5.0 at 16. Two days later he ran into some parked cars along the street, flipped it, and crushed his friend riding in the scrub seat under the top of the car. 20mph can kill you just as well as 100mph. Vehicular manslaughter, sentence deferred until age 18. Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to drive Mustangs.
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I like that they're putting the acoustics tuned headers in base model American coupes (and Chargers lol) now because it seems like the right sort of compromise. You can drive at 40mph and the acoustic tuning makes it sound like 120, and that's as fast as you're going to go anyway because it's a fat muscle car frame driven by what's otherwise a normal power plant for a car.
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Doc Hawkins posted:https://twitter.com/caraesten/status/1308278572897845250 nice x-axis on that chart
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Jenny Agutter posted:nice x-axis on that chart 
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LifeSunDeath posted:What blew my mind is one day realizing when you see a car that's slightly smashed up, and it's got temp tags, and it's speeding, they're probably going to cut you off and smash you too. Like in my mind, I see a smashed car, I'm thinking they're unlucky or on their way to get repairs, what are the odds they're going to get into more accidents? Lol turns out the chances are very high. Canada's Worst Driver is jaw-dropping for poo poo like this, people will rack up literally dozens and dozens of minor collisions and moving violations in a few months of driving. 9 times out of 10 when they are asked how they did X dumb poo poo in a car in the double digits they just express surprise that those sort of incidents aren't commonplace.
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Ror posted:Canada's Worst Driver is jaw-dropping for poo poo like this, people will rack up literally dozens and dozens of minor collisions and moving violations in a few months of driving. 9 times out of 10 when they are asked how they did X dumb poo poo in a car in the double digits they just express surprise that those sort of incidents aren't commonplace. I had to stop watching that show because it is so enraging that these fucksticks got a license in the first place. The one where they teach smooth driving with a big water tank on the roof connected to pipes to soak them rules though.
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priznat posted:I had to stop watching that show because it is so enraging that these fucksticks got a license in the first place. some people just have that same gene that fainting goats have and they freeze up whenever they're worried by something. they shouldn't have licenses, but you need to drive to work, and you need to work to eat, so here most of us are.
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Phanatic posted:I'm amazed that Mustangs aren't on there. It must be because they crash into the curb after leaving the cars-and-coffee. I used to have a Mustang. I got pulled over multiple times. Every single time, they let me off with a warning and said "I know it's a fast car, I used to have one. Just take it easy." I drove that car for 12 years with zero tickets. When it died, I bought a WRX. Had a speeding ticket within a year. My white male privilege was enough to keep me from getting tickets in a Mustang, but not a WRX.
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priznat posted:I had to stop watching that show because it is so enraging that these fucksticks got a license in the first place. Yeah it's like 50/50 people who are terrible and dangerous drivers because they have a horrible attitude problem and don't give a poo poo, and people who actually seem to have some sort of medical-grade mental or sensory impairment. The first type generally gets weeded out over a season of the show because attitudes can be changed and safer habits taught, but the 2nd group just remains jaw-droppingly horrible. The licensing system that gives these people licensing should be changed as accessories to attempted murder. It's appalling north american driving standards are so low that its essentially impossible to take these people off the road. Also all of them agree to stop driving if they "win" the show but only a minority of them actually do. The best success story was some girl from my own town of Victoria who bragged about the number of hit and runs she did. She explained them in such detail the cops were able to finally throw the book at her.
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Eyyyyy Victoria hometown here too  When I learned to drive there the instructor (who was this totally unflappable dude, he owned) said “if you can drive accident free here, you can do it anywhere” because of all the horrible elderly drivers. The shopping centre near where I grew up (Ross Bay Thrifty’s) had old people driving thru the front windows all the time when they put it in D instead of R and stomped on the gas, until they installed some massive bollards. Man I miss Victoria 
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Baronjutter posted:The best success story was some girl from my own town of Victoria who bragged about the number of hit and runs she did. She explained them in such detail the cops were able to finally throw the book at her. which season was that? My favorite bit from the show is the guy who pulls into a parking lot on his final exam to pee between two cars and then gets right back to the test like nothing happened.
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Sagebrush posted:which season was that? Train like you fight.
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Azathoth Prime posted:I used to have a Mustang. I got pulled over multiple times. Every single time, they let me off with a warning and said "I know it's a fast car, I used to have one. Just take it easy." I drove that car for 12 years with zero tickets. When it died, I bought a WRX. Had a speeding ticket within a year. My white male privilege was enough to keep me from getting tickets in a Mustang, but not a WRX. Because of the greater sigma of WRX owners being insufferable?
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Humphreys posted:Because of the greater sigma of WRX owners being insufferable? For me I think it was that my car was loud and windows tinted. Couldnt tell how white I was until they actually pulled me over. I got tickets constantly in my loud 02 WRX. All dismissed except one dead-to-rights speeding on the highway. I now drive a completely stock '15 STI, haven't gotten a ticket in 60K+ miles driven...been pulled over maybe once. Speed constantly.
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CarForumPoster posted:For me I think it was that my car was loud and windows tinted. Couldnt tell how white I was until they actually pulled me over. I got tickets constantly in my loud 02 WRX. All dismissed except one dead-to-rights speeding on the highway. I now drive a completely stock '15 STI, haven't gotten a ticket in 60K+ miles driven...been pulled over maybe once. Speed constantly. Thanks for putting everyone else on the road in danger, you piece of poo poo.
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CarForumPoster posted:For me I think it was that my car was loud and windows tinted. Couldnt tell how white I was until they actually pulled me over. I got tickets constantly in my loud 02 WRX. All dismissed except one dead-to-rights speeding on the highway. I now drive a completely stock '15 STI, haven't gotten a ticket in 60K+ miles driven...been pulled over maybe once. Speed constantly. You realize that you're the problem right?
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I'm actually surprised that only 10% of drivers have a speeding violation (proud member of the 90% here)
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Big Dick Cheney posted:I'm actually surprised that only 10% of drivers have a speeding violation (proud member of the 90% here)
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I find it's more that it's just a gamble You speeds and you takes your chances. Locals usually know where to speed and where not to. Odd that all the Law And Order types I know also have the most speeding tickets (not actually odd they are complete hypocrites in all ways)
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Big Dick Cheney posted:I'm actually surprised that only 10% of drivers have a speeding violation (proud member of the 90% here) I also wonder if “on your record” means wasn’t in some way expunged via defensive driving, time, agreement to pay fees, etc. There are a lot of variances in how local laws manage that stuff.
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This same song is on another station right now. Amazing.
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“480 volt panel. Customer said the breaker kept tripping.”
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My observations have been that if the speed of traffic is over, then go the speed of traffic. It's dangerous to obstinately stick to MUST DRIVE SPEED LIMIT. The cars that get pulled over on the freeway are rarely those speeding, it's often times only the fastest vehicles that will get it. In one particular instance, I was driving up Interstate 5, which for huuuuuuge stretches is jack poo poo. Speed of traffic was about 80 (speed limit is 70). Guy sped past me doing close to a 100, which was followed by a CHP on the opposing freeway whip his car across the median to chase him down and give him a ticket. YMMV in less cool states than CA. I know that particular hellholes in Ohio derive a huge chunk of their revenue by having cameras and cops posted up just to ticket people going slightly over.
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Azathoth Prime posted:I used to have a Mustang. I got pulled over multiple times. Every single time, they let me off with a warning and said "I know it's a fast car, I used to have one. Just take it easy." I drove that car for 12 years with zero tickets. When it died, I bought a WRX. Had a speeding ticket within a year. My white male privilege was enough to keep me from getting tickets in a Mustang, but not a WRX. I used to drive a 454 ss Chevy P/U that was Manual. I got pulled over three times just so that the cop could talk poo poo with me about muscle cars. I had to sell it during the "gas years" because it was a hog. i sold it to a kid and his dad who lived north of me who probably flipped it over at some point. Content: Why yes, I'll drive onto this new 4-post lift I just built,but didn't bolt into the floor to test it's worthiness to the shop gods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhwB237I360&t=2265s EDIT: I just realized, its a rolling lift LOL. fuckingtest fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Sep 23, 2020 |
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We just had Adam Savage posted for OSHA, and here's a bit in his latest video where he shows off his new air powered staple gun. It doesn't have a safety. Thankfully he manages to not shoot himself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEVEYvAO3rI&t=734s Note that just after this, at 12:40 he's refilling the staples while pointing the gun at his face. EDIT: And again at 13:20 Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Sep 23, 2020 |
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`Nemesis posted:“480 volt panel. Customer said the breaker kept tripping.” First I was like, "Where did the third leg of that breaker go?" Then I was like, "  "
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Big Dick Cheney posted:My personal selection bias is anyone in a German car. The biggest rear end in a top hat drivers (speeding, weaving, cutting you off, inconsistent speeds, more speeding, more cutting you off) are black (the car’s color) Audi drivers. In fact this is true everywhere. Especially in Germany.
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dialhforhero posted:The biggest rear end in a top hat drivers (speeding, weaving, cutting you off, inconsistent speeds, more speeding, more cutting you off) are black (the car’s color) Audi drivers. it's a tie between this and lifted brotrucks in my experience
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`Nemesis posted:“480 volt panel. Customer said the breaker kept tripping.” Help out a non-electrician, what's going on here? Does it have to do with the wires coming down & around that seem to bypass the circuit breaker?
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`Nemesis posted:“480 volt panel. Customer said the breaker kept tripping.” What's going on there?
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That exactly it, the customer no longer has to worry about that breaker tripping. They now have other problems to worry about.
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Ahh, so it's like the old joke about aircraft maintenance. "Discrepancy: evidence of massive oil leak under #2 engine. Maintenance action: removed evidence."
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Help out a non-electrician, what's going on here? Does it have to do with the wires coming down & around that seem to bypass the circuit breaker? If it makes you feel any better, I'm an electrician and am equally mystified.
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