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Advent Horizon posted:I hate to break it to you but most trailers have suspensions. The French didn't have too much of a problem shuttling helicopters around on trucks and converted cars in Algeria, over what were charitably called "roads".
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That helicopters are trailered and trailering helicopters being bad for them can be both true. I've been flying helicopters for 17 years I know the difference between time maintenance and calendar maintenance. All the places I've been involved with forecast their flight hours for the year and budget accordingly. The only times I've seen helicopters on a trailer are if they're too broke to fly or if they are a sprayer operation. Both military and civilian employers I have had routinely fly helicopters halfway across the country to fly them to maintenance depots rather than put them on a semi trailer. And I've never encountered the severe jolts of a badly pitted road when I've been out flying.
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PeterCat posted:And I've never encountered the severe jolts of a badly pitted road when I've been out flying.  This is all a bit academic, because certainly flying that helicopter instead of driving it into a bridge would have been cheaper, assuming it isn't broken/is capable of flight.
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Aug 23, 2021 16:59
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Someone in Milwaukee set up a camera to catch people who suck at driving through this roundabout. Some of the videos are pretty long, but they at least time stamp where the good stuff is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM1gUZ9yoRM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zsoi3jzXAk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnE61T0fQcc This looks like the roundabout. Maybe a Milwaukee goon can fill us in on why so many people crash here.
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I don't know anything about the situation there but to me it looks like the road used to be straight and people forget about the roundabout or maybe there is insufficient signage to warn them that the situation has changed. The turn also seems a bit blind, hidden behind the bridge on the downhill.
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Sep 3, 2021 19:57
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Sep 3, 2021 20:01
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Looks like the Viaduct where people get speeding was built in 2001/2002 and the roundabout was created as part of the project: https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/sixthstreet 20 years and people are still losing their poo poo on that roundabout. Edit: I submitted the roundabout as a Park on Google Maps.
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I’m guessing the roundabout was meant to stop people from accelerating onto or off of the bridge Which it still does, but probably not in the way it was intended
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Sep 3, 2021 21:12
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Two times in a five day span I had someone behind me decide that going 25 mph on a residential street was too slow so they passed me and sped off doing at least 40. 
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Sep 4, 2021 00:17
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I don't think it is the roundabout that's the issue here, more people not being able to negotiate the corner before it.
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You Am I posted:I don't think it is the roundabout that's the issue here, more people not being able to negotiate the corner before it. Yeah it looks like there's a porkchop there that sneaks up on them for some reason.
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You Am I posted:I don't think it is the roundabout that's the issue here, more people not being able to negotiate the corner before it. Street View is no substitute for actually being there but it seems to me the problem is you can see the rest of southbound 6th Street beyond the roundabout from well back on bridge, but the crest of the bridge hides the grass and the curb until you're right up on top of the turn.  Looking at this for the first time, if you overlook the warning signs, can you really even tell that the intersection is there? 
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Sep 4, 2021 01:37
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I doubt that's much of a problem at somewhat legal speeds, at 100mph, yeah that might be an issue.
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Sep 4, 2021 01:39
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what if it's 2am and you're drunk
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Sep 4, 2021 01:42
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Hey that's why I bought a tesla man
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That road has a 30 mph limit. 
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:That road has a 30 mph limit. The road has a 30mph limit but is designed like a 45-55mph road (arguably faster). Well, until the curve. American traffic engineering at its loving finest. Stop building wide as gently caress roads that you want people to go slow on.
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nm posted:The road has a 30mph limit but is designed like a 45-55mph road (arguably faster). Well, until the curve. American traffic engineering at its loving finest. Yeah, it's stupid that people are going that fast on a 30 mph road, but it's almost equally stupid that a 30 mph road is designed that way.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Yeah, it's stupid that people are going that fast on a 30 mph road, but it's almost equally stupid that a 30 mph road is designed that way. It's designed that way because it's a bridge.
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Deteriorata posted:It's designed that way because it's a bridge. Paint the lanes thinner, add cubs on the outside.
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nm posted:Stop building wide as gently caress roads that you want people to go slow on. but then my hummer won't fit
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Sep 6, 2021 16:32
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First Model S Plaid fatalities? https://www.wfla.com/news/pinellas-county/two-killed-after-tesla-model-s-crashes-into-palm-harbor-home/ Ran a stop sign at high speed and crashed into a house. Killed one passenger and one person in the home.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:Yeah, it's stupid that people are going that fast on a 30 mph road, but it's almost equally stupid that a 30 mph road is designed that way. Truga posted:but then my hummer won't fit
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StormDrain posted:Paint the lanes thinner, add cubs on the outside. 
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They're terrible on the road
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Driving into work this morning when the rain was real heavy I saw some absolutely clown-level driving going on. Sections of the dual carriageway near my place have a lot of standing water when the rain hits hard and fast and I've seen so many people's cars start to aquaplane... This happened somewhere else but the driver clearly wasn't being careful. https://twitter.com/SurreyPolice/status/1437802974059847687?s=20
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Sep 14, 2021 17:13
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Cool, guess I'm about to see 500 "you on here bro" posts on the VW fb group I'm in.
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poo poo's going to get even more wild as these people that have absolutely no business driving 500hp+ EVs in the first place start running their tires down to nothing.
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Drive is probably lucky because of him driving in a right hand drive country
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Has driving got particularly worrisome for anybody else over the last year? I'm wondering if coronavirus has actually caused unnoticed neurological disorders in people and it's manifesting itself in shittier driving. Or the slow collapse of society is leading to more anger behind the wheel. I haven't seen carelessness or recklessness like this in 20 years. Yesterday I had 3 people pull out in front of me out of businesses and scare the poo poo out of me. Guy on the highway swerving through traffic at 85 in a 55. 6 cars driving without headlights after dark. One driver managed to place his car perpendicular into a turn lane and block a lane of traffic. Left turner ran a left turn light causing 6 lanes of traffic to freak out. Lady driving 35 in the 50 in the left most lane, not even on her phone, just kinda staring straight ahead. Angry people riding the asses of other vehicles even though there's nowhere for anyone to go. I actually ordered a dashcam because I feel like I'm on borrowed time here before someone drives into me.
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I've noticed it, and it's not just driving. Lots of people are at or near a stress breaking point and are using even poorer than normal decision making skills. Just look at the weekly-or-more-frequent pace of airline passengers assaulting flight crew or other passengers.
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The Bronco Sport probably isn't ready for Black Bear Pass. Especially if you go the wrong way and then try to turn around.    quote:
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The snark of Colorado sheriff reporting lol.
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Wear your seatbelt, folks
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Zero One posted:The Bronco Sport probably isn't ready for Black Bear Pass. Especially if you go the wrong way and then try to turn around. Dog is fine  Is safety and training really stressed in off-roading communities? If it's anything like guns, I imagine a shiny brochure and a (virtual) room full of self-identifying off-roaders could convince a novice driver they have the right tools. Not that I wouldn't Google my route to ensure it's not "[Place]'s Most Dangerous Road." Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Sep 27, 2021 |
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Wasabi the J posted:Is safety and training really stressed in off-roading communities? It is in certain groups, not in others. I'm assuming this person was a solo vehicle because while I've seen some bad decision making in groups, I've never seen a group running a trail literally all go the wrong way on something as well known as that trail. Also from what I've seen, that pass is not actually all that demanding in terms of vehicle performance (articulation, etc) in good conditions like this. The difficulty and danger is entirely wrapped up in how tight and narrow the trail is, combined with the extremely high penalty for loving up. That Bronco Sport may well have been able to make it across the trail, driven the right direction by a competent driver.
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Wasabi the J posted:Dog is fine From my limited experience with off-roaders there's a whole lot of the equivalent of the people that insist if you don't have this exact AR setup and Glock setup and this name-brand rig and this particular brand of plates you'll be Dead In The Streets. Which is also dumb, but at least it probably dissuades some people from doing legit dangerous stuff. I will say that I have had people say "Well you can't do x or y with your Subaru but if you wanted you could probably go up z pass" which is the healthy and friendly way to get someone into a community. On the other hand it also makes me want to get a lift kit and clutch-type limited slip front and rear and reinforced axles and control arms to match the lift and a dual-range gearbox and then all of a sudden I've put together a shopping list I'll probably never be able to afford to make a worse offroader than a $5,000 XJ just to prove a point.
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I bet she doesn't feel it right now but she's lucky. Definitely seems like the same kind of mistake that get solo hikers and paddlers killed. I recently got into kayaking, and it seems like the community at large is pretty "boring" and will urge caution all the time, even if not every paddler is doing the right thing. I don't do ANY wilderness activity solo TBH; it's kind of a pain in the rear end, but I just can't bring myself to go on a lot of trails solo; I guess my logic is that there's some safety in numbers, if at least identify and solve potential problems faster. I don't "off-road" either, other than the occasional trail between hikes or something -- all my "actual" off-roading was done in a LMTV or HMMWV years ago. Getting my first off-road lessons in top-heavy up-armored military trucks gave me a healthy respect for spotting as an art form.
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New road threat just dropped. https://twitter.com/passthebeano/status/1442165554614177794
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Like big heavy cars that can hit 60 in under 4 seconds with self driving tech that constantly tries to pile itself into pedestrians and when they crash light themselves on fire that you can't put out unless you dunk them in tanks of water isn't bad enough. lmao.
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