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Today I learned the AZ-1 was developed in the UK. In loving ESSEX of all places by a company called Hawtal Whiting (sadly no longer with us). When the company went into liquidation they sold the AZ-1 they had at the HQ to an ex-staffer for FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS. Also while in testing at Millbrook proving grounds the AZ-1 claimed the lap record for the outer track. And another test driver managed to roll one seventeen times on the hill route. https://twitter.com/quillerrees/status/1197878609224065025?s=20
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Today I learned the AZ-1 was developed in the UK. In loving ESSEX of all places by a company called Hawtal Whiting (sadly no longer with us). When the company went into liquidation they sold the AZ-1 they had at the HQ to an ex-staffer for FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS. Also while in testing at Millbrook proving grounds the AZ-1 claimed the lap record for the outer track. And another test driver managed to roll one seventeen times on the hill route. oh god rolling that thing will end in death and yet i still daily mine.
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Oct 6, 2021 17:08
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Olympic Mathlete posted:And another test driver managed to roll one seventeen times on the hill route. in a row??
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Oct 6, 2021 17:38
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Finger Prince posted:in a row?? and end over end, I like to imagine.
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Oct 6, 2021 17:50
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Finger Prince posted:in a row?? 17 separate incidents in the same run.
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Oct 6, 2021 19:49
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Finger Prince posted:in a row?? "TRY NOT TO ROLL THE AZ-1 ON THE WAY TO THE PARKING LOT!"
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Oct 6, 2021 23:31
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:You look at say Goonzquad, their work over the last few years This gave me a mini heart attack because for me their first year was just last year so I went and checked and it was 3 years ago...
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Oct 7, 2021 00:21
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spookykid posted:"TRY NOT TO ROLL THE AZ-1 ON THE WAY TO THE PARKING LOT!" WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, "Something like 17"?!?!
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Oct 7, 2021 01:58
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Joe Mama posted:WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, "Something like 17"?!?! Does that include me!?
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Oct 7, 2021 03:23
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg4IJXeGi30
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Oct 8, 2021 14:53
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Imperador do Brasil posted:Does that include me!? I'm not even supposed to be in this thread today
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Oct 8, 2021 16:17
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Oct 8, 2021 19:03
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Oct 9, 2021 00:49
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Hell yeah, Valiant Charger!
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Oct 9, 2021 23:55
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Brads doing a $500 giveaway. I can't enter cos on another FB ban but sharing the love anyway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9c2XxfhQJ8 The burnout at the end is pretty cool Humphreys fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Oct 10, 2021 |
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Oct 10, 2021 12:33
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 Truly a Ferrari daily driver.
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Oct 11, 2021 21:14
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The door/windshield gives that away as a Corvette C4, but more troubling is that the back end looks like it's collapsing, perhaps due to too much hauling duty.
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Oct 12, 2021 00:06
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donut posted:The door/windshield gives that away as a Corvette C4, but more troubling is that the back end looks like it's collapsing, perhaps due to too much hauling duty. drat, having a closer look I think you are 100% right And bingo https://car-from-uk.com/sale.php?id=92547
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Oct 12, 2021 01:21
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When bad drivers get their poo poo wrecked, it owns. https://twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1447848931031928833?s=20 https://twitter.com/Nibus/status/1447855600352862208?s=20 *edit: have a bonus 'gently caress cops' vid. https://twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1446588166501244928?s=20 Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 10:28 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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Oct 12, 2021 10:25
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Olympic Mathlete posted:When bad drivers get their poo poo wrecked, it owns. That one is a really nasty implementation. It shouldn't be catching all these legitimate road users. They're not particularly bad drivers, they're victims of a poo poo bit of infra. There are probably thousands of width restrictors like that in the UK and people get through them fine. There's something fucky about that top one - it's on a curve/the sightline isn't great/people are distracted by seeing the yellow bollards and they don't see the black tighter ones which are under mirror level/there's an elevated kerbstone next to it etc etc etc.
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Oct 12, 2021 10:56
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I will laugh at the police car and there isn't a drat thing you can do about it.
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Oct 12, 2021 11:12
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Wait is knowing the width of your car an expectation in England like truckers knowing their height? Or is it more of a "that looks too narrow and probably shouldn't risk it" expectation?
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meltie posted:That one is a really nasty implementation. It shouldn't be catching all these legitimate road users. They're not particularly bad drivers, they're victims of a poo poo bit of infra. They're the same place, one lane just got a coat of paint due to it being a bus lane. There's a lane going the other direction too. You can clearly see in the video a van and a massive Audi SUV sail through with no issues. It's poo poo drivers who crash, nothing more. Here's the exact location on google maps and a quote from the briefing note about the restriction which came into being in 1980. https://goo.gl/maps/MKzNv5gmQ8BmDsn69 https://watford.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s625/Appendix%20A-%20Woodmere%20Avenue.pdf quote:The seven foot width restriction on Woodmere Avenue was introduced in 1980 to prevent rat-running through the residential estate. um excuse me posted:Wait is knowing the width of your car an expectation in England like truckers knowing their height? Or is it more of a "that looks too narrow and probably shouldn't risk it" expectation? The latter, if you're a poo poo judge of where your car can fit then you're probably going to stack it. At least doing it here at low speeds means you're going to be hyper vigilant next time you think about squeezing through a gap 
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Oct 12, 2021 12:57
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Olympic Mathlete posted:You can clearly see in the video a van and a massive Audi SUV sail through with no issues. It's poo poo drivers who crash, nothing more. Here's the exact location on google maps and a quote from the briefing note about the restriction which came into being in 1980. The van illegally sailed through the bus lane in the middle. If 10s of people per month are wrecking themselves on something that's not meant to catch them, it probably warrants a redesign. As funny as the beep! of the driver braining themselves on the steering wheel is, this bit of road is not supposed to be hostile to anything other than HGVs. u/burgeremoji posted:I work near here and have driven through this many many times. In all honesty it’s a busy road and you’re easily distracted by the surroundings as there’s a lot going on. Here's a longer discussion of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/q65d4n/this_width_restriction_has_been_claiming_a_few/hga12m2/ meltie fucked around with this message at 13:46 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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Oct 12, 2021 13:35
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meltie posted:The van illegally sailed through the bus lane in the middle. You're correct on the van cheating, aye. Good spot. 10s of people per month loving up shows exactly how many poo poo drivers there are on the roads though. If you're not sure about it, maybe (like yourself) don't do it?! You're not forced to drive down the road and there's apparently plenty of signage about warning you. I'd totally give this a shot in my old workvan 
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Oct 12, 2021 13:55
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Olympic Mathlete posted:You're correct on the van cheating, aye. Good spot. Sure, i'd give it a shot in my Transit. I wouldn't in my Jaguar i-pace! meltie fucked around with this message at 14:19 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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Oct 12, 2021 14:06
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Seems like someone in the council should replace the reflective marking on the top of the bollards, because especially on the left hand side, those things are going to be invisible in the dark, and the right side will be difficult with the big lit up yellow curb marker box. Sometimes it bad drivers and bad road design, and that makes both of them worse. Here's a personal favourite of mine I like to call "which light is mine?" London, England https://maps.app.goo.gl/E3fk5hwTVTPGkHQv8 They're all green in this shot but thats just a lucky synchronization. Finger Prince fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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Oct 12, 2021 16:34
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A favourite of mine in Bristol where I live is just as you come on to the bottom of the M32 - https://goo.gl/maps/M3fSmL68NLh9emYk6 The LED sign isn't on in any of the streetview images so I did a quick and dirty edit of what it looks like 80% of the time there is any moving vehicle on that road -  At a quick glance, tell me the speed limit. I know it's not that hard if you look at it but at a glance driving past it's hilarious E: This is definitely veering into wrong thread material though. Here's a green lamborghini https://i.imgur.com/IKRFLc4.mp4 AirRaid fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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Oct 12, 2021 17:16
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donut posted:The door/windshield gives that away as a Corvette C4, but more troubling is that the back end looks like it's collapsing, perhaps due to too much hauling duty. Ah, yeah that makes more sense. I'm not really a Ferrari guy, obviously, but I thought it was maybe a "cheap" Ferrari being used wildly inappropriately. 
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At first I thought it was one of those rising bollards, but given it's not, I kind of agree they should maybe change something about it. Dunno what though. There's a couple of "low" overpasses on the Auckland motorway system that get clipped by trucks every now and then, even though there is automated monitoring and warning systems, with big flashing signs that alert "overheight" vehicles. Thing is, even the lowest isn't actually that low. quote:At 4.57m the Penrose Bridge is one of the lowest bridges on the Auckland motorway network. Without a specific permit the maximum height for vehicles on the motorway is 4.25 metres – this means that anything that hits the Penrose Bridge is illegally overheight. To hit the lowest bridge, you're a foot overheight already and you ignored this, among other warnings: 
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Oct 13, 2021 22:19
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Confident this is the correct thread. https://twitter.com/AutoBant/status/1448607039664574465?t=ZfLSEHmbaXLnb4AMaFtZOQ&s=19
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Oct 14, 2021 22:50
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Yeah that was fantastic
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Oct 14, 2021 23:31
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Confident this is the correct thread. Quoting it because it was loving AMAZING
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Oct 15, 2021 00:45
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Just saw a super clean 968 across the street
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Oct 15, 2021 01:46
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https://twitter.com/HanSolex/status/1449092017884221441
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Oct 15, 2021 20:22
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I'm really curious which wheels on this thing are driven, if any, and how
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Oct 15, 2021 21:20
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Steve French posted:I'm really curious which wheels on this thing are driven, if any, and how 
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Oct 15, 2021 23:43
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last time i posted a volvo ute i did it in the wrong thread so heres to hoping this lands in a better spot 
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The bastard should have listed it for $89k or something, goddammit I'm likely going to be thinking about buying this POS for the next week. I've got this urge to just sell my house and all my poo poo & move to live in Alaska sooo baaad and this does not help one bit.
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stone soup posted:last time i posted a volvo ute i did it in the wrong thread so heres to hoping this lands in a better spot Oh yeah that is def right thread, no question
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