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Baconroll posted:Since the 11 foot 8 bridge got sadly neutered I now enjoy videos from the the Milwaukee Roundabout - Lots of great ones here, Here, have a 10 foot 10: https://jalopnik.com/an-infamous-low-bridge-in-pennsylvania-just-destroyed-t-1847645318 There's also a 9 foot 8 nearby but it's on a side street.
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# ? May 20, 2024 05:21 |
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Baconroll posted:Since the 11 foot 8 bridge got sadly neutered I now enjoy videos from the the Milwaukee Roundabout - Lots of great ones here, 11ft 8 bridge is still pretty busy. It's almost funnier now.
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# ? Dec 9, 2021 00:52 |
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waffle iron posted:I studied the road on street view a while back and it was changed to a roundabout 10 years ago at the same time the bridge was improved. Lots of people driving 50+ when it's posted for 30 or so. You can see a lot of skid marks on the approach. A fast road leading in to a hidden turn is a recipe for exactly this. They need at minimum some much more significant signage indicating the upcoming turn and realistically some more aggressive traffic calming on that approach. As always, whenever there's a mismatch between the posted limit and a significant portion of traffic that means either the posted limit or the road design needs to change. Usually I'm an advocate for the former, but this is definitely a case for the latter. The road design as it exists currently obviously creates a false sense of security for drivers heading south over the bridge, so those unfamiliar with the area (and/or impaired) are in trouble. Given what looks like three sports venues and a convention center just on the other side of the river I'm sure that's a significant chunk of the traffic along that particular route.
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# ? Dec 9, 2021 16:31 |
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So either better sinage/markings or better cameras so we can more clearly see the 'oh poo poo' expression on the drivers faces.
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# ? Dec 9, 2021 20:52 |
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you ate my cat posted:I think that a lot of people just don't have any idea how hard a car can actually brake. They half hit the brakes, lurch forward in their seat, and think that's about it. I'd be interested to know how many people have actually put their foot all the way to the firewall at highway speeds and ridden that all the way to an emergency stop. In the UK we are taught to emergency brake, both in cars and motorcycles. For the car driving test, if you're asked to emergency brake, you are expected to mash the brake to the floor. You'll have been doing 30mph or slower, on an empty street, but yeah, it's interesting how quickly a car can brake. And yes, I've felt the ABS kick in (instructor had me try on a normal street as well as on a street with some slightly slippery bits on it as well). For the motorcycle test, when you are first learning to emergency brake, it's scary as hell. I learned on a non-ABS bike, and learning where the threshold is on that Bandit 600, even in an empty parking lot was scary AF for a new rider.
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# ? Dec 9, 2021 22:19 |
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wolrah posted:The last time this one came up I recall looking at the street view and when you're coming over the bridge going south it really looks like the road just keeps going more or less straight down 6th until you come over the peak of the bridge and there's a curb in front of you for the jog over to the roundabout marked by a single small yellow chevron sign. Beyond that, the road leading up to it is wide, straight, flat other than the bridge, and has no significant obstacles. In other words regardless of how it's signed, this is a fast road. Totally agree. They viaduct improvement widened the sidewalk/walking path and there are only two signs indicating the roundabout is coming up. Each sign is very small and mounted on the other side of the walking path so it appears even smaller.
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# ? Dec 10, 2021 01:54 |
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Wouldn't the american solution be to install a huge billboard at the curve, should give drivers a clue that something strange is ahead.
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# ? Dec 10, 2021 12:43 |
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Phanatic posted:Here, have a 10 foot 10: I know that road. Lived in St. Davids decades ago.
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# ? Dec 10, 2021 16:24 |
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Steakandchips posted:In the UK we are taught to emergency brake, both in cars and motorcycles. For the car driving test, if you're asked to emergency brake, you are expected to mash the brake to the floor. You'll have been doing 30mph or slower, on an empty street, but yeah, it's interesting how quickly a car can brake. And yes, I've felt the ABS kick in (instructor had me try on a normal street as well as on a street with some slightly slippery bits on it as well). I'm in the US and we weren't taught to emergency brake, but we were told it would be on our driving test. Unfortunately when I took mine, the tester just said "ok stop" so I slowed to a normal stop and got points taken off because I didn't emergency stop fast enough. I still passed, but was more than a little pissed about it.
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# ? Dec 10, 2021 18:29 |
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Saukkis posted:Wouldn't the american solution be to install a huge billboard at the curve, should give drivers a clue that something strange is ahead. Nah, the American solution is what's already been done, put a speed limit on it that no one pays attention to because the road design doesn't fit the posted limit and then blame the drivers for "speeding". Actually solving the problem costs the locals money, doing this costs the out of towners money and sends some ticket revenue to the city.
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# ? Dec 10, 2021 20:28 |
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Wheeeeee https://twitter.com/KiwiEV/status/1470253374134108160?s=20
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# ? Dec 13, 2021 16:07 |
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QUATTRO!
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KozmoNaut posted:I've also seen people brace against the steering wheel, which is just no no NO. Had a teacher that couldn't fully extend his arm because of that. Locked up his arm in an accident and got his elbow pinned in place to fix it. Same thing happened to Les Paul, the guy that basically invented the electric guitar. Got his elbow pinned at a 90° angle, rather than amputated, so he could still play guitar. Coincidentally, it was my music teacher that hosed up his arm death-gripping a steering wheel.
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# ? Dec 14, 2021 06:32 |
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I wouldn't attempt water even remotely like that in my Jeep, and I've driven axle-deep in not-flowing-water without so much as a second thought.
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# ? Dec 14, 2021 07:25 |
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IOwnCalculus posted:
To be fair he knew it was too deep to Ford that's why he tried an Audi.
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# ? Dec 14, 2021 23:26 |
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Sadly too many people have died in similar situations in Australia the past month
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# ? Dec 15, 2021 00:06 |
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bigbillystyle posted:To be fair he knew it was too deep to Ford that's why he tried an Audi.
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# ? Dec 15, 2021 01:55 |
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https://twitter.com/kreeger/status/1471635018216878081?s=20
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# ? Dec 17, 2021 18:08 |
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Some French soldiers are going to have to have A Meeting. Not the kind of meeting where you get biscuits. https://twitter.com/LouisWitter/status/1472531601145872386
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# ? Dec 20, 2021 20:11 |
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https://twitter.com/kreeger/status/1471635890866954253?s=20
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# ? Dec 21, 2021 16:09 |
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2021 supercut, some real winners in here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y5UwiSvtiA
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# ? Dec 22, 2021 13:08 |
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Mr Tall posted:This is definitely a thing. When you feel the ABS kick in it feels like something has gone wrong. I only really learned how hard you can brake and how much grip is there once I did a few track days. My driver's ed had be panic brake from 60, and separately a "we'll tell you which way to swerve." But I have friends who got what you got, in the same drat county in the same years. We desperately need federal level standards.
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# ? Dec 22, 2021 16:47 |
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https://twitter.com/Zero2Turbo/status/1474277254012313601?t=Dutz4IOeGmlrkxcm3QRVqQ&s=19
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Olympic Mathlete posted:https://twitter.com/Zero2Turbo/status/1474277254012313601?t=Dutz4IOeGmlrkxcm3QRVqQ&s=19 Not so long ago a smart bumped a Iveco lince(the Italian equivalent to an humvee) and hosed the lince so hard they had to scrap it/salvage it for parts
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 14:29 |
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We knew that wedge forms were powerful 20 years ago thanks to Robot Wars
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# ? Dec 29, 2021 17:19 |
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FilthyImp posted:We knew that wedge forms were powerful 20 years ago thanks to Robot Wars Back in the day (1990) at the video game company I was at, we would take RC10's (popular radio control car of the time and surprisingly still today) and do demolition derbies in the parking lot. As in full speed frontal collisions. I picked up a cheap rear end RC car that was some Nissan LeMans thing, that had a wedge front. Used to see the RC10's launched into the air every-time they tried to run into it.
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# ? Dec 29, 2021 17:25 |
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FilthyImp posted:We knew that wedge forms were powerful 20 years ago thanks to Robot Wars As soon as everyone saw the wedge/ram/self righting combo it just turned into a whole line up of those and 1-2 gimmick designs.
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# ? Dec 29, 2021 18:13 |
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I always favored spinning designs.
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 02:12 |
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It was warm and dry today so I took the Miata out for a spin. Within 15 minutes of departing, I had one guy try to change lanes right into me and only stopped after I gave a good long honk, and big rear end SUV with a trailer ran a veeeery red light, to the delight of other traffic. I only have one dashcam and it's in the Fit as I thought I'd be using it more in the lovely weather but now I think I need at least two in every car.
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# ? Jan 6, 2022 17:52 |
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So Washington State has been getting hammered by snowstorm after snowstorm, especially in the Cascades. We've already broken 20 year snowfall records and it's the first week of January. As such, we are in the unusual predicament of essentially being cut off from the rest of the US at the moment, as all passes across the Cascades are closed until at least Sunday. Flooding in the south means that I5 is shut down in parts because its underwater. WSDOT posted this today and I gotta say, this is some spectacular work: WSDOT posted:Road Closed signs apply to everyone. This is why. On Thursday evening this semi went through the road closure on White Pass and got stuck. Our crews had to rescue the occupants, take them to safety and then later today guide the truck down behind our blower. Our crews are working really hard to get things open, and things like this don't help. So please, if you see a road closed sign, don't ignore it.
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# ? Jan 8, 2022 01:01 |
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Solar Coaster posted:So Washington State has been getting hammered by snowstorm after snowstorm, especially in the Cascades. We've already broken 20 year snowfall records and it's the first week of January. That is some primo truckfuckling
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# ? Jan 8, 2022 18:41 |
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https://twitter.com/9NewsMelb/status/1481456037375148032?s=20
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# ? Jan 13, 2022 21:07 |
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Username/post combo
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# ? Jan 13, 2022 22:26 |
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meatwaste is my grindcore band
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# ? Jan 13, 2022 23:27 |
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spillage of animal entrails was our first ep
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# ? Jan 13, 2022 23:28 |
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:spillage of animal entrails was our first ep Loved your single Cleanup [will take some time].
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# ? Jan 13, 2022 23:35 |
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drat there are so many good combinations of words in there meat spill entrails and meat gruesome cleanup
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# ? Jan 13, 2022 23:37 |
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Soundtrack is on point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSO9cgFkFg0
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https://twitter.com/AuRupteur/status/1483376345191272448?s=20
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