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External Organs posted:Cruise control for a 35 mph road?? My car can do 30kph for school zones. Works well to piss off people behind me who really want to run over children.
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Cruise control at 35 mph: Lazy legs, compensating for a heavy foot, or obsessed with fuel efficiency. Cruise control seems inappropriate to me in any place where you might have to stop suddenly (say, because of an idiot child), but I don't know how it works out statistically, if it's ever even been studied. \/\/\/\/ oh yeah, if it's a Tesla they probably just... don't actually manually drive (which is incredibly unsafe). At least she was paying enough attention to spot the kid. Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Mar 31, 2022 |
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Mar 31, 2022 16:13
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External Organs posted:Cruise control for a 35 mph road?? the dude is also clearly a huge dork and talked about his dash cam. Tesla confirmed
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Mar 31, 2022 16:13
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I didn't realize these people even existed
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Mar 31, 2022 16:15
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You know it’s not a Tesla because they didn’t call it autopilot. A Tesla owner would never turn down the chance to brag about their car.
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Upgrade posted:You know it’s not a Tesla because they didn’t call it autopilot. A Tesla owner would never turn down the chance to brag about their car. Also because the child survived
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Mar 31, 2022 16:23
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Captain Hygiene posted:Haha I wondered if cruise control would even engage at that speed. My folks were always so adamant that you don't/can't use cruise control at low speeds that I've never even tried it in all the years I've been driving. we have speed cameras here for 30mph that ticket at 34 so ya I use cruise control at those speeds
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Mar 31, 2022 16:23
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this is blowing my mind
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Mar 31, 2022 16:25
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Yah I used cruise control for a long time at low speeds. When I was 16 I got two speeding tickets like one right after another and so the next one would have cost me my license. To stop myself from going too fast I just used cruise control almost everywhere until those tickets got old enough that another one wouldn't make me lose my license. But by then I just didn't really speed anymore.
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Mar 31, 2022 16:31
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I don't remember ever using cruise control, even on highways. I just keep a tab on my speed and the people around me.
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Mar 31, 2022 16:47
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hawowanlawow posted:the dude is also clearly a huge dork and talked about his dash cam. Tesla confirmed op's a she. haveblue posted:Also because the child survived lmao
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Mar 31, 2022 16:54
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I use cruise control at 35 every day. Why wouldn’t you if you drive through an area with that speed limit?
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Sisal Two-Step posted:op's a she. the chick is also clearly a huge dorkette and talked about her dash cam. Tesla confirmed
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Mar 31, 2022 17:01
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I had to go back to check, and she just has a generic username. Which means there's a different driver story I remember reading lately where the OP actually had TESLA in their name, where I just saw it and went "of course"
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Mar 31, 2022 17:07
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This was about 25 years ago so I assume things are safer now, but my sister once had an incident where she was driving on the highway about 100km/h and the cruise control wouldn't disengage when she pressed the brake. I think she said she had to put it in neutral for the cc to turn off. I don't know what model of car but it was a Ford she was transferring from one dealership to another as an employee. Anyway, I have always been extremely hesitant to use it myself and really only do for long, fairly straight, empty stretches of road. Hearing of someone using it in a residential area with side streets where kids are playing makes me feel ill. I don't understand why you would even do so on a road where you constantly have to stop at signs or lights.
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Mar 31, 2022 17:08
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so people that cruise control on city streets are the people pressing their brake for almost no reason and causing a chain reaction behind em when easing up on the gas a lil would be normal and fine
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hawowanlawow posted:the chick is also clearly a huge dorkette and talked about her dash cam. Tesla confirmed 
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Mar 31, 2022 17:14
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its_my_birthday posted:so people that cruise control on city streets are the people pressing their brake for almost no reason and causing a chain reaction behind em when easing up on the gas a lil would be normal and fine Oh poo poo! You're totally right.
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Mar 31, 2022 17:21
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its_my_birthday posted:so people that cruise control on city streets are the people pressing their brake for almost no reason and causing a chain reaction behind em when easing up on the gas a lil would be normal and fine You don't need to slam the brake, just touch it, or just shut cc off via the switch, or press the clutch if you have one. The people constantly pumping their breaks on surface streets are people that are either incapable of applying gentle pressure to the accelerator and so they have to keep braking to not speed, or people that use a foot on each the break and acceleator. Anyone following so close that a break light coming on forces a panic is following too close.
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Mar 31, 2022 17:27
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beep boop set car to speed limit beep boop
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Mar 31, 2022 17:36
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its_my_birthday posted:so people that cruise control on city streets are the people pressing their brake for almost no reason and causing a chain reaction behind em when easing up on the gas a lil would be normal and fine fyi the scientific name for that particular effect is a Shockwave Jam
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Mar 31, 2022 17:39
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Underwhelmed posted:Anyone following so close that a break light coming on forces a panic is following too close. I knew someone who would maintain her speed by hitting the gas intermittently (like, kind of in 1-2 second "bursts") and another person who was a hot-shot car-loving lead foot and mocked her for it. Neither has ever been in a crash to my knowledge, so, you know, whatever works.
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Mar 31, 2022 17:45
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New challenge: drive across town solely using the accelerate/decelerate buttons on your cruise control
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Mar 31, 2022 17:50
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as a soldier in the war on cars, acid vats for all urban drivers.
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Mar 31, 2022 17:51
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Mellow Seas posted:
Lol on an 8 hour road trip down the state we let my friend drive the last leg and he kept doing the pump thing and we were like dude wtf is wrong with u and he said the driving school he had to to go to get points off his license taught him that method
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Mar 31, 2022 17:52
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Mellow Seas posted:you know, whatever works. hard disagree
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Mar 31, 2022 17:56
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I was taught that you should approach stop signs by decelerating so slowly you don't rock forward when you come to a full stop. My husband ... was not.
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Mar 31, 2022 17:56
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Driving is a land of contrasts
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I was taught that you should approach stop signs by decelerating so slowly you don't rock forward when you come to a full stop. My husband ... was not. I've been taught to feel the wheel-lock, the slight rocking forward telling you that you've actually come to a complete stop. You should be slowing down before that, though.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:I was taught that you should approach stop signs by decelerating so slowly you don't rock forward when you come to a full stop. My husband ... was not. It’s a little disorienting to me when I don’t feel that.
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Mar 31, 2022 18:05
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People seem convinced being hit by a car will not hurt them.
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Mar 31, 2022 18:07
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That was the one weird thing on my driver's test, it was a small town thing so they were casual about everything else, but coming to a stop they were like "I could feel that, wtf??"
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Mar 31, 2022 18:08
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The rear end in a top hat in the story is the designers who don't give a kid a safe place to ride their scooter away from cars going 35 mph.
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zakharov posted:The rear end in a top hat in the story is the designers who don't give a kid a safe place to ride their scooter away from cars going 35 mph. Yeah, this country hates pedestrians and non-motorized conveyances, it's ridiculous.
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Mar 31, 2022 18:09
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Crohn's mom reappears, and she's mad. AITA for saying dy daughter's teacher's offer was inappropriate and reporting the teacher quote:EDIT: TYPO IN THE TITLE. SUPPOSED TO SAY MY DAUGHTER'S... How dare you take care of my daughter's medical needs which I am neglecting?
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Mar 31, 2022 18:14
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Crohn's mom reappears, and she's mad. Can't you just put your disease on hold while I go take a vacation, uggggghhh 
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Captain Hygiene posted:That was the one weird thing on my driver's test, it was a small town thing so they were casual about everything else, but coming to a stop they were like "I could feel that, wtf??" I failed my first driver's test because the proctor set up the cones for the parallel park even with the tires of my car, and then told me to park in the space. I told him i wouldnt fit, he said to do it anyways, I hit a cone and was told I immediately failed and to just drive back to the station. The second time the proctor pulled the same stunt, i pulled up next to the cones, put it in park, said "I will never fit in this space." and she said "Yup, correct." and I passed.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Crohn's mom reappears, and she's mad. Why in the world wouldn’t they just send her in an Uber?
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Mar 31, 2022 18:18
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Kurieg posted:I failed my first driver's test because the proctor set up the cones for the parallel park even with the tires of my car, and then told me to park in the space. I told him i wouldnt fit, he said to do it anyways, I hit a cone and was told I immediately failed and to just drive back to the station. Acid vat. I don't care how long ago it was, gently caress her for that bs
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Captain Hygiene posted:Can't you just put your disease on hold while I go take a vacation, uggggghhh The first time I read it somehow I hosed it up and thought that the vacation time was taken off specifically to accommodate the medical treatment but now I see I'm way off on that. Fork of Unknown Origins posted:Why in the world wouldn’t they just send her in an Uber? Agreed, something else seems off here. I can understand needing a designated driver and caretaker if the daughter is being heavily sedated. Benadryl might make them unsafe to drive but they should surely be coherent enough to just take an Uber. Though the mom is still an rear end in a top hat for freaking out about a solution to her problems here.
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