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Twerk from Home posted:When I lived in Texas, I believed that truckers don't speed. It turns out that Texas just has high freeway speed limits, and trucks in the US actually drive 66-68 mph everywhere, regardless of the speed limit. In Texas they were doing 68mph on 70 and 75mph limit roads, in Tennessee they're doing 68mph in 55 and 60mph limits. If you do 80 on the PA Turnpike you can have trouble keeping up with 18 wheelers sometimes. Then you hit a hill and they drop down to like 45mph. I have never encountered an 18 wheeler doing under 70 on the PA turnpike that wasn't terrain forced.
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bird with big dick posted:Make it so your speed is limited directly by energy consumption so F-350s can go 45 mph while Tesla Model 3s can go 130 mph FIA Formula 1 fuel burn rules for everyone! The ghost of Soichiro would be pleased.
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May 18, 2022 16:03
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Change all speed camera/radar/lidar/whatever to measure average speed over a set distance, rather than instantaneous. Everyone exceeds the limit sometimes, and that's fine, but if your average speed is over the speed limit for a mile or two, the hammer falls. E: yes I know that means storing license plate data, but that already happens.
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May 18, 2022 16:05
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YOLOsubmarine posted:EVs deal better with heat than cold. It might be slightly less convenient than a gas car but it would be perfectly doable. The nissan leaf would like to have a word. KillHour posted:Truckers are going the fastest speed that the governor on their truck allows them to at all times. Time is money. Which is usually set by the carrier, their insurance minimums, and the kinda tires they feel like springing for. A blistering 62-68mph. In CA they are restricted to 55. Try that on fun old two lane I5. Say a friday, or a sunday. You'll get pockets of dickbags causing traffic flow problem after problem for the like 10 hours it takes to get between LA and SF. The driver's time is not valued by the company, only the load, for the driver does not make a dime when sitting between loads or when they're out of available hours. midwestern/northeastern roads, including the toll roads, are utter poo poo, trying to do [checks notes] 95mph in a f350 let alone a freightliner is gonna result in a bad time. Considering I broke a F350 frame doing 60-70 across the dakotas and a few weeks later continually got airborne on PA's joke of a turnpike at like forty loving five miles per hour it amazed me that it didn't break again. Wheeee posted:time to get a prius and a motorcycle Prius and bicycle. better yet: moto and bicycle. Olympic Mathlete posted:Reading these various replies just cements the fact that the US needs far better infrastructure for alternatives to the car and that it seems nobody should actually be driving if they incapable of looking ahead to spot potential hazards. It will never happen. cars won here. public transit is stigmatized. People drive like they push shopping carts like they screw, what isn't about them does not matter.
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May 18, 2022 16:10
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MeruFM posted:i understand no one drives 300 miles in 1 go, but most evs are not 300, they're 200-270? Also realistically, you're driving until 15-20%, equivalent of fueling up at the 1-2 gallon left mark, because not all chargers work and no one drives literally until 0% to their recharge station. So it's actually 150-220ish? Minus another 10% for AC, god forbid heater. Minus another 10% because who drives literally 70mph constant with no hills. Better charging infrastructure would help with range anxiety. For example, my 3 has a pitiful range of 200 miles in the city / 300 highway but this is a very workable issue as it's easy to refill my gas tank.
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THE FUTURE AS DESIGNED BY TECHBROS: https://twitter.com/jtwestbro/status/1526921115804831745?s=20&t=QYzmzCr3LhqaRuZBeEtb9A Windowless so they can fire ads at you whilst you travel places and engage with the horrors out the outside world as little as possible. quote:"Instead of conventional windows, passengers would view the outside world by using their VR headset to access cameras mounted on the outside of the vehicle." The future of cars is poop from a butt. Save the manuals, you'll need them when the AI goes batshit... Nidhg00670000 posted:So fine everyone as soon as they exceed the speed limit at any time between the cameras, since that'd bump the average over the limit, unless you then slow down under the limit enough to bring the average down? This is how it works, yes. We have them in the UK on a stack of roads and it works quite nicely. You can always avoid those roads entirely if you don't agree with them (and I do avoid them). My gripe with them though is unless you have cruise, you're now staring intently at your speedo instead of the road which is also another good reason to avoid them. Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 16:35 on May 18, 2022 |
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May 18, 2022 16:32
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KozmoNaut posted:Change all speed camera/radar/lidar/whatever to measure average speed over a set distance, rather than instantaneous. So fine everyone as soon as they exceed the speed limit at any time between the cameras, since that'd bump the average over the limit, unless you then slow down under the limit enough to bring the average down?
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May 18, 2022 16:32
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Wheeee posted:gas here is fuckin $2.30/L Bicycles are infinite MPG, just add burritos. Does require living where there is some decent infrastructure for bicycles though, I feel so lucky (but i'm also hounding our local govt for actual protected bike lanes). Add motorcycle (something like a honda cb300r gets almost 70mpg) if your lifestyle allows.
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May 18, 2022 16:37
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Olympic Mathlete posted:THE FUTURE AS DESIGNED BY TECHBROS: Dual purpose car/coffin.
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i don't think anyone is really making a windowless car.
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Rusty posted:i don't think anyone is really making a windowless car. Yeah, that's just somebody's render that they posted for clicks.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:So fine everyone as soon as they exceed the speed limit at any time between the cameras, since that'd bump the average over the limit, unless you then slow down under the limit enough to bring the average down? I am certain that the American way of farming out speed camera enforcement to for profit companies will have no unforseen consequences. I unironically say get rid of all highway speed limits.
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May 18, 2022 16:56
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cursedshitbox posted:Considering I broke a F350 frame doing 60-70 across the dakotas and a few weeks later continually got airborne on PA's joke of a turnpike at like forty loving five miles per hour it amazed me that it didn't break again. Username checks out. Deteriorata posted:Yeah, that's just somebody's render that they posted for clicks. It also clearly has an electro-chromatic panoramic windshield. The bigger issue is that it looks like the side windows don't roll down. (Bigger issue from a "this was designed by an idiot" perspective. Apple's car, if it ever shows up, will not look like that.) KillHour fucked around with this message at 17:23 on May 18, 2022 |
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May 18, 2022 17:21
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Mr. Wiggles posted:I unironically say get rid of all highway speed limits. I'd be down for Autobahn rules if the US had the same standard of driver's education that Germany does. But driver's education in the US has been hollowed out possibly even worse than all other education.
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May 18, 2022 17:27
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Olympic Mathlete posted:THE FUTURE AS DESIGNED BY TECHBROS: Someone put wheels on the worst mouse apple ever designed
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bull3964 posted:If you do 80 on the PA Turnpike you can have trouble keeping up with 18 wheelers sometimes. SC is super fun because no only is the surface quality reminiscent of Dresden, late February 1945--but I26 is two lanes through midland hills so you just have rolling roadblocks while semis pass each other over a 1mph speed differential for dozens of miles at a time. Never mind that merely going 7-10 over is borderline unsafe between the giant rolling gridlocks. Crush every speeder with a huge tickets and spend 1% of the revenues on speed limit signs so there's no loving excuse.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:So fine everyone as soon as they exceed the speed limit at any time between the cameras, since that'd bump the average over the limit, unless you then slow down under the limit enough to bring the average down? The trip computer in your car probably records average speed as well. Give it a go and see how fast you go on average. As long as you don't stay consistently over the limit, your average speed will be below the limit. Usually a lot lower than you would expect. Ideally, people would just drive approximately the speed limit according to their speedometers, and let that 3-5% over-read be the margin of error.
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BlackMK4 posted:Someone put wheels on the worst mouse apple ever designed Ah, so the charge port will be on the bottom.
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Kia Soul Enthusias posted:Ah, so the charge port will be on the bottom. You'll have to flip your car over to charge it.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:THE FUTURE AS DESIGNED BY TECHBROS: This feels like somebody watched a bunch of cyberpunk movies and then completely missed the point of cyberpunk.
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I'm not a huge fan of the current Civic styling, and I admit it is probably a stellar car, but the Integra looks like a legitimately nice car if you think of it as a Civic SI, but just... better in all the ways that matter as a daily driver. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qypUCG27NVE Still. The wild 90's kid part of me wish it looked more like this:  and not so much this:  E: in 2000 I sat in a Honda Prelude-SH at NAIAS and I thought it was the most perfect car ever. I still want one 22 years later. 
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KillHour posted:Truckers are going the fastest speed that the governor on their truck allows them to at all times. Time is money. We have solved this by having separate speed limits for winter and summer. In general the main roads lower the speed limit by 20km/h, so from 120 to 100 and 100 to 80 during the winter. Also lorries are limited to 89 km/h and can do just fine in the motorways. Just stick the slower traffic on the outside lane and faster traffic can overtake on the inside. That is how it works on the Autobahn as well. Not every lane there is doing 250km/h.
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Mental Hospitality posted:Still. The wild 90's kid part of me wish it looked more like this: That's because what they put out (like the vast majority of what the car industry curls out into the world) is visually dull, uninspiring (sometimes pointlessly over elaborate and messy) and just plain not cool compared to virtually everything else from back in the day. Cars are objectively better these days in virtually every single way except visually.
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the worst thing that ever happened to the car industry was learning about aerodynamics
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Wheeee posted:the worst thing that ever happened to the car industry was learning about aerodynamics That's the worst thing to happen to F1. Safety standards (pedestrian and otherwise) are actually the worst thing that happened to the car industry.
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mobby_6kl posted:The highway speed limit here is 130 km/h aka 80 and you can go 150 without getting into too much trouble. Even on the Autobahn I prefer around a nice 130km/h most of the time because going faster tends to be hell on fuel economy.
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YOLOsubmarine posted:Buying a bolt and renting something for the times you need more range would be way less expensive than buying a lucid. People say this a lot about electrics and I definitely agree in principle! Based on my past experiences renting cars, though, I absolutely cannot wait to try renting a gas car for a long trip only to find out that they've already rented the vehicle I thought I reserved and I've been upgraded to either an electric or a 6mpg 3-row SUV
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Olympic Mathlete posted:That's the worst thing to happen to F1. its really weird how none of that actually applies to trucks and suvs
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Sab669 posted:There are some long, boring, open, empty stretches of land in the US. I did this a little too well once driving in west Texas and got a nice $300(?) fine for it - and a warning that a few miles faster would have put me into “felony speeding” territory which I don’t think is real, but I wasn’t in an argumentative mood
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wolfs posted:I did this a little too well once driving in west Texas and got a nice $300(?) fine for it - and a warning that a few miles faster would have put me into “felony speeding” territory Reckless endangerment for going 3 figures is absolutely a thing.
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Yea, you really don't want to get pulled over doing 100+
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The key to never get caught doing triple digit speeds is to try it one time in a 90's Ford Taurus with horribly warped brake discs when your 18. Scariest and dumbest thing I've ever done in a car and I've been a supremely cautious driver for the last 20 years since.
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Mental Hospitality posted:The key to never get caught doing triple digit speeds is to try it one time in a 90's Ford Taurus with horribly warped brake discs when your 18. Scariest and dumbest thing I've ever done in a car and I've been a supremely cautious driver for the last 20 years since. I hit 110 or so in a 1985 MR2 once, and I resolved to never do it again.
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No judge would convict for busting 100 in a yugo.
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I feel like there should be Plausible Deniability if the speedo tops out at 85.
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LeeMajors posted:I hit 110 or so in a 1985 MR2 once, and I resolved to never do it again. I hit 150mph in my Dodge NEON SRT-4 and it was by far the stupidest thing I've ever done in my life. By. Far.
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skipdogg posted:I hit 150mph in my Dodge NEON SRT-4 and it was by far the stupidest thing I've ever done in my life. By. Far. It could’ve been 120 because of speedo wobble, but it was fast as hell and scared the poo poo out of me. So stupid. Dumb 17yo kid.
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DanTheFryingPan posted:Even on the Autobahn I prefer around a nice 130km/h most of the time because going faster tends to be hell on fuel economy. 130km/h was already way too fast for the Renault Megane I leased to tour round Europe in - I think there was about a 40% difference between 110 and 130 in that car.
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I hit 116mph in a 1996 2.0L Jetta. I've gone faster in other cars, but that one took forever to get to "only" 116. Kids are dumb.
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