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Mister Speaker posted:People get bizarrely defensive about their cars if you so much as touch them. I've had people get out of their cars and threaten me over as much as slapping their mirror back (when they almost ran me over making a right turn at a crosswalk) or as little as a gentle tap on their quarter panel for not paying attention. I get being defensive over something you value (I was pretty protective of my bike because the last one got stolen) but it's hilariously pathetic to have some fat gently caress leap out of his car and threaten to beat me up ("I promise you there's no way that ends the way you think it does" is my canned response) over so much as tapping on the hood. I'll fold in the mirrors, drum on the hood, etc. of drivers behaving badly and it's 100% going to get me killed.
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Mauser posted:A lot of people doing math in the replies imagining a 30 mile stretch of town road without stops, lights, circles, other cars, or running out of town. if you actually get nerdy and think about it, the ideal possible amount of time saved by increasing the maximum speed of a typical non-highway car journey is almost always going to be something like 10% at most. it isn’t even about saving time. it’s about maintaining a constant level of stressful, violent urgency
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Bushiz posted:I'll fold in the mirrors, drum on the hood, etc. of drivers behaving badly and it's 100% going to get me killed. How have you not gotten shot?
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I've had a gun waved at me for honking when someone tried to change lanes into me.
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Twerk from Home posted:How have you not gotten shot? I've only smacked a couple hoods when cars are creeping up on me in the crosswalk so far. If I can touch your car, you're too close. One thing I've been doing lately is crossing the street without making eye contact and just watching if they stop in my peripheral vision. Drivers seem to stop for me more when they think I'm not paying attention. CopperHound has issued a correction as of 16:55 on Sep 25, 2023 |
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Drivers: Stop trying to wave me through stop signs when all your windows are rolled up. You're not a human when you are sealed inside. I am watching the metallic monster, instead of the little bit of meat hiding behind the glare of the glass.
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CopperHound posted:Drivers: Stop trying to wave me through stop signs when all your windows are rolled up. You're not a human when you are sealed inside. I am watching the metallic monster, instead of the little bit of meat hiding behind the glare of the glass. This is a common dilemma for me, except it's my otherwise nice (also one shithead) neighbours trying to wave, but I am not looking at the driver but the car.
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im thinking of kafka as a car instead of a cockroach now.
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I really can't even see inside cars anymore. All the windows are tinted so darkly.
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CopperHound posted:One thing I've been doing lately is crossing the street without making eye contact and just watching if they stop in my peripheral vision. Drivers seem to stop for me more when they think I'm not paying attention. I've had the exact opposite experience in Seattle. if you stare at their car (or even the driver themself if you can manage it) they slow way down.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I've had the exact opposite experience in Seattle. if you stare at their car (or even the driver themself if you can manage it) they slow way down. depends if they see you. In my area, you are lucky if they look up from their phone for long enough to realize anyone is there.
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"gently caress cars" Cspam: Yeah! and gently caress all motor vehicles "ARRRGH. Motorcycles are good people!"
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These forums are a treasure. I love my semi-weekly updates I get over in LAN about how terrible speed limits are in Eugene quote:I'm okay with speed bumps, in theory. In practice they end up being punitive and obnoxious, at least here in Eugene. When they first started doing them years ago they were well thought-out, and if you were doing the posted speed then they were gentle whoop-de-doos. Now they are proliferating, choking off main arteries, and are often so severe that if you hit one doing the posted speed the front of your car could fall off. A lot of them around here are being put in for NIMBY/HOA reasons, and they hosed up one street so badly they had to adjust the urban growth boundary because it effectively choked off an entire area.
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the sweetest of tears, right there
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Sounds like the speed bumps are working as intended
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You can't even do the speed limit over speed bumps anymore!
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You can go through stop signs without stopping as long as you stick to the speed limit, right?
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Fitzy Fitz posted:You can't even do the speed limit over speed bumps anymore! skill issue
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mystes posted:You can go through stop signs without stopping as long as you stick to the speed limit, right? This seems to be exactly what the people in my neighborhood believe. I only see about 1/4 people stop at the stop sign in front of the elementary school thats a block from me.
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eSports Chaebol posted:if you actually get nerdy and think about it, the ideal possible amount of time saved by increasing the maximum speed of a typical non-highway car journey is almost always going to be something like 10% at most. it isn’t even about saving time. it’s about maintaining a constant level of stressful, violent urgency silicone thrills posted:This seems to be exactly what the people in my neighborhood believe. I only see about 1/4 people stop at the stop sign in front of the elementary school thats a block from me. evil_bunnY has issued a correction as of 18:19 on Sep 25, 2023 |
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I honestly think that 20mph is probably a good limit for ebikes unless people are prepared to treat them like motorcycles and wear motorcycle gear
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mystes posted:I honestly think that 20mph is probably a good limit for cars unless people are prepared to treat them like motorcycles and wear motorcycle gear
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mystes posted:I honestly think that 20mph is probably a good limit for ebikes unless people are prepared to treat them like motorcycles and wear motorcycle gear Good for anything with a motor tbh, you'll get there eventually don't worry too much about it buddy E: trains excepted ofc. Planes tbd
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mystes posted:I honestly think that 20mph is probably a good limit for ebikes unless people are prepared to treat them like motorcycles and wear motorcycle gear That's literal carbrained thinking
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mystes posted:I honestly think that 20mph is probably a good limit for ebikes unless people are prepared to treat them like motorcycles and wear motorcycle gear for sure.
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silicone thrills posted:This seems to be exactly what the people in my neighborhood believe. I only see about 1/4 people stop at the stop sign in front of the elementary school thats a block from me. The intersection right in front of my house is two one-way streets, one side stops and the cross street does not. I have been nearly hit twice there because of people who go through the stop sign while I'm coming down the cross street in my car.
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evil_bunnY posted:I really wish we had a system like the UK where you can just send in video evidence to the pigs and watch people's licenses get obliterated. fail to stop? 3 points off. On the phone? 6 points out the window. If you try to play vigilante you might get shot, but if you call the cops so you don't get shot, the other person might get shot. This is what I like to call a "win-win" scenario
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apatite posted:If you try to play vigilante you might get shot, but if you call the cops so you don't get shot, the other person might get shot. This is what I like to call a "win-win" scenario lol what, the police shoot the person who call them all the time
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evil_bunnY posted:I really wish we had a system like the UK where you can just send in video evidence to the pigs and watch people's licenses get obliterated. fail to stop? 3 points off. On the phone? 6 points out the window. lol
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apatite posted:If you try to play vigilante you might get shot, but if you call the cops so you don't get shot, the other person might get shot. This is what I like to call a "win-win" scenario lol
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:lol what, the police shoot the person who call them all the time win-win-win, you say?
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Twerk from Home posted:How have you not gotten shot? I live in new york and am 6'6" with a manual labor job. Prior to living in New York I was generally more armed than them.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:You can't even do the speed limit over speed bumps anymore! you can, just not in a car 
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calling the police and shooting them if they show up in a car
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id kill the driver and the police officer with my bicycle
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Groda posted:That's literal carbrained thinking when you have carbrain you assume you are invincible. on bike you are very vincible
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Groda posted:That's literal carbrained thinking its not
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AnimeIsTrash posted:id kill the driver and the police officer with my bicycle yup
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