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Had a close one last weekend, I was driving home on the freeway around 2am when I see this car come up behind me real fast, he pulls to the next lane and passes me clearly speeding, I was going 100km/h because I usually slow down to the speed limit if I see lights behind me in the dark, you never know if its the cops. After he was done passing me, he lost the control of his car, I stabbed my brakes and watched this dude spin around a couple of times before planting his car into the middle railing  Pulled over and ran over to check if they were okay, luckily there was only the driver in the car and he was clearly drunk with empty beer cans around the cabin. Another dude pulled over and called the cops, who I gave a statement when they arrived.And poo poo cherry on top of a turd cake was that he had mixed season tires on aswell, when the roads were iced.  Im just thankful he didnt take me out.
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I've been on the highway a lot more recently and I've been on the receiving end of a good tailgating, only to have them floor it and merge into another lane, leaving centimeters between us. How can you drive like such an rear end in a top hat and feel safe?
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Mar 26, 2014 00:17
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Ignorance is bliss
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Devyl posted:They had a problem with cars and the crosswalks at the old downtown square here in Bowling Green. It's a historic area with a lot of bars. Mix that with being in a college town and you can imagine the kind of problems that arise. To fix it, the crosswalk now has signs that light up and lights throughout the road itself so people know when it's safe to cross. My town has these all over the place downtown, which makes sense because UVA and the Downtown Mall are within blocks of each other so there is a ton of foot-traffic everywhere, mostly comprised of stoned/drunk/idiot college students. Funnily enough I didn't start noticing them until after a police officer struck a dude in a wheel-chair who was
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Mar 26, 2014 00:41
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I was a horrible driver one day, I was waiting to make a left turn on a regular light, yielding to the oncoming traffic. I saw a sufficient opening and floored it, the next thing I saw was a middle aged guy on an electric wheel chair complete with tubes and other poo poo. He was about a foot away from the lane I was turning into and swerved and braked. I didn't hit him, just scared him real bad and probably pissed off the cross traffic. I still feel like an rear end hole for that incident. 
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Mar 26, 2014 01:21
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Crotch Fruit posted:I was a horrible driver one day, I was waiting to make a left turn on a regular light, yielding to the oncoming traffic. I saw a sufficient opening and floored it, the next thing I saw was a middle aged guy on an electric wheel chair complete with tubes and other poo poo. He was about a foot away from the lane I was turning into and swerved and braked. I didn't hit him, just scared him real bad and probably pissed off the cross traffic. I still feel like an rear end hole for that incident. Don't feel too bad, this guy did it even without oncoming traffic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tkSzxdolSo This guy wins the prize for red light running though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiVtMhU5Y9s I hope the prize is a straight razor to the throat.
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Mar 26, 2014 02:31
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Seat Safety Switch posted:This guy wins the prize for red light running though:  He (or she) was extremely committed to making that light. Wow. gently caress that person.
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Mar 26, 2014 15:16
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InitialDave posted:Black clothing and black shoes with a black hat on a black bike with no lights or reflectors at night on an unlit road. Wearing sunglasses. And the guy doing all this is, in fact, black.
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Mar 26, 2014 16:59
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Dear Everyone-in-Miami: Four way flashers are not for rainstorms, you ignorant, incompetent, useless, assholes. gently caress off and die. Signed: MrYenko
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Safe passing is for casuals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEcbXgD9gbM
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Mar 26, 2014 19:28
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MrYenko posted:Dear Everyone-in-Miami: Four way flashers are not for rainstorms, you ignorant, incompetent, useless, assholes. gently caress off and die. I really wish parking attendants had the lawful right to slap people with "improper use of hazard lights" or something for doing that, in addition to the parking fine.
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Mar 26, 2014 20:11
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Once upon a time I was cruising I-90 through Wyoming after sundown, and sped right through what seemed like an entire herd of antelope. I was unable to use high beams because of oncoming traffic and they just popped out of the darkness as I came on top of them.. was a bit of a miracle that none were in my lane. Because I saw at least half a dozen sets of glowing eyes on both sides of the car as I zoomed past. At any rate that's the only time I've ever used my hazards "inappropriately." There was a semi about a half mile behind me and I felt like I needed some way to warn him.. all I could think of was to hit the hazards. Tapping the brakes would probably have worked too but I didn't think of it until later. I like to think it helped because several seconds later I saw the same truck flash his headlights, I guess either he got the message and was thanking me or was trying to warn someone that was behind him. I also finished that night at 55 mph because it scared the hell out of me. Since then I make a conscious effort to avoid driving rural areas from sunset on. Or I camp out behind a semi so he can splatter them out of my way.
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Mar 26, 2014 20:19
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I'm surprised that I didn't witness a collision this morning. I followed a car through 4 stop signs before I turned, and at each one the car ran the stop sign, stopped in the middle of the intersection, and then proceeded straight. I can only assume that happens at every stop, every day.
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Mar 26, 2014 21:34
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xzzy posted:Once upon a time I was cruising I-90 through Wyoming after sundown, and sped right through what seemed like an entire herd of antelope. I was unable to use high beams because of oncoming traffic and they just popped out of the darkness as I came on top of them.. was a bit of a miracle that none were in my lane. Because I saw at least half a dozen sets of glowing eyes on both sides of the car as I zoomed past. I think that's plenty reasonable. I slow down a lot and flash the blinkers a bit if I see deer. Even if you see only one there are more nearby.
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Mar 26, 2014 22:09
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MrYenko posted:Four way flashers are not for rainstorms, you ignorant, incompetent, useless, assholes. gently caress off and die. I'll turn on my hazards if it's raining hard enough that I (literally) can't see past the wipers. Seems to happen about once or twice a year for me. We get plenty of nasty weather, and I drive about 20k miles/year. But I'm crawling along at 5-10 mph at that point, driving by braille via lane markers and curbs, with zero visibility at that point; I'm just hoping it'll warn the brotruck that's inevitably doing 60 mph in a 45 when it's raining so hard that I can't even make out the wiper arms.
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Collateral Damage posted:Dear everyone in Stockholm: Nor are they for drawing attention to the fact that you have double parked like an idiot. This is worldwide some texas redneck posted:I'll turn on my hazards if it's raining hard enough that I (literally) can't see past the wipers. I know you drive for a living but if it's that bad you do yourself and everyone else a favor just getting off the road. Either brotruck somehow has better visibility than you do or he won't see you anyway.
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Mar 27, 2014 10:45
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That's only when I'm caught in a place where I can't pull over. Trust me, if I'm stuck in that poo poo, I pull over the moment it's safe to do so. Only highways have shoulders here (and even then, it's about 1/2 to 2/3 of them). If I can't see past the wipers (or hood), I know the brotruck behind me won't even realize I'm there until they hear my skull being split open by their RF tire. And the splitting sound will probably be their RF tire crushing through my spine and into the car chassis instead of my head. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 11:06 on Mar 27, 2014 |
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Had someone refuse to let me merge onto the highway today, to make it worse it was pouring rain which is never great in my XC. Coming down the on ramp, I was a couple of meters ahead (the front of their car was in line with the rear bumper of mine) of the person on the highway, going the same speed as them. Even if it wasn't raining braking would have been stupid, so I floor it to get ahead of them. They didn't like that and decide to match my speed to block me from merging. At this point I was running out of space between me and the concrete side wall so either I speed up again and make a sharp turn to get in front of them or slam on the brakes. I had a feeling I'd end up dying if I tried to make a sharp turn at speed in the rain, so I slammed on the brakes. I don't know how but the brakes didn't lock up and I didn't go sliding into the wall. One thing that has me worried though - I didn't use the horn. In fact I never use it when I get into lovely situations like this. I really should, it might help.
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I'm so happy I have a fast car and can dust people who do that now. In turbo I trust
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Ansith posted:
I don't know how much thought you put into it at the time, but sometimes not laying on the horn makes all the difference in the world in whether or not you end up in an accident. A few months ago I'm on a two lane road on my way to work. It's raining. I'm going about 40mph. As I'm passing a left turn lane waiting for a red light, some idiot a little over a car length in front of me decides he doesn't feel like waiting for the light and starts pulling back into the left lane from a dead stop. He either didn't look or didn't care that there was a car bearing down on him. I brake but there's no way in hell I have room to stop. Luckily there was nobody in the right lane and I was able to veer into it to avoid him. I'm still amazed we didn't collide. There were only a couple of inches between us. If our windows had been open I could have reached inside his car. Even though that is the type of situation that would typically call for it, I didn't even think of laying on the horn at the time. I was too focused on avoiding a collision, and I don't think I would have pulled that off if I'd gone for the horn.
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Some idiot in a black Camry whipped it out into the lane immediately in front of me at "I'm bumbling up this entrance ramp the throttle makes scary noises oh god I am going so fast I AM SCARED SOMEONE TAKE ME HOME" speed. Good to know I can check my blind spot and switch lanes in time to avoid a collision at a 25mph speed difference, given a carlength and a half of working room! I didn't really want to learn that this morning, though. Oh and gently caress you Camry owner. I hope you play chicken with a freight train... or start taking the bus, where people incapable of driving belong.
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Mar 27, 2014 15:25
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I got stuck behind some boob on the way in this morning, driving 15 under the 35 mph speed limit. One of those super timid drivers, every time a car would come in the oncoming lane they would swing all the way to the curb and tap the brakes. Once it was clear they'd slowly creep back up to 20 and then drive with a wheel on the yellow lines. Once we even hit 25! Eventually they turned off and I expected to see either a fossil or a teenager, but nope, it was just some normal looking middle aged lady who is merely a colossally lovely driver. Maybe the car was a loaner and she was terrified of damaging it? 
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kastein posted:Some idiot in a black Camry whipped it out into the lane immediately in front of me at "I'm bumbling up this entrance ramp the throttle makes scary noises oh god I am going so fast I AM SCARED SOMEONE TAKE ME HOME" speed. Good to know I can check my blind spot and switch lanes in time to avoid a collision at a 25mph speed difference, given a carlength and a half of working room! I didn't really want to learn that this morning, though. Aaaggghhhhh this is the worst. One of the onramps to the loop that goes around the city doubles as an exit-only lane. It's not fun getting stuck behind a person going 35 in a this-is-going-to-end-soon exit-only "onramp", trying to merge over to the travel lane where the average speed of traffic is 70, while a large number of those same people doing 70 are trying to merge over into your lane to get off the exit. Probably one of my road ragiest locations.
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I saw a guy in a new Mazda 6 loop his car at playground-zone speeds this morning by turning right a little aggressively and lifting as soon as the back end started to step out. It was sort of incredible, I haven't seen a spinout that slow before.
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Mar 27, 2014 16:28
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I've accidentally done that in my truck before making a u-turn from a dead stop. It was in the first 15-20 minutes of rain after a couple months of drought and dust(so, not as bad as if it were clear dry conditions), you still feel like the biggest retard ever. Touched the throttle, had the wheels turned too sharply, and immediately spun a 270 at 5 mph. Thankfully there was maybe 1 person on the road driving away from me so my shame was still relatively private.
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Mar 27, 2014 16:54
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Ansith posted:Had someone refuse to let me merge onto the highway today, to make it worse it was pouring rain which is never great in my XC. I can't remember the last time anyone tried pulling this poo poo on me. I'd just merge in anyway and let the paint chips fall where they may. It also helps to drive a car that looks like it came straight out of the Thunderdome. People usually give you a wide berth regardless.
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Hell yes it does, my crapcan would be more at home in Libya with a dozen dudes toting AKs in the back than it would where I live. Even when I was DDing it in NYC, people let me go where I wanted to. 
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Mar 27, 2014 18:34
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Ansith posted:Had someone refuse to let me merge onto the highway today, to make it worse it was pouring rain which is never great in my XC. I had someone do this to me except they were driving a tractor-trailer and they accelerated to close a 50m gap. By which I mean that when I was at the top of the ramp there was a good 50 meter gap between them and the car I was going to merge behind but by the time I hit the merge zone they had accelerated so hard that they had to lock their wheels to avoid a collision with it. 
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Snowdens Secret posted:This is worldwide
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Well, wherever you are, wouldn't we all benefit from having an "Iceman" option in our cars?
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In that vein, some sweet karmic bro-truck justice here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XqZoaWKv2k
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Mar 27, 2014 21:54
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Looking at that video, there was plenty of space to pull over to the right.
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Mar 27, 2014 21:56
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Yeah, idiot woman shouldn't have been in that lane, and certainly shouldn't have had her phone out. Hard to tell who's slowing or accelerating when they're alongside each other, but she's probably in need of at least one ticket there.
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Mar 27, 2014 22:03
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Yeah, just because the speedometer reads the speed limit doesn't mean they get to pretend it's a badge and play traffic cop. Get the gently caress out of the way and move on with life. Though it is pretty funny how dude whipped his truck into the ditch. Maybe put some sandbags in the bed for next time?
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Yeah, the only way that could have ended better is if she managed to drive into something while filming and/or laughing at him and being smug.
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Mar 27, 2014 22:18
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Yes, that would have been an awesome two-for, but my ire for what truck guy does outweighs my ire for people that do exactly the limit in the fast lane. It's SR 41 in Tampa, not exactly a multilane freeway. There's lights every mile or two, you're going to be slowing down or stopping soon no matter what. Also, with all that space he could have just gone the gently caress around and gotten on with his life as well. If I did what bro-truck guy is doing every time I ran up on somebody doing the limit in the left lane I'd have wrecked every vehicle I've ever owned several times over rather than just rolling my eyes and passing them up like a non-rear end in a top hat.
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Actually I just watched that video again and she was pacing the trucks in the slow lane, specifically to piss off the bro truck. You can see a rear wheel right at the beginning. That entire first minute she just sticks right next to them. Dumb oval office.
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Kilersquirrel posted:In that vein, some sweet karmic bro-truck justice here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XqZoaWKv2k This is so good it feels like friday coming one day early
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LloydDobler posted:Actually I just watched that video again and she was pacing the trucks in the slow lane, specifically to piss off the bro truck. You can see a rear wheel right at the beginning. That entire first minute she just sticks right next to them. Dumb oval office.
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xzzy posted:I got stuck behind some boob on the way in this morning, driving 15 under the 35 mph speed limit. One of those super timid drivers, every time a car would come in the oncoming lane they would swing all the way to the curb and tap the brakes. Once it was clear they'd slowly creep back up to 20 and then drive with a wheel on the yellow lines. Once we even hit 25! Whenever I see people driving like this I assume they're drunk or stoned out of their mind and are trying to get home without attracting the attention of the cops.
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