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The Door Frame posted:Who knows, all I know is that I heard a high pitched pssst! noise when he let off the gas I'm betting what you heard was compressor stall. My old 6.9L IDI with a Banks kit would make a heck of a racket if you spooled it and then immediately dropped back to idle.
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Unload My Head posted:I'm betting what you heard was compressor stall. I don't know what it would sound like in your setup or the one he was talking about, but on most Duramaxes I've done stupid things to it sounds like a sea lion barking. I'm pretty sure that's what the bros in the diesel forums call it too (turbo bark). I can't really handle reading those forums on any sort of regular basis......I actually feel IQ points leeching away.
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I got road raged by some stupid motherfucker this morning. Not really sure why, either. I passed a few people on the right because they were asleep in the left lane. Suddenly one starts beeping and flipping me off.  I was neither the first nor the last person to pass him on the right, either.Possible explanations: He was angry about the no-W sticker on the back of my jeep.  (sorry buddy, I honestly dislike most politicians, haven't had time to scrape it off yet, and just installed my new junkyard tailgate. gently caress off.) He was angry about being passed on the right. Sorry, get the gently caress outta the left lane. He thought I was honking at me. Sorry you're so retarded you can't tell the difference between loud mud tires and a car horn. I dunno wtf his problem was, really.
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I asked a friend one time why he thought it was bad to filter to the front of lights or split traffic (he cycles) and his fall back was "It 's disrespectful". He didn't know what to think when I told him it was legal most other places, and in some cities they even have cyclists spots at the front of the intersection! He didn't know or hadn't thought about it, but learning that people have the attitude of getting upset for perceived disrespect on the road really helped me understand the people who seemingly get pissed at nothing. Or worse, when you're doing the right thing, like zipper merging. I did it twice coming home from Tennessee where a bridge went down to one lane but they posted the warning signs 3 miles early. Cue me cruising past 3 miles of impotent rage and slotting in at the merge point, like anyone else could have done.
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Crotch Fruit posted:Yesterday I passed a brodozer doing 65 and towing a trailer only marginally larger than a Radio Flyer wagon. While passing, I suddenly noticed my car was being pelted by chunks of rubber flying off the trailer's tire, it was completely flat. I briefly thought about trying to honk or something to alert the driver, but he had already let me know passing him was a threat to his manhood and sped up to try to keep me out of his lane. Instead I simply accelerated a little more and smiled as I continued on with no fucks given. What's nice about compensationmobiles is between the terrible tune, shoddy build quality and ridiculous suspension/tires they go like a wet fart and handle even worse. Nothing better than hearing them kickdown and drone fruitlessly while you pass them going up a hill. Plus, for all their bravado they're not going to risk damaging those tires, they've still got 6 months until they're paid off!
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As soon as I got back into town yesterday, I had someone change lanes in the middle of an intersection almost hit me, and then honk at me and flip out because they thought I was the one that changed lanes. I flipped her off because of her ridiculous behavior, but what really annoys me is that she still probably doesn't understand she was the one at fault there. If there are 3 non-turning lanes and you start at the leftmost lane and end at the middle lane, you are not doing intersections properly (especially if you're the only one doing it).
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tuna posted:As soon as I got back into town yesterday, I had someone change lanes in the middle of an intersection almost hit me, and then honk at me and flip out because they thought I was the one that changed lanes. I flipped her off because of her ridiculous behavior, but what really annoys me is that she still probably doesn't understand she was the one at fault there. There is a weird intersection here in the Palm Springs area that I avoid like the plague because of this. There is a slight correction in the road that makes you have to adjust left almost half a lane. The problem with this correction is that it is done in the middle of an intersection that doesn't have lines showing WHERE you should be correcting to. So you get people who have been driving it for years that know exactly what they are doing combined with tourists that maybe shouldn't be driving in the first place fighting about which lane they should end up in. I am surprised that there aren't more accidents there (maybe I just don't see them because I avoid it now).
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Since this seems to be the only thread where goons decide how to behave on the road: theoretical question time. On an interstate or rural road at night, pretty much alone but there's some headlights a half mile or more behind you. Then you blow past a group of deer, some of which are standing in the road. Is there an effective way to warn other drivers? Would it help or do the deer scatter as soon as I'm gone? Happened to me, I turned on my hazards for a few seconds just in case. No idea if it helped but no headlights suddenly disappeared so clearly they didn't get tangled.
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The far right lane turns into an onramp, and there are signs mentioning this is EXIT ONLY for quite a distance. Every day driving by here, people by their own ignorance fail to get out of the lane in time and violently swerve outward, or just drive through the white lines into where it becomes a shoulder and merge back into traffic at their leisure. Yesterday, someone took the more violent route, as I watched them almost destroy a man on a motorcycle in front of me. There was a lot of honking and swerving, but thankfully no crashing.
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Jul 7, 2014 19:24
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Jul 7, 2014 19:29
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xzzy posted:Since this seems to be the only thread where goons decide how to behave on the road: theoretical question time. Brake hard, hit hazards, and hope they get the picture. If you slow RIGHT down they may realize somethings there and do it as well. Or they'll just crank a deer. Either way. I've both warned and been warned that way, but maybe its a regional thing.
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I tap the brakes if they're behind me and then flip on the hazards until I see they're past where the deer were. If they're oncoming I'll flash the highbeams twice.
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nsaP posted:I asked a friend one time why he thought it was bad to filter to the front of lights or split traffic (he cycles) and his fall back was "It 's disrespectful". He didn't know what to think when I told him it was legal most other places, and in some cities they even have cyclists spots at the front of the intersection! You know what? If I get road raged because I'm disrespecting someone loving around in the passing lane... I don't give a poo poo. I have no respect for their inconsiderate, oblivious, rear end in a top hat behavior, it's true. So they can blow me, or get out of the left lane and we can all be happy  As for deer warnings - yeah, I'd hit the hazards and tap the brakes a few times. If someone doesn't notice that, they're gonna centerpunch a deer sooner or later no matter what you do.
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Siochain posted:Brake hard, hit hazards, and hope they get the picture. If you slow RIGHT down they may realize somethings there and do it as well. Or they'll just crank a deer. Either way. I've both warned and been warned that way, but maybe its a regional thing. One time driving through a middle-of-nowhere winding forest road just after sundown I had a guy roar up behind me and start honking when I'd stopped for a herd of deer in the middle of the road. I pointed ahead and held my hands in the international sign of the deer:  I can't tell if he understood, spotted the deer for himself, or decided not to gently caress with the crazy person, but he stopped honking.
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There seems to be a direct correlation between bad drivers and the amount of poo poo glued to the back of their vehicle.
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Nah, people in pristine vehicles drive like shitheads too. Basically if they have opposable thumbs there's a good chance they're a bad driver.
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xzzy posted:Nah, people in pristine vehicles drive like shitheads too. *Checks hands* poo poo!
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I saw a car last night with a sticker on the back that read "Visually Impaired". They had a kid in the back seat.
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On the road today heading to my second job and I'm driving through SE Portland on 99. I'm tooling along at the speed limit in the right lane in my company truck, and an Outback uses the exit lane to my right to pass me and go flying on ahead. I wrote the driver off as being typically unable to pay attention and realized WHOOPS DON'T WANNA BE IN THIS LANE. About a mile down the road and after a few stoplights, I realized that I had passed the same Subaru, as she had gotten stuck in the far left lane. Still doing the speed limit in the right lane, I'm actually passing traffic in the left two lanes. Seeing this, she whips in behind me and starts Riding. My. rear end. Can't see anything below her windshield in my rearview, and she's driving at the extreme left of the lane in that "I want by you" style. After maybe 15-20 seconds of this I gave her a good brake check (I know I'm going to get lectured about provoking people already driving like assholes) and of course she had to slam on her brakes. She lays on her horn, I give her the one finger salute, and I can see her picking up poo poo in her car from the panic braking while also managing to flip the bird back. As usual, I'm the rear end in a top hat apparently.
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I had a woman in her late 50s go road ragey on me this afternoon. She decided to cut between cars in a crowded parking lot and didn't see me. I gave her the horn and barely missed her. She gave me the finger, got out of her urban assault vehicle, and chased me down the aisle screaming and flailing her arms. I need a dashcam to start recording these things for posterity. 
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SyHopeful posted:On the road today heading to my second job and I'm driving through SE Portland on 99. I'm tooling along at the speed limit in the right lane in my company truck, and an Outback uses the exit lane to my right to pass me and go flying on ahead. I wrote the driver off as being typically unable to pay attention and realized WHOOPS DON'T WANNA BE IN THIS LANE. Brake checking makes you the rear end in a top hat of the moment. She was just rear end in a top hat of the day. Don't brake check people. Slowing down does the same thing, with the added effect of them possibly being so caught up in their own lives that they don't notice for awhile, and you can laugh as you speed (back to the limit) away while they figure it out. Goober Peas posted:I had a woman in her late 50s go road ragey on me this afternoon. She decided to cut between cars in a crowded parking lot and didn't see me. I gave her the horn and barely missed her. She gave me the finger, got out of her urban assault vehicle, and chased me down the aisle screaming and flailing her arms.
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Engine braking was made for those situations
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The Door Frame posted:Engine braking was made for those situations Indeed. Still gotta be careful, though. The one accident I've ever been in was when I was engine braking to slow down for traffic ahead instead of doing what everyone else does on US60 (stand on it, engage ABS, stand on it again, engage ABS again). The groggy driver behind me didn't notice until it was too late and left his Mazda badge on my Ranger's bumper. He also started off a lot, lot further back than two carlengths, though. My neck is glad he at least hit the brakes too late instead of not at all.
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On my way home today there was some light traffic, but everyone was going at or above the speed limit and keeping their speeds pretty stable. I was at the back of a line of about 5 other cars all following each other at pretty safe distances, outside of a really ugly newish V6 challenger. He was tailgating an SUV that was already going about 6-7mph over the limit, then decided to pass it on a double yellow, up a hill with no view of any oncoming traffic. He was in the oncoming lane for a good 1/4 mile and merged just at the crest of the hill. I thought for sure I was going to see someone get killed today. A few miles later we get to an actual passing lane where he attempted to pass again.. I assume it was a V6 because the car was barely increasing in speed. This time there was a guy in the oncoming lane that thankfully saw and pulled over into the median. Eventually we all got to a stop light on a now 4-lane road, and I pulled beside the guy. Red on ugly, ugly red and alloy wheels with trash strewn all over the inside of the car. The light turned green but he was too busy staring at his lap to notice. I wonder how many more times I'll have a chance to see him on my commutes, there's no way that guy's going to live much longer driving like that. Definitely joining the dashcam bandwagon this weekend.
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I love people who decide they'll chance their luck in the right lane when they want to make a left turn. Well, you could wait in the queue like everyone else does patiently because they know the light phasing is long enough for us all to get through, or you can floor it off the line and try cut into the left lane. I've had three people do it to me at the same intersection this week - no buddy, just because I'm in a little 1800cc Corolla does not mean you can just move over on me, and I'm sorry that it seems to be better at getting off the mark than your huge Falcodore. It's my fault for being in the spot you want though, totally.
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I was driving the ambulance this morning, and I turned into the center turn lane to turn left into a QT. By doing so, I blocked a guy trying to get out of the QT by turning left, which is completely normal. My partner, who I generally like, blurts out, "What you are doing is my biggest pet peeve when driving." I had to ask what she was talking about, and she told me it was me blocking the guy trying to turn left and leave. I tried explaining that, in the hierarchy of the road, people already on the road have priority, and in the hierarchy of people trying to enter a roadway, people turning left onto it are at the absolute end of the line. I also pointed out that any options to let the guy exit (let him out into the turning lane, pull forward, etc) chance him hitting me, because our paths cross. She just couldn't comprehend what I was saying. 
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Leaving aside the fact you're in a loving ambulance? Really, even if you're not on a shout, most normal people would let you assume right of way if it's obvious you needed to go a certain route.
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Truth be told, I love driving the ambulance, because when I do something to somebody that may be considered rude, or when somebody is rude to me (like cutting in front of me at night on the freeway without signaling), I can beep the air horn or siren and most people immediately back down and tuck their tail. Most of the time you don't even need the horn - the moment I pass by somebody and they recognize that it's an ambulance, you can almost see them apologize for <insert x dick move they did earlier here>. It's glorious. I just couldn't understand why my partner didn't know that in no way, shape, or form did the guy trying to exit the QT by making a left have the right of way.
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Geirskogul posted:Truth be told, I love driving the ambulance, because when I do something to somebody that may be considered rude, or when somebody is rude to me (like cutting in front of me at night on the freeway without signaling), I can beep the air horn or siren and most people immediately back down and tuck their tail. Most of the time you don't even need the horn - the moment I pass by somebody and they recognize that it's an ambulance, you can almost see them apologize for <insert x dick move they did earlier here>. It's glorious. Some people are just overly courteous. I've had three people stop at an intersection they did not have a stop sign for this month, to try and let me through when my road does have a stop sign. No, dumbass, I'm not going to go just because you waved at me. You shouldn't have stopped ever and I am perfectly happy to just sit here and stare at you until you figure that out.
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And in both of our examples, people being "courteous" are just creating danger, and will probably eventually kill somebody.
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No dash cam, but on 476 south this morning, I watched the older lady in the white neon (which appeared to generally be in good shape) weaving in her lane. This resulted in her bouncing off the guardrail, and her head popped up in surprise. She kept weaving a while longer, too. I guess she's pretty lucky construction and traffic only had her going 40ish. I'm just happy she hit the guardrail and not someone else. I'm not happy she didn't learn from it.
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Geirskogul posted:And in both of our examples, people being "courteous" are just creating danger, and will probably eventually kill somebody. I was a "dick" yesterday but only because I knew it was safer. 2 lanes each way, center turning lane. Im in the left lane and theres a queue of stopped cars on my right because the first guy is being nice by stopping to let someone turn left across 2 lanes even though traffic was totally clear ahead of us, its not like we were sitting at a red. I didnt stop and 10 seconds after I passed the guy who stopped he finally got the idea and starting moving again. Dont do that poo poo! Its a busy road, if someone cant turn left across 2 lanes of traffic you should just turn right and delay yourself 30 seconds or so. I saw some delicious karma today, though. Cars turning left across traffic to get on the highway, semi is in front. Light turns yellow and a few more cars get through but you can tell this one suv isn't going to chance running a red. Bubble taurus behind him realizes he can't wait for another red light and passes the guy on the right and goes around him onto the highway. Not 3 minutes later I see him pulled over by a state trooper. Suck it bubble taurus. Cage fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Jul 10, 2014 |
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Alarbus posted:No dash cam, but on 476 south this morning, I watched the older lady in the white neon (which appeared to generally be in good shape) weaving in her lane. This resulted in her bouncing off the guardrail, and her head popped up in surprise. She kept weaving a while longer, too. I guess she's pretty lucky construction and traffic only had her going 40ish. I saw an old lady in the Walmart parking lot the other day who had no right driving. She was in a handicapped spot, barely reversed and turned out her vehicle as she left, cut off a dude in a SUV and then proceeded to go like 3 miles an hour to the exit of the Walmart. Get off the road you drat geezer.
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Protocol7 posted:I saw an old lady in the Walmart parking lot the other day who had no right driving. She was in a handicapped spot, barely reversed and turned out her vehicle as she left, cut off a dude in a SUV and then proceeded to go like 3 miles an hour to the exit of the Walmart. Leave her alone, she just got off a 12 hour shift of greetin'.
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Wal-mart axed greeters years ago. Suck it, old poors.
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I just passed a Dodge grand caravan towing a Dodge grand caravan towing a Ford Taurus on I40.
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wallaka posted:Wal-mart axed greeters years ago. Suck it, old poors. Oh, well then, nevermind.
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wallaka posted:Wal-mart axed greeters years ago. Suck it, old poors. You sure about that? I've been to Walmart a couple times this week for moving related supplies, and each time there's been an employee just standing in the middle of the entry area. They don't say hello to everyone who enters, but I can't figure out what else they were up to.
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