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SlowBloke posted:The latest australia dash cam is quite wild  the guy trying to pass a recycling truck on the inside of the corner in a bicycle lane, and the one a few after it that was also 100% at fault
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I’m not so sure that particular driver was 100% at fault. Foolish, maybe. Firstly, that recycling truck was indicating to turn right and had positioned itself to do so, before deciding otherwise. Secondly, it may well be legal, or even expected, that when turning left you “take the lane”, but I’m not up on my use of bicycle lanes in Australia.
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Jun 5, 2022 19:57
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One thing I notice in all of these Aussie dashcam ones is there's so many massive 4x4s with bull bars (roo bars?) just tootling around in the city. Though judging by some of the driving on display I guess an exo-skeleton for cars wouldn't go unused. *edit: I just got to the kids on scooters bit. hoooooooooooooooooooooooooly gently caress. This video has also had too many bikers get creamed. Not enjoying this one much 
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Jun 5, 2022 20:01
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slidebite posted:jfc it looks massive. Do they have their own refinery on site? You should see their bathrooms. Buc-ees don't have so much of a bathroom and more of a "Grand poo poo-torium" inside that makes theater restrooms look puny. Each complete with their own dedicated cleaning staff.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:One thing I notice in all of these Aussie dashcam ones is there's so many massive 4x4s with bull bars (roo bars?) just tootling around in the city.
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Jun 5, 2022 23:24
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Ranger Raptors are the worst. I think it's because the owner spent upwards of $80k on something that actually slower than the base model (or just about any car for that matter) - gives them an enormous amount of pent up anger.
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what kind of radio antenna are bolted on those bull bars? does aus have a vibrant citizens band radio scene going on?
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Jun 7, 2022 00:37
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Lol at the guy who rage blocked a truck. Christ people are dumb.
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yummycheese posted:what kind of radio antenna are bolted on those bull bars? does aus have a vibrant citizens band radio scene going on? Their CB frequencies are equivalent to the cheap handhelds US people buy in blister packs. Instead of the 11m band the US uses for CB, the antenna for those Aussie CBs can be short enough to use handhelds instead of 102" antenna US truckers use. Ya kinda need a radio when you're 4x4'ing with your buddies. A lot of that stuff is really just for looks, just like in the US.
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At least some of them are Cell phone antennas since cell coverage gets pretty poor outside our major coastal cities, lots of country towns might have basic cell service by now but the long long roads between them have big gaps, remember that something like 90% of the country is flat empty nothingness so even if you only go bush one day a year you absolutely need a reliable form of wireless communication be it cell phone radio or emergency beacon, people still regularly die on our roads because they broke down 10km away form the nearest source of water and 100km away from the nearest humans.
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Those aren't cell antennas - cell antennas are only a few inches long due to the wavelength. Those all look like 2m or 70cm band antennas at the most, while it looks like Australia cell providers use 700MHz or higher which is a wavelength of 43cm, so you'd expect a whip antenna of around 11cm for quarter wave or 27cm for 5/8 wave.
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They're CB radio antennas. I think you often see two on the same vehicle because the taller ones work on flat, wide open terrain while the shorter ones are best for hilly areas (some set-ups will even automatically switch to whichever one is best for the area)
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dissss posted:They're CB radio antennas. it's also the best way to spot undercover highway patrol guys around here cause that is the only identifying thing on them. They did have a sporty ute at one point that I'm guessing had the antennas in the tray. Thats gone since we stopped making cars in Australia some time ago now
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Antennas for mobile are out there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg67wjQ9Lak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG_lJbNdzK4 I haven't seen one torn apart but I assume they are essentially a cell band antenna on the end of a long fiberglass stick.
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kastein posted:Those aren't cell antennas - cell antennas are only a few inches long due to the wavelength. Those all look like 2m or 70cm band antennas at the most, while it looks like Australia cell providers use 700MHz or higher which is a wavelength of 43cm, so you'd expect a whip antenna of around 11cm for quarter wave or 27cm for 5/8 wave. 70cm, yep. Aussie CB is 477 mHz
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coldpudding posted:Antennas for mobile are out there. What in the hell Well I learned something today
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I was just about to post about booster antennae. Those things are great, especially in the parts of the US that are flat nothing, so I can only imagine they're a trucker staple in "flat nothing: the island"coldpudding posted:I haven't seen one torn apart but I assume they are essentially a cell band antenna on the end of a long fiberglass stick. Yep. The antenna is just the pod on the end, the rest is mast because height matters A Lot for wringing performance out of the things  Among the best couple hundred bucks I've put into my camping gear. Javid fucked around with this message at 11:04 on Jun 11, 2022 |
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Warning: Humps Ahead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t451rCzJ5Oc
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bigman.50grand posted:Warning: Humps Ahead I used to live near a big dip in the road and got off work the same time as bars closed. I never, ever got tired of hearing drunk assholes scraping and smashing the poo poo out of the bottom of their cars. I live in a heavy road salt state with 0 inspections and every vehicle is rusting out on the underside, so it wasn't a bit of meaningless damage that they were doing.
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bigman.50grand posted:Warning: Humps Ahead Oh gently caress, even better, if you look at the time stamps, you'll see that the last 1/3 of the video is just from one night and like a 2 hour stretch
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the guy who runs the channel says that the speedbumps have been there for over 25 years, so in reality this is about bad drivers as much as it is about terrible loving road design.
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Was washing my truck the other day and some loving moron left his Duramax running. In the carwash. With all the overhead doors closed. FFS how stupid are you?
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bigman.50grand posted:Warning: Humps Ahead
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Brings a whole new meaning to "I'm tired."
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Big wheel keep on turnin
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goddamn it's crazy how much energy something can have if it's basically a flywheel. the tire did not give a single gently caress and it kept on rollin
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Part of that is just the physics of a round object with good traction vs a thing colliding with it. The car rides up on top of it easily because it has forward momentum and the bumper gets grabbed well by the sticky tire rubber (which is moving upward at the back since the tire is also rolling forward), then the car pretty much rolls right over the top, when the CG goes past the tire it nose dives and the bumper digs into the road but the car still has forward momentum so it pole vaults and rolls a few times. This is also why open wheel racing collisions are so spectacular. Front of tire moving down at road speed meets back of other cars tire moving up at road speed, car gets yeeted into the stratosphere.
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Low ground clearance at highway speeds feeling like a useful feature.
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 Life imitates art.
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Zorak of Michigan posted:Low ground clearance at highway speeds feeling like a useful feature. Need that downforce.
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Zorak of Michigan posted:Low ground clearance at highway speeds feeling like a useful feature. That and the nose of the car sloping back not forward from close enough to the ground that the tire skips up over instead of rolling under, yeah.
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kastein posted:Part of that is just the physics of a round object with good traction vs a thing colliding with it. The car rides up on top of it easily because it has forward momentum and the bumper gets grabbed well by the sticky tire rubber (which is moving upward at the back since the tire is also rolling forward), then the car pretty much rolls right over the top, when the CG goes past the tire it nose dives and the bumper digs into the road but the car still has forward momentum so it pole vaults and rolls a few times. It's basically just the automotive version of small dogs with yoga balls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX12-WZbmYU
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People like this drive on the same streets you do. https://twitter.com/KiwiEV/status/1540504627015086080?t=NEaTgf9vUBBHv81HOCsq1A&s=19 https://twitter.com/supcat/status/1540903516717195264?t=nXXw17apebzBurwH_hBPVw&s=19
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Olympic Mathlete posted:https://twitter.com/KiwiEV/status/1540504627015086080?t=NEaTgf9vUBBHv81HOCsq1A&s=19 Holy poo poo, poor Ypsilon. That guy must have been high as a kite(Also i have the distinct impression of having driven in that road but i don't remember when).
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Truck cancer spreading to Europe. https://twitter.com/kunsttranen/status/1541073620360994817
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bad_fmr posted:Truck cancer spreading to Europe. Mount a snowplow on the tram and just push the thing out of the way.
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Have people everywhere always been this inconsiderate or is it a new thing? I remember living in England as a kid and the adults were all about being considerate and thoughtful and blah blah blah.
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Moving the the US I felt a lot more "gently caress you got mine" than in the UK but I am sure it has gotten worse in the UK post Brexit.
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PremiumSupport posted:Mount a snowplow on the tram and just push the thing out of the way. Ram on the tram to slam the Ram.
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