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hey look the guy who cant put the phone away while driving because MY BOSS is telling us what is safe and not
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I think I'm the guy you share the road with. My jeep is really noisy above 60, so I normally cruise in the right lane at 60. Plenty of following room there, and somehow hundreds of people aren't cutting in front of me. Sorry for interrupting you 80mph flow.
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Jul 28, 2015 04:17
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Safety Dance posted:I think I'm the guy you share the road with. My jeep is really noisy above 60, so I normally cruise in the right lane at 60. Plenty of following room there, and somehow hundreds of people aren't cutting in front of me. Sorry for interrupting you 80mph flow. Bless you, my son. The right lane is the right place to cruise near the speed limit.
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Jul 28, 2015 04:23
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Siochain posted:Look ahead, find a "marker" (tree, sign, etc), mentally tag when the car ahead passes, and try to make it 8 seconds until you pass it. Keep your eyes ahead, glance at mirrors every few seconds, and match speed to conditions. All things which apparently most people never learn I never knew I was supposed to follow far enough behind that I could stop from 80 mph about 5 or 6 times. This will transform my driving completely!
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Jul 28, 2015 04:56
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Siochain posted:Hey, just saying what's safe. Sorry if you can't see 880 feet, maybe get some glasses. Shits not hard. Not saying I do it all the time, not saying its possible everywhere, just sayin what's been taught to me as being safe, since it gives you a TON of time to react when the dipshit in front of you fucks up.
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Jul 28, 2015 05:23
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If I have to drive on the road I make sure I am at least 60 yards behind the servant who, waving a red flag, walks ahead of my self-propelled vehicle
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Jul 28, 2015 05:32
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In about 30 years our cars will all be bump-drafting down the interstate automated express lane (a single 8'-0" lane) at 150mph while we pay $absurd per mile in tolls for the pleasure of doing so, while the plebs who insist on being in control of their own cars are forced to endlessly act and react to the ebb and flow of traffic, and are killed by the dozens in avoidable accidents on their daily commutes.
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Jul 28, 2015 06:23
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ohgodwhat posted:800 feet isn't nearly enough to really be safe. Sure, you have some time, but not nearly as much time as if you're a mile behind the car in front of you. If you can see the car in front of you, you're too close. Sorry if you don't agree but that's what I've been taught. OP, while this may be safe in some parts of the country the true proper way to drive safely is to make sure nothing is visible between yourself and the horizon line on all sides. If anything encroaches upon this barrier you must immediatly stop the vehicle and clear the danger. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jul 28, 2015 06:30
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Guys, what if a a car from the oncoming direction jumps into your lane going 80 mph? You should leave enough space to go 80-0, make a U-turn, and accelerate to 80 mph again. PT6A posted:I am the guy you share a road with. I'm trying to come to terms with our new sucking loving piece of poo poo bike lanes, but today, it just got the better of me. I was first at a red light, and I had to make a right-hand turn shortly after the light, across the bike lane. The light turns green, and I accelerate slowly (no gas, just letting out clutch at first) until I realize.... all the cyclists have no interest in actually getting anywhere, so I'd probably be holding up traffic as I wait 15 seconds for them to actually reach the place I was turning. I pinned it, and turned right across that cocksucker. Probably not a responsible choice (I think the guy behind me honked at me), but it's not like I even came close to hitting or inconveniencing any of the stoned out cyclists. What I don't get about bike lanes that are part of the regular roads is how anyone could think that basically this was a good idea: 
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Jul 28, 2015 09:37
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mobby_6kl posted:What I don't get about bike lanes that are part of the regular roads is how anyone could think that basically this was a good idea: Traffic planners are dumb idiots who have never driven a car or ridden a bike in their lives. Or observed traffic before or after adding new features... They've installed traffic lights ON a roundabout when there's a set of traffic lights about 30ft BEFORE the roundabout. There were never any traffic issues beforehand outside of a bit of queuing but now they've opened up the bus lane to traffic because there's more traffic now which is possibly due to the new traffic lights, it's obviously impossible to tell considering NOTHING has changed about the whole setup. If they'd come and sit for even 20 minutes they'd notice that due to the new lights on the roundabout traffic has to stop ON the roundabout meaning traffic coming from other directions can't flow properly causing everyone to basically sit and honk at everyone else. It's dumb as gently caress.
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Jul 28, 2015 09:46
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Geoj posted:Life outside the bubble is scary, isn't it? ohgodwhat posted:800 feet isn't nearly enough to really be safe. Sure, you have some time, but not nearly as much time as if you're a mile behind the car in front of you. If you can see the car in front of you, you're too close. Sorry if you don't agree but that's what I've been taught. Wow, lots of butthurt lovely drivers here apparently. Wasn't giving anyone poo poo, or saying you're all wrong. Just explaining what I'd learned. But I do live in the rear end-end of nowhere rural Canada, so what I deal with up here is completely different from what you guys deal with. My most sincere apologies if my life experiences have differed from yours.
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Jul 28, 2015 13:06
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mobby_6kl posted:Guys, what if a a car from the oncoming direction jumps into your lane going 80 mph? Where the two lanes are going wildly different speeds, and traffic on the right lane can be going anywhere between 5 km/h and 40 km/h depending entirely on who it is and how fast they wish to ride.
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Jul 28, 2015 13:11
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I love the contortions we all go through to arrive at "I must drive like an rear end in a top hat so that people won't hate me"
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Jul 28, 2015 13:36
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davebo posted:Obviously there are a million factors in any hour long commute but imagine that when you choose to allow a ton of people to merge in front of you it isn't just you it's affecting, it's potentially everyone behind you too. It's this same mentality when people don't pay attention at a stop light and it takes them 5 seconds to realize it's green, then they go. They figure hey why'd that jerk have to honk at me, I woke up and we both made it through the light just fine, what's the rush? Well, that's like 4 people at the back of the line who now have to wait an entire cycle because of those 5 seconds. No, allowing a slightly larger though still not textbook gap in front of me is not the same as being so far into your own rear end or Facebook you don't notice the lights change for 5 seconds. And I'd rather every commute be 2 minutes longer because gaps are left than every other commute is 15-60 minutes longer because someone left such a short gap they literally couldn't react to the situation in front of them before becoming part of it. I get it, you're pissed at having to wait for the next light cycle, not my fault.
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Jul 28, 2015 13:51
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That light cycle would be his if everyone drove unsafely, as intended by the law of the existing situation.
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Jul 28, 2015 14:52
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go3 posted:because there was some rear end in a top hat in a lifted jeep in front Or a guy using a pickup to haul stuff, OTR trucks, SUVs, etc. The road is used by lots of sizes of vehicles, being in a small car has its downsides.
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Jul 28, 2015 15:12
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Oh hey people talking about bikes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVjsgCpjHUw I wonder what the cause of this pebbledick obliviously swinging across a lane of traffic into the path of an oncoming bike was?  Hello cellphone, my old friend...
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Jul 28, 2015 16:34
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I wish i could say i felt sorry for the bicyclist , but 99% of bike riders in the pnw (read seattle to portland) are absolute twats and the worst that the bicycling community has to offer.
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Jul 28, 2015 16:37
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nm posted:You have discovered why some cyclists don't stop at stop lights. Starting is a little slower than on a car. God forbid you are inconvienced for a few seconds. I don't ride a lot. I stop at lights, or at least creep and look around before running one on a small intersection. At bigger ones, I try to make eye contact with the person I'm pulled up next to, hopefully that keeps me from getting flattened. Sometimes though, I accelerate into the intersection on a light faster than the car I'm next to. I rarely beat them to the other side but it's still pretty satisfying. There's no room for lollygagging at lights, when so many of them are bullshit. Lights out of time slighly on one ways, protected lefts that don't turn to blinking yellow caution lefts when visibility is good, and lights without sensors entirely. I especially like when it changes just in time to make someone stop in the other direction when the intersection has been clear for a minute.
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Jul 28, 2015 16:39
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Lord of Garbagemen posted:I wish i could say i felt sorry for the bicyclist , but 99% of bike riders in the pnw (read seattle to portland) are absolute twats and the worst that the bicycling community has to offer. according to the news story, it was the second time this guy had been hit by a car and in this case, the guy turned himself in, so i guess he has that going for himself.
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Jul 28, 2015 17:16
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That guy didn't hit get hit by a car, so much as he hit a car. Should the guy have turned? No. Should the cyclist have noticed what was going on and slowed down before hitting the car? Probably. EDIT: I guess the cyclist was pretty close at the time, given his speed. PT6A fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Jul 28, 2015 |
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Jul 28, 2015 17:18
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Lord of Garbagemen posted:I wish i could say i felt sorry for the bicyclist , but 99% of bike riders in the pnw (read seattle to portland) are absolute twats and the worst that the bicycling community has to offer. 
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Jul 28, 2015 17:46
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PT6A posted:That guy didn't hit get hit by a car, so much as he hit a car. Should the guy have turned? No. Should the cyclist have noticed what was going on and slowed down before hitting the car? Probably. Semantics  driver clearly caused the accident and did not right of way to make the turn.
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Jul 28, 2015 17:51
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BraveUlysses posted:Semantics And stopped strategically to ensure cyclist would hit him.
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Jul 28, 2015 17:54
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Oh hey people talking about bikes If the driver didn't slow down I bet there wouldn't have even been an accident. Also, if the cyclist had gone left instead of right, he may have avoided it, but maybe not, and that's risky on it's own because who knows if there was another driver behind the Expedition. I assume the camera is mounted to the guys head, weird how he never looks left while dragging himself out of the street.
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Jul 28, 2015 18:06
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Speaking of cycling and dickhead drivers I just nearly got taken out on the way home. I was on a roundabout heading towards my exit when some old fart came barrelling onto the roundabout without looking (give way, what's that?!) and was about a foot away from taking my back wheel out. As I turned around to call him a oval office what did I notice? A loving phone in his hand. I can only hope he rolls his car somewhere away from everyone else while he's on the phone and dies upside down and on fire. Prick.
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Jul 28, 2015 18:19
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Let's see what I dealt with on my drive home yesterday. 1. 3-4 people running a red light (as in red before they even entered the intersection) 2. I almost hit a cyclist who darted into the intersection ignoring the pedestrian signals while my light was green 3. I almost got hit by a moron who I thought was turning but I guess turn signal + slowing down doesn't mean they're turning?
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Jul 28, 2015 20:22
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Sorry for the lovely cell phone picture but I was behind this today: I saw 2 of those lovely black bungee cords total holding everything down. Surprisingly enough the ladders weren't bouncing all that much.
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Jul 28, 2015 20:26
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AFewBricksShy posted:Sorry for the lovely cell phone picture but I was behind this today: I don't care how good (or poorly) ladders like that are tied down, being behind them scares the poo poo out of me. I started a new job earlier this month, and most of the time, much of my commute is by DART lightrail train. It is amazing how much more relaxed I am taking the train than driving downtown. A lot of stupid poo poo happens on the train, but most of it is laughable and not anger inducing, like watching a black kid complain that being fingered for riding without a ticket was "TOTALLY RACISM MAN" when the ticket checkers checked everyone else, but didnt give anyone else a citation (becuase they bought tickets)
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Jul 29, 2015 15:10
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Oh hey people talking about bikes The comments look like this thread.
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Jul 29, 2015 15:41
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SyHopeful posted:The comments look like this thread. If 10 and 11 year old kids can be made to understand why you should brake to avoid an accident, how loving hard can it be? That driver pulled out across the oncoming lane to make that turn seconds before the cyclist reacts to the car. The safe assumption to make is that everyone is an idiot out to kill or at least maim you. So if you see a car pull out like that you slow the gently caress down. If they don't see you, you can stop or swerve in time and if they do see you, they now have to wait that extra second for you to pass because they gave you reason to assume that they're an idiot out to kill you.
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Jul 29, 2015 19:22
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Most road bikes don't exactly have great stopping power and the guy said he was going 24 mph when he started to slow down (on the local news)
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Jul 29, 2015 19:37
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Deedle posted:That driver pulled out across the oncoming lane to make that turn seconds before the cyclist reacts to the car. I disagree. To me it looks like there is a second, maybe less between the time the truck actively begins the turn and you can actually hear the brakes being applied on the bike. Not terrible reaction time at all. If you watch the video again, click pause the *instant* that you actually see the truck begin to turn - time stamp 0:09. Then start the video and click pause again the instant you hear the brake squeal from the bike. Oh hey, time stamp is still 0:09. The cyclist had no reason to believe that the guy would turn, when he was clearly visible to the driver, as there were no obstructions of any kind preventing him being seen. The douche in the truck simply wasn't paying attention to the bike lane.
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Jul 29, 2015 19:49
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nitrogen posted:I started a new job earlier this month, and most of the time, much of my commute is by DART lightrail train. Sup, Dallas goon? I work in uptown Dallas and, for a brief period while living in Fort Worth, took DART light rail from Belt Line to Cityplace. The fare enforcement is one of the best free shows in town. If you travel through downtown anywhere along that stretch from Pearl/Arts District to West End station, be sure to get a seat near the front. Every now and then someone tries to drive on the tracks (which are clearly marked "NO CARS" or something similar) and it's great watching the operator's reaction. I saw it happen once and, despite the cab being closed off, I could hear the operator say "are you loving kidding me, man?" as a car was trying to do a k-turn on both the tracks.
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Jul 29, 2015 20:12
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West end station is an amazing human zoo. Today was a good train day. I am currently sitting g next to a nice looking woman discussing the history of trains.
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Jul 29, 2015 21:59
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Deedle posted:And all I hear in my head is my 5th grade teacher mr. Bertus explaining to the class during traffic ed. that "it doesn't matter if you had right of way when they have scrape you off the tarmac with a spatula." Covered by BraveUlysses and The Locator already. He started braking within a second of the SUV beginning it's turn, road bikes aren't easy to stop due to tiny tire contact patches, and they aren't all that maneuverable for similar reasons. The victim blaming this video is getting is loving ridiculous.
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Jul 30, 2015 01:35
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Saw these travelers today in Wyoming. Want to guess which state? Answer in spoiler below Oregon
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Jul 30, 2015 02:34
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B4Ctom1 posted:Saw these travelers today in Wyoming. Want to guess which state? Answer in spoiler below It doesn't look like they're inconveniencing anyone, what's the big deal? Were there better options nearby?
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Jul 30, 2015 02:39
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PT6A posted:It doesn't look like they're inconveniencing anyone, what's the big deal? Were there better options nearby? I am guessing you are asking about accommodations? Yes. They were not staying here, so I cannot speak for their destination. They had just pulled off of the freeway to load up at the Supermarket Liquor Store.
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B4Ctom1 posted:I am guessing you are asking about accommodations? Yes. They were not staying here, so I cannot speak for their destination. So, what was the issue with them parking there? It's not great, but it's not like they're taking up a lot of space in a particularly busy parking lot and I don't know where else they'd park.
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