CharlieWhiskey posted:

BMW drivers in the US also feature "alternative parking" on all models.

Protocol7 posted:

I have never had any problems gauging distance based on a vehicle's lights, no matter the shape, size or whether or not one was broken. Look twice before turning, always err on the side of caution.

Uthor posted:

I saw someone recommending free buses in NYC. They calculated that the time and gas spent collecting fares is greater than how much money the fares bring in.

Edward IV posted:

In Taiwan, some traffic lights, especially ones with large traffic volume, will have a countdown timer to indicate how long the red light will be.

Beach Bum posted:

Who the gently caress gets it on in a LIT gas station parking lot at 3AM?

StormDrain posted:

The car is your 'personal space' where the road is 'public', it's the feeling of being in your home despite being out in the wild. We don't think of the car as our clothes but a fort.

BraveUlysses posted:

From the youtube comments it seems that the mustang owner was charged with driving w/o a license and driving while intoxicated.

-S- posted:

Who taught people that it was ok to do this?



What's going on here is that I'm sitting in there waiting on the W->E traffic to pass so that I can turn left onto the Hwy on ramp. The fool to the North is exiting the highway and has a stop sign, and he wants to turn left, so he has to cross the center. As I'm sitting there waiting on traffic so I can make my left turn, he pulls directly in front of me, blocking me so that he can go when traffic is clear. This happens at least 3 times a week at this location. I've started pulling all the way forward to where I basically have to make a near u-turn to make my left, but it 100% blocks them out of doing this. The last lady that did it got so mad at me when she realized she was going to be stuck across the lane, blocking the E->W traffic and raged out like it was MY fault. What the gently caress is this and where did people learn it?

Hikaki posted:

No one got hit so that wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. She didn't pull forward enough before backing in and realized her mistake, no harm done. Although I don't know why she even wanted to in the first place since it would have given her less room to open her door.

Negromancer posted:

Yea, thats from one of the old Mischief videos from ~2003 I think? Basically a bunch of assholes driving around in fast cars filming their shenanigans. 17 year old me loved watching them.

Killstick posted:

Came across this scene yesterday on my way home from work. At first i thought there had been an accident but after i stopped and got off my bike i realized that no, an XC90 (brand new 2015my!) had just decided to stop in the middle of the road with the right side indicators on. Not only is he blocking the road but also the exit from the parking lot. By the time i got there a queue had already formed behind it (this is 5 o'clock rush hour traffic) and while i was watching it sat there for at least 5 minutes while being constantly bombarded by honking. Now and then cars would pass but there was quite a lot of cross traffic so progress was slow. I was intrigued to say the least by this spectacle and i had to know what was going on so i stuck around. After 5 minutes a middle aged woman comes out of the store across the parking lot and walks down to the car (this alone takes like 45 seconds), get's in the passenger seat and the car drives off. I don't understand. There is no explanation.

Crotch Fruit posted:

Sorry, you are full of poo poo if you say it's not inconvenient to come to a stop on a bicycle. I ride an aluminum framed Trek, it's not a pro bike but it's better than a Wal-mart special and the aluminum frame makes it pretty light, but I still dislike coming to a stop. If I leave the bike in hi gear pedaling from a stop takes a lot more effort, if I shift to second gear it my derailer takes a while to switch gears. Both of those options require more effort than a driver moving their foot two inches to a brake pedal. My point is that if I am driving and I see a bicycle who is not acting stupid, I will try to brake for them because I like bikers and I don't want to force them to stop.

Pixelated Dragon posted:

One's mental illness does not mean he is not to be held accountable for his behavior.

The Mandingo posted:

What do you goons think about this?

Smoke posted:

I was lucky enough to not be liable for this type of accident about 2 years ago. It helped that the other party was driving drunk and our statements of what happened matched. He wanted to "teach me a lesson" because I was driving the speed limit in the left lane of a 2-lane road with another car in the right lane pretty much matching my speed, on a road littered with speed/red light cameras and traffic lights.

He felt I should have been speeding to pass the other car to move over to the right, and tried to make this clear at first by aggressively tailgating and flashing the high-beams, then illegally going straight in a left-only lane at a traffic light, pulling out at high speeds(lane light was also red) and cutting me off, then slammed on his brakes the moment he got in front of me(the "lesson")

I ended up pulling over and calling the police(while being threatened by the guy at first until he saw that I was serious about calling the police), breathalyzer test concluded that he was drunk and the officer told me I was not at fault(Along with informing me that he was at fault for also creating a dangerous situation by abruptly braking for no good reason, along with drunk driving)

The other guy ended up having to go to court over it, and his insurance company waited with payment until a week or so before the court date(9 months later, the Belgian legal system is slow as hell)

Ineptus Mechanicus posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwsZ6Fwdpo0

Always respect your elders, giving them a wide berth.


e: vvv It's from the China.jpg thread in gibbis, the comments say it's an 80+ year old man driving to the hospital to get meds. Or maybe he works for the hospital and is drumming up business.

GramCracker posted:

"Sport Mode" and "Corolla" generally have never been seen before in the same sentence.

Cakefool posted:

Anecdatally but if I drop back a couple more car lengths every time some wazzock cuts into my braking gap, I end up adding nearly 2 minutes onto my hour-long commute. Intolerable I tell you. So now I'm the wazzock that cuts everyone up, knocking nearly 2 minutes off my hour commute. Worth it.

Cage posted:

Im on your wifes side, why use a parking brake in an auto?

Cage posted:

I use a parking brake in my manual car, Ill never touch it in my auto.

Whiz Palace posted:

Fun fact: for a while, all Mercedes had these, even the manual transmission models.

jamal posted:

When I'm driving an auto around I only use the parking brake on inclines.

`Nemesis posted:

First thing I noticed was the cam cars good taste in music.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyHM5fG5Kx8

Raaaaaage.

MullardEL34 posted:

mobby_6kl posted:

Why wouldn't he

Geirskogul posted:

Well, if you watch, the sun is directly behind the truck, and the ground is wet and reflective, so that is actually a perfectly good (if lame) excuse that you have to watch out for when you're an engineer on an apparatus. It doesn't change the fault balance of the accident (it is a driver's responsibility to clear an intersection, and if the sun prevents them clearing it, then they should not proceed), but on the flipside, who's at fault doesn't change the physics of what she can and cannot see.

nitrogen posted:

I was riding home. I didnt stay at the scene, honestly, because it was 92 degrees out and I was decked out in riding gear that is hot as gently caress unless you're moving.

Uthor posted:

I don't get people who drive with lapdogs. I doubly don't get this guy driving with an almost full grown Labrador in his lap, half hanging out of the car window, while he holds onto the collar to keep it from jumping out completely.

you ate my cat posted:

Part of the concept of the Pittsburgh Left isn't just that people here do it, it's also that other drivers at the intersection often expect it and leave the space to allow it. If I'm first at a light, and the guy across from me is turning left, I'm going to delay my start at the green with the expectation that he's going to turn as soon as the light changes. I've seen (and pulled) the same maneuver in other states, but it just doesn't seem to have the same level of mutual agreement between the drivers.

Uthor posted:

Last time I was on 88, there was a cop doing about 56 mph in middle lane and absolutely no one was willing to pass him. There were three lanes backed up behind him. Every once in a while someone would pass everyone super aggressively only to get up to the cop and stop behind them. I stayed in the right lane hoping someone would take an exit and let me by, but cars kept merging in at 50 and pushing everyone even further back.

corgski posted:

I always heard drive to the ER entrance at a hospital, because there's always going to be someone there, and their security is actually allowed to intervene.

KozmoNaut posted:

I've completely stopped caring about people behind me who think I'm going too slow.

Yes, I am going the speed limit plus maybe 5kph due to speedo inaccuracy. Yes, the speed limit for this road really should be higher. No, I am not willing to get a ticket just because you want to go faster.