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I had to tell my friend last night how to turn her lights on properly. She was driving at night on sidelights only, "because the next notch is main beam". She didn't know that you flick the stalk to switch between main and dipped beam.  KozmoNaut posted:Don't E30s have dual circuit brakes? If you're going to be playing silly buggers in a FWD car on really right country roads, though, a bit of duck tape to hold the handbrake button down is quite a useful modification.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I work on bikes, often old bikes, and I gotta say there's an awful lot of undeserved disdain out there for people who don't know poo poo about motor vehicles. That's fine with me, man. That's why I got my job. There's a lot of poo poo I know nothing about, like astrophysics and dentistry and Chinese history. You don't know what to do, you go to an expert. The problem comes with people who think they know something.
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Sep 7, 2013 07:48
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I got caught out by a Citroen AX once. No handbook, and all the markings rubbed off the stalks. Headlights are activated by rotating the entire stalk, there's no separate knob on the end. Took me fifteen minutes to work it out.
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Sep 9, 2013 06:59
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VikingSkull posted:If it was made in the last 3 decades, I've been in an example of it  Seriously, though, when the markings rubbed off the controls years ago, it's pitch black at night and you're twenty miles from home, you do discover that "ergonomics", "commonality" and "familiarity" aren't necessarily words in every designer's vocabulary.
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Sep 9, 2013 14:30
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VikingSkull posted:If you're driving a car built long enough ago that the markings are worn off, the controls are more or less standard. It isn't until very recently that things have started to deviate. From the early 60's to the late 90's basically every car had the same setup. quote:Also why are you waiting until you're on the road at night to learn the controls?
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Sep 9, 2013 14:50
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He means the low beam is so out of whack that it's already high, and high beam is just a joke. Related, can someone please explain to people that, if I give way to your oncoming lane at night, don't flash your high beams at my face to say "thanks".
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Sep 19, 2013 15:46
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Rear fog lights are installed for people who will either fail to turn them on when it's foggy, or fail to turn them off when it's not.
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Sep 20, 2013 02:46
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Bugdrvr posted:If that were me and I had my wife and kid in the car I'd be playing loving motorcycle pinball until the cops got there.
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Oct 1, 2013 10:50
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In some countries (Japan & Singapore for sure, probably others) hazard lights are used to say "I am pulling in to stop at the side of the road". In the UK, we just indicate to that side, and people are meant to work out contextually that you're stopping rather than turning. Unfailingly, the ones who don't are the ones who ride your arse all the way up the street, leaving them with insufficient gap to pull round you when they finally realise you're coming to a halt. At which point they get really arsey with you. So in short, the UK method antagonises tailgating cunts, and is therefore preferable.
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Oct 4, 2013 15:31
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davebo posted:This should absolutely be the state's responsibility to have some sort of frequent re-test for the elderly to ensure the safety of everyone else on the road.
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Oct 5, 2013 14:25
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drgitlin posted:Growing up in London one of our neighbors was a leading urologist who regularly put away 1.5-2 bottles of wine a night and would often get called on in the middle of the night and would drive to the hospital and operate. By that point it was probably more normal for him than working sober. Atticus_1354 posted:Well this just happened directly in front of my apartment. The driver of the white truck with trailer was taken off in cuffs and was likely drunk. Geoj posted:I don't really understand the obsession with
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Oct 12, 2013 00:50
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That's hilarious. Though anyone pulled over for doing 88 in a DeLorean, regardless of the posted limit, should automatically be given a free pass.
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Oct 21, 2013 23:00
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The UK is one of the places where the accuracy of the speedo is meant to be within certain limits (as per the contruction and use/type approval stuff, I don't think it's checked at the annual MOT). Mustn't under-read, and you're allowed to over-read by 10% + 6mph at normal road speeds (up to 70mph). The speedo's meant to be able to read up to the car's top speed. I think commercial (tacho'd) stuff is required to be more accurate.
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Oct 22, 2013 17:50
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Geoj posted:Do the "baby on board" placards activate some kind of self-important entitled road rage mode when you put them on? quote:She jumped out of her car to accost me when I was dropping my wife off at work, screaming that I was trying to murder her newborn baby and driving like an rear end in a top hat, etc.
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Oct 23, 2013 21:30
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Ponies ate my Bagel posted:I came to that realization when my reason for not getting a dashcam was "I don't want to catch myself doing stupid poo poo".
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Oct 31, 2013 01:27
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I agree, it's only the consequences for my licence that prevent me cruising at a ton-twenty in those conditions.
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Nov 11, 2013 00:38
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some texas redneck posted:I've actually been pulled over for 120 (mph) before (55 zone). quote:Escaped with a massive (and very well deserved) rear end chewing. Empty highway, broad daylight, running late to work... I still don't know why he didn't arrest me, but I'm glad he didn't (every other word out of his mouth was "gently caress" or "Andretti" though). It comes down to whether you believe that the idea should be to hammer people who break the law, or to discourage people from breaking the law in the first place.
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Nov 11, 2013 23:44
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jamal posted:They are actually supposed to be the natural speed of the 85th percentile. And by "natural speed" I mean how fast people would drive if there was no posted limit. Of course, this makes for a lower speed differential between slowest and fastest, which I'd agree is probably safer overall.
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I particularly like it when I've advised people not to go up/down a given hill, and their response is a combination of a "you're not the boss of me" attitude and "yeah, well, you made it ok, didn't you?". Yes, I did. With four wheel drive, winter tyres, and a pretty good idea of what I'm doing. You, however, are a typical "more throttle is better" dickcheese in a sports-tyre-shod 3-series. Go find out the hard way, I'm off to do donuts in the Asda car park.
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Nov 12, 2013 19:28
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If he does what he says and gets it off the windows and lights, as well as the majority of the roof/bonnet stuff, I'm not really seeing why it would be an issue.
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Nov 14, 2013 23:52
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rcman50166 posted:I speed up when someone tries to pass me on the right. Because, like, if I'm in the right passing lane and someone passes me on the left, I'm not going fast enough, clearly. rcman50166 posted:I just happen to stay next to the guy until he runs into the slower traffic in the travel lane.
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Nov 17, 2013 21:55
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rcman50166 posted:The humor isn't for everyone. Imagine everyone trying to troll everyone and that's the sort of posting that goes on. Vindolanda posted:Boris Johnson (mayor of London, v. keen cyclist) just said he wouldn't mind banning riding with headphones or earbuds, after I think eight people were killed on London's roads in about two weeks. London cyclists (well, some) have exploded at him. When I'm on my bike, I use the road the same way I do in a car. Got wheels, on a road, you're a vehicle, so loving act like it. The retarded chucklefucks who think they're some kind of immortal wheeled pedestrian whenever it suits them? I detest them. The only reason I care in the slightest if they get themselves pureed is because of the effect on others, in particular the driver involved (who will probably get the blame).
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Nov 19, 2013 19:14
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Gets even better when the imbeciles at the local council decide that they need to stick a bus lane right up to about 30' from the junction, so that's all the distance for everyone to move from the outside lane (because the bus lane's on the inside) to move over to the inside (because, of course, the outside lane is turn only, not straight ahead). gently caress bus lanes, they screw the traffic flow up permanently for everyone driving simply to make it slightly more convenient for the two or three buses an hour that go down that road.
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Nov 20, 2013 01:08
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Sometimes with tailgaters, I just go sailing into roundabouts with a little more enthusiasm, and keep an eye on the mirror to see if my companion is both paying attention and has some idea of what they're doing.
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Nov 21, 2013 22:59
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 Thank you, imgur.
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Nov 22, 2013 18:05
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Dead Cow posted:I'm no where near the people in front of me cause I like my car.
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Nov 22, 2013 22:24
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When I had a dicky starter solenoid, I started the car with a jumplead from the starter terminal to the battery, nice big spark every time. On balance, I decided I'd be better off if I left it running while refuelling.
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kastein posted:Cars use fuel much slower than you can put it in the tank at the station, clearly.
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I've had the same issue, I don't bother with cheapo SD cards any more, quality 16GB ones aren't a whole lot of cash and do what I need. In terms of snow driving, living in South Yorkshire and the midlands, I've never encountered anything that prevented me getting where I needed to go. Some of my favourites include driving to London and back in an E30 325i on £30 tyres, while people in SUVs were abandoning their cars at the roadside, and driving 80 miles to meet up with my family for a meal only for the restaurant to say "hey, good thing you got here early, we're going to have to close earlier than usual because some of the staff can't make it in". Besides, car park donuts, powersliding out of junctions at walking pace, it's all such great fun. InitialDave fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Nov 29, 2013 |
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Krakkles posted:Because I like to drive fast, and I appreciate it a great deal when others don't go out of their way to make it difficult or unsafe for no reason, I tend to move over if I see someone coming up behind me faster and can do so safely. Also, the guy in an Audi who, at the next roundabout, pulled out into the second "straight on" lane, clearly with the intent that he could nip round the roundabout quicker than the cars which, up until that point, had been in front of him. Unfortunately, the speed he entered, navigated, and left the roundabout proved he didn't really mean it, and this was distinctly irritating for me, because I was barrelling up in that lane already, and I really did mean it. He didn't even floor it when he (unsurprisingly) left the roundabout exactly level with the "slower" traffic he'd pulled out to go past.
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Horse Divorce posted:I don't know, man. I heard some pretty bad stories about a dude who used a teleporter with a house fly. I don't even want to imagine what would happen if you used a teleporter with a pony.
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The gun chat just reminds me how irritating it is that I'm not allowed one. 
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This evening I saw someone back out of a parking space into a van's front bumper, and there was something about the way he did it that screamed a sense of "yeah, well, he should park all the way into the bay, shouldn't he?" righteous indignation. Never mind that there was no way that thing was going to be able to get any deeper into the space, they were being distinctly miserly when they laid out the carpark. Told the van's driver, but all they'd done was dislodge a reflector, and he clearly wasn't bothered about it.
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Michael Scott posted:e: Nevermind, I guess there wasn't any real damage. Kill-9 posted:I ain't even the slightest mad though as that brush guard already is scratched to hell as you can see.
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kastein posted:I am very, very cautious pulling out of that stop sign now. It's close enough to my house that I hear accidents there every month or so. The arrangement of the road, with a pedestrian crossing/bollard not that far behind him and the solid traffic, meant he would have either had to have been on the wrong side of the road or pulled out immediately after the bollard and properly floored it to put himself where he was. But he was still on the major road, and so had right of way, meaning he was automatically not at fault. I'm a firm believer in the general principle that "every accident you have is your fault - you either cause it or fail to see it coming", as it keeps you in the right frame of mind, but drat do you want a "being a fuckwit" clause sometimes. Of course, then I'd risk being hoist by my own petard, as idiot's opinions on what counts as fuckwittery may well differ from my own. Same reason I'm not always that keen on people being done for "dangerous driving" based in the opinion of the plod. Ok, fine, you think what they were doing was dangerous - explain why you are qualified to make that assessment.
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Jonny Nox posted:I wish there was sound available on the vid, because it looks like it was really limping as it drove off camera.
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Well, at least his handbrake'll work really well.
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I'd have less of a problem with if if their idiocy was legally recognised, and hitting them meant you received a cheque from their estate to cover the damage rather than a prosecution.
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While the UK driving test is better than what people are describing here, they haven't (yet) made it mandatory to receive formal tuition from anyone, and that's something I agree with. Set the standard and test people against it, how they choose to get themselves to that standard is up to them. I agree that no-one should be allowed to charge for tuition unless they are in some way licensed, but there's nothing wrong with relatives or friends teaching someone. In other news, a girl at work paid £45 for a pair of new windscreen wipers.
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