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KozmoNaut posted:I have three settings for my lights: 1) Off 2) Parking lights on, cluster lights on 3) Low beams on, cluster lights on 4) High beams on, cluster lights on I have two settings for the lights: 1) Low beams on, cluster lights on 2) High beams on, cluster lights on ...and it's a low-end car so there arent any fog lights in front, and  so there aren't any in back.Splizwarf posted:I was driving a Mercedes R230 recently, just tooling around trying to get emissions monitors to set, and the thing had the cruise control on a stalk right where the turn signal stalk is on everything else, so every time I tried to signal a right turn the van would make a bumpy acceleration hop. Friar Zucchini fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Sep 10, 2013 |
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InterceptorV8 posted:
Oh yeah? I've got a '94 Suburban, I got four of them shits. ...On the armrest, in a logical configuration. And they all work. 
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Sep 11, 2013 05:25
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PhoenixWing posted:It's absolutely terrifying when the lights poo poo themselves and just flash red. It turns into a 12 lane game of extreme chicken, where the only way to pass is to close your eyes and slam on the throttle. After the derecho in northern Virginia last year there were about five traffic lights in the whole of Arlington and Fairfax County that worked, just at the biggest intersections, all the rest were dead... and 99% of people treated them like a giant four-way stop, leaving room for the 1% of them who were too dumb to bother to drive like nuts without causing much mayhem. It actually loving worked. It probably helped a lot that the radio stations were telling people to do that, but I was amazed that it worked so well on 6-lane roads with inner-suburb traffic.
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Nov 3, 2013 19:17
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SFH1989 posted:It was the middle of a TSD rally Wait what  ...you were rallying that? I'm guessing that drives about the same as my '94 Suburban, and if I get near a curve at any speed other than "kinda slow" I'm pulling bits of seat cushion out my rear end later on. Friar Zucchini fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Dec 8, 2013 |
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Dec 8, 2013 04:37
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xzzy posted:I think it should be mandatory for every sixteen year old to get signed up for a week long race driving course. This could not possibly end badly.
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Dec 26, 2013 05:03
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Teaching them to drive like shitcocks well ensures that they never stop driving like shitcocks because since they're good at it, there will never be any adverse consequences. I'm sure you'd love it if every single other car on the road was driven by the same enraged nut in that black BMW flashing his high beams at you.
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Dec 26, 2013 05:14
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Geoj posted:
I've got a Suburban, I know the pain of parking stuff like that. Solution: If there's just a single parking spot with a car or curb on both sides, I just back in. I'm pretty good at judging where the back end is, and the mirrors work fine so it's really not difficult and doesn't involve hopping curbs or pushing cars out of the way.
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Jan 8, 2014 04:33
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nigga crab pollock posted:Yo it's hardly tailgating when you're a reasonable and safe distance behind the other car, dickweed. If there's no other cars, poo poo, I'm 200 feet back or more. Or I just pass them.
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Jan 10, 2014 06:47
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Horse Divorce posted:How about we institute a bounty policy? If you see a driver texting, you are allowed to dispense any means necessary to get them off the road. To make sure this isn't abused, we can make phones take a picture out front and rear camera every time a text is written. So if you slam some person who was minding his own business, you face heavy fines/jail time/thunder dome/gulag, otherwise you collect a prize ...But what about stoplights? 
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Jan 14, 2014 05:35
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I don't generally drive like a nut, but I'll almost always floor it on a highway onramp. ...I try to be moving at least 45mph by the time I have to merge, that's the only way I'll manage. My car ain't quick. Whenever I let someone else drive I always tell them not to be afraid of the pedal, but they tend to just be terrified of everything driving a tired old Suburban.
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Jan 17, 2014 05:53
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xzzy posted:45 won't cut the mustard around here unfortunately. I have to keep the hammer down until I'm pushing 65 or else I end up a hood ornament as I try to merge in. Really loving sucks on those interchanges where the on ramp is only about 100 meters long before it turns into an off ramp. I might end up getting a more aggressive exhaust eventually. If people can hear the engine screaming they might figure out that the reason I'm only puttering along at 50 in a 65 zone is not because I'm an idiot, it's because that's the fastest the car goes up a mountain. Beach Bum posted:When I'm in the Miata, on ramps are my lateral-G threshold testing zones. Around here, I usually have to ease off when I get to Interstate pavement. and I end up pulling bits of seat cushion out my asscrack later. It disturbs me that a friend I lent the truck while I was out of town said he was impressed by the handling... I didn't even know "handling" was something it was capable of doing at all, let alone well.
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Jan 18, 2014 00:19
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In that first shot I thought the green car was totally hosed, mostly since (ahem) it was the last one in the line. ...It wasn't. The truck still ran into it, rather than pushing another car into it. 
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Feb 1, 2014 03:28
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MrLonghair posted:It's five car lengths, not five prick-lengths damnit ...But five car lengths is shorter, I thought a longer distance was safer?
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 Alright, you've done it. I'm a big blinky-lights nerd. First, there are plenty of areas in the States where police primarily use blue lights. This is most common in the South, as well as New England and Massachusetts. The video in question is from New York, which is one of several states where all-blue lights are used by volunteer firefighters, but this is clearly not a firefighter's POV. Local and state emergency vehicles in New York use red lights to the front and amber/red or blue/red to the rear. Federal emergency vehicles and law enforcement vehicles in New York are exempt from those rules so they generally use red/blue. But the general tendency is to use red on the left and blue on the right, and the video isn't good enough quality to tell what's going on on the left, and frankly it doesn't matter since anywhere in the States any warning light that's not amber, green or white is supposed to communicate a request for right-of-way. Second, a vehicle with warning lights requesting right of way often uses the lights to do dangerous things in traffic like driving too fast and running red lights. This is perfectly acceptable, as long as the driver is doing those things knowing that it is his own responsibility to drive like that with due regard to the safety of others. What this involves is referred to among emergency responders as clearing intersections - slow down as much as you need to, to include stopping and waiting, to be absolutely certain that there is no oncoming traffic that either doesn't want to stop, or hasn't noticed you. Here's an example of a cop doing it right - he may have even had a green light but he still slows down, prepared to stop, and makes sure everyone sees him before he continues. Same thing here. The border patrol agent didn't do this, and continued into the intersection before he could see the guy that hit him. It doesn't help his case that he wasn't using a siren, which is usually (but not always) required to legally break traffic rules. And lastly, watching the video closely, the video quality is pretty bad but I can still see the BP van in question at about 3 seconds in. My eyes aren't the best but I would have seen the van earlier than that, so the driver clearly had plenty of time to slow down and let him by but continued at full speed. The end result, in my opinion, is that there was wrongdoing on the part of both vehicles in the accident, but the driver of a responding emergency vehicle is better trained (at least he's probably seen a powerpoint on safely driving an emergency vehicle) and will likely be held to a higher standard. The BP agent is probably hosed in this case, but the driver that hit him might get dinged as well, just not as bad. Friar Zucchini fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Apr 12, 2014 |
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Apr 12, 2014 20:26
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Bovril Delight posted:Here in Texas it seems to be a threat. I've have people slam on the brakes on an 85mph toll road, or lose their poo poo entirely and follow you wherever you're going. Most of the people move when you come up but I've all but given up on the brights. 
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May 21, 2014 03:40
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Flint Ironstag posted:^^^^^^ I hope there is a story with that pic. TLDR it fell off the back of a pickup, driver fined $200 and yelled at.
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Aug 1, 2014 03:11
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CharlieWhiskey posted:I turn on my directional whenever there is a bend in the road of more than 80 degrees in the span of a few car lengths, even if there is no intersection, then quickly turn it off and hope no one noticed.
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Aug 9, 2014 19:55
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SyHopeful posted:Alright Americans post your gas receipts  Not exactly a receipt, but close enough. Those who dare to embiggenclick will be greeted with just $58 and change. I started with about a quarter tank, ended up paying $121 and change. And that's the cheapest gas station in town too.
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N is for Nipples posted:I want that loving bumper sticker. Here are a few. And here's the rest. I get some good reactions from it, people love it. edit: A lot of you are gonna like this one. Just make sure it's not a 5-speed, or one with a different position for reverse. Friar Zucchini fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Aug 20, 2014 |
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Aug 20, 2014 03:49
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Michael Scott posted:^ Don't skip this, watch it.
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CharlesM posted:I like it when sentences end with propositions. "You're a drat dirty criminal. 80 hours of community service, in bed with me, starting now. C'mere you  "
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beejay posted:What's the explanation for every semi that sees me coming in the left lane at 75mph and cuts me off at the last second doing 63 to pass another truck doing 62.5? 
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