Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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@remi
will clear any road, even if there are small things like trees or cars in the way.
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@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I see that you don't speak French anymore in France.
FileUnder: stationnement
Yeah, we're not
CanadiansQuébécois so despite what says (or ), we actually use English words.SorryDeal with it.
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
will clear any road, even if there are small things like trees or cars in the way.
Like I said, sometimes the plough is... slightly less considerate about badly parked cars. I'm careful to never park in a slot where the plough might not be fully aware of where the snow stops and my car starts.
Also, the main road is winding between buildings and thus in the exterior of the curves there are natural spots where the snow accumulates when pushed by the plough. But some of those are also parking spots (or at least, potential ones and not marked as reserved). I saw one car in particular being progressively walled-in by up to... 1.5 m, I'd say? (of hard-packed snow, of course) as the plough passed several times.
Also also, one of the plough is of the type that blows the snow from a sort of chimney. It was amusing seeing how the driver took care of parked cars when orientating the chimney. That is, taking care of aiming at the cars! (not really, and mostly those that were badly parked, but still)
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
will clear any road, even if there are small things like trees or cars in the way.
Like I said, sometimes the plough is... slightly less considerate about badly parked cars. I'm careful to never park in a slot where the plough might not be fully aware of where the snow stops and my car starts.
Also, the main road is winding between buildings and thus in the exterior of the curves there are natural spots where the snow accumulates when pushed by the plough. But some of those are also parking spots (or at least, potential ones and not marked as reserved). I saw one car in particular being progressively walled-in by up to... 1.5 m, I'd say? (of hard-packed snow, of course) as the plough passed several times.
Also also, one of the plough is of the type that blows the snow from a sort of chimney. It was amusing seeing how the driver took care of parked cars when orientating the chimney. That is, taking care of aiming at the cars! (not really, and mostly those that were badly parked, but still)
As someone that actually did a very minor bit of snow removal, cars parked by idiots are exceedingly annoying and if you've had a long few days of constant looking into a heavy snowfall and figuring out where the hell the road is supposed to be, there may be a bit of malice and cars may get snow packed up against them on purpose because god damn I've had enough of people making my job harder than it has to be.
That said, most experienced operators will be able to work with 2-3 centimeters margin of the cars pretty easily, it just takes time and care. Something you may not have when the snow is coming down, and there are fixed rates for clearing snow.
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I'm sure those could have been parked more tightly together. This way the mercedes' owner may still try to use the driver side door, inevitably damaging the paint on the chevrolet.
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@PleegWat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I'm sure those could have been parked more tightly together. This way the mercedes' owner may still try to use the driver side door, inevitably damaging the paint on the chevrolet.
Or just put these standing against the tires:
One for each tire, or just 2 or 3 of them.
Bonus points for using heavy duty syringe tips or hollow bolts I suppose.
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Oh, speaking of tyres, that one is pure "over 9000" level from myself (confessions thread is... well, here, today).
Earlier this week I went to a university to a give a lecture and as I went around the buildings looking for a parking space I somehow didn't see the corner of a sidewalk that was slightly protruding in a corner of the road. Like, it wasn't a "surprise rock in the middle of the road," more like "this corner is maybe a tiny bit tighter than you might expect." I must have rolled a 1 on my driving skill, because I managed to hit that corner. Hard. With both wheels on the same side of the car.
And got a perfect combo result of two blown tyres. With large gashes on the sidewalls, so unfixeable.
Now the good thing is that it was the morning and my lecture was actually in the afternoon (I was planning on doing other stuff this morning) so at least I had time to fix it. The other good thing is that there was a garage about 200 m away.
But I had two blown tyres, and of course only one spare. And while the guy in the garage was somewhat accommodating, he wasn't willing to send a guy on foot with whatever equipment he'd need (which, honestly, I can understand). He told me to just call a tow truck but for such a small distance that seemed a bit of a by itself. He did rummage around his shop to see if he had a wheel (from another car) that would be compatible with my car, but of course as (bad) luck had it, he didn't.
He helpfully let me borrow one of his replacement cars though, so I drove back (200 m) to my car, put the spare wheel on, brought the blown one back to his shop (in the car!). Then he ordered new tyres (thankfully delivered within the hour or so!), changed the one I had brought him, gave it back to me, I walked back (could have picked the car again but then I would have needed another trip afterwards) with the new wheel, replaced the other blown one, and could now drive the 200 m to the shop where he replaced the second tyre and put everything back in order.
Half a second of not looking cost me 300 bucks, and half a day of stress. Well done me.
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
put the spare wheel on, brought the blown one back to his shop (in the car!). Then he ordered new tyres (thankfully delivered within the hour or so!), changed the one I had brought him, gave it back to me
Maybe I'm being dense, but how did he change the blown wheel you brought him, which by then should no longer be attached to your car? Did you mean he traded the blown tyre you brought for one of the new tyres he ordered?
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@Zecc said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
change the blown wheel you brought him, which by then should no longer be attached to your car
The wheel was no longer attached to the car, but the tire was still on the rim. So he mounted a new tire on the rim and inflated it, which is the tricky part of changing a tire.
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I can't remove a tyre from its rim without proper tools, and certainly not with the tools that come with the spare wheel kit in my car. All I can do is remove the whole wheel (tyre + rim) and put the spare wheel (tyre + rim) instead.
So I removed the wheel (blown tyre + rim), brought that to the garage who put a new tyre on the rim and gave me that back, which I put in place of the other wheel (blown tyre + rim).
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
just put these standing against the tires:
No, that's malicious damage to the vehicle, and is probably illegal — criminal mischief, or something similar — in most jurisdictions. Parking very close does no damage, just causes inconvenience. Double bonus points if somebody else does the same thing on the passenger side, preventing Mr. Ahole from getting in either door.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
just put these standing against the tires:
No, that's malicious damage to the vehicle, and is probably illegal — criminal mischief, or something similar — in most jurisdictions. Parking very close does no damage, just causes inconvenience. Double bonus points if somebody else does the same thing on the passenger side, preventing Mr. Ahole from getting in either door.
Double bonus points if you drive a small car that actually fits between the mercedes and the curb.
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@Zecc with the first 5 words of your post?
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More a WTF Bite or similar than car stuff, but there's a car involved.
For I'm looking at questions from the theoretical part of the driving exam here. We've got pictures with multiple choice questions related to them. They're pictures of real cars and real roads, obviously, so sometimes you can see license plates. The license plates are blurred about half of the time, semi-randomly. I'm guessing based on whether someone actually cared? I mean, it doesn't really matter but then again it sort-of does, in an abstract way. Anyway, that's not the .
No, the is how someone decided to blur the license plate on that particular picture:
BEST PRACTICE!
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GoPro Inside a Car Tire (With Balance Beads)
GoPro Inside a Car Tire (With Balance Beads) – 09:15
— Warped PerceptionPretty cool video.
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
black plastic sheets (the kind farmers used to wrap straw bales)
In Finland they use white plastic. And recently I've seen some blue.
Apropos of nothing.
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@acrow said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
black plastic sheets (the kind farmers used to wrap straw bales)
In Finland they use white plastic. And recently I've seen some blue.
Apropos of nothing.
In Sweden the base color is white, and then there are pink and blue ones for cancer ribbon things. I guess there may be more colors than that, but I don't care enough to check.
My dad used to do baling for farmers, and offered the pink ribbon things for people that wanted to give some money to breast cancer through his work.
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@acrow I've seen all of those in various fields, but I think it's mostly black. But I can't pretend to have any actual stat on that.
I did wonder about that once because when you've got stacks of black-wrapped bales sitting in the sun all year long (especially in the South of France -- of course that's probably not an issue in ), it must get pretty hot in there! Since farmers still do it, I have to assume it's not an issue though...
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Some days I want to be in this headline. But I don't think I'll ever be coked up enough to actually act on it.
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@izzion Rig a train horn to your car and traumatize terrible drivers instead
Train Horn in a Small Car Surprises Red Light Runner || ViralHog – 00:13
— ViralHog
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@TimeBandit Reminds me of a local church. Due to limited space double parking during the service is the norm; if you arrive early be prepared to stay late. Or you can do the traditional thing and walk.
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@PleegWat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@TimeBandit Reminds me of a local church. Due to limited space double parking during the service is the norm; if you arrive early be prepared to stay late. Or you can do the traditional thing and walk.
Arrive very late, triple park, then walk home. Seek forgiveness next week.
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A small one on my morning commute: 2-lanes highway, stop and go traffic on both lanes, with the right lane being mostly trucks and me in the left lane. It's downhill so when the traffic in front of me moves forward, I don't accelerate and just let the car gather a bit of speed until it catches up. As a result, I am driving relatively smoothly but there are large gaps that are appearing and disappearing in front of me.
The trucks next to me are doing more or less the same thing, so the same applies to the right lane.
Of course, the driver behind me wants to go faster-faster-faster! So he's permanently stuck at less than a meter from my rear bumper and I can see him jumping forward (by inches) whenever he can.
So he ends up taking advantage of one gap between trucks and pass me on my right, back to the left lane and speed up to the next car! Wohooo! He's gained... one spot. And then remained stuck there for the whole length of the traffic jam, with me just behind me, going .
Now the real funny part is that the right lane was actually going faster than the left one, but the guy doggedly stuck to the left one while trucks were passing him on his right.
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@remi That would make some sense if he was about to turn... but it sounds like he was just someone with a low WIS score.
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@dkf in a sense, he was going to turn. Except that the "going to" part was about 3 km further down the road (this is also where I was going). So yeah, no, he wasn't about to turn.
Then again, he at least was smart enough to not take the left-most lane, which is reserved for buses. That is smarter than quite a few other people, so there's that.
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@PleegWat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Or you can do the traditional thing and walk.
You can also help by staying home
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
we actually use English words.
IOW, surrendered
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@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
we actually use English words.
IOW, surrendered
And French Canada lost the war 261 years ago. Give up, already.
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People Use GPS 'Jammers' to Stop Tracking of Their Cars:
People Use GPS 'Jammers' to Stop Tracking of Their Cars – 11:14
— Steve Lehto
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Yeah. Some time ago, a guy did get in trouble for doing that. The airport that was next to where he parked his car was... not amused, to say the least.
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CHILD stole a
ForkliftTelehandler and Began DESTROYING the City.Destruction consisted of sideswiped parked cars and flattened road signs, not intentional damage using the forks. The 12yo boy was "known to officials".
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@boomzilla The embed fails to note that she then swam into the ocean, away from the shore. I don't know her motive for doing that — whether she was trying to drown herself or just too intoxicated to do anything sensible — but she was eventually rescued by a boat from the LA County Sheriff's Department.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
whether she was trying to drown herself or just to intoxicated to do anything sensible
Well, my guess would be she was still trying to flee from the police.
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@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
whether she was trying to drown herself or just to intoxicated to do anything sensible
Well, my guess would be she was still trying to flee from the police.
As opposed to trying to get back to Florida, where she belongs?
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@dkf said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
whether she was trying to drown herself or just to intoxicated to do anything sensible
Well, my guess would be she was still trying to flee from the police.
As opposed to trying to get back to Florida, where she belongs?
The license plates on her car are from New Mexico. (That's not to say she doesn't belong in Florida.)
Also, to swim to Florida from where she was, she'd have had to swim south to the Panama Canal, through the canal, and north through the Caribbean to Florida; that's a very long swim.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dkf said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
As opposed to trying to get back to Florida, where she belongs?
The license plates on her car are from New Mexico. (That's not to say she doesn't belong in Florida.)
Also, to swim to Florida from where she was, she'd have had to swim south to the Panama Canal, through the canal, and north through the Caribbean to Florida; that's a very long swim.