Traffic sins
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@anotherusername said in Traffic sins:
Some manual transmission vehicles are easier to drive than others.
Indeed. I've never driven one without Synchromesh (is that a ™? Android capitalized it.), so I've never had to learn to double-clutch to downshift. I know how, in theory, but I have never practiced it, so I doubt I'd do it smoothly if I were to drive a vehicle that required it.
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@RaceProUK said in Traffic sins:
which my instructor told me isn't that common.
You said it yourself: you're probably in the top 10% of manual drivers, the kind that for whatever reason have an easier time learning. Laws need to be concerned with keeping the bottom 10% from fucking things up; you'll be fine no matter what.
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@HardwareGeek that's old-school. I wasn't even considering manual without synchro.
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@xaade said in Traffic sins:
Only if roads are clear and you're willing to drive 20 mph faster over a 100+ mile drive. Otherwise, no, you won't gain much there either.
Right. When I was doing a cross-country road trip and driving eight miles a day for two weeks, yes, going x mph over the speed limit would result in getting to our destination an hour and a half, two hours early some days and that was a big deal. But in 99% of cases it gets you nothing.
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@heterodox said in Traffic sins:
When I was doing a cross-country road trip and driving eight miles a day for two weeks,
That's a very long time for such a short distance.
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@heterodox said in Traffic sins:
When I was doing a cross-country road trip and driving eight miles a day for two weeks
8×14=112 miles? You were driving across B•••••m?
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@Lorne-Kates said in Traffic sins:
@heterodox said in Traffic sins:
IF YOU STOPPED FIRST, FUCKING GO. YOU'RE NOT BEING POLITE BY MOTIONING FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO GO. YOU'RE RUINING EVERYTHING.
Yes. Please.
Stop-signs aren't difficult. Car that is there first goes first. Then just go roundabout in turns.
Did the car in front of you just go? Okay, asshole, you sit there until the car to your right, then in front, then to your left goes. Did three cars go yet? If not, YOU JUST SIT THERE MOTHERFUCKER.
Too many people think "Well, I stopped because the car in front of me stopped-- that counts as stopping at a stop sign, right?"
Speaking of stop signs, I've noticed lately that malls and shopping centers near where I live have started to put 3-way stops for a 4-way intersection, with the side coming from the entrance not having a stop sign.
People seem to grasp that one of the sides doesn't stop, but they don't seem to grasp that if I arrive there before they do on one of the side that stops, but I have to wait for the side that doesn't stop, that I have the right of way next because I was the first to stop.
I also think that my state (Michigan) has some wacky laws on the books for 2-way stops. Obviously, you have to wait for traffic from the other street first, but then the order depends on which direction you're going... right or straight first, then left turners regardless of who actually stopped first.
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@powerlord said in Traffic sins:
People seem to grasp that one of the sides doesn't stop
Sometimes. More often, people coming from the side that in theory doesn't stop hallucinate a stop sign because they expect to see one there and stop anyway.
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