Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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So you're suggesting that maybe, just maybe, the insurance companies are telling you that they don't record speed, going out of their way to not put GPS into the boxes so that it's technically more difficult to determine speed, and then doing inertial navigation to figure out speed and using it anyways?
I specifically said that I didn't want to imply that they're doing it; I don't think they are either. I'm just saying you don't need GPS to reconstruct that information.
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Driving home on Saturday, about 19:00 so already dark as hell. As I pass the last streetlamp above a sign indicating the end of the village I start speeding up. Suddenly my headlights illuminate the side of goddamned blue Peugeot (or something else similar to a 206) that's exiting a front yard, blocking half of the road doing so. My message to its driver:
- Maybe turn on your lights next time it's pitch black?
- You owe me new pants.
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What the hell is with the drivers here that will catch up to you and ride your ass for miles even if in moderately light traffic when the left lane is perfectly clear?
Maybe they're lonely?
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It might work ok in some areas. But in other places, it becomes more difficult
Depends on how sensitive the thing is (and if it has accelerometers at all and not just reads speed off the bus). Decent inertial navigation system may have error rate 100 m (coult do that 40 years ago already, they were just much larger back then) in an hour and you can easily correct that by map matching (even after the fact if you have a log). In a car it can probably do it even without orientation gyros unless the car skids a lot.
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What the hell is with the drivers here that will catch up to you and ride your ass for miles even if in moderately light traffic when the left lane is perfectly clear?
They're from Progressive, making sure you're not speeding.
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What the hell is with the drivers here that will catch up to you and ride your ass for miles even if in moderately light traffic when the left lane is perfectly clear?
round these parts we have a name for them: Mass-holes
because they usually have Massachusetts number plates.
in fact they are enough of an epidemic lately that i'm seriously considering getting the "The closer you get the slower I go" bumpersticker
or the "if you're going to be riding my ass you'd better be pulling my hair" one. that could work too. or it could backfire....
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what? not @algorythmics?
son, i am disappoint.
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Definitely not @algorythmics
son, i am disappoint.
That sounds like a personal problem. @Keith is my go to poster for homosexual innuendo. @algorythmics isn't that subtle.
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@Keith is my go to poster for homosexual innuendo.
hmm... fair enough.
@algorythmics isn't that subtle.
also true. he's about as subtle as an erotic thermonuclear detonation.
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in fact they are enough of an epidemic lately that i'm seriously considering getting the "The closer you get the slower I go" bumpersticker
All they'll do is curse the Mainiac in front of them. You know that, right?
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ll they'll do is curse the Mainiac in front of them. You know that, right?
well yes, but if they refuse to pass on a multilane highway then they get to stay behind me.
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he Mainiac in front of them
Small point: The person in front of them is an idiot, not a maniac.
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Depends on how sensitive the thing is (and if it has accelerometers at all and not just reads speed off the bus). Decent inertial navigation system
Except the systems we're talking about don't have those. I know that the ones that Progressive uses don't.
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well yes, but if they refuse to pass on a multilane highway then they get to stay behind me.
About 20-25 years ago I was driving up I-95 in NH and I got tired of some jerk tailgating me so I slowed down until he passed me. Apparently he decided a minute or so later he really had to express his displeasure, so he slowed back down until he got near me again, then got in front of me and slowed down a lot.
If cell phones were in widespread use back then I would have called 911.
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The person in front of them is an idiot, not a maniac.
Yes and no. People from Maine call Massachusetts drivers Massholes; the Massholes reciprocate. It would have been clearer if I had spelled it Maine-iacs, but I'm sure @Accalia knew what I meant.
Edit: Hanzo'd, of course.
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About 20-25 years ago I was driving up I-95 in NH and I got tired of some jerk tailgating me so I slowed down until he passed me. Apparently he decided a minute or so later he really had to express his displeasure, so he slowed back down until he got near me again, then got in front of me and slowed down a lot.
happened to me once too about a year ago. i solved it by putting my hazard lights on and pulling over to stop in the breakdown lane.
the other driver apparently decided that they'd rather not have a face to face on the side of the highway and kept driving. about a minute later a state trooper pulled up behind me to see why i was in the breakdown lane. after a brief talk about the why of it he sent me on my way. he was nice guy really, agreed with me that pulling over had been a good move but cautioned i should also have called 911 just in case the other motorist had pulled over and been unpleasant.
haven't had it happen to me since they've either been content to stay behind me and ride my ass at 10 under the speed limit or they have passed me.
granted i won't do 10 under if there is enough traffic that they wouldn't be able to move over a lane to pass me. because that would be both unsafe (and yeah going 10 under on the highway is unsafe to begin with) but also a dick move as it would trap them behind me.
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Yes and no. People from Maine call Massachusetts drivers Massholes; the Massholes reciprocate. It would have been clearer if I had spelled it Maine-iacs, but I'm sure @Accalia knew what I meant.
yeah. our two states have a bit of a rivalry thing going on here... ;-)
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Not many have exactly 18.
What? The vast majority of them have 18.
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Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pow?
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Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pa Pow?
i'm going to assume you refer to the song that must not be named.... we do not like that song. no.... we do not like it...
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I rather prefer "I Will Never Be a Star"
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14 and 22 wheel variants are not uncommon, depending on the weight of the load being carried.
also sometimes seen are 20 wheel variants where wheels 19 and 20 sit on an axle just in front of 11-14 and are usually elevated off the road unless the truck is loaded sufficiently to compress the suspension enough to lower the wheels into contact.
there are several major shipping depots in the area so i see a lot of semi's on my commute to work. ;-)
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going 10 under on the highway is unsafe
Huh. In the UK, much of the left lane is going at least 10 under the legal speed limit, so 30-40 under the accepted de facto speed limit when there aren't any cops around (speeding on the motorway over here is viewed more or less the same as cycling on the pavement - is that the same anywhere else?)
This is because lorries are limited to 60 or slightly below - 60 being the speed limit on single-carriageways outside of built-up areas unless otherwise specified. On dual carriageways and motorways it's 70, but the lorries can't exceed their limiters.
Of course, if you go more than 10 under, you'll be going slower than the lorries, and the lorries will overtake you, and the collective pressure of hatred from all the people sharing the middle lane with lorries trying to overtake something that may be going only a fraction of an mph slower than their electronically prescribed top speed, will force you off the road.
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Sure, but I would still argue that 18 is the most common number of wheels (discounting spares, etc.) My Grandfather drove trucks for a living, not that really matters in this discussion :)
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Sure, but I would still argue that 18 is the most common number of wheels
did i argue that they weren't? ;-)
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No but @another_sam did
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I don't see 18 often. I often see only 1 rear axle on the truck, or 3 axles on the trailer (typically with only 2 wheels per axle).
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14 and 22 wheel variants are not uncommon, depending on the weight of the load being carried.
also sometimes seen are 20 wheel variants where wheels 19 and 20 sit on an axle just in front of 11-14 and are usually elevated off the road unless the truck is loaded sufficiently to compress the suspension enough to lower the wheels into contact.
there are several major shipping depots in the area so i see a lot of semi's on my commute to work. ;-)
You and @jazzyjosh both have valid points. However, 18 wheelers are the dominant variety.
Did I mention I work for a moving company which specialize in everything from the kitchen sink to multi-ton pieces of equipment for a certain chip manufacturer?
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However, 18 wheelers are the dominant variety.
i never argued anything different! i just added some other configurations that are commonly "called" 18 wheelers, but have a different number of wheels, and are common enough that you've probably seen them at least once in your life. ;-)
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Two Questions:
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Is it 3 letters?
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Does it have an R in the name?
:3
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Two Questions:
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Is it 3 letters?
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Does it have an R in the name?
:3
I'm guessing you mean the chip manufacturer I mentioned.
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That makes things... possibly difficult. I probably should have asked about the M instead of the R. :3
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I'm guessing you mean the chip manufacturer I mentioned.
hmmm... then i'm going to guess that this is Intel or one of its subsidiaries
for the chip manufacturer anyway.
and i'm pretty sure intell uses fedex, DHL, USPS and UPS for shipping so that doesn't narrow down what company you work with much
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and i'm pretty sure intell uses fedex, DHL, USPS and UPS for shipping
Even for
multi-ton pieces of equipment
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Now i want to stuff some neutronium into one of the USPS's little "If it fits it ships" boxes.
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hmmm... then i'm going to guess that this is Intel ...
Yes.
and i'm pretty sure intell uses fedex, DHL, USPS and UPS for shipping so that doesn't narrow down what company you work with much
For it's finished products, maybe. But we handle their supply shipping for them. If they purchase new hardware, we pick it up from their supplier and get it to whatever facility it's headed to. Sometimes we even need to help assemble it. If they mothball some equipment, we take it to the appropriate warehouse. Sometimes, it's even one of our warehouses.
Anyway, the company I work for is an agent for a larger company. Technically, Intel's contract is with the larger company, but the company I work for manages everything. Let's just say "it's complicated".
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May I also bring up how annoying it is to have to type
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instead of~~ ~~
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Even for
well maybe not DHL or USPS for the really big stuff.... but the smaller stuff i'm sure Intel ships with them at least some of the time.
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You can use
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Still three characters more ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Would the multi-ton pieces of equipment be coming from Eindhoven?
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Would the multi-ton pieces of equipment be coming from Eindhoven?
They come from all over. But yes, we have had some shipments originating in Eindhoven.
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Of course, if you go more than 10 under, you'll be going slower than the lorries
30 over is more than 10 under, and I assume that I wouldn't be passed by a lorry.
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"More than ten, under" is just as correct an interpretation as "more than, ten under", so your application for the pedantic dickweed badge is rejected.