Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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disengages cruise control if you touch the brakes and won't allow you to enable it below 30mph
That's normal.
Presumably this is to stop you tapping Resume and having it spool up to 70mph unexpectedly.
Talk about ruining all the fun!
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Maybe back in the old days.
In any days. Engines don't go from idle to full power instantaneously. Rev them with your foot on the brake, release brake.
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That's why I ride on the shoulder to avoid stopped traffic.
Someone on the metro Indiana street I was
drivingsitting on today decided that since filtering is illegal, he'd ride on the sidewalk. I'm not sure if it was a moped or a full up motor cycle.
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Otherwise you are likely to hit the wind-shield with your forehead now and then.
One word: Seatbelts.
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Engines don't go from idle to full power instantaneously. Rev them with your foot on the brake, release brake.
You must not get a lot of traffic.
Where I live you wouldn't get the opportunity to jackrabbit like that much, unless you happen to be the first one in line at a stoplight.
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Amazingly, not all roads are in crowded cities. There's also a thing called the countryside
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There's also a thing called the countryside
No kidding. But these days most people live in the city.
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You must not get a lot of traffic.
You need to do more hill starts. Though they're a bit easier with an automatic than a manual.
There's also a thing called the countryside
LIES!
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You need to do more hill starts.
That's a funny word you used there, "need". And I'd say, having done enough of 'em, no, I don't.
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Flatlander!
I grew up in a valley. I lived in hill country, upstate South Carolina, for 6 years.
I don't mind hilly terrain, but sometimes I just don't want to deal with gratuitous annoyances.
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You need to do more hill starts. Though they're a bit easier with an automatic than a manual.
Unless you have a Subaru. The hill holder clutch was sweet.
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Let me guess, they're about 10 inches high and filled with ants?
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only ten inches?
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The Dallas giraffe isn't nearly as big as its African counterpart.
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Let me guess, they're about 10 inches high and filled with ants?
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.9387157,-96.7562376,15.25z/data=!5m1!1e4
The center of the map, where Waterview intersects Spring Valley, represents a 20-30' drop. That's about as much hill as there is, but I suppose if you're still driving stick you'd need a hill start if for some reason you stopped on the hill. (I wouldn't recommend it--there's no parking lane.)
You're right about the ants, though.
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Let me guess, they're about 10 inches high and filled with ants?
No, but some of the freeway ramps have steeper grades.
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That's about as much hill as there is
I've nearly as much drop on the driveway from my garage to the street. For contrast, I'm about 100m (so that's around 330') above my local rail station, and I don't live on an especially high hill for round here. Or all that close to the top of it for that matter. The point is when that sort of topography is about, you learn how to start your car on a hill properly in your first driving lesson or you ain't going anywhere (except down to the river I suppose).
The local test examiners love to include an uphill turn into a roundabout in their test runs. Mastering that (with manual stick) requires having all four limbs doing different things simultaneously while not looking at any of them because you're trying to look in three different directions at once. :-D
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Look at that tiny giraffe!
(also, )
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You must not get a lot of traffic.
Where I live you wouldn't get the opportunity to jackrabbit like that much, unless you happen to be the first one in line at a stoplight.
Don't do it in traffic. I would have thought that would be obvious. We weren't talking about "smoothly negotiating heavy traffic", we were talking about "full power" and "accelerate more quickly". To me at least that implies things like "no congestion" and "no roadside hazards", or perhaps only "a clear stretch of road in front" which might include first at the lights. But then the next lights are going to stop you anyway so enjoy the fun while it lasts.
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Unless you have a Subaru. The hill holder clutch was sweet.
My VW has electronic hill-hold. It works off-road too. Very handy but sometimes it just feels like cheating.
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only ten inches?
And here we see why evolution has provided the giraffe with such a long neck: So he can reach the juiciest ants at the top of the mound.
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But then the next lights are going to stop you anyway so enjoy the fun while it lasts.
It depends on how the lights are set. They usually try to set them up so that they don't, though it's not always possible, since the constraints from different directions conflict. So there are places where accelerating quickly on one lights won't help you because you get stopped by the next either way, places where it matters a bit, because you are going to get green on the next either way and some where it matters a lot, because you just might make the green on the next if you are quick enough.
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electronic hill-hold
seen or used it on Renault, Opel, Citroën, ... think it is rather common, electronic handbrakes are useless without hill start/hold since you can't pull the handbrake easily. Well, you have to find the damn handbrake button because you simply never use it in most driving cases.
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Button? I've got a lever behind the stick.
A good hill-start is second nature - the only thing you're consciously paying attention to is the traffic around you.
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Button? I've got a lever behind the stick.
button/lever the exact thing depends on the maker/model and I remember that the Citroen/Peugeot solution is neither: you pull it to engage the brake so it's not a button, but it gives no positional indication, after pulling it jumps back so it's not a proper lever either.
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I like doing hill starts without the handbrake. It's all about minimising the rollback before you get the clutch balance.
Obviously, if the hill's too steep or there's another car up your arse it's not advisable, and you shouldn't hold it on the clutch for any length of time unless you like replacing your clutch...
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And here we see why evolution has provided the giraffe with such a long neck: So he can reach the juiciest ants at the top of the mound.
Guess that also explains the long tongue. But why is it purple?
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But why is it purple?
For the same reason the ponies in MLP:FiM have orange tongues: Who the heck knows?
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Guess that also explains the long tongue. But why is it purple?
So it looks like the purple dildo @morbiuswilters is always using, duh.
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A good hill-start is second nature
Yeah, hills never bothered me when I drove a stick. Honestly, I hardly ever noticed clutching or shifting, it was almost totally subconscious. My subconscious sure needed some time to retrain when I finally got an automatic though.
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button/lever the exact thing depends on the maker/model and I remember that the Citroen/Peugeot solution is neither: you pull it to engage the brake so it's not a button, but it gives no positional indication, after pulling it jumps back so it's not a proper lever either.
Wooosh ?
(Handbrake ~ lever)
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I like doing hill starts without the handbrake. It's all about
minimising the rollback before you get the clutch balance.heel and toe, baby!post fucking well can be empty fuck you Jeff do you even Internet?
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when I drove a stick
Has this already been done in this thread? I'm not reading back to find out.
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But why is it purple?
It resembles the sweet grape drank so attractive to ants. Instead of chasing them down, the giraffe merely sticks out his tonque and waits for the ants to come to him.
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Has this already been done in this thread? I'm not reading back to find out.
Dunno, but just in case...
But why is it purple?
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(Handbrake ~ lever)
If you had actually read the conversation you would have noticed we where talking about automatic handbrakes. The most obvious thing missing from a car with an automatic handbrake is the big handbrake lever, instead it is replaced by a smaller lever or button.
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If you had actually read the conversation you would have noticed we where talking about automatic handbrakes.
I did actually realize this.
If you had actually read the conversation you would have noticed we where talking about automatic handbrakes.
Did not know.
I've never driven a car with a automatic handbrake/gear selector.
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I did actually realize this.
Congrats! Ask a kiss from the teacher after class.
Did not know.
TYL about automatic handbrakes
automatic handbrake/gear selector.
Those are different things, you can have an automatic handbrake on a manual clutch car
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you can have an automatic handbrake on a manual clutch car
I know, but I assume it's not the default, even newer cars around here only have it as an option that costs like 500 USD. The automatic gearbox versions seem to include the auto handbrake. (But auto gearbox is like 5k USD here)
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By the way, I believe you're thinking of guidelines, not laws: http://lanesplittingislegal.com/assets/docs/CHP-lane-splitting-guidelines-California.pdf
Motorcyclists will do lane splitting regardless of it's legality so I guess you might as well legalize and regulate it.
What surprised me though is:
Help drivers see you by wearing brightly colored protective gear and using high beams during daylight.
Emphasis mine. That seems to be a strange advice coming from a document supposedly explaining legal stuff.
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Yeah, I don't do high beams during daylight on my bike. I think that's rather rude to other drivers.
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Yeah, I don't do high beams during daylight on my bike. I think that's rather rude to other drivers.
What, you think your high beams are going to overwhelm the sun?
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What, you think your high beams are going to overwhelm the sun?
The sun isn't always shining directly at drivers' eyes.
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The sun isn't always shining directly at drivers' eyes.
And high beams during daylight hours aren't that bright from typical driving distances. I wouldn't be overly concerned.
Of course, running your high beams that much means you'll probably need to replace headlamps more often. So, there is that concern.
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And high beams during daylight hours aren't that bright from typical driving distances. I wouldn't be overly concerned.
Running with your headlight on (even if not on full beam) makes you a lot more visible during daylight. While I've only noticed this specifically with cars doing it (this was something I found during a trip to Sweden where it was standard practice) I don't see any reason why the advice wouldn't also apply to bikes and trucks.
Of course, running your high beams that much means you'll probably need to replace headlamps more often. So, there is that concern.
Yes, but reducing the likelihood of being in a collision is not a bad thing to spend a bit on. Plus much of the real wear and tear on a lamp comes when you switch it on or off. I'm not saying wear doesn't happen in steady-state use, but there's plenty of stresses with the thermal changes when you switch a lamp. Even with LED bulbs, you've got electrical resistance losses and those create heat.
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I saw a good one today. The main north-south street of town is three lanes each direction. A guy was splitting traffic on a bicycle; not a motorcycle, a bicycle. He was riding to the far right, next to the curb, part of the time, but at each stoplight and when approaching driveways where cars were likely to turn right, he'd move over and split between lanes 2 and 3. He was keeping up with traffic, or even passing cars that were slowing for a light, at 30 – 35 MPH, too.