Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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@dcon
Because
(There is a meme response in the same spirit but I didnt find it.)
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@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@HardwareGeek That still makes no sense. It does not look that high to need such big loop, and note there isn't anything under the bridge before the railway that's quite far. It looks more like originally it was supposed to be connected differently and they made up their minds midway through building the bridge.
I'm not so sure. Look at how long the elevated parts are after it actually begins slanting down. Also looks to me like there's some reserved land right to the tracks - maybe for future tracks expansions or similar?
But the slop is quite long and actually wouldn't finish before hitting the crossroad.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dcon Of course it's Swift.
That's what a couple of the comments said too
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dcon Probably elevation. The direct path would be too steep.
Yeah, most of the comments pointed that out too - but that's .
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@loopback0 I was going to say, only in , but that is Nebraska.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dcon Probably elevation. The direct path would be too steep.
It the flyover won't need the loop, then it could be built way less steep without problem. And at least from this angle, there aren't anything underneath that need to make it go higher. After the train track the flyover could slowly go downward following the yellow-line-path.
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@loopback0 Better than a car with a bull in the driver's seat.
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@Zecc That's a bunch of BS.
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@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Just came across this:
...and it reminded me of this thread.
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SR;RIWRL;LI;DRTR
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@Zecc tl;df It was for the church / school as demanded by the local mayor in 1955.
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@Zecc said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
SR;RIWRL;LI;DRTR
I found it rather interesting. More in terms of the research rabbit hole he descended into!
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@Zecc said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
SR;RIWRL;LI;DRTR
And it's even longer when you expand all the collapsed Note: stuff. One of them says:
this article already has too small of a scroll bar, so that will have to wait for another time.
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I just saw an ad for a motorcycle with one of these mounted:
I cannot fathom why you would ever put one of those on a motorcycle.
At best, it does nothing, but it's probably just a spring release that will make it impossible to apply full force to the brakes, thus making it impossible to get full braking force, and also impossible to properly regulate the brakes.
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@boomzilla I wish I could someday become such a dedicated researcher into ultimately pointless topics as the guy who wrote about that bridge.
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You'll cross that bridge when you get to it.
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I just saw an ad for a motorcycle with one of these mounted:
I cannot fathom why you would ever put one of those on a motorcycle.
At best, it does nothing, but it's probably just a spring release that will make it impossible to apply full force to the brakes, thus making it impossible to get full braking force, and also impossible to properly regulate the brakes.Hm. I do not ride a motorcycle, so I cannot report my own experience with those thingies.
Many motorcyclists are actually old farts - such that we people at WDTWTF seem like youngsters. Sometimes you wonder hwo they manage to get to their big machines... Do you expect them to know how to perfectly operate the brakes in dangerous situations? That's why I believe the producers that such anti-locked brakes provide more safety.
By the way, since electric bicycles are used by so many elderly people who can now climb up steep forest tracks (and who hardly know how to operate the gear shift, but the engines have been optimized for them with enormous torque), there are already anti-lock front brakes available for bicylces...Edit: link to Bosch, a producer of anti-lock brakes for e-bikes:
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@Carnage In the buyers questions and answers:
I'm wondering the same thing. Note that none of the questions have answers
I guess that it's just a pressure release valve that you can adjust yourself, hopefully to the point just before the wheel lock.
Looks lilke a nub to adjust it
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
link to Bosch, a producer of anti-lock brakes for e-bikes:
Not sure why, but I would trust a lot more a product from Bosch than some Chinese part from Ali Express
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@TimeBandit Because it was Bosch to write the highly trustworthy Clean Diesel software for Volkswagen?
You may also want to take a look at the eBike Rant Thread
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/28852/the-ebike-rant-thread
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@TimeBandit Because it was Bosch to write the highly trustworthy Clean Diesel software for Volkswagen?
To be fair that worked exactly as it was designed to.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I just saw an ad for a motorcycle with one of these mounted:
I cannot fathom why you would ever put one of those on a motorcycle.
At best, it does nothing, but it's probably just a spring release that will make it impossible to apply full force to the brakes, thus making it impossible to get full braking force, and also impossible to properly regulate the brakes.Hm. I do not ride a motorcycle, so I cannot report my own experience with those thingies.
Many motorcyclists are actually old farts - such that we people at WDTWTF seem like youngsters. Sometimes you wonder hwo they manage to get to their big machines... Do you expect them to know how to perfectly operate the brakes in dangerous situations? That's why I believe the producers that such anti-locked brakes provide more safety.You'd be surprised how sprightly the old farts on bikes are. When I started doing track days, I was routinely outpaced by men in their seventies. And motorcyclists in general are by far better at driving/riding than the average driver, so yeah, I'd expect the old farts to be capable of correctly using brakes, in particular since most of them spent the first 20 years of their driving life in vehicles without ABS.
By the way, since electric bicycles are used by so many elderly people who can now climb up steep forest tracks (and who hardly know how to operate the gear shift, but the engines have been optimized for them with enormous torque), there are already anti-lock front brakes available for bicylces...
Edit: link to Bosch, a producer of anti-lock brakes for e-bikes:
Yeah, but the lump I linked is not an ABS system. As I said, at best it does absolutely nothing, at worst, it prevents you from usiing the full power of your brakes while also giving your brakes worse feedback and feel. And they do not prevent breaking traction on slippery surfaces.
ABS for motorcycles have computers, and electronic valves to prevent the tire slipping. These are just lumps of metal with at most a spring loaded release.
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@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage In the buyers questions and answers:
I'm wondering the same thing. Note that none of the questions have answers
I guess that it's just a pressure release valve that you can adjust yourself, hopefully to the point just before the wheel lock.
Looks lilke a nub to adjust it
And such a gizmo would at best do nothing, and at worst, would both reduce maximum brake power, and not prevent tires from slipping on low friction surfaces. It's utter shit.
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@loopback0 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@TimeBandit Because it was Bosch to write the highly trustworthy Clean Diesel software for Volkswagen?
To be fair that worked exactly as it was designed to.
Also, it was a feature that VW asked Bosch for, and Bosch provided saying that it'd be illegal to use for anything but testing.
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@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
link to Bosch, a producer of anti-lock brakes for e-bikes:
Not sure why, but I would trust a lot more a product from Bosch than some Chinese part from Ali Express
Bosch makes by far the best ABS systems for two wheel vehicles.
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
When I started doing track days, I was routinely outpaced by men in their seventies.
I bet they're using steroids.
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage In the buyers questions and answers:
I'm wondering the same thing. Note that none of the questions have answers
I guess that it's just a pressure release valve that you can adjust yourself, hopefully to the point just before the wheel lock.
Looks lilke a nub to adjust it
And such a gizmo would at best do nothing, and at worst, would both reduce maximum brake power, and not prevent tires from slipping on low friction surfaces. It's utter shit.
Checking Google, all of the results are either dodgy Chinese websites selling the exact same product or other websites clearly dropshipping the exact same product. Not a single one has a description of either what it actually does or what magic thing it supposedly does.
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@loopback0 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@TimeBandit Because it was Bosch to write the highly trustworthy Clean Diesel software for Volkswagen?
To be fair that worked exactly as it was designed to: not to be fair.
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I'd expect the old farts to be capable of correctly using brakes, in particular since most of them spent the first 20 years of their driving life in vehicles without ABS.
Natural selection can get you a long way.
Or not, depending.
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@boomzilla Once I saw what they were writing about, my guess was Met Stadium.
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@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I found it rather interesting. More in terms of the research rabbit hole he descended into!
Same here. It's amazing both how many different sources of information he managed to dig up, and how difficult it is to dig up all those sources barely 50 years later!
You'd think that by the time he got to flying to visit Federal archives (!!) and found boxes and boxes with arcane 6 digits codes, he would be swamped by all the TPS reports but no, that part ended up drawing a blank.
It's fascinating how past that is still close enough to have living eyewitnesses and mountains of records can be so hard to piece together.
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@Carnage reminds me of a story a family member recently told me.
He's been a biker for years and a couple of years ago bought something that turns out to be too powerful even for him (and he does like big beasts, apparently -- I don't know shit about bikes so for all I know he could be talking about a e-scooter...). Because it's a modern thing with tons of electronic, there is apparently one safety feature that throttles the gas when it detects that the bike is starting to lift the front wheel. You can configure that thing with the angle of detection, or turn it off if you want
to die.He recently had his bike revised, and a few days later got a registered signed-for letter from the manufacturer informing him that during the revision, a software update was applied and as a result the safety system was disabled and that he had to reset it himself. The garage confirmed all that and that the registered signed-for letter was a way to cover their asses, which makes sense.
The multi-stage here is that the garage (and/or manufacturer) not only have an update process that looses settings and are aware of it, but that in the end rather than restoring that setting at the end of the update they'd rather just send a letter.
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@remi anti wheelie. I find them to be mostly annoying. Unless you're riding like a right twat, it's not particularly hard to not have wheelies. You really don't need them even if you have a 250hp beast of a motorcycle.
Traction control is a different but similar best and with 250hp, I like having it, especially on public roads with all the oil and other slick spills there, but again not really necessary. My 200hp sportbike doesn't have one for instance. Sometimes the rear will break traction, but unless you're riding like a right twat, spinning rear wheel isn't that big of a deal.As far as manufacturers, yeah, it's a bit more laid back and leaving responsibility of surviving in the hands of the one in control of the vehicle than what it's like in the world of cars where many systems are required by law
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
but that in the end rather than restoring that setting at the end of the update they'd rather just send a letter.
wins everywhere!
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Oh you thought the 11'8" bridge was bad?
The new underpass under the D3 motorway is too low. No trucks or buses will pass
Three meters. 9'10". I eagerly await the crash compilations.
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@blakeyrat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
People who follow the speed limit (the one law everybody agrees has some flex to it-- even cops) to the letter, but violate every single other driving law: drift outside their lane, don't use blinkers, etc
This one time I was driving to check out my kids future school which was in an unfamiliar part of town, all of a sudden a cop ends up being behind me, so of course I was on my best behavior, signaling, doing a full stop at every stop sign, driving under the speed limit. At some point it became obvious the cop is following me, so instead of going home decided to drive to the next town over. The guy lights me up as I'm about to cross the town line out of his jurisdiction. He said he pulled me over for "signaling too late" on a turn. I think he was just pissed I was driving the speed limit for once.
So yesterday I was pulling off the highway and saw a cop behind me so I drove 5-10 miles over the speed limit. Still felt like I was crawling. I think the poor guy made a turn just to get out if being behind me.
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@dangeRuss This is the first time in my life I've ever witnessed someone fuck up necroing a thread
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@blek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Oh you thought the 11'8" bridge was bad?
The new underpass under the D3 motorway is too low. No trucks or buses will pass
Three meters. 9'10". I eagerly await the crash compilations.
Has anyone made any data visualizations about D3? If so, have they used d3?
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@dangeRuss Was your "signalling too late" somehow related to "instead of going home decided to drive to the next town over"?
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@Zecc If he had signalled it earlier, the cop wouldn't have wasted so much time.
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@Zecc said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dangeRuss Was your "signalling too late" somehow related to "instead of going home decided to drive to the next town over"?
No the cop was looking for an excuse to pull me over as I'm sure I was acting suspiciously (i.e. driving under the speed limit). He pulled me over as I was about to leave the jurisdiction. He pretty much told me as much. Nothing came out of the stop and I appreciate him doing his job. Just wanted to chime in that driving under the speed limit makes you look suspicious.
The street he accused me of signaling too late on was a good 5 minutes before the stop and it was because I was unfamiliar with the area.
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@Zecc said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@blek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Oh you thought the 11'8" bridge was bad?
The new underpass under the D3 motorway is too low. No trucks or buses will pass
Three meters. 9'10". I eagerly await the crash compilations.
Has anyone made any data visualizations about D3? If so, have they used d3?
Data visualizations wouldn't help. The engineers were aware they are building a very low underpass, but didn't want to move the motorway higher because it then enters a tunnel (at least the article says so (I know, I know, reading is ); I'm not sure how good a reason it actually is, because looking at aerial photos of the construction site, it does not seem to be that close and it's all surface-constructed anyway) and didn't want to spend the extra money for lowering the road (there isn't much around it, so it certainly could be dug in a bit).
Also, the next, better crossing is just 700 m away and it looks like there is a road along the motorway connecting them, so it's not really that much further to avoid it.
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@Bulb Some good paint then, so at least it looks really low. That'll stop most fools.
For the rest, put a videocamera up for those sweet online viewing numbers!
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@dangeRuss said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
driving under the speed limit makes you look suspicious.
It's a limit, so following the law makes you look suspicious