Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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@dkf said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dcon How many miles-per-bushel does it get?
Hm. The text says "you have to stop every 23 feet to pick up poop". Assuming one pile of poo per bushel, you should now calculate how often a mile fits into 23 feet ...
I think it's on the order of 0.002 miles per bushel.
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@Zerosquare said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
They're 100% biodegradable.
So's carbon dioxide.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
The text says "you have to stop every 23 feet to pick up poop"
They'll probably have a premium model available with an emission sequestration device, but even if not, they are widely available as an aftermarket addon:
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@hungrier said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
sequestration
That already resembles the word
equestrian
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@acrow said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Not able to stop within 30m, from urban speeds, in an uphill section.
Police chases don't usually happen at urban speed
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@PleegWat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I'd say siphon out the gas/oil/other dangerous chemicals and tip it over.
Too much work
Just send the coordinates to @Polygeekery
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Man. That just gave me some flashbacks to my heavy machinery days and incidents that nearly made me my .
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@Polygeekery said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Man. That just gave me some flashbacks to my heavy machinery days and incidents that nearly made me my .
I guess that's a story for another day.
Should we set a reminder?
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@TimeBandit I don't know if I could explain well enough and provide enough context to have them make sense. Maybe.
What goddamn thread was I putting my general amusing anecdotes in, because it definitely would not fit in this thread.
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@Polygeekery probably had a lot of "Re:"s in it.
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@boomzilla if it didn't then it will very soon. Just to annoy you.
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@Polygeekery nah, that makes it easy to find your threads.
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@boomzilla you'd think so, but I can't ever find a damned thing.
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@Polygeekery said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Man. That just gave me some flashbacks to my heavy machinery days and incidents that nearly made me my .
I did the dumb of going down a steepish slope with a large tractor, and performing a 180 degree turn at speed.
I very quickly learned both how to get a tractor up on two wheels at a precarious angle, and how to slam it back down on all four in a very short time span.
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I very quickly learned both how to get a tractor up on two wheels at a precarious angle, and how to slam it back down on all four in a very short time span.
That sounds like Brown Alert time…
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@dkf said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I very quickly learned both how to get a tractor up on two wheels at a precarious angle, and how to slam it back down on all four in a very short time span.
That sounds like Brown Alert time…
I'd be lying if I said there were no clenching of sphincters that moment. And I think I held on to the seat with with my arse, because I was still sitting in it after.
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@Polygeekery said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
What goddamn thread was I putting my general amusing anecdotes in, because it definitely would not fit in this thread.
Presumably one listed under https://what.thedailywtf.com/user/polygeekery/topics
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@Zecc said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Polygeekery said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
What goddamn thread was I putting my general amusing anecdotes in, because it definitely would not fit in this thread.
Presumably one listed under https://what.thedailywtf.com/user/polygeekery/topics
I believe it would be this one.
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Apparently a case of driver error. It's also interesting that there were no bollards to prevent this, so here we are.
EDIT: In the article you can see how the car is actually stuck on a little landing halfway the steps while the preview picture seems to show a continuous slope:
If I'm not mistaken Mercedes frequently uses rear-wheel traction, so good luck getting out of there...
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The motorist seems to have followed a signpost intended for pedestrians that guides them to the kiss & ride zone.
The what?
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@loopback0 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
kiss & ride zone
Apparently it's a cromulent thing and not just something invented by some horny Frenchman.
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@boomzilla This obviously looks like something from a video game. Got any context?
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@loopback0 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
The motorist seems to have followed a signpost intended for pedestrians that guides them to the kiss & ride zone.
The what?
Those are common here as well. They are drop off points near major transit hubs. The name is probably derived from park & ride, which are parking areas usually at the edge of a large city near public transit into the city centre and/or business districts which are less accessible by car.
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@PleegWat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@loopback0 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
The motorist seems to have followed a signpost intended for pedestrians that guides them to the kiss & ride zone.
The what?
Those are common here as well. They are drop off points near major transit hubs. The name is probably derived from park & ride, which are parking areas usually at the edge of a large city near public transit into the city centre and/or business districts which are less accessible by car.
Now it's been explained they're common here too, they're just not called that.
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@loopback0
not to be confused with a finger and fuck off area
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After a 4 month dry spell, the infamous canopener bridge claims more victims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ766MY_Cog
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@JBert There's the company name on the side of the Truck in perfectly legible Chinese. What more do you want?
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WTF!?!?!
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@Dragoon WHY TF?!
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@Dragoon The license plate is illegible, but the shape looks like its probably European. A European car almost certainly has a manual transmission. Going up a rather steep ramp out of the parking structure at low speed probably requires feathering the clutch. It looks to me like the driver did this poorly and stalled the engine. After restarting it, he/she again failed to use the clutch properly and rolled backwards. Add in a bit of alcohol and/or some "IDGAF about the windows or the gate arm; I just wanna get outta here," and you get the observed result.
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@HardwareGeek Yup, failing the hill start seems likely. I also suspect they may have had too much to drink.
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@Tsaukpaetra Did he not tear out the undercarriage and oilpan and drive shaft and whatever else?
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@djls45 probably not. Those things are basically pieces of plastic. After getting mowed down by the bumper I don't expect they'd do much damage underneath.
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@djls45 probably not. Those things are basically pieces of plastic. After getting mowed down by the bumper I don't expect they'd do much damage underneath.
yeah, they're designed to be run over.
Of course... what the fuck why would you do that...
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Because you can?
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@Tsaukpaetra The other day I was driving down a road that had some construction around it, with some barriers like that. Mostly they were all standing like they were supposed to, but there was an area where someone had mowed down a line of em.
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@hungrier said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Tsaukpaetra The other day I was driving down a road that had some construction around it, with some barriers like that. Mostly they were all standing like they were supposed to, but there was an area where someone had mowed down a line of em.
We had an off-ramp HOV lane separated by these things for about 300 meters before the split. It didn't last very long.
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When I was at uni one of the entrance to the campus had a small, very poorly designed, roundabout. It was much too close to the boundary wall, with a bend in the road just before the entrance, and a tiny radius, which meant lorries had an extremely hard time navigating around it.
It really was a dumb design since the boundary of the campus was a mesh fence everywhere except for 5-10 m around the entrance, presumably to make it look more like a entrance, but that contributed a lot to block the view (not that it would have changed much to the actual manoeuvre, but at least unsuspecting drivers would have seen the roundabout before crossing the entrance and maybe prepare a bit better for it). Then the bend of the road before was just an fancy landscaping creation with no good reason. When arriving from the street (which already was a quiet secondary lane, so no big traffic issues there), it forced you to do a left U-turn, then another right 90 degrees turn, rather than a simple 90 degrees left turn. It couldn't have been a traffic calming measure given the layout of the road before it, and if so they could just have put a bump. It really was just a dumb landscaping choice. And to top it off, the roundabout itself had a much too small radius, making it almost impossible for a lorry to actually follow it.
As a result, lorries usually didn't bother and went straight over it. But of course the administration wasn't happy with that. So they put plastic bollards on the roundabout. Some drivers were considerate and actually moved them by hand (apparently they weren't properly bolted?). Some just crunched them. So the administration decided to go one up and put real metal roundabout signs on it. I happened to be walking towards this entrance the next day (I think it really was the day after they installed it), and saw a lorry pausing for a while, then the driver just shrugging and pushing ahead and crunching and driving over the signs with a huge metal scream.
I think the administration finally got it, because the (bent-over) signs got removed shortly afterwards, and were never replaced.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
A European car almost certainly has a manual transmission.
In what decade do you live?
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@remi The description could use a satellite image, if you can find it on Google Maps or something.
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@nerd4sale said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
A European car almost certainly has a manual transmission.
In what decade do you live?
The one where every government decided to save money on road maintenance.
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@acrow said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@remi The description could use a satellite image, if you can find it on Google Maps or something.
Achievement unlocked: vanquish the !
Here is an annotated version because I don't think the picture itself is very clear if you don't know the place (bonus points if you manage to doxx my uni from that picture...). It looks like they've remodelled the roundabout itself since when I was there, the white island was I think larger and rounder? It's in France so you're supposed to drive on the right, meaning that to get to the road on the bottom of the picture (i.e. straight-ahead!) you're supposed to go around the left (on the picture) half of the roundabout, which is obviously (I think? if not, just trust me on that...) impossible for a lorry.
Edit: the U-turn in the access road is probably "justified" by the street coming from the other side (i.e. to align with it). But then why did they put the entrance gate slightly off to the side rather than in front? This design still ends up having to do a left-right sequence when coming from that street (so it's not straight ahead), at the cost of an awkward U-turn for those coming from the actual main road (on the right of the picture -- the one at the top is a minor secondary street, and the left of the picture is a dead-end). It's obviously all in the middle of nothing, so they could have designed the entrance whichever way they liked, there was no constraint there.
Edit edit: I messed up the purple highlight for the incoming trajectory, it's on the wrong side of the access road. But that doesn't change much, just gives a bit more leeway for the u-turn part.
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@remi Roundabouts and lorries...
In Vaasa, Finland, there was a problem spot, where the city planners absolutely wanted to put a roundabout. But a factory, in the business of making long and heavy objects, absolutely needed access for long trucks. And the factory provided enough jobs for the area, that they couldn't just be ignored either.
So they compromised on it:
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@acrow
not uncommon ... first hit but there are more around hereIt looks like it's in the middle of nowhere but ... ok it's in the middle of nowhere but the concrete line to the right is the side of a highway and the three line demarcates the harbor.