Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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@boomzilla Never stop on the tracks. And if you get stuck there like the truck did (the video said "due to its weight", but I'm guessing the trailer was probably high-centered), there's often an 800-number posted near the crossing, along with a unique crossing ID number, to call in case of emergency. Get out of the vehicle immediately, and call that number; they can stop the trains (given sufficient warning; if the train is already approaching, it's already too late). If you can't find the number quickly, call 911. It'll take longer, because they'll have to look up the number and relay info, but it's better than nothing. By the time the train engineer sees the vehicle blocking the crossing and applies the brakes, it's too late to stop.
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Just today I got evidence that some people and companies simply don't care about stuff which costs them money but would be trivially preventable.
Since I currently don't have a charging station where I'm parking my car, I'm using a public one nearby. The rates I'm paying there are not very much higher than what I'd pay at home so it's no big deal. Usually I park my car there to charge and do some shopping at the supermarket on which parking lot the station is located.
It's operated by a local energy provider and has two spaces for electric cars. Currently that's almost always sufficient.
However, last week I pulled up and found another electric car parked there. Plugged my car in and noticed that the other car was not charging. In fact it was not plugged in at all - and in all likelihood never had been because it was parked the wrong side around (i.e. cable to the right but plug on the left, diagonally across the car). It also was a car by a "mobility provider company", i.e. new-fangled car-rental-by-the-minute-through-an-app.
No biggie. Just drop them a message that someone parked their car in a shitty manner and they'll deal with it, right? Well, first of all, there's no immediately visible: "You need to contact us urgently?" way to contact them on their website. They've got one of those "support forms" which basically send an email. But hidden in the impressum, there's a phone number. Only it's busy. Permanently (I tried it a few random times). So I shot them an email - what else was there?
After two days, I got an answer: I should try calling the phone number (the one which is always busy) or contact the public order office (which deals with people parking in a shitty manner). No "Sorry for the inconvenience", no "yeah, thanks for telling us, we'll deal with this" or even a "we'll send you a code so you can move the car" (because that car was still standing there). Basically: "We don't care."
Today (five days later) I was there again and the car also was still there. Tried the number one last time, no dice. Busy. And because it's a private parking lot, the public order office also is not involved. The energy provider also does not care, by the way. I mean, they want to make money with this but don't give a flying fuck if their stations are accessible. Wonderful.
But at least the owner of the parking lot shares my sentiment and the car will be relocated to a somewhat more expensive parking lot. One with a fence and a locked gate around it.
I'm really not sure why the renter of the car parked there in the first place - the charging station is not that conveniently located, has several signs stating that it's for charging only and the rest of the parking lot usually has 20+ other spaces open at all times.
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@Rhywden said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I'm really not sure why the renter of the car parked there in the first place
Maybe they think electric cars use wireless charging, like phones
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Meanwhile in B*****m: Bridge opens with a car on top:
Sadly there's no report yet whether any notice was given or if the bridge opened suddenly.
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@JBert Should have stepped off the full brake before that - a controlled descent would have been better than dropping down the incline from 10 meter up. They'd probably still have ended up on the roof but a bit more slowly.
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@boomzilla GTA 6 graphics look really good
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@Rhywden said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@JBert Should have stepped off the full brake before that - a controlled descent would have been better than dropping down the incline from 10 meter up. They'd probably still have ended up on the roof but a bit more slowly.
I wonder how a self-driving car would have handled this situation.
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Be careful who you rent a car from:
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Be careful who you rent a car from:
When you rent from the wrong company, it really hertz.
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@izzion And if you do it really frequently, it megahertz.
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Anti pattern of my day: I just visited a friend of mine - for that I had to drive a bit through a one-street village (i.e. about 2 km of street with houses on each side but next to no side streets). There's a strict 50 km/h limit for the whole village and a junction and traffic light a either ends. Beyond that it's the usual 100 km/h limit.
As I had to stop at the first junction due to a red light, I then drove strictly the limit as a) driving faster usually does not save that much time and b) the light at the other end will be red as well unless you drive the limit due to the way they're synchronized - if you adhere to the limit it'll spring to green just as you approach the light.
One guy behind me was very impatient and drove quite close. He then proceeded to overtake me at full tilt about 50 meters from the traffic light and came to a full stop due to it still being red. He did not like me honking at him (said junction + lights are still within the 50 km/h zone) and then proceeded to take his time accelerating and went about 60 in a 100 zone.
Y'see, I don't understand this idiocy at all: First you have so little time that you need to do stupid things like that - and suddenly you have all the time in the world to drive slow under the limit.
Well, this 100 zone also has a "no overtaking" part after the 1st kilometer so I guess he was counting on annoying me further.
However, what the stupid git did not realize is that even medium-sized electric cars have a ton of torque and acceleration. So I overtook him (after all, it was allowed and he was doing 60 in a 100) - he tried to accelerate as well but he was simply outclassed. In the no-overtaking zone he then did his stupid "nearly drive into the trunk" thing so I simply stepped off the gas (no braking) and then accelerating again. After the 2nd time he got it.
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@Rhywden classy
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@boomzilla Someone seems unclear on the purpose of a truck bed.
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@boomzilla
seems typical for the intelligence of truck driving Muricans as viewed from a distance ... like across an ocean ...
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla Someone seems unclear on the purpose of a truck bed.
You mean you can put things in there if you remove the cover?
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@Applied-Mediocrity But then he'd have to transport the cover somehow.
In the end, that would only make extra work.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
But then he'd have to transport the cover somehow.
If only there was somewhere that cover could be put…
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@dkf under the cover?
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@boomzilla Now I understand why Muricans insist on automatic transmission.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla Now I understand why Muricans insist on automatic transmission.
Except for those beer-belly bum-beard Billy-Bobs with their Eatons and Spicers.
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There's no particular reason why a gearbox couldn't be built like this. Other than common sense.
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@Zerosquare more than once, including with the actual trucking company name not shopped-out.
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@HardwareGeek more than 2 years ago, in fact:
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@JBert and again 2 weeks ago:
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/12685/the-official-funny-stuff-thread/36794
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@loopback0 it's all the way down.
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@topspin on the road to success there are many
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@loopback0 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@topspin on the road to success there are many
Which explains why we all fail...
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@loopback0 Our most valuable resource kneels 63 feet ahead
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https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/qycqgr/well_now_you_dont_see_this_kind_of_accident/
I believe the red light runner gets 3 extra points for a ringer.
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@izzion I was d by a redditor:
Video spoiler
Hugh-Jass24 said:
They were blinded with a car on their windshield and still managed to do a better job of stopping at the light. "I'll show you how its done"
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Cars in the ditches along the highway on my commute to work today. First snow today. Nevermind that we've had frost and -10 °C
for several weeks already.
One of the people I work with changed to winter tires yesterday. I suspect the cars that experienced sudden trajectory changes were running summer tires, or the drivers just can't drive.It's extra fun because it's too cold for the salt to actually melt the snow and ice, and a majority of traffic just keeps on going without sudden offroad excursions so the need for dumping 0.3 Gg just isn't there. It's a huge waste of money, causes cars to rust to shit in a few years and is bad for the environment, and is bad for the asphalt.
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
or the drivers just can't drive.
First snow
It's the same the world over
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
It's a huge waste of money, causes cars to rust to shit in a few years and is bad for the environment, and is bad for the asphalt.
Yeah, so why are they spreading so much salt?
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@Dragoon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
It's a huge waste of money, causes cars to rust to shit in a few years and is bad for the environment, and is bad for the asphalt.
Yeah, so why are they spreading so much salt?
Because of "Nollvisionen", a dumbass idea to do everything to reduce the deaths in traffic to 0. But all the focus is entirely on speed and none of it on driver skill, awareness or anything of the sort. They also keep doing shit that makes traffic more dangerous for anyone not in a car.
The fun part is that in the north of Sweden they don't use road salts, because it's too cold anyway, so people there has to learn to drive in snow. On Gotland, our biggest island, they also don't use salt, but there I think it's because of environmental reasons. None of the places that don't use salt have any significant difference in accidents or deaths due to crashes from snowy conditions.
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@hungrier said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
First snow
It's the same the world over
But not the same the world under.
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@boomzilla Some guy entered a roundabout by turning left, i.e. in opposite direction. I prefered to wait before the roundabout for almost a minute that the fucktard needed to leave the roundabout. Any accident would cost more time...
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Where is the car/truck driving straight across it?
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
-10 °<abbr title="proper fucking temperature scale">C</abbr>
No, too much risk of frostbite in places you really don't want it.
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@Dragoon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Where is the car/truck driving straight across it?
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
-10 °<abbr title="proper fucking temperature scale">C</abbr>
No, too much risk of frostbite in places you really don't want it.
-10 isn't particularly cold though. Below -20 it gets a bit nippy though. I'm still sleeping with my bedroom window open during the night.
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
-10 isn't particularly cold though. Below -20 it gets a bit nippy though. I'm still sleeping with my bedroom window open during the night.
You do know what heating costs this year?