Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
this is a rather straight male friend though.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
better than silly valley
It's 59F and drizzly. Prime weather for crashing. And I had to drive into work today...
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@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
better than silly valley
It's 59F and drizzly. Prime weather for crashing. And I had to drive into work today...
I prefer warm weather and sunshine when I crash. That way you can have a nice roadside picnic while you wait for the tow truck.
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I prefer warm weather and sunshine when I crash. That way you can have a nice roadside picnic while you wait for the tow truck.
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@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I prefer warm weather and sunshine when I crash. That way you can have a nice roadside picnic while you wait for the tow truck.
Yeah, like that!
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I prefer warm weather and sunshine when I crash. That way you can have a nice roadside picnic while you wait for the tow truck.
Yeah, like that!
Including the horror hands and wacky baskets!
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@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@PleegWat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
It comes out of your gym time.
IOW, canadians don't need a gym membership
Nobody needs a gym membership to ensure they get sufficient exercise.
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@PleegWat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Nobody needs a gym membership to ensure they get sufficient exercise.
having a gym membership doesn't ensure you get sufficient exercise, since it doesn't mean you actually go to the gym
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@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@PleegWat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Nobody needs a gym membership to ensure they get sufficient exercise.
having a gym membership doesn't ensure you get sufficient exercise, since it doesn't mean you actually go to the gym
So would it be better to say that getting enough exercise is causally independent from having a gym membership?
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@PleegWat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@PleegWat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Nobody needs a gym membership to ensure they get sufficient exercise.
having a gym membership doesn't ensure you get sufficient exercise, since it doesn't mean you actually go to the gym
So would it be better to say that getting enough exercise is causally independent from having a gym membership?
The gym membership's causal relationship is with exercising your wallet.
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@izzion said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
exercising your wallet
But I like my wallet being fat
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@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@izzion said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
exercising your wallet
But I like my wallet being fat
Keep the IOUs in it.
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@dkf said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@izzion said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
exercising your wallet
But I like my wallet being fat
Keep the IOUs in it.
I have half a dozen free movie theater passes.
For all the netflix and chill I don't do.
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@Tsaukpaetra
Netflix? No, movie theater
Chill? No, Arizona
Netflix and chill? No, @Tsaukpaetra
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@boomzilla For context, the G2 is the second step of the graduated licensing scheme in Ontario:
- G1: You've passed the written test and can now drive as long as you have an experienced driver in the passenger seat
- G2: You've passed the driving test and can drive by yourself, but cannot have any alcohol in your system
- G: You've passed the G2 Exit driving test and can drive with up to 0.08% BAC, but you still can't speed 50km/h over the limit with an open beer, ffs
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@hungrier said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
but you still can't speed 50km/h over the limit with an open beer
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@boomzilla A little bit of snow/ice and the problem will take care of itself.
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Driving go-karts
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@TimeBandit I had to watch it 3 or 4 times to figure out what happened. He lost the first joint of his right index finger in a collision between two go-karts. I still haven't figured out exactly how he managed to do that.
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@boomzilla There should not be so much difference between the inner and the outher side of the tyre!
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla There should not be so much difference between the inner and the outher side of the tyre!
Can't be sure if it is a damaged axle or something actually fixable for a sane amount of money. Either way, that tyre is really bad. (Illegally so if that was in the UK.)
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Considering the tyre is stretched on the wheel, I wonder if it's one of those "stance" car idiots.
This sort of thing...
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@loopback0 That's what I thought when I first saw it. Nothing yet has made me think otherwise.
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@loopback0 Nice RX-7. It just need a new suspension
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@TimeBandit that dude had all the chill.
Also, ride on the fucking road, moron!
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@blek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Suggestion: Install a hot air intake should fix your problem.
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@blek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Reminds me of a different user we had around here whose tires refused to inflate to 100 on the display.
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@blek The real fuck starts when you feel cold in your car, find out that you get only cold air though heating is full on, look at the engine thermometer and it is near maximum...
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@BernieTheBernie BTDT. A little plastic gear on the shaft of the motor that drives the baffle that directs air through, or bypasses, the heat exchanger broke. It requires disassembling the entire dashboard to get to it, and the only official repair is to replace the entire air plenum for $300, or something like that. It's been several years, and I don't remember exactly how I fixed it, but IIRC I found a replacement motor (with gear) for $20 or so. Much less than replacing the whole plenum, but still too much money for a $0.10 gear.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Also, ride on the fucking road, moron!
Driving a dirt bike on the road is no fun
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@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Also, ride on the fucking road, moron!
Driving a
dirtbikeon the roadis no fun
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@BernieTheBernie BTDT. A little plastic gear on the shaft of the motor that drives the baffle that directs air through, or bypasses, the heat exchanger broke. It requires disassembling the entire dashboard to get to it, and the only official repair is to replace the entire air plenum for $300, or something like that. It's been several years, and I don't remember exactly how I fixed it, but IIRC I found a replacement motor (with gear) for $20 or so. Much less than replacing the whole plenum, but still too much money for a $0.10 gear.
My current car had an issue where heated air would only come out on the driver's side. The solution was to flush the system backwards; apparently sediment can build up and block part of the system. My dad and I both thought it was weird (we thought it'd be similar to what you're describing), but he talked to one of his many car guy friends and he said "Yeah, that's what you do with those."
Been working fine so far this winter.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
The real fuck
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
BTDT. A little plastic gear on the shaft of the motor that drives the baffle that directs air through, or bypasses, the heat exchanger broke.
It was worse: a fucking rodent ( for ) thought that my car is a good place where to stay. And bite a plastic pipe of the cooling system. So there was a leak, and with too little coolant in the system, the motor gets hot, and the heater does not work...
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Drove to work (eurgh) and encountered a massively moronic driver.
Driving a bit slow so I go into the left lane to overtake. On the right side of her is an onramp with cars. Now, the correct solution to this is to stay in your lane and brake to let the other cars in as you're not driving faster than anyone else around you. Well...
Instead, change to left lane without indicators or anything, forcing me to brake hard. Then brake hard while in the left lane with a car behind you, forcing me to brake hard again. Then change back to right lane without even having been attempting to overtake the onramp cars while forcing me in the left lane down from 110 to 50.
Check. Your. Fucking. Mirrors. And. Use. Your. Fucking. Indicators.
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@Atazhaia said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Drove to work (eurgh) and encountered a massively moronic driver.
Driving a bit slow so I go into the left lane to overtake. On the right side of her is an onramp with cars. Now, the correct solution to this is to stay in your lane and brake to let the other cars in as you're not driving faster than anyone else around you. Well...
Instead, change to left lane without indicators or anything, forcing me to brake hard. Then brake hard while in the left lane with a car behind you, forcing me to brake hard again. Then change back to right lane without even having been attempting to overtake the onramp cars while forcing me in the left lane down from 110 to 50.
Check. Your. Fucking. Mirrors. And. Use. Your. Fucking. Indicators.
No, switching to the left lane is the correct thing to do here. Assuming there is room further left and you are using your #$&#% blinkers.
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@PleegWat It depends on how the on-ramp is signed, but around here there is usually (*) a yield sign (and thick white dotted line) for the on-ramp. This means that the thing to do is to stay on your lane and let the people from the on-ramp deal with it. In many cases, it also is a very thing to do, but that's still within the rules.
aside (), I agree with you.
(*) not always, notably the Paris ring road does not have those and for this scenario your solution is correct, though in practice there's likely too much traffic for your assumptions to hold ("there is room further left") so @Atazhaia's solution applies.
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@remi Indeed, on highways the on-ramp should yield, but it's polite for traffic on the main road to move over if there is room. Braking is not required. This does not apply to the Boulevard Périphérique since that's not a highway.
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@PleegWat idle and ing ahead!
(i.e., I'm not really debating what you said, just pushing all those things into corner cases -- IOW, what we all do best here)
I don't think there is a rule in law saying that any on-ramp on a highway must yield. There almost definitely is such a rule in whatever standard is used to design the highways, but once it's built, what matters are the signs on the road, not the design book. This is a purely abstract distinction though, since in practice (in France at least) every highway on-ramp will have the yield signs (and matching dashed line).
As a rule (!!), this also applies to all "segregated traffic" roads, even those without the "highway" status, which Paris' périphérique definitely is. But this is also where there are some exceptions, which Paris' périphérique obviously (since we're discussing it...) is.
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@remi There are, of course, national differences. Here in NL I don't think I've ever seen a yield sign on a slip lane. But you still need to yield. We do sometimes have traffic lights ('doseerlichten', literally 'dosage lights') to limit inflow from a specific on ramp. And on smaller segregated roads there may be on ramps without slip lanes, those would have yield signs and shark's teeth.
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This particular road has two lanes in each direction and an onramp of sufficient length to allow merging of traffic, so you can adapt speed to traffic as you drive out. And yes, switching to left lane to make it easier is expected, if it can safely be done. In this situation switching to left lane was not possible to do safely so therefore you stay and either slow down to let traffic in before you, or keep driving and let the incoming traffic adapt to you.
The dumb here is really both switching to the left lane AND braking to let the oncoming traffic on. You do one of the two. And you DON'T CHANGE YOUR FUCKING LANE WHEN ANOTHER CAR IS ABOUT TO OVERTAKE YOU. That's fucking basic.
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I don't think there is a rule in law saying that any on-ramp on a highway must yield.
I think there is a rule that unless all access is via on-ramps with priority for the traffic already on the motorway it cannot be signposted as a motorway.
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@Bulb yes, that the kind of thing I was thinking of when talking about design rules. But as a driver, if you were to encounter a non-yield-signed highway on-ramp, I don't think you would be legally wrong if you didn't yield. That is most likely a theoretical question since such an on-ramp should not exist, and probably does not (signage on highways is usually well maintained).
Though... ... I'm not sure. There definitely are a set of rules that are explicitly linked to being on a highway (as opposed to being on a road where those rules are set out), most typically the speed limit (there are many highway entrances where the highway speed limit is not given). So maybe there also is a rule stating that, whatever the signage says, an highway on-ramp must yield.
That is also very likely country-dependent, with at best some absconse EU (or ISO) regulation stating what individual countries should put into their national rules...
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