Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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Imagine you are driving along a country road, and some european bisons are crossing the road. Wait in your car till they have crossed the road. Then one of them turns round and hits your car...
In the future, better avoid their territory completely.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Imagine you are driving along a country road, and some european bisons are crossing the road.
For some reason I'm driving the Ferrari from OutRun and I have Chun-Li and Cammy as passengers.
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@Zecc And now this guy is blocking the road for you?
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@izzion said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla
I said so, didn't I?learn 2 read!11!Reading is forbidden
on this forum.
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Police said that it all started just after 7:00 a.m. when the driver of the stolen garbage truck ran from officers
No, journalist , that's not what police said, and that's not when "it all" started. That was when the chase started, but not when "it all" started.
The incident happened early Monday morning, Erland said, when the suspect, Shawn White, 43, of Clinton, stabbed a woman in the Fountain City area and stole her car.
That's when "it all" started.
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@boomzilla "The camera at the traffic lights behind Ikea yields entertaining photos."
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Police said that it all started just after 7:00 a.m. when the driver of the stolen garbage truck ran from officers
No, journalist , that's not what police said, and that's not when "it all" started. That was when the chase started, but not when "it all" started.
The incident happened early Monday morning, Erland said, when the suspect, Shawn White, 43, of Clinton, stabbed a woman in the Fountain City area and stole her car.
That's when "it all" started.
Stealing the garbage truck incremented his wanted stars from 2 to 3
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When driving home late in the evening I on an enforced single-lane (barriers on both sides) road came up on grey car with lights turned off (so near-invisible) and driving a lot slower than the speed limit. Based off those parameters I am assuming that woman wanted to be rear-ended hard, because that was an accident waiting to happen.
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@Atazhaia Or simple stupidity.
Look: with her bad sight, it does not make a difference for her if she's driving with the lights on or off - she won't see the difference anyway. So why to switch the lights on then?
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
So why to switch the lights on then?
She may have thought her lights were on. Many cars have automatic daytime running lights. At night, you may not realize you haven't switched your lights on, because your headlights are, in fact, already on — dimly, but enough to give the impression of being switched on. The rest of your nighttime lights aren't on, so you can't easily be seen from the rear or side, but you don't normally see those from inside your own car, and you can see your headlights are on, so you think everything is normal. It's actually rather common.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
At night, you may not realize you haven't switched your lights on, because your headlights are, in fact, already on — dimly, but enough to give the impression of being switched on.
Not here in Europe where the DRLs have to be separate from the headlamps.
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@loopback0 It does not matter whether it's a separate lamp or not. You see some light, and may not realize it's not the correct brightness, especially when you are in an otherwise lit area.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Many cars have automatic daytime running lights.
Most cars I see here have the taillights on with the daylight running lights. The law does not seem to actually require it (the wording is kinda unclear to me) I suppose it's kinda obvious to most that when cars without DLRs have their taillights on at all times (because they just use their normal lights and those include the taillights), the ones with DLRs should too.
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Next time, I'd better bring my chain saw with me.
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@BernieTheBernie Don't you have an electric motor and a chain right there?
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@Applied-Mediocrity But no saw teeth...
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Applied-Mediocrity But no saw teeth...
Not with that attitude.
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@loopback0 OK. Next time, I'll try to catch the beaver which felled the tree. It might be capable of chewing these parts away, too.
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@Bulb The law doesn't require it, for some absolutely fucking stupid reason. And your experience is definitely different from mine, most cars I see with DRLs seem to only be lit up from the front.
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@blek Bright pants, brighter than the wearer...
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
At night, you may not realize you haven't switched your lights on, because your headlights are, in fact, already on
Add to that the fact that most modern cars have the dashboard lit event if you didn't turn your lights on.
In my 2011 car, if I don't turn the lights on at night, I can't see the speed I'm going, so I will notice.
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Get the car towed? Nah. Let's just work around it
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Sometimes, you get unlucky when going too far up the "Crazy" axis.
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@GOG said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Sometimes, you get unlucky when going too far up the "Crazy" axis.
That is why you don't give bar hookups your real name.Nor go to your place. Or in your car.
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Friday morning on the busiest highway in the country. "Traffic collapse" on a 25+ km stretch.
Apparently this was caused by an accident that blocked the whole road in one direction. And then, ELEVEN MINUTES after it was cleared and traffic resumed, there was another one 11km further in the same direction.
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2 idiots in 20 seconds:
1: Truck driver running a red light, only pure luck he didn’t ram into a car crossing from the green side.
2: Motorcyclist driving slalom through the queue before the lights, then doing acrobatics while driving.
Shame they couldn’t meet up properly…
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@Atazhaia But then you'd have been stuck waiting for their remainders to be cleared off the road...
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@BernieTheBernie Illegal u-turn, take other way, problem solved.
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Spotted in my hometown
(For those of you who haven't seen this absolute peak of European cinema:)
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@blek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
absolute peak of European cinema
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@topspin The first Flodder movie was translated in French Canadian.
It was pretty funny.
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@dcon Of course it's Swift.
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@dcon Probably elevation. The direct path would be too steep.
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@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.
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@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
It looks more like originally it was supposed to be connected differently and they made up their minds midway through building the bridge.
Agile methodology!
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Or maybe the little corner, where the helpful yellow lines are, isn't state land, and some NIMBY called lawyers when the construction had already started. And neither was anything beside the railway overpass, so it couldn't be moved to connect to the exit properly.
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@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
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.
The size of the loop is likely to handle very large heavily laden trucks (with an awkward change in elevation; there appears to be quite a slant on the plot of land under the
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) and I suspect that the bridge has to cross the whole of the land owned by the railway and not just the bit they're using at the moment (perhaps because they've got an application in to build another line along side).It probably looks dumber from the angle of the photo than it really is.