Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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@boomzilla https://what.thedailywtf.com/post/2200356, but this is a good place for it, too.
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@HardwareGeek I can't stop people from posting things in the wrong place.
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Decades after it was introduced, a Škoda Fabia sedan finally finds a purpose: a drain plug
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https://youtu.be/TZ1MjlHbSPY?t=46
Dude does not know how to drive a muscle car. And he gets a major fault for the dismount. (You can stop watching after he runs away; nothing interesting happens after that.)
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@HardwareGeek every turn turns (!) into a U-turn, impressing!
What's amazing is that it all starts with... nothing.
As far as I can make it out, the trooper happens to be behind the guy at a turn. I'm assuming the guy starts panicking and immediately after the turn decides to cut all lanes to get into a parking lot (petrol station, whatever). Now that is reckless driving but honestly, seeing the manoeuvre, it's not particularly bad as he's going low speed and even puts on his blinker! I probably have done the same more than once when realising I missed a turn. At this point I'm guessing the trooper makes an instant decision of "this sounds fishy" and decides to follow him (which then triggers the chase), but that's really a decision that hangs on almost nothing. Of course, I assume that if the guy had not done anything wrong, he would have just got a stern talking-to at the petrol station and be on his way.
Overall, sort of a nice butterfly effect here...
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I'm assuming the guy starts panicking and immediately after the turn decides to cut all lanes to get into a parking lot (petrol station, whatever)
The way I "read" it was that the dude changed lanes dangerously (cut off car forcing them to brake hard) in order to get into the gas station - probably not even realizing the police were there. That got the police's attention. He was about to fill up when he noticed police, panicked, and ran. (Likely the police would have just approached while he was fueling and given a warning)
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@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
The way I "read" it was that the dude changed lanes [...] in order to get into the gas station.
That's also what I understand, yes. I'm assuming he's doing that as he sees the police behind him (and tries to get away with a quick change of direction) but that may very well be entirely normal. As I said, I probably have done this kind of movement a couple times when I was in an area I wasn't familiar with and suddenly realised I wasn't where I needed to.
dangerously (cut off car forcing them to brake hard)
That part... well, yes, it was dangerous in the eye of the law (or of a driving instructor) and if I did that move I'd be apologetic towards other drivers (and annoyed if someone did that in front of me). But given that cars were overall travelling pretty slowly (it's just after a red light), and traffic isn't that dense (there is space between cars, and space enough for the police to do the exact same manoeuvre a couple of seconds later!)... honestly, I don't read that as really dangerous. More... uncautious? rash?
But anyway, that turned out for everyone (minus at least one truck who probably got some damage at the end of chase, maybe more in between).
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@dcon Florida.
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I sorta kinda need a new car and I'm thinking of a Subaru XV (Crosstrek in the US). Someone please talk me out of it, I know it's a horrible idea.
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@blek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I sorta kinda need a new car and I'm thinking of a Subaru XV (Crosstrek in the US). Someone please talk me out of it, I know it's a horrible idea.
It is a horrible idea, you should get yourself a BRZ instead!
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@Carnage My main requirement for a car is enough trunk space to carry two 50l beer kegs plus the tap, so the BRZ/86 is right out. If it wasn't for that I'd be driving something like a Peugeot 106 S16.
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@blek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage My main requirement for a car is enough trunk space to carry two 50l beer kegs plus the tap, so the BRZ/86 is right out. If it wasn't for that I'd be driving something like a Peugeot 106 S16.
That's what the back "seat" is for in the BRZ. I've actually packed a surprising amount of shit into mine. But when I want to haul shit I have a Transit, the extra long and tall version. But my post wasn't really serious, while I love driving my BRZ it's probably a bad idea to get one if what you want is comfortable transport.
My wife that always complained about how I was driving it took it for a drive since her car was down at the time, and when she came home she told me my car is evil because she started driving like me, the car made her do it!Although, she is Mexican, and I have driven in Mexico. They all drive like madmen on crack. I suppose all she needed to connect with the spirit of her people was a car that made it happen.
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@Carnage Yeah no, I've never had the chance to actually fuck around with a BRZ but... okay yeah maybe I could get a barrel in there but I don't think I could get it out.
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@blek It would be easier if you drunk the contents of the barrel first...
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@blek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I sorta kinda need a new car and I'm thinking of a Subaru XV (Crosstrek in the US). Someone please talk me out of it, I know it's a horrible idea.
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Your Phone is Telling The Insurance Co How You Drive
You might expect that from your insurance company's own app. You might even expect it from an app that helps you drive more efficiently. But would you expect it from a random app that has nothing whatsoever to do with insurance or driving, like a weather app? Which happens to not mention anything about insurance or driving in their user agreement? Which says, in tiny, low-contrast, gray-on-black print that they may share "certain information" with another company, the name of which doesn't suggest any apparent connection with insurance or driving? And which, incidentally, has another, obvious source of revenue — ads that are displayed during the course of the app's normal function, such that you might assume the ads are their sole source of revenue?
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@HardwareGeek But why would you allow such an app to access your gps, acceleration sensor, etc?
And how does it cope with finding you high-speed-driving on railway tracks?
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
But why would you allow such an app to access your gps, acceleration sensor, etc?
Do you think that more than 0.1% of phone users know how to disable such access, or would even think of checking what it wants to access?
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@HardwareGeek That isn't happening to me, yet, at least. Or I'd have a stiff increase in my insurance.
And once my current phone breaks, it's getting replaced with a linux phone.
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https://www.wspa.com/news/local-news/dot-contractor-apologizes-for-profane-road-sign-on-i-26/
Last week, drivers passing the exit 15 on I-26 reported seeing a road work sign with the words “F— STAY ALERT” displayed.
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E_VIRTUAL_DRIVING
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@hungrier Virtual hit-and-run followed by virtual road rage.
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But it's lacking virtual horn honking and virtual foul language.
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Intel's 916,000-pound shipment is a "cold box," a self-standing air-processor structure that facilitates the cryogenic technology needed to fabricate semiconductors. The box is 23 feet tall, 20 feet wide, and 280 feet long, nearly the length of a football field. The immense scale of the cold box necessitates a transit process that moves at a "parade pace" of 5-10 miles per hour.
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@boomzilla That's 458 tons? Yow! Normally, you'd expect such things to be made on-site, no matter the difficulty in doing so...
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@dkf
I'm more baffled by the lack of washing machines, football fields or banana's
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@Luhmann "nearly the length of a footballl field" was quoted right there in @boomzilla's post.
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
280 feet long, nearly the length of a football field
Gridiron football fields are 120 yards long, or 360 feet.
I guess ~77.78% (just over 3/4) might qualify as "nearly," but I'd still say that's a bit short to meet that description.A soccer field's length is 105 m, or ~344.5 feet.
But 280' is still only ~81.27% (just over 4/5) of a soccer field's length.
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@djls45 It's a load-bearing "nearly".
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@djls45 likely they just didn't understand that a football field is more than just the 100 yards (300 ft) between the end zones.
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@Benjamin-Hall :faxbarrier
joker:
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The car rental company we all love to hate: "Hertz Finds New Ways to Make the News"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwccKCr2xfcTL;DW: Customer fined $436 before they even rented the car. Sorta. They were charged for a red light ticket that was issued before they rented the car. Apparently, the previous renter ran a red light, and Hertz charged the wrong customer. That should be dead easy to fix: Apologize to the wrongly-billed customer, remove the charge, and charge the customer who was in possession of the car at the time of the ticket. But this is Hertz...
How it happened: Customer #2 rented the car at 10:30 PM, but the clerk incorrectly entered the time as 10:30 AM. Customer #1 ran a red light at 2:33 PM, approximately 8 hours before customer #2 picked up the car. Because of the clerical error, "the system" said customer #2 was in possession at the time, so he/she was billed instead of the person actually in possession. (You'd think the system would flag an error if two different customers are in possession of the same car at the same time, but this is Hertz.) And BTW, they were also billed for an extra day of rental, because the rental crossed another 24-hour boundary from the erroneous 10:30 AM pick-up time.
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@HardwareGeek
so ... this could all have been avoided by using a proper time format
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@Luhmann There is still a
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: the US has many time zones, so omitting the time zone could lead to a similar fuckup, too.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Luhmann There is still a
catch
: the US has many time zones, so omitting the time zone could lead to a similar fuckup, too.This occurred in , not . However, they have most of the same time zones, so your point is just as valid.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Luhmann There is still a
catch
: the US has many time zones, so omitting the time zone could lead to a similar fuckup, too.UTC is the one true time zone.
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Luhmann There is still a
catch
: the US has many time zones, so omitting the time zone could lead to a similar fuckup, too.UTC is the one true time zone.
I agree with this, especially in winter.
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Luhmann There is still a
catch
: the US has many time zones, so omitting the time zone could lead to a similar fuckup, too.UTC is the one true time zone.
Not always. When you set up a meeting, that may not be adequate. Think of european discussions on getting rid of the twice yearly time zone change - e.g. let's meet on 10 April next year at 9 in the morning in Amsterdam: "winter" time or "summer" time?
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Luhmann There is still a
catch
: the US has many time zones, so omitting the time zone could lead to a similar fuckup, too.UTC is the one true time zone.
Not always. When you set up a meeting, that may not be adequate. Think of european discussions on getting rid of the twice yearly time zone change - e.g. let's meet on 10 April next year at 9 in the morning in Amsterdam: "winter" time or "summer" time?
No summer time in UTC though
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Luhmann There is still a
catch
: the US has many time zones, so omitting the time zone could lead to a similar fuckup, too.UTC is the one true time zone.
Not always. When you set up a meeting, that may not be adequate. Think of european discussions on getting rid of the twice yearly time zone change - e.g. let's meet on 10 April next year at 9 in the morning in Amsterdam: "winter" time or "summer" time?
UTC time, no modification.
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@Carnage which might then be 10 or 11 Amsterdam time.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage which might then be 10 or 11 Amsterdam time.
Well, ignore Amsterdam time, and use UTC. No local time at all and there will be no ambiguity.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Think of european discussions on getting rid of the twice yearly time zone change - e.g. let's meet on 10 April next year at 9 in the morning in Amsterdam: "winter" time or "summer" time?
The clocks go forward on the last Sunday in March, so April isn't that difficult to figure out.
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@loopback0 But what when the change is abolished?