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Post by PaulKay on Jun 25, 2018 11:27:14 GMT -5
Try leaving a car length between your car and the back of the garage sometime. Makes the whole structure somewhat worthless.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jun 25, 2018 15:43:59 GMT -5
If you ever want to experience driving in a land where the idea of merging has no meaning, try taking I-380 through Cedar Rapids Iowa.
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Post by theevan on Jun 25, 2018 15:53:53 GMT -5
If you ever want to experience driving in a land where the idea of merging has no meaning, try taking I-380 through Cedar Rapids Iowa. You might have no idea what really bad driving looks like.
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Post by Village Idiot on Jun 25, 2018 15:57:49 GMT -5
I might soon. They took down the “do not turn right on red” sign on Fourth street here.
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Post by theevan on Jun 25, 2018 15:58:39 GMT -5
Inc. puts Iowa as best drivers in the US. Worst three? Louisiana, Arizona & Montana.
I checked another table...same result. Another table had North Dakota as worst. Must be the oil patch.
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Post by Dub on Jun 25, 2018 16:04:12 GMT -5
I heard that in ND they are going to require automakers to put the dimmer switch back on the floor. Drivers are constantly getting their left feet stuck in the steering wheel.
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Post by millring on Jun 25, 2018 16:15:59 GMT -5
Hoosier cars have rocket launchers.
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Post by fauxmaha on Jun 25, 2018 16:16:40 GMT -5
I heard that in ND they are going to require automakers to put the dimmer switch back on the floor. Drivers are constantly getting their left feet stuck in the steering wheel. Off topic: I was told the same "Nebraska" joke, twice, entirely independently during my trip to Texas. It goes like this: On topic: My version of Bill's gripe is that I try to maintain a generous following distance when at speed, and am constantly having people pull in front of me. So I back off some more, restore the following distance, only to have it happen again. I'm not sure if this is a new thing. It's happened forever. And it's really not a serious problem. At most it costs me a few minutes each time I drive to work. I also wonder about rear-end collisions, and if they are happening with increasing frequency due to texting. I've been noticing them more often, but maybe that is just my perceptual bias in action.
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Post by Dub on Jun 25, 2018 16:32:45 GMT -5
That NE joke is one of my favorites.
I’ve had similar experience leaving space in front of me at speed. People will cut right in without warning filling the gap I left. I expect that in, say, Chicago but not on rural Interstates.
I also follow the rule that you you don’t return to your lane when passing until you can see both headlights of the vehicle you’re passing in your rear view mirror. Often other drivers will pass me and immediately cut in leaving a single car length or less between us.
On rural highways I tend to drive at 4-½ MPH over the posted limit. I don’t like worrying about speed traps and I figure I won’t be stopped for that. I also stay behind a slower vehicle until all the passing cars lined up in the left lane have gone by. I figure it isn’t a race. A few seconds or MPH will make no measurable difference on my arrival time unless I’m going a very long way.
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Post by brucemacneill on Jun 25, 2018 16:40:20 GMT -5
That NE joke is one of my favorites. I’ve had similar experience leaving space in front of me at speed. People will cut right in without warning filling the gap I left. I expect that in, say, Chicago but not on rural Interstates. I also follow the rule that you you don’t return to your lane when passing until you can see both headlights of the vehicle you’re passing in your rear view mirror. Often other drivers will pass me and immediately cut in leaving a single car length or less between us. On rural highways I tend to drive at 4-½ MPH over the posted limit. I don’t like worrying about speed traps and I figure I won’t be stopped for that. I also stay behind a slower vehicle until all the passing cars lined up in the left lane have gone by. I figure it isn’t a race. A few seconds or MPH will make no measurable difference on my arrival time unless I’m going a very long way. At least we have something in common while driving. Those are the same rules I follow. Maybe we're old.
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Post by billhammond on Jun 25, 2018 16:54:35 GMT -5
That NE joke is one of my favorites. I’ve had similar experience leaving space in front of me at speed. People will cut right in without warning filling the gap I left. I expect that in, say, Chicago but not on rural Interstates. I also follow the rule that you you don’t return to your lane when passing until you can see both headlights of the vehicle you’re passing in your rear view mirror. Often other drivers will pass me and immediately cut in leaving a single car length or less between us. On rural highways I tend to drive at 4-½ MPH over the posted limit. I don’t like worrying about speed traps and I figure I won’t be stopped for that. I also stay behind a slower vehicle until all the passing cars lined up in the left lane have gone by. I figure it isn’t a race. A few seconds or MPH will make no measurable difference on my arrival time unless I’m going a very long way. I use the two-headlight rule, too, for when to get back in the right lane after passing. And I absolutely refuse to get into 70 mph lines of bumper-to-bumper passing traffic -- happy to hold back until the left lane is open. My aviator dad once told me that "following distance on the road is like altitude in the air -- you can never have too much." I drummed that into my dottirs, and both of them today drive with admirable space fore and aft between their cars and those around them. They also, on NC's famously twisty roads, slow before each turn, keep the car neutral through the apex and gently accelerate as the turn is straightening out. Dad drummed THAT into their pretty little noggins, too! This thread has morphed, but that is OK -- one thing about how close people cut back into the right lane after passing you that I noticed over the years is that on, say, the Cleveland to Boston route, once you get on the Pa. Turnpike, drivers, especially those with NY plates, cut back in right away, scary close.
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Post by Marshall on Jun 26, 2018 13:48:09 GMT -5
Drumming on children is a crime in some states.
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Post by t-bob on Jun 26, 2018 19:22:53 GMT -5
In Northern California drivers are incredibly bad and not very good. I pay attention a lot when I drive.
Also bikers have many too money and think about themselves. Most of those bikers have $5000 or $10,000 bikes. They have all the bling too.
I have a bike as well - it’s a 8sp gears cruiser.... inexpensive
Also pedestrians they think they can walk which anywhere. Jaywalking
I do the same thing (jaywalking) but I’m very careful. I’m from New York
Just look at the hat.... Go Yankees
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Post by Tamarack on Jun 26, 2018 21:25:09 GMT -5
Pet peeve around here, when driving on a main thoroughfare, is drivers who come to a dead stop in a traffic lane before turning into a parking lot.
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Post by david on Jun 26, 2018 23:22:48 GMT -5
Bill, I share your pain. Here the gap is typically due to someone texting. The scenario is that a driver has come to a stop and starts texting. A car ahead turns right but the texting driver is too busy looking at his phone to move up. He probably estimates how long the light will stay red, so there is no need to look up to watch traffic for a while, right?
Last year Oregon passed a law that prohibits hand held device use while driving, but it is not having much of an effect.
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Post by timfarney on Jun 27, 2018 7:41:20 GMT -5
Chill, Bill.
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Post by majorminor on Jun 27, 2018 7:56:18 GMT -5
Another table had North Dakota as worst. Must be the oil patch. Probably more to do with the fact that most the natives haven't seen a corner or a hill for most of their lives....
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Post by aquaduct on Jun 27, 2018 8:14:01 GMT -5
I live outside of DC and spent a lot of time commuting. Rules? We don't need no stinkin' rules. That 55 mph speed limit on a 4 lane back country road? Just a suggestion. Keep it pegged at 70 or the guy behind you will be up your ass halfway to the driver's seat.
We're not trained to practice defensive driving. It's kill or be killed.
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Post by mrpaul on Jun 27, 2018 8:51:01 GMT -5
This isn't happening where I live, mainly because nothing happens where I live.
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