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  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    cars were a mistake

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  • OdinOdin Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    I feel like I could be a lot better at driving

    I'm not the worst or anything, but I feel like there's a lot of room between where I'm at and where the ceiling is. I wouldn't make it very far at all in a high speed chase, for instance

    If you know how to signal properly, that already puts you in the top 5%

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    SirToasty wrote: »
    In fine with that because of zipper merge, as discussed. What really bothers me is when someone tries to take matters into their own hands and straddle the line to block both lanes. Not your fucking job!

    I sometimes do the Pac-Man not for things like these merges, but when everyone is waiting to go straight at an intersection with a red light, with a bike only lane to the right, and I see someone slow-rolling down a vehicle down that lane without a blinker. Because 9 times out of 10 that someone is going to attempt to gun it straight and push their way back into the lane mid-intersection to skip the line.

    Depends how aggro I'm feeling that day.

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  • MulysaSemproniusMulysaSempronius but also susie nyRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    Zipper merging is, in fact, better, and not using all available lanes is, in fact, bad.

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 10
    Zipper merge works fine in other places. I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that 90% of Americans do not really understand how to drive.
    The number of people who will stop in the middle of a roundabout in order to wave me in is frankly insane.

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  • MulysaSemproniusMulysaSempronius but also susie nyRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    All drivers everywhere suck, yeah. Nothing works well anywhere.

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 10
    related: I recently undertook an American Driving Exam, in order to add to my collection of horrible drivers licence photos.
    Both the written and the practical test were alarmingly bare bones.

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  • firewaterwordfirewaterword Satchitananda Pais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    New Zealand - at least the last time I was there - has "Merge like a Zip" signs that we desperately need in the states.

    That and a shit load of roundabouts. We're kind of getting there (at least in the Denver area) but no one knows how to properly fucking indicate in a roundabout (or in general really).

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    Yeah they are putting roundabouts everywhere here now because some grant from or too the Ohio department of transportation specifically marked out for building not roundabouts...

    They're fine but nobody fuckin knows how to use one particularly old people


    Edit also the thing with merging is I'm extremely bad at checking my side view mirrors and my blind spots! And even worse at driving at speeds over like 45mph and being comfortable. It always feels like I'm seconds away from dying or getting someone killed at highway speeds.

    Especially because highways are 65mph in Ohio and seventy fuckin five in Michigan.

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  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    I feel like I could be a lot better at driving

    I'm not the worst or anything, but I feel like there's a lot of room between where I'm at and where the ceiling is. I wouldn't make it very far at all in a high speed chase, for instance

    It's actually a good thing to have a lot of room between you and the ceiling when you're driving. If there is not much room between you and the ceiling you may be driving inside someone's house.

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    All drivers everywhere suck, yeah. Nothing works well anywhere.

    All drivers everywhere suck, but Massholes drive the worst.

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  • Fig-DFig-D SoCalRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    I can count the number if times I've encountered a roundabout on one hand, and my brain has had a "what the fuck is this..." moment each time. They're just not common enough around here for me to get comfortable with.

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  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    American DOTs also seem incapable of designing good roundabouts

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  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    a lot of people in the us don’t know how to use a regular 4 way stop, and we expect them to navigate a traffic circle? ridiculous

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  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    I like driving. A lot better than I like the economy, anyway.

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  • QuetziQuetzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited April 10
    I understand roundabouts from a theoretical perspective and I'm fine with them while driving

    But they're terrible for pedestrians, which is what I am 95% of the time

    So I am forced to classify them as a loathed enemy

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    Roundabouts are easy, just hammer the gas and ramp that island in the middle for a score multiplier

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    Roundabouts are fine in theory but if I'm using a maps app expect me to go in a circle a couple times because it keeps telling me to take the exit I just passed

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  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    roads need more "deadly fixed objects" built in

    again, IN THEORY (and practice in other locales) roundabouts are far safer than stop signs for pedestrians

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    there could stand to be more boost pads and item pickups too

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  • smofsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    Madican wrote: »
    Roundabouts are fine in theory but if I'm using a maps app expect me to go in a circle a couple times because it keeps telling me to take the exit I just passed

    Doesn't it give you warning in advance? When I use Google maps it will say "at the roundabout, take the third exit" or whatever as I'm approaching

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited April 10
    just throw a rock at a tesla from a safe distance and watch it explode

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  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    One time I was in a highway backup and literally 2-3 miles from the place where 2 lanes became 1 lane there was a person just riding the line trying to keep anyone from using the second lane.

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    Did someone do this to you while you were driving to the store

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  • RedTideRedTide Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    crwth wrote: »
    i fucking hate you, you’re not a good person, and i think the world would be a better place without you in it

    Right on all counts but you're powerless to stop me

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  • firewaterwordfirewaterword Satchitananda Pais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    Madican wrote: »
    Roundabouts are fine in theory but if I'm using a maps app expect me to go in a circle a couple times because it keeps telling me to take the exit I just passed

    Hey look kids, there's Big Ben, and there's Parliament!

    Hey look kids, there's Big Ben, and there's Parliament... again...

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    Madican wrote: »
    Roundabouts are fine in theory but if I'm using a maps app expect me to go in a circle a couple times because it keeps telling me to take the exit I just passed

    Doesn't it give you warning in advance? When I use Google maps it will say "at the roundabout, take the third exit" or whatever as I'm approaching

    It depends. Sometimes it'll give me lots of warning for a turn, sometimes it'll give me zero warning. It also depends what the instructions were before it. For the roundabout I needed to turn into the roundabout then immediately take the next exit, but I didn't know that. So it told me to turn right, into the roundabout, and then as I'm going past the next exit it tells me to turn right on X Road. And as a bonus, since I missed the exit it'll keep "updating" with a new exit just as I go past it and repeatedly do that as I'm trying to remember which exit it initially wanted me to take before it starts looping again

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    I'm glad the local "U Turns prohibited at signals unless signed otherwise" sign got replaced with a "No U Turns" sign; the former is way too easy for dipshits to misinterpret or just ignore and nearly hit me.

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  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    One time I was in a highway backup and literally 2-3 miles from the place where 2 lanes became 1 lane there was a person just riding the line trying to keep anyone from using the second lane.

    Had a guy once pull over onto the shoulder/breakdown lane to stop me from exiting the highway

    If I hadn't had passengers in the car I would have been very tempted to clip his vehicle

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  • FoolproofFoolproof thats what my hearts become in that place you dare not look staring back at youRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    if you see someone showing complete disregard for the safety of others or themselves then just avoid that person. they are probably more experienced at driving poorly and have probably had dozens of chances to learn how to manipulate both police and eyewitnesses. don't engage with them, they love to ruin other people's lives. Don't worry too much tho, in my experience they have very poor hand to hand skills.

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  • DabbleDabble It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    We are a nation of drivers that will cause a 2 mile long, 5 mph traffic jam because 3 people had to slow down because there's a car on the side of the interstate.

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