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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    I once was driving up 75 to Detroit (rock city) and they had one lane closed for like a mile or two

    Took me like 2 hours to get through it or something

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered 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.

    Sometimes it doesn't even have to be on the same side of the interstate

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  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    In Phoenix they've taken to putting up temporary tarp screens around highway accidents to keep opposite lane traffic from having anything to slow down and look at. It's fairly effective in keeping traffic moving

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  • LucedesLucedes Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    i hate driving

    driving is the fuckin' worst

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  • Mr FuzzbuttMr Fuzzbutt Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    Dividing line disappears: Zipper merge
    Dashed dividing line: Lane changer has to find their own gap, it is good and correct to not let them in
    Solid dividing line: No merging

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    The other counter-intuitive thing about traffic that Americans despise is that letting motorcycles slip between lanes (at reasonable speeds below ~35 mph, and especially while the main flow of traffic is stopped or crawling) is actively safer for the motorcyclists and reduces traffic for everyone involved

    There are currently only six states where this is legal (California leading the pack, but Minnesota just legalized it this week) and then it's a legal gray zone in DC

    I've basically taken two and a half hours off of crossing Los Angeles by doing it on two wheels, it kinda rules

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  • DelzhandDelzhand Coin Return Admin Registered User, Transition Team regular
    edited April 10
    I don't understand the consternation about roundabouts! Do you understand yield signs? Congrats, you understand roundabouts!

    I'm just mad because this is a few miles from my house and the main way to get anywhere. People routinely full stop before entering.

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    Delzhand wrote: »
    I don't understand the consternation about roundabouts! Do you understand yield signs?


    no

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  • firewaterwordfirewaterword Satchitananda Pais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    I love mountainy or coastal winding roads. The drive from San Francisco up the coast to Mendocino or down to Santa Cruz on a light traffic day is an absolute joy. Same for some of these mountain drives in Colorado. Love the drive up Boulder Canyon road up to Nederland or up past the Flatirons on Flagstaff Road.

    Highways are fine but can give me road hypnosis if they're just going straight for ages. Salt Lake City to Reno is miserable for the most part.

    I can't fucking stand city driving and will do pretty much anything to avoid it. Proper stresses me right the hell out. Was in Boston for work recently and I'd probably stroke out if I had to drive in that absolute nightmare traffic.

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  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    Living in the metro DC area means that I don't like anything about driving ever except for when I've driven far enough away from the city that there aren't so many fucking people and cars everywhere.

    I used to like it!

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    Delzhand wrote: »
    I don't understand the consternation about roundabouts! Do you understand yield signs? Congrats, you understand roundabouts!

    I'm just mad because this is a few miles from my house and the main way to get anywhere. People routinely full stop before entering.

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    They do not understand yield signs, no

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  • SlymSlym Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    There's a roundabout on my way in to work with a two lane road leading in, right lane for the first exit from the roundabout, left lane for every other one. SO MANY people try to stay in the right lane until the very last minute then merge into the left lane, and I absolutely refuse to let them in.

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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    Peen wrote: »
    Living in the metro DC area means that I don't like anything about driving ever except for when I've driven far enough away from the city that there aren't so many fucking people and cars everywhere.

    I used to like it!

    honestly this is a big part of why I moved to the center of a walkable part of the area as soon as possible

    I bicycle to work, drive my car as rarely as possible without gumming up the fuel system or flatlining the battery, and only end up in *95 traffic a couple times a month

    after living in the NoVA suburbs for >13 years, once I tasted walkability there was no going back

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    I love mountainy or coastal winding roads. The drive from San Francisco up the coast to Mendocino or down to Santa Cruz on a light traffic day is an absolute joy. Same for some of these mountain drives in Colorado. Love the drive up Boulder Canyon road up to Nederland or up past the Flatirons on Flagstaff Road.

    Highways are fine but can give me road hypnosis if they're just going straight for ages. Salt Lake City to Reno is miserable for the most part.

    I can't fucking stand city driving and will do pretty much anything to avoid it. Proper stresses me right the hell out. Was in Boston for work recently and I'd probably stroke out if I had to drive in that absolute nightmare traffic.

    This is funny because you're the exact opposite of me, I find the hill roads in and out of mendocino specifically nauseating, and I find city driving relaxing barring anything weird happening and I know where I'm going. Driving in an unknown city is stressful as heck though.

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  • lazegamerlazegamer The magnanimous cyberspaceRegistered 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.

    Blind spots are a myth! Also, roundabouts are fantastic but double lane roundabouts confuse the hell out of people. Lastly, NYC drivers easily take the cake as the worst drivers.

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  • firewaterwordfirewaterword Satchitananda Pais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    I love mountainy or coastal winding roads. The drive from San Francisco up the coast to Mendocino or down to Santa Cruz on a light traffic day is an absolute joy. Same for some of these mountain drives in Colorado. Love the drive up Boulder Canyon road up to Nederland or up past the Flatirons on Flagstaff Road.

    Highways are fine but can give me road hypnosis if they're just going straight for ages. Salt Lake City to Reno is miserable for the most part.

    I can't fucking stand city driving and will do pretty much anything to avoid it. Proper stresses me right the hell out. Was in Boston for work recently and I'd probably stroke out if I had to drive in that absolute nightmare traffic.

    This is funny because you're the exact opposite of me, I find the hill roads in and out of mendocino specifically nauseating, and I find city driving relaxing barring anything weird happening and I know where I'm going. Driving in an unknown city is stressful as heck though.

    Oh yeah those hills are no good for folks who get carsick. Especially from Bodega Bay up to like Ft. Bragg. Very curvy and some insane drop offs. But man when I got my first real job out of college and was still a dumb ass (just less of one now I suppose) I bought myself a 6 speed g35 coupe and would just zoom around all the windy forest roads. I'd just do laps out to the coast via Pt. Reyes driving for the sheer pleasure of it.

    Before that car I had a hand-me-down 325i that was as old as I was. It was also a manual, which I loved until I had to drive on those torturous San Francisco hills. Miracle I never burned that clutch out. Got to the point where I'd just take 20 minutes out of my way to go around them.

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • Mortal SkyMortal Sky queer punk hedge witchRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    I once ripped from Jenner, just north of Bodega Bay, all the way down to San Simeon in a single very long roller coaster of a day

    Those are very fun roads even (perhaps especially) with the cliffside to the right. Especially on a motorbike, where there's basically just a helmet visor and then infinite Pacific beyond

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  • Fig-DFig-D SoCalRegistered User regular
    edited April 10
    This is the one I hit a couple times over the past decade:

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    The lack of lane markings fries my brain.

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  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    i propose: no, doesn't matter how many hours sleep you actually get

  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    i propose: no, doesn't matter how many hours sleep you actually get

  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    i propose: no, doesn't matter how many hours sleep you actually get

  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    i propose: no, doesn't matter how many hours sleep you actually get

  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    i propose: no, doesn't matter how many hours sleep you actually get

  • [Deleted User][Deleted User] regular
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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    I have a CPAP machine

    Can't sleep without the thing now but yeah I get some good sleep

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  • FlarneFlarne Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    Is this like the webcomic thread thing but you have to make a new thread every day or you’re banned and/or forced to be a mod

    Also every night is a good nights sleep

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    Too be fair, you kinda don't have a choice. I'd love to have a small truck for moving stuff around and the general utility you don't get from a car. But nope! All the car manufacturers realized they could get around safety and environmental regulations by just making fuck off huge trucks forever. About the smallest truck out there is maybe a Tacoma these days? And shit man, those are still pushing close to $30K new on top of that. The people who got lucky and landed the old Ford Rangers or Dodge Dakotas are gonna run them until either they or the truck dies.

    Now, people that buy F-250's and then proceed to drive them through downtown Metropolitan areas as their daily can go sit and fuckin spin.

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  • crwthcrwth THAT'S IT Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    import one of those japanese trucks

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    SUVs can eat my ass too to be honest

    Anything taller than a normal compact car can get fucked and you shouldn't be allowed to drive them in metropolitan areas without some kind of additional license and possible prohibitively expensive fee for being a jack off moron.

    My mom raised 5 of us including my step siblings and we packed into a ford escort goddammit. Was fine.

    And if you do get a big vehicle one stipulation should be special parking spots all in the back 40 so I don't have to steer my compact car one year to old to have a backup camera out blindly because both sides of me are huuuuge fuckin vehicles that no one needs.

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    As a large child? (245 pounds when I was 15)

    It was also fine.

    Compact cars are not that small

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  • LarsLars Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    I sleep really well whenever the doctors have to put me to sleep for an operation. Completely dreamless, just sudden timeskip from before surgery to after.

    10/10, would recommend a coronectomy for everyon--no wait, that part sucked.

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    edited April 10
    Those things have a fuckin 6 foot bed length and are like, $10,000 new.

    The 2024 Tacoma SR is $36,000+ and has a five foot bed length.

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