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losiXXXman wrote:Anyone share road rage over the use of petroleum with reckless abandon?

Diesel count as petroleum?

Unless you running biodiesel.... I guess that's a little better.

I get 21mpg with my 7.3 Ford..............towing 21,000 and 32mpg unloaded

I bugs me when I see people idling their engines needlessly. If you are stationary for more than a minute or so, turn it off, jeez.

flipwils11 wrote:I bugs me when I see people idling their engines needlessly. If you are stationary for more than a minute or so, turn it off, jeez.

True, I think this is one of the worst things. Another thing I hate are the traffic lights that are not timed to flow traffic! You have to speed to get the next green light and then find out there is a effin speed on green radar camera there!

flipwils11 wrote:I bugs me when I see people idling their engines needlessly. If you are stationary for more than a minute or so, turn it off, jeez.

Me too... I mean I certainly don't ever leave my car running on my lunch hour just so I can take a nap in climate control...

slotcarrod wrote:True, I think this is one of the worst things. Another thing I hate are the traffic lights that are not timed to flow traffic! You have to speed to get the next green light and then find out there is a effin speed on green radar camera there!

Very irritating! You can add to the chaos when there are commuter trains that alter light timing.

shodog wrote:I can sympathize. My ex is Chinese and she was always banging up the cars. She backed my G35 into a tow hitch hanging off a suburban dentin the rear quarter panel and taking a chunk out of the lip of my 1 week old aftermarket wheels. In the end she took my car so it's her problem now.

I think it boils down to non native drivers. If you didn't grow up watching your parents drive or even have a car, youre already at a disadvantage. Here in the San Francisco bay area we have every kind of ethnicity so you can imagine driving around here is hell.

Ahahahahahahahaha. In my corner of the woods the natives are the second-to-worst drivers around (there's an urban legend that the local population has the lowest average IQ of the Netherlands...). The worst are the university students (where the Asian ones take the cake).
Common offences:
- Driving left instead of right.
- Going left, then taking a right turn (or the opposite).
- Driving like a drunk hobo at 9.00 in the morning.
- Use your signalling, man! If you suddenly take a turn out of the blue and I almost fold myself into your passenger's door...
- Overtaking at high speed, then continue driving very slowly right in front of you.
- Other offences: Swerving all over the road while not drunk, but texting, being a moron, chatting with your ugly broad girlfriends either standing still in tight turns or taking up the whole road, walking about (honestly, some people here should be forbidden to even walk on the sidewalk, they're that dangerous), crossing the road without looking, overtaking right in the middle of a street crossing while pretending to be a F-1 driver (Force India, likely), driving your sound-propulsed drift car that looks like a swiss cheese like the pimp you probably are, etc.
I keep being amazed by the lack of dayly terminal traffic casualties around here...and I would hate being a bus driver with routes through the city center.

Sometimes I fell I'm driving right in the middle of a 8-bit shoot-em-up computer game. Unfortunately no moron-seeking missiles are available.

Where I live,they have started installing roundabouts within the past few years.....you wanna see road rage,bad drivers,excess speed....those things are like magnets for bad drivers...I love it

328isjohn wrote:Where I live,they have started installing roundabouts within the past few years.....you wanna see road rage,bad drivers,excess speed....those things are like magnets for bad drivers...I love it

I hate that kind of cr-garbage with a passion! If you want to slow down traffic, put in an F'ing stop sign! A sign cost about $500, not $10,000. If the stop signs don't work, put a cop on the corner and I guarantee that people will slow down, not only will they slow down, but the city will get it's ever greedy hands on all that revenue enhancement from all the tickets they could write. But alas, that is using common sense rather than the normal rectal-cranial inversion they normally use when it comes to traffic control.

I once read an article in the paper written by a local traffic control functionary who makes the decisions of "calming" traffic, when to add another lane to the freeway, etc. She was whining about how difficult it was to calm traffic without hindering flow. I'm sorry, a round-about isn't it, neither are half street closures, or placing unmarked barriers in the middle of the roadways.

They want to build one on a road that is one of the busiest in town...you should see the amount of school kids using the cross walks at the intersection now...throw a roundabout in and its a sure way to get kids hurt or killed.....seems city planners had their heads up their butts on that one...

2-lane roundabouts (we call 'em traffic circles up in Canada) seem to work fine for low- to moderate-volume traffic. The biggest issue with traffic circles is that MORONS can't understand the basic concepts that are taught to them in the driving Learner's Handbook.

-If you enter on the inside lane, you must go 180 degrees around the circle, at least.

-If you enter on the outside lane, you can ONLY go 90 or 180 degrees. YOU CANNOT GO 3/4 of the way around!!!

-People on the inside lane have right-of-way; this works great until you have a MORON who wants to enter on the outside lane and go 3/4 of the way around the circle.

-Lastly, if you enter on the inside or outside lane, you EXIT in the SAME LANE. Morons will exit the circle drifting into the wrong lane without even shoulder-checking to see if a car is already there.

Maybe it seems complicated but really, it's not. Simple concepts tend to evade morons.

Check your mirrors before changing lanes, this goes for everyone, not just bike riders! LOL
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/82908083/

And where was that brilliant video filmed????

Today just seen a DWA turn his right indicator on and then turn left nearly cleaning out the guy beside him! WOW! How do these guys pass a driving test?