Keep your sun roof open so as to see the eye in the sky. Many have been spotted at high speeds from the air only to be autographing a slip of paper issued by a ground trooper thanks to the radio.
Aircraft inforcement in Ga. And I don't remember seeing the timing markers in Fla either. I've seen the vascar markings in Ga though. But they are usually near off-ramps. I slow for those anyway.
I've read about the costs associated with air enforcement. The real chances of getting caught are so astronomical, it's like hitting the pick 3 in the lottery.
210delray: My point was that they'd end up LOSING a lot more money if they short-timed a yellow light and someone was seriously injured or killed because of it, and then were successfully sued by an enterprising lawyer.
Not if the home state recognizes the doctrine of sovereign immunity, which protects both local and state governments from this type of lawsuit. This doctrine is still relied upon in many jurisdictions throughout the country.
The municipality could produce some sort of explanation for short-timing the yellow lights - no matter how flimsy - that would undoubtedly hold up in court. The municipality would stand little chance of losing money by taking this action.
It has been documented that yellow lights have been shortened in both Washington D.C., and San Diego when the cameras were installed, so this is not a mere urban legend.
>have been shortened in both Washington D.C., and San Diego
And at least one in Dayton.
The light is somewhat obscure by location. In past before new post office had been built it seldom turned red for the main traffic artery. Many people probably ran it when it was red at odd hours at night.
But it probably disappointed the "planners" because it doesn't have much traffic and the trip doesn't turn the light red other than high post office traffic times. So they short-lighted it to gain more "safety" (revenue) for themselves and the city. The city's mantra for the lights is safety. Heck all they need to do is put the cops out doing something instead of sitting in donut shops and alleys talking to each other. I haven't seen a police car cruising looking for traffic law violations in 15 trips in-out of downtown area on two different arteries.
The money grab is irritating because the city always is crying the suburbs need to help fund the city and their wasteful, crime-encouraging ways. But they don't provide traffic protection in any way. Oh today they have a renewal on the ballot for earnings tax which is paid 70% by people who don't live in the city. You'd think they'd provide better protection for those people driving to and from work and other things for the 70% they get. But traffic cameras will suffice as long as they get 10$ or so out of each ticket that they're able to collect on.
I feel like the antispeed limit people on the closed discussion felt about the speed limits. It's not reality as a working method for law enforcement. I look at the inconsiderate drivers eating, drinking, drugging, phoning, boom-boxing, junk-driving cars that shouldn't be on the street and are a danger to those around them. Put some police on the streets instead of cameras.
I do wonder about the costs of aircraft enforcement being justifiable. It has to cost a fortune, with little real benefit. Then again, the people who make these decisions have about as much accounatbility as the average wife of a pro athlete. Dust off the guillotines...
Is this an issue of the lead car stopping when it should go through or when the other cars behind him/her want to run the light? Remember at the time the light turns yellow if you can stop reasonably before the intersection you should not go through regardless of what those behind you think you should do. Now if the lead car stops for any reason then it is the responsibility of the cars following him/her to stop before hitting them, this is called following at a safe distance.
I'm discussing one particular circumstance. That cirucmstance is when the car is not able to stop but tries to any way. I've done it before and slid part way into the intersection. In this circumstance, it isn't necessarily bad behavior but the fact that the driver is now being asked to analyze yet another variable in a split second (do they want to chance a ticket).
You're showing the same mentality, get out of my way regardless of the circumstances.
No, you're just misreading my comments.
I agree, however, that a rear-ender is usually better than t-boned.
This is one of those urban legends perpetuated so often that people accept it as gospel. Why would city officials purposely make intersections more dangerous? It's hard for me to believe they'd do that, given the legal liability they'd expose themselves to if some major injury and resulting lawsuit occurred. There are plenty of lawyers who'd jump on this, and a large judgment against the city would more than negate any extra revenue generated by more fines.
Maybe they don't do it on purpose but some of ADOT's engineers actually retimed a light around here and caused 15 minute backups in the morning. So without thinking about it they may make the yellow shorter. I know that on another light on the same highway set by the same people, the yellow is so short that if I enter the intersection at the same time it turns yellow I have to push my car to the limit just to make it when it turns red. I have personally experienced lights in Phoenix where the yellow has gotten shorter over time. Its not an urban legend.
AZ has a reasonable and prudent speed law?? Wow and I have lived here all my life and didn't know that...
ARS 28-701A:
"A. A person shall not drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the circumstances, conditions and actual and potential hazards then existing. A person shall control the speed of a vehicle as necessary to avoid colliding with any object, person, vehicle or other conveyance on, entering or adjacent to the highway in compliance with legal requirements and the duty of all persons to exercise reasonable care for the protection of others."
Oh, and I was given a warning once for going the speed limit of 55 in the left lane when people were wizzing around at 75.
Speaking of Physics Laws, I read recently that wind resistance is much more considerable at higher speeds, thus lower MPG. I remember that to compare the effect, you square the MPH and compare.
90 MPH = 8100 75 = 5625 55 = 3025 50 = 2500
It can't be that simple. A civic going 90MPH is going to generate less wind resistance than a semi going 90MPH. :surprise:
The same physics apply everywhere on earth and many places allow 75 mph travel and more so that argument is moot. Even Arizona had a "reasonable and prudent" until a few idiots abused the priveledge.
Still does, just not able to go more than 20MPH over the limit.
It has been documented that yellow lights have been shortened in both Washington D.C., and San Diego when the cameras were installed, so this is not a mere urban legend.
Not to mention the murky definition of exactly what the "intersection" is. In AZ if you have an intersection with a sidewalk and striping like this:
--\======= |_______ | |
The ======= line is actually the beginning of the intersection. Worse, if the two sides of sidewalk don't line up, you take the one that will produce the smaller rectangular "intersection". It is so confusing that some intersections actually have had to put down red lines marking the boundaries of the intersection so that it shows up clearly and without doubt on the photo where the intersection is.
The actual drag force is dependent on other factors too:
Drag = Cd * 0.5 * d_air * V^2 * A
Cd = Coefficient of drag. d_air = Density of the air. V = Vehicle velocity. A = Vehicle frontal area.
The drag does go up with the square of the velocity, but factors like the frontal area (huge on a semi, small on a Civic) and drag coefficient (also huge on a semi, small on a Civic) affect the result.
Also, in winter (when the air is more dense) your drag at a given speed goes up too.
You're showing the same mentality, get out of my way regardless of the circumstances.
I do try to be considerate of circumstances. Today on the way home I come up behind this car in the left lane going 15 under. It took forever to pass it because there was this moron in the right lane that decided to just drive the same speed until he turned off. So I flash my lights, no response. I toot the horn, no response. So as I'm passing I see one tire is actually a spare and as I'm going by they turn left. If they had just put on their emergency flashers I wouldn't have been so irritated and flashed my lights and honked my horn. But without that it looked like just another two cars trying to block me in after a long line of them on the way home.
When approaching an intersection you can prevent the vehicle across the street from turning Left in front of you by not signaling a Right turn. The other driver assumes you will not be turning and leaves a safer path for you.
Observation: The number of stickers, bumper or otherwise, on a vehicle is directly inproportional to the driver's I.Q.
When you see a sticker you disagree with, use your Black rattle can of paint ASAP.
Observation: The number of stickers, bumper or otherwise, on a vehicle is directly inproportional to the driver's I.Q.
I have been saying that for a long time. But everyone gets a pass for at least one reasonable bumper sticker, say like "X" for president, but not for stuff like "My other car is a spaceship".
I also have to add that the other day I saw a bumper sticker that looked like it had a whole page of a book printed on it. I mean I was stopped at a light right behind it and could barely make out individual lines let alone words.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Edmunds never fails to amaze me with the different types of personalities and intellect. In one room you have one guy talking about his home theater system that he has in his basement movie cinema. And another guy is looking for a cr under $1500. Not to mention the previous physics lesson here. Some people can't even spell fisics.
Oblivious. I've been rear-ended 3 times stopped at intersections, and seen the car next to me hit at least twice that many times. As a pedestrian I've been hit twice (once while on the sidewalk), and was nailed by an old lady in a Monte Carlo while on my bike. I had one car that was T-boned while parked at a grocery store.
Last week, one of the guys I work with had his Malibu totaled by a 90 lb woman in a 1-ton crew cab Dodge that ran a red light while on her cell phone. Luckily he's just a little sore (mentaly and physically).
I have been rear ended 3 times at intersections too. All three times the car that hit me had already stopped prior to hitting me (first time the guy [a new driver, teenager] thought I was moving forward, the second the driver turned to address his kids and didn't realized that he took his foot off the brake, and the final one the guys foot slipped off the brake). All three times were at the same intersection, once going east, once going south and once going west. Yes I refuse to travel north bound through that intersection.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
To prove that red light cameras have no halo effect beyond sending lots of money to a business and little money to a political division:
I went through the red light camera in Dayton that used to be short-lighted. About 600 feet on the thoroughfare is the next light-no camera. The car about 300 feet behind me went through; I went into it just as the light was yellow. He ran the light solidly.
Next light about 800 feet on. A truck carrying wallboard and other builder supplies went through that light after it was red. He was ahead of me.
Don't tell me those cameras have any effect. Having policemen roaming and watching the cars running the lights would do a lot more to stop the dangerous habit of some people.
First off nobody has shown that more money goes to the business than the political division save one case.
It doesn't look good for our speed cameras on the 101 but it is so hard to get details. Here is what I can make out:
Citation: $157. $73 to the state $43 to Redflex $32 partly to Redflex (for rental of equipment) and other operating costs. $10 to Scottsdale court costs
I don't know if this has been linked here yet or not, but here's a video taken by a group of people who drove the speed limit, side-by-side, down a busy freeway.
Only thing they "proved" is that they can block the flow of traffic, bunch up the cars, and create a more dangerous situation.
Everyone who exceeds the speed limit on a 55 mph highway, which includes me :P , runs the risk of having the bankrupt come up on the big Wheel of Fortune and getting a ticket.
They go beyond "questionable" all the way to inconsiderate if you ask me.
And no, I'm not really interested in seeing us go back through the speed limit argument again. Everyone pretty clearly defined their positions the last couple of times.
I had a tailgater when I USED THE third lane to complete a pass on the interstate. He came up close behind me because I had sped up to only 65 to pass the 58 mph semi. He stayed real close behind me so I could not see in my right mirror if there was anyone in the 2nd lane to move back over. His headlight was shining right into my right side mirror and it doesn't have the automatic dimming like the left side does. He was in a van.
If he'd been smart enough to back off after he nearly rammed me to show that I was using HIS lane, I could have pulled back over, he could have put his testosterone damaged brain back into chemical balance and gone on.
I had a goodie today...behind me, I noticed a white Lexus RX weaving in and out of traffic, trying to get ahead. When he got past me, I noticed it was a dealer plated hybrid model, and was heading towards the local dealer which is near my place. It was driven by what looked like a kid, I am assuming the car was being picked up from somewhere and delivered back to the lot. Anyway, this dork was flying down the road, and when we both turned off to the quickest route to the dealer (which is the way I drive home), I paced him, and he was going maybe 55-60, in a 35, switching lanes like there was no tomorrow. I guess you might want to be careful if you buy something from Bellevue Lexus. I know this thing will just end up in the hands of some cluless Medina trophy wife to use for her commute between shopping and botox, but still. It takes a lot of nerve to drive like that in a vehicle that loudly advertises where you are from. Maybe whoever owns the dealership has employed his idiot son or nephew etc to shuttle cars. Oh yeah, and at the end of the route there is a stupid long light, and he ended up maybe 10 yards in front of me. Good driving!
When I leave work, I pull out of the garage onto a two lane 35mph road with a turn lane. I have to turn left, but the traffic is usually OK so it is rarely a headache. Anyway, as I am pulling out today, a Saturn Vue is coming down the road, and pulls into the turn lane to turn where I am pulling out from. But instead of proceeding (there was no oncoming traffic), she stops in the middle of the road and waves me out! I was kind of scared to do this, as if she changed her mind and hit me, I would certainly be found at fault. I am sure she was just trying to be nice...but come on.
Oh, and I think 9 out of 10 Subarus I saw today had their foglights on. It wasn't foggy or even raining when I was out. Ooh you look so cool.
...were so inconsiderate as to not give me a story to post here. I couldn't believe it, everyone was so considerate. People in the right lane were going a little less than the SL and the people in the left lane were going the SL and keepingit steady. When the lead cars got to an empty spot they moved over nicely. I got to use my cruise most of the way.
This is in stark contrast to the people yesterday who were going out of their way to be rude. Speeding up and slowing down, blocking passes, going under the SL in the left lane, etc.
I was sitting at a red light in the right lane of a local street in Brooklyn. There was a cop car in the left lane. The light turn green and the next light turned red. This cop decided to halt all of traffic and pull up behind me. When i go to that red light he threw on all his sirens and lights, meanwhile I probably did 20mph max. The reason for pulling me over: I was missing the metal trimming under my taillight. I lost that 4 years ago in a accident. As he's yapping away about some bull I tell him that I just got my car inspected about 2 hours ago and it passed(I really did get it inspected). He then keeps me there for an hour trying to figure out if I just payed off the guy to pass my car or if I had anything outstanding. NYC cops will do anything to piss off young drivers including giving breathalyzers at 9am
Harrassed for missing metal trim? Cops like that deserve whatever misfortune that may happen to them down the road. When they behave like this, they are no longer to be considered law enforcement officers.
I was in Brooklyn myself 2 nights ago, and I saw the classic NYC cop trick, according to my son.
We're behind a cop car, approaching an intersection. The light turns yellow, then red, just as the cop car gets there. He instantly flips on his light bar just long enough to "legally" go through the intersection without stopping.
Ok, so we're in the far right lane of northbound I-95 in MD just before the DE line. I'm going the speed limit, 65 mph.
This idiot tour bus comes up on my rear end and has the audacity to flip his bright lights on at me. (This was in broad daylight; I just looked in my rear view at the right moment.)
Well, he can't get over into the middle of 3 lanes because there's a line of traffic. Finally he gets over and we see he's an old geezer.
I'd have taken the company name, 800 number, and bus number and called them. IF they didn't have the number of the bus to call, I use the internet to find them when I get home.
Best story I ever had was having an obnoxious trucker between Dayton and Cincy in speed areas and in construction areas. I stopped at a phone booth in Cincy (used to live there) and looked up his truck company in Greater Cincy (Kentucky), called in my complaint, talked to the owner who thought the truck was around Columbus on its way back from Cleveland.
I'd love to have heard that conversation when the trucker did show up and tried to explain why he was on a different route than the owner thought. An Extra load maybe?
Actually, the bus actually had one of those "how's my driving" signs with an 800 number on the back of the bus!
So my wife used her cell phone to complain. The woman on the other end of the line was a fast-talking "New Yawker" who kept asking all kinds of questions about our location and the time, but nothing about what we were complaining about. Then the line went dead.
Last week driving home it was snowing pretty bad, but the temps were just above freezing so nothing was really sticking and the roads were just wet. Well I was going along through an intersection on a green light in the left lane. All of a sudden just as I entered the intersection some idiot in a Lexus SUV makes a right turn on red and ends up taking a position in the left lane. Unfortunately for me that put him 30-35 feet in front of me while I was doing around 40-45 and he was doing maybe 20 while on a wet slick road. Fortunately for me there was no one next to me so I was able to swerve and go around, otherwise I would have hit him. Unfortuantly for him a cop was following me.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
I know what you mean regarding the brights from behind. You scratch your head to try and figure out how to appropriately tell the person their brights are on, but honestly, there is no good (read this "universal") way to do it. Sometimes I will have this happen when I pass another driver (with two lanes same direction) and I'll wait 5-10 seconds to give the other driver the opportunity to dim the lights. If not, I'll just swing back into the left lane, slow down and let them pass, then pull in behind and offer up a quick flash, then resume previous course. Most of the time the drivers will dim, but sometimes they dim for about 2 seconds, then re-engage the brights in a one-fingered salute sort of a manner. Haha... those make me chuckle. I think, when I get a new vehicle, I should mount the driving lights on a swivel-mounted bar instead of a set-mount. That way I can just push a button to swivel the lights to the rear and offer a quick flash. Hehe. I'm so devious. But, they could also come in handy for backing at night, etc!
2018 Subaru Crosstrek, 2014 Audi Q7 TDI, 2013 Subaru Forester, 2013 Ford F250 Lariat D, 1976 Ford F250, 1969 Chevrolet C20, 1969 Ford Econoline 100
Speaking of "cops," I had one follow me on Saturday night (er, Sunday morning!). I was actually surprised that I was not pulled over (even though I did nothing obviously wrong) considering that he made such an effort to catch up to me. I was driving home after a night of computer gaming at a friend's place. I dropped off two other friends (who had a little alcohol in their systems) at their house at about 0140 and had a 20 min drive to get home from there. This is prime time for alcohol-related stops and I usually see 3-4 of them on my way home every Saturday night. This night, I had seen none! Well, I am driving 60 in a 55 and had just passed a couple other vehicles going around 50 on this same road, but they both turned off at the upcoming intersection. I went through this intersection - last controlled intersection of my drive - and then saw 3 trooper rigs coming the other way (this is on a divided highway). I got this odd feeling that one of them might turn around at the intersection, so I made sure to keep it at 60 or less. I was probably a good mile.5 ahead of this trooper, but I could see lights behind me and they were approaching fast! By the time I made it to Chena Hot Springs Road (about 5 miles shy of my house), this trooper had caught up and was tailing me about 4 seconds back. I was driving with my driving lights on, so I thought, "Oh, I'd better be careful about oncoming cars or this guy's gonna pull me over." Sure enough, I crest a hill and there's a car there. I dimmed the lights as quickly as possible but I was sure the trooper would stop me. A few more seconds pass, no change in following distance, so i made my left turn and on to home. Looking in the rearview, the vehicle behind me most certainly was a trooper and while he slowed down to "observe" me as I made the turn, he did not pursue.
I am not sure why I was so convinced he would stop me - maybe because of the friends I had had in the car. Ironically, since I never touch alcohol, I could just see me being pulled over and run through the course because of the probable smell of alcohol in the car - I hear that our law enforcement folks are rather aggressive about stops on weekend early-morning-hours. Not that it is unjustified; we have had 9 or 10 deaths in the past 12 months as a direct result of inebriated drivers. That was one of the only times I have been paranoid about being stopped. The only other times is when I am driving my car with expired tags (I have the new tag in the car, just haven't put it on yet), though I have only been stopped once for that and it was because the license plate was "obscured" (i.e., the officer was fishing!).
2018 Subaru Crosstrek, 2014 Audi Q7 TDI, 2013 Subaru Forester, 2013 Ford F250 Lariat D, 1976 Ford F250, 1969 Chevrolet C20, 1969 Ford Econoline 100
The funny thing is that yesterday I went to Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie which is on the old Joliet Arsenal grounds. Its about 20 miles or so south of me and all but the first couple of miles are on Illinois state highway 53. Almost the entire trip down Rt 53 there was a Will County Sheriffs car behind me. It wasn't the same car either. One would be behind me for a few miles and either pass me up or turn off and within a mile or so another one would appear behind me. This happened with like five different police cars all belonging to the county sheriffs department. Man it was weird.
Man if I were paranoid I would say they were trying to follow me.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
One would be behind me for a few miles and either pass me up or turn off and within a mile or so another one would appear behind me. This happened with like five different police cars all belonging to the county sheriffs department. Man it was weird.
Maybe your car matched the description of a car associated with some recent crime. No doubt they checked your plates for ownership, registration.
A couple of years ago in August, wife and I noticed a car full of teens coming into county fairgrounds as we were leaving, about 1 hour before sunset. Their car was exactly the same as ours. Within a mile or so after the fairgrounds exit, a county sheriff car started to follow and did so for approx 10 minutes which included a number of turns to take various back farm roads back home. He stopped following and made a U-turn presumably after he called in my plate number to ID us.
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I've read about the costs associated with air enforcement. The real chances of getting caught are so astronomical, it's like hitting the pick 3 in the lottery.
Not if the home state recognizes the doctrine of sovereign immunity, which protects both local and state governments from this type of lawsuit. This doctrine is still relied upon in many jurisdictions throughout the country.
The municipality could produce some sort of explanation for short-timing the yellow lights - no matter how flimsy - that would undoubtedly hold up in court. The municipality would stand little chance of losing money by taking this action.
It has been documented that yellow lights have been shortened in both Washington D.C., and San Diego when the cameras were installed, so this is not a mere urban legend.
And at least one in Dayton.
The light is somewhat obscure by location. In past before new post office had been built it seldom turned red for the main traffic artery. Many people probably ran it when it was red at odd hours at night.
But it probably disappointed the "planners" because it doesn't have much traffic and the trip doesn't turn the light red other than high post office traffic times. So they short-lighted it to gain more "safety" (revenue) for themselves and the city. The city's mantra for the lights is safety. Heck all they need to do is put the cops out doing something instead of sitting in donut shops and alleys talking to each other. I haven't seen a police car cruising looking for traffic law violations in 15 trips in-out of downtown area on two different arteries.
The money grab is irritating because the city always is crying the suburbs need to help fund the city and their wasteful, crime-encouraging ways. But they don't provide traffic protection in any way. Oh today they have a renewal on the ballot for earnings tax which is paid 70% by people who don't live in the city. You'd think they'd provide better protection for those people driving to and from work and other things for the 70% they get. But traffic cameras will suffice as long as they get 10$ or so out of each ticket that they're able to collect on.
I feel like the antispeed limit people on the closed discussion felt about the speed limits. It's not reality as a working method for law enforcement. I look at the inconsiderate drivers eating, drinking, drugging, phoning, boom-boxing, junk-driving cars that shouldn't be on the street and are a danger to those around them. Put some police on the streets instead of cameras.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
They don't need timing markers, they can use other things like timing you between bridges or other items that are usually found crossing highways.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
I see no need whatsoever of saying that. Repent & Retract.
I think every minivan in Bellevue today has a 20mph speed governor. Vehicular cholesterol.
I'm discussing one particular circumstance. That cirucmstance is when the car is not able to stop but tries to any way. I've done it before and slid part way into the intersection. In this circumstance, it isn't necessarily bad behavior but the fact that the driver is now being asked to analyze yet another variable in a split second (do they want to chance a ticket).
You're showing the same mentality, get out of my way regardless of the circumstances.
No, you're just misreading my comments.
I agree, however, that a rear-ender is usually better than t-boned.
Maybe they don't do it on purpose but some of ADOT's engineers actually retimed a light around here and caused 15 minute backups in the morning. So without thinking about it they may make the yellow shorter. I know that on another light on the same highway set by the same people, the yellow is so short that if I enter the intersection at the same time it turns yellow I have to push my car to the limit just to make it when it turns red. I have personally experienced lights in Phoenix where the yellow has gotten shorter over time. Its not an urban legend.
ARS 28-701A:
"A. A person shall not drive a vehicle on a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the circumstances, conditions and actual and potential hazards then existing. A person shall control the speed of a vehicle as necessary to avoid colliding with any object, person, vehicle or other conveyance on, entering or adjacent to the highway in compliance with legal requirements and the duty of all persons to exercise reasonable care for the protection of others."
Oh, and I was given a warning once for going the speed limit of 55 in the left lane when people were wizzing around at 75.
90 MPH = 8100
75 = 5625
55 = 3025
50 = 2500
It can't be that simple. A civic going 90MPH is going to generate less wind resistance than a semi going 90MPH. :surprise:
Still does, just not able to go more than 20MPH over the limit.
Not to mention the murky definition of exactly what the "intersection" is. In AZ if you have an intersection with a sidewalk and striping like this:
--\=======
|_______
|
|
The ======= line is actually the beginning of the intersection. Worse, if the two sides of sidewalk don't line up, you take the one that will produce the smaller rectangular "intersection". It is so confusing that some intersections actually have had to put down red lines marking the boundaries of the intersection so that it shows up clearly and without doubt on the photo where the intersection is.
Drag = Cd * 0.5 * d_air * V^2 * A
Cd = Coefficient of drag.
d_air = Density of the air.
V = Vehicle velocity.
A = Vehicle frontal area.
The drag does go up with the square of the velocity, but factors like the frontal area (huge on a semi, small on a Civic) and drag coefficient (also huge on a semi, small on a Civic) affect the result.
Also, in winter (when the air is more dense) your drag at a given speed goes up too.
I do try to be considerate of circumstances. Today on the way home I come up behind this car in the left lane going 15 under. It took forever to pass it because there was this moron in the right lane that decided to just drive the same speed until he turned off. So I flash my lights, no response. I toot the horn, no response. So as I'm passing I see one tire is actually a spare and as I'm going by they turn left. If they had just put on their emergency flashers I wouldn't have been so irritated and flashed my lights and honked my horn. But without that it looked like just another two cars trying to block me in after a long line of them on the way home.
Observation: The number of stickers, bumper or otherwise, on a vehicle is directly inproportional to the driver's I.Q.
When you see a sticker you disagree with, use your Black rattle can of paint ASAP.
I have been saying that for a long time. But everyone gets a pass for at least one reasonable bumper sticker, say like "X" for president, but not for stuff like "My other car is a spaceship".
I also have to add that the other day I saw a bumper sticker that looked like it had a whole page of a book printed on it. I mean I was stopped at a light right behind it and could barely make out individual lines let alone words.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
For future reference, the phrase should be "inversely proportional".
james
Huked on foniks wurked fur me!
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Last week, one of the guys I work with had his Malibu totaled by a 90 lb woman in a 1-ton crew cab Dodge that ran a red light while on her cell phone. Luckily he's just a little sore (mentaly and physically).
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
:P
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
I went through the red light camera in Dayton that used to be short-lighted. About 600 feet on the thoroughfare is the next light-no camera. The car about 300 feet behind me went through; I went into it just as the light was yellow. He ran the light solidly.
Next light about 800 feet on. A truck carrying wallboard and other builder supplies went through that light after it was red. He was ahead of me.
Don't tell me those cameras have any effect. Having policemen roaming and watching the cars running the lights would do a lot more to stop the dangerous habit of some people.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
First off nobody has shown that more money goes to the business than the political division save one case.
Secondly how does your example prove anything?
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
It doesn't look good for our speed cameras on the 101 but it is so hard to get details. Here is what I can make out:
Citation: $157.
$73 to the state
$43 to Redflex
$32 partly to Redflex (for rental of equipment) and other operating costs.
$10 to Scottsdale court costs
Source: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0124photo24.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5366552067462745475&q=%22meditation+on+- the+speed+limit%22
Everyone who exceeds the speed limit on a 55 mph highway, which includes me :P , runs the risk of having the bankrupt come up on the big Wheel of Fortune and getting a ticket.
They go beyond "questionable" all the way to inconsiderate if you ask me.
And no, I'm not really interested in seeing us go back through the speed limit argument again. Everyone pretty clearly defined their positions the last couple of times.
If he'd been smart enough to back off after he nearly rammed me to show that I was using HIS lane, I could have pulled back over, he could have put his testosterone damaged brain back into chemical balance and gone on.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
When I leave work, I pull out of the garage onto a two lane 35mph road with a turn lane. I have to turn left, but the traffic is usually OK so it is rarely a headache. Anyway, as I am pulling out today, a Saturn Vue is coming down the road, and pulls into the turn lane to turn where I am pulling out from. But instead of proceeding (there was no oncoming traffic), she stops in the middle of the road and waves me out! I was kind of scared to do this, as if she changed her mind and hit me, I would certainly be found at fault. I am sure she was just trying to be nice...but come on.
Oh, and I think 9 out of 10 Subarus I saw today had their foglights on. It wasn't foggy or even raining when I was out. Ooh you look so cool.
This is in stark contrast to the people yesterday who were going out of their way to be rude. Speeding up and slowing down, blocking passes, going under the SL in the left lane, etc.
42% said they don't have time.
At least 23% are honest about it.
We're behind a cop car, approaching an intersection. The light turns yellow, then red, just as the cop car gets there. He instantly flips on his light bar just long enough to "legally" go through the intersection without stopping.
This idiot tour bus comes up on my rear end and has the audacity to flip his bright lights on at me. (This was in broad daylight; I just looked in my rear view at the right moment.)
Well, he can't get over into the middle of 3 lanes because there's a line of traffic. Finally he gets over and we see he's an old geezer.
Don't leave the driving to Starr Tours!
Best story I ever had was having an obnoxious trucker between Dayton and Cincy in speed areas and in construction areas. I stopped at a phone booth in Cincy (used to live there) and looked up his truck company in Greater Cincy (Kentucky), called in my complaint, talked to the owner who thought the truck was around Columbus on its way back from Cleveland.
I'd love to have heard that conversation when the trucker did show up and tried to explain why he was on a different route than the owner thought. An Extra load maybe?
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
So my wife used her cell phone to complain. The woman on the other end of the line was a fast-talking "New Yawker" who kept asking all kinds of questions about our location and the time, but nothing about what we were complaining about. Then the line went dead.
I'm going to follow up again tomorrow at work.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Kyle
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
I am not sure why I was so convinced he would stop me - maybe because of the friends I had had in the car. Ironically, since I never touch alcohol, I could just see me being pulled over and run through the course because of the probable smell of alcohol in the car - I hear that our law enforcement folks are rather aggressive about stops on weekend early-morning-hours. Not that it is unjustified; we have had 9 or 10 deaths in the past 12 months as a direct result of inebriated drivers. That was one of the only times I have been paranoid about being stopped. The only other times is when I am driving my car with expired tags (I have the new tag in the car, just haven't put it on yet), though I have only been stopped once for that and it was because the license plate was "obscured" (i.e., the officer was fishing!).
Man if I were paranoid I would say they were trying to follow me.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Maybe your car matched the description of a car associated with some recent crime. No doubt they checked your plates for ownership, registration.
A couple of years ago in August, wife and I noticed a car full of teens coming into county fairgrounds as we were leaving, about 1 hour before sunset. Their car was exactly the same as ours. Within a mile or so after the fairgrounds exit, a county sheriff car started to follow and did so for approx 10 minutes which included a number of turns to take various back farm roads back home. He stopped following and made a U-turn presumably after he called in my plate number to ID us.