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Well, hopefully both intents have the same effect: Get the drivers in the on-coming lane to slow down and be alert. All's well that ends well!
Question of the day - does the new Audi S6 have a turn signal defect?
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2015 Subaru Outback 3.6R / 2014 MINI Countryman S ALL4
Who here has a dash cam?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/02/08/if-he-hadnt-had-his-dashcam-rolling-he-might-have-been-blamed-for-whats-about-to-happen/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny01_mvJyjA
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
While they're pushing sunroofs and mandatory leather to be able to get that one option I'd like to have, they could include dash cams for minor cost. I'd like to see rear-facing and front dash cams. My only concern would be the quality wouldn't be up to par--just like the built-in navigation systems for a long time were clunky and not updateable.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Drove onto the highway a couple times over the weekend - saw two different cars weaving around, passing in all lanes, no signals at all. Guess what they were. Nope, not a LeSabre or an E-class or a Tempo or a Cressida. Shockingly enough, a Cayenne GTS and a BMW E90. I was shocked! They are usually driven so responsibly.
(I'm considering dash/windshield mounts for my pageplus/veriz iphone-4 or my sprint/scratchwireless/no-monthly-charge android phone... )
If they'd only dare to enforce the signal and distraction rules already on the books, the $$$ would pour in. Or maybe cut the crony capitalism involved in traffic cameras, and claim more of the take.
Traffic wasn't bad today, but it was annoying that the big blundering should-require-a-license-endorsement SUV that dawdles and wanders under the limit on a wide open 35mph arterial then flies above the limit on a narrower 30mph street.
Today I saw an X6 using its turn signal - I had to do a double take at such consideration. I didn't know those could be optioned up so high.
wow, I think i'll walk.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/5RAaW_1FzYg?autoplay=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0
When I'm driving on Calif. freeways I play a game called "Let's Find the Crazies". It's kind of like "vehicular profiling" coupled with "behavorial tip-offs". Of course, the one that will eventually get me is probably going to be the innocuous-looking next door neighbor serial killer ("He was such a nice man"), but I do have a list of prejudices that I keep handy in my mind. Such as:
1. Any badly bashed up (or multi-colored) car that is speeding.
2. Anyone wearing a big hat.
3. Pickup trucks with 6-inch ++ lifts on knobby tires speeding in the rain.
4. Any camaro of any vintage driven by any type of person
5. Any vehicle covered in Harley Davidson stickers
6. Anyone in the fast lane riding a dirt bike and wearing a back pack and a hand-painted helmet.
7. Motor homes
8. Airport vans
"IN RUSSIA YOU CAN NOT GET CAR INSURANCE UNLESS YOU HAVE A DASH CAM
THIS IS BECAUSE THE PLACE IS SO CORRUPT AND WITH THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF
INFLUENCE AND MONEY YOU CAN CHANGE ANYONE’S STORY"
I hear Seattle is going to embark on a "Vision Zero" plan like the one championed by the unpopular NYC mayor. Lower speed limits. More bike lanes. I am sure it will make Seattle an even more appealing place to live.
I also saw a Golf have a close call as it veered left across a few lanes, and narrowly missed other cars. Love it. Also a depressingly low amount of signal use today. As was said, regressing to a mean. Keyword is regressing.
Not thinking they would come after me, and I did check in my rearview and it didn't seem like they were immediately concerned. I made a bad assumption again, I need to stop doing that. In the back of my mind, I didn't think they'd chase, but I kept going spiritedly on the windy sections up ahead to make sure I wouldn't be caught "just in case" by SUV's. Unfortunately about a mile ahead, a slow moving Jeep thwarted my pseudo escape.
I really didn't think anything of it; as I assumed I was in the clear (didn't know he noticed the no license plate in front; apparently I was going too slow allowing him to notice that fact! ) So about a minute or two! after following the Jeep, here he comes zooming in behind me. I immediately think I should have found a side road to pull off on and hide (the safe assumption) to have prevented this. Of course, if it wasn't for the Jeep, it would have been Sayonara CHP.
I don't know how fast I was going, but 70 or 68 is probably not far off. He said something about estimating my speed at 70 or 75 (I forget which) , but that is utter hogwash. No way can he estimate speed accurately so quickly at that range. I think the sport suspension prevents the nose from diving when braking just enough to keep it from being obvious (and I didn't slam the brakes; though maybe I should have). I question that he radar me at 68 though; that seems high considering I was on the brakes moderately.
Either way, my braking was indeed enough that I didn't get a speeding ticket, and only God knows if I had my front license plate on; if that would have been enough to prevent the waste of time being pulled over and given a $25 fix-it ticket.
I think you got the fix it ticket because in effect, he gave you a break on the speeding issue. But he wanted to send a message because AFTER he did a yo-yo, he perceived you as "running". So if I perceive your post correctly, one of the two LEO were heading in your opposite direction AND one was gunning you to see if it was worth his while to turn around and either re-pace or re- gun you (they need to be at most 1/8 mile BEHIND to pace or gun, and within 5 mph.) I think that if you didn't hit the brakes and just slowed to 5 mpg above or @ the speed limit, I do not think he would have even bothered to give you the fix it ticket.
The fintail's horn is pretty loud - if I ever changed it (I doubt it), I'd put in a horn from a MB 600. This is louder than the fintail, and a little deeper, but it's the same idea. Here's a good clip
And now my car has a front and rear cam setup, so it's just a matter of time until I have something to share
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
http://www.blackvue.com/en/contents/sub1.asp?idx=26
I just went out and tested it - it works. It is wifi enabled, and there is a phone app for it, so I can get videos directly with the phone. I'll try to get a little driving video in the next few days and post it as an example.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
I think you got the fix it ticket because in effect, he gave you a break on the speeding issue. But he wanted to send a message because AFTER he did a yo-yo, he perceived you as "running". So if I perceive your post correctly, one of the two LEO were heading in your opposite direction AND one was gunning you to see if it was worth his while to turn around and either re-pace or re- gun you (they need to be at most 1/8 mile BEHIND to pace or gun, and within 5 mph.) I think that if you didn't hit the brakes and just slowed to 5 mpg above or @ the speed limit, I do not think he would have even bothered to give you the fix it ticket.
Ahhh, I don't think the officer was that smart to perceive that I was running, as in truth, he rightfully thought I wasn't being chased by him. They didn't do any U-turns while they were still within view. So there is no way he could have observed my speed, the road gets very windy very soon; lined with trees on both sides, not much visibility unless there's' a long straight. Both LEO's were heading in the opposite direction, both in tandem right next to each other. Guess one of them had nothing better to do.
I broke way before we crossed paths, so they couldn't of observed my braking I'm thinking. If I'd of rolled to near the speed limit without braking, his radar reading would have been higher. 55 MPH is a low speed limit, and isn't a maximum speed limit. In court I could rightfully argue the defacto speed limit is 65 MPH using the prudent and reasonable rule of law. My seeing them, my braking, and their radar blip on me happened in that order, and all well before we crossed side by side. I was never radared again, because by the time he got in view again, I was going very slow behind a jeep that was turning off to a side street right when I got the lights put on me to pull over.
My radar detector is why I know their "speed" estimates are pure BS. One time, on a long empty 2 lane highway in Nevada, I got an early radar warning blip that must of been a car a mile ahead of me getting radar on it. I slowed down to the speed limit. Sure enough, a minute later (closing distance of 2 miles since we are headed in opposite directions), I get radar on me again this time from visible range off in the distance I see the cop now. Why would he radar me if he knew I was going the speed limit? Why bother with the radar unless "estimating" speed is either completely fabricated, completely made up, or completely inaccurate.
It's $360 vs. $25.