What the hell are the people on the roads thinking?

[Pei]

Originally posted by GtoRA2
We are having the worst storm I have seen in the Bay area in years.

I am driving to go see a puppy last night. Rain so hard you can not see more then 50 yards. sometimes way less! Most of the other people on the road are driving like it's a normal day?? 70 plus miles an hour swerving in and out of traffic and tail gating.

What the hell are these people just stupid or what?


So this morn, rain even worse, I am driving to work in the Jeep and going as fast as I deem safe, 50 mph, in the slow lane. People are passing me at 70 plus?? and tail gating! And the freeway (237) is starting to flood, some places have 2 or 3 inches of standing water..


WHAT THE HELL!!?

Californians in general can't drive in the rain. It was raining in OC this morning and the 405 was a nightmare: wall to wall SUVs driving 70mph with 8 feet between cars. And they wonder why they end up with 100 car pile ups?

[Kanth]

She's obviously a woman of taste and intellect, you must marry her at once!!!  

it is a perty car btw =)

Originally posted by GtoRA2
Man, my soon to be wife makes fun of it ALL the time..


she calls it a supernova!!

Damn women!

She will not even ride in it cause I havn't put the radio in yet.

[lazs2]

Yep my chevelle is having a "vintage air" system being put in it right now.   Most women don't like black interior when it gets to be over 100 or so.   Radio?   I don't see how anyone could hear a radio in a car..  even if you could... how would you hear the exhaust or the lifters?   dumb idea that radio thing.  
lazs

[AKDejaVu]

The first day I had my mini I was coming home from a nice drive and it had just started raining.  We were on a 3 lane freeway on a semi-steep downgrade and traffic was moving along at a steady 55.  The rain was not particularly blinding... just steady (If you lived in the NW you'd know exactly what I was talking about).

I looked in my review mirror and saw a car aproaching at about 90 in the left lane.  I was in the center lane and 3 cars were ahead of me about 100 yards effectively blocking all 3 lanes.  The car sped past me then realized it had no place to go and locked up the breaks.  It skidded sideways and put the driver's door about 1 foot behind the rear bumper of the car ahead of me in the center lane, but never hit it.  I and a couple other cars slowed to let things work themselves out when the car caught a rut and actually corrected itself back to driving straight down the road.

The car that had skidded was now in the right lane tailgaiting the car in front of it.  As I passed, I saw that it was a teenage girl (or just barely into her 20's) who was ghost white and shaking her head.  She immediately dove into the center console or her purse to pull out her cellphone presumably to tell her best friend what just happened... as she was still tailgating the car in front of her in the right lane.

I just hope that when she goes... she doesn't take anyone else with her.

AKDejaVu

[GtoRA2]

I keep telling her that!

"The exhaust is all the music I need!" Me

"You are such a dork" her.

"But I can hear if something is wrong with it, with no radio" Me

"Her, it is just a supernova, and not very cool without a radio" Her

"bah! I got you a horse and a puppy and you still wont ride in it??"  Me.

"Yeah, it needs that wing thingy for the back too! It is really not very cool as is" her

"AHHHHHHH!!!!!" me lol lol

Oh well, on the up side she enjoys shooting, we just can't drive the Goat to the range!

[SOB]

Deja, my sister is in her early 30s...I'm sure she appreciates the compliment though.  5 accidents (that I know about) - one involving a parked car, plenty of tickets, and still alive and kicking.


SOB

[fly_by]

Beetles sig is on a rant about gun laws, U.S. vs Brits.

And it says it all...

First...

"Everyone in Britain loves a loser. It's the winners we can't stand!"

Then...

America’s constitutional right to bear arms is an anachronism dating back to the 18th century. In modern times, it is an unmitigated disaster which has given rise to many millions of privately owned guns and an alarming homicide rate, with a tally of more than 300,000 firearms related homicides in the past 25 years. While no law can be 100% effective, Britain has no “gun culture”, and much stricter firearms controls which have contained the annual tally of gun related homicides to a double digit value - fewer than one fiftieth of the American gun-related homicide rate per 100,000 population.

Nuff said.

[Vulcan]

Most 4WDs aren't until you tell them to be. Well, at least over here thats the way it is.

Many 4WD owners have no clue how to put their vehicle into 4WD drive mode, nor the difference between 4WDs with and without centre diff's, and difference between driving in 4WD mode with the center diff unlocked or locked.

4WDs in 2WD mode are usually tail heavy, which is where things go wrong and they tend to slide.

Then you have the AWD  (AI 4WD) where the car transfers power based on its assessment of traction. Of course like any AI system its more Artificial Stupidity. Although it seems to do quite nicely in Subaru's the bigger AWDs seem to suffer from Artificial Confusion.

Originally posted by Wlfgng
have to agree.  The bay area is my ol' stompin' grounds and I'm glad all I have to deal with now are snowidiots.

actually around here, you see more 4-wheel drives off the side of the road than 'regular' vehicles.
Yeah a 4wd has good traction to accelerate and turn some but when it comes to stopping.  lol


I can't remember how many times I've had a discussion with someone about the fact that all vehicles are 4 wheel when it comes to braking.
They (4wd drivers) just don't get it until they're in the ditch.

[OIO]

this proves you drive like a granny.