Winter driving - extra stupid edition

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

Why the fk people continue to live in places like that is totally beyond me.

Let's all move to southern California!!

[john70t]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

.... proof positive of driving too fast irregardless* of ...

*still not a word, I think

Do not fret.
"Irregardless" can be a word.
"Ir--regard--less"
Remove the double negatives on both ends and the word becomes regard

Sunshine and positives

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Let's all move to southern California!!

As someone that's there frequently for work, you couldn't pay me enough. Different strokes....

[don911]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Let's all move to southern California!!

That video is everyday in this so cal minus snow and ice. I've been here since March and there is no end to a-hole drivers.
One Darwin Award winner launched himself into an overhead freeway sign after clipping a car and barrel rolling down the freeway. His body was stuck on the sign until they could get up there.

[oldE]

I was talking to a young fellow one winter who had his car towed out of a ditch and received a ticket for "driving too fast for conditions."
He was complaining about the ticket, claiming he wasn't driving too fast.
I asked him if his car had gone off the road, he said, "Yes"
I asked if the road had not been snow covered if he would have gone off, He replied, "No."
I advised him that is what, "too fast for conditions " means.

Many years ago, my college room mate was driving us somewhere. The road was covered in wet snow and when he dropped a wheel off the edge of the broken pavement, his reaction was to jerk the wheel to the left. Oh shiiii oot.
We came popping back up onto the road surface and headed toward the other lane with oncoming traffic. He corrected and got us back on our own side of the road to avoid the Mustang which was coming, then had to correct that skid. We did another pendulum swing across the center line after the Mustang went by and he finally got it all straightened out.
We drove on in silence for a couple of miles before he said, "That was close."

Best
Les

[nynor]

Originally Posted by 93nav

Which dashcams would you consider good value. Nothing fancy, but, yeh, they could be interesting.

i use a $70 geekpro 2. you can see the results on facebook, 'the rat race'. be sure and click the HD button.

just watched the video. gotta wonder how many of those accidents resulted in fatalities.

[enzo1]

[pavulon]

It sucks at times. But my commute to work is 1 minute and 30 seconds and summers are green and really nice. It's give and take. Winter tires on winter rims on a sacrificial (salt roads suck more than snow and cold combined) winter Subaru makes it livable.

Originally Posted by aigel

Not easy to leave if you are Siberian. But you can leave if you are in Minnesota, North Dakota etc. etc. - and there are MILLIONS of people that don't. That's what's crazy to me.

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[look 171]

Originally Posted by don911

That video is everyday in this so cal minus snow and ice. I've been here since March and there is no end to a-hole drivers.
One Darwin Award winner launched himself into an overhead freeway sign after clipping a car and barrel rolling down the freeway. His body was stuck on the sign until they could get up there.

Yeah, you experience rain yet around here? I live off the old Pasadena Fwy. There are many twist and turns on this fwy at full speed. I have gone through the whole thing many time at crazy speed in my youth, both wet or day. When it rains now, we don't take the fwy. There are accidents all over the fwy, and I mean guaranteed. Don't drive up to local ski resorts. They think its dry.

Just today, I am doing about 45 down a big street a woman made a right turn in front of me without stopping or looking once to see if there if there's a car coming. I slammed on my breaks mid intersection and laid on my horn. Nothing, she took a peek back in her mirrors and continue to drive like if nothing happened. I am sure she's from a Latin American country. My bet is that she's never driven much in the big city and are forced to do so. After sometime driving around here, one can predict what drivers are going to do. I have to say, many of our American drivers are pretty bad behind the wheels.

[look 171]

Originally Posted by enzo1

Holy siht, that dude is drunk.

[Racerbvd]

LOL, even this FL boy knows how to drive in snow, and not the Miami type.