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[Rant] The moron drivers are out in full force todayThe roads are wet, not icey, not snow covered WET, there is absoutely no freakn reason to drive 30Km in a 60!!!
Everywhere there were turds deadly afraid of going a bit faster then the a snails pace.
What the hell is wrong with people today? |
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 donoreo
Premium Member
join:2002-05-30
North York, ON |
donoreo
Premium Member
2017-Jan-17 9:19 am
All media is telling everyone to be careful so they are. |
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to bobnoxe
Be thankful people are still advancing.
In some southern US states, when the weather gets bad, people stop their car on the highway and sleep in their cars, leaving their children at school so they can be safer. LOL |
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dks01
join:2016-12-29
Owen Sound, ON |
to bobnoxe
Um... they are very icy here. I have about 1/4 inch of accretion on my walk. My truck is coated. Slow is not bad. Slow is safe. Slow is good. |
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No ice here, nothing on my truck or driveway. I even prepared last night be lifting my wipers so they wouldn't be stuck to the windshield. |
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 AnavSarcastic Llama? Naw, Just Acerbic
Premium Member
join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS |
to bobnoxe
Hmmmm, perhaps you should leave earlier. Seems like everyone else did so to ensure they got to their destinations on time and safely. Perhaps you should be more thankful and respectful of these smart people and learn from the experience. |
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donoreo
Premium Member
join:2002-05-30
North York, ON |
to bobnoxe
said by bobnoxe:No ice here, nothing on my truck or driveway. I even prepared last night be lifting my wipers so they wouldn't be stuck to the windshield. Ice on road and sidewalk here. Main road ok, but side roads were not. You put your wipers up like that? LOL! |
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 HiVolt
Premium Member
join:2000-12-28
Toronto, ON |
to bobnoxe
There was ice everywhere on my street, sidewalks, on the cars etc...
Not a lot, but I didn't drive up the street like i normally do instead i slowly went down the other way then once I got on Kingston road it was fine. |
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TuxFan
Member
2017-Jan-17 10:23 am
In south Etobicoke and central Sauga, things are pretty decent. The odd iced up patch here and there but it didn't really affect the drive. I didn't even bother putting up my wipers because we'll be above 0 from now until I head home. |
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 jmacd27
Premium Member
join:2001-05-13
Toronto, ON |
to bobnoxe
said by bobnoxe:No ice here, nothing on my truck or driveway. I even prepared last night be lifting my wipers so they wouldn't be stuck to the windshield. Leaving your wipers up sounds like a good idea, until the wind blows them and they smack your windshield cracking it, had it happen to a co-worker. I'd rather replace a wiper than a windshield. I just carry a old wiper in the car. Main roads were fine this morning but side roads were icy. |
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donoreo
Premium Member
join:2002-05-30
North York, ON |
donoreo
Premium Member
2017-Jan-17 10:45 am
said by jmacd27:said by bobnoxe:No ice here, nothing on my truck or driveway. I even prepared last night be lifting my wipers so they wouldn't be stuck to the windshield. Leaving your wipers up sounds like a good idea, until the wind blows them and they smack your windshield cracking it, had it happen to a co-worker. I'd rather replace a wiper than a windshield. I just carry a old wiper in the car. Main roads were fine this morning but side roads were icy. This is true. Also in 20+ years of driving I have never had snow or ice cause damage to a wiper. |
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taraf
join:2011-05-07
Ottawa, ON |
taraf
Member
2017-Jan-17 11:18 am
said by donoreo:This is true. Also in 20+ years of driving I have never had snow or ice cause damage to a wiper. It destroyed one of mine earlier this winter. The wiper in question was a cheap manufacturer-provided wiper that I was planning on replacing anyway (hadn't gotten around to it - only bought the car in the summer), but it was destroyed by an ice build-up while it was parked in freezing rain. The freezing ice bent the clasps for the replaceable blade out of shape, and it stopped being able to hold the rubber in place. I was able to jury-rig a solution so I could get home, but my next trip was to Crappy Tire to replace the wipers. The leaf spring wipers with no mechanical joints are much more appropriate for winter use. I like the teflon-coated "reflex" wipers - have never had one of those damaged due to ice, and I feel they're a lot safer for driving in freezing rain because ice buildup doesn't interfere with their shape. I wish car manufacturers would realize that Canada's a winter country, and spring for more winter-appropriate wipers. |
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to bobnoxe
Here's what seems to be a little known fact.
You can actually get a speeding ticket or charged with careless driving for going the speed limit.
The speed limit only applies under ideal conditions so not when
It's raining
Stopped raining but the roads still wet
Fog
Snowing or just snow on the road
Dark, street that's not well lit |
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to HiVolt
Wierd, there was nothing at 8:30
As for the wipers, well if it's excessively windy, yeah but it would have to be a hell of a wind and the force would be huge to crack a windshield. |
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to donoreo
said by donoreo:his is true. Also in 20+ years of driving I have never had snow or ice cause damage to a wiper. It's not a damage thing, but rather it's not "glued" to the windshield by the ice. |
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to JimmyArms
Driving without due care and attention, but that's so open to interpretation. How do you know I can't drive with care and attention at the speed limit in questionable conditions, maybe I have the right training? |
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resa1983
Premium Member
join:2008-03-10
North York, ON |
to bobnoxe
Nothing but ice in my part of Toronto.
After the 5th time my munchkin fell on the ice on the sidewalk cuz nothing was salted and the ice was smooth as hell, I pulled him into the street and we walked on the street (no car traffic luckily the entire walk to school). |
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bobnoxe
Member
2017-Jan-17 11:52 am
This is where the city fails, they knew the ice was coming, yet did nothing, it;s a lawsuit waiting to happen. |
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resa1983
Premium Member
join:2008-03-10
North York, ON |
resa1983
Premium Member
2017-Jan-17 12:13 pm
said by bobnoxe:This is where the city fails, they knew the ice was coming, yet did nothing, it;s a lawsuit waiting to happen. What really gets me is when the city salts a rarely used walkway through a park behind the school, but doesn't do the sidewalks in front of the park (legally required to do - the only ones who can), and don't do sidewalks on the sides & in front of the school (legally required to do - school does all the parking lots, walkways, internal sidewalks, and area behind the school where the kids play). The city just sucks. |
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bobnoxe
Member
2017-Jan-17 12:18 pm
I've lived on my street going on 18yrs and every bloody year I have to call bark at my Councillor to get the snow removed. One year there was so much snow on the street, people were literally parking in the middle of the street.
Its like I live in a magical nowhere land where it never snows. |
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donoreo
Premium Member
join:2002-05-30
North York, ON |
to taraf
said by taraf:I like the teflon-coated "reflex" wipers - I like those as well. |
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TuxFan
Member
2017-Jan-17 1:13 pm
I dislike those bow-shaped wipers. Tried several brands on several cars (Ford, VW, Mazda and Honda) and they never worked right for me. In the end, el-cheapo regular wipers worked for me without any fuss, on all my cars. I take the money I save and upgrade the headlight bulbs instead. |
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donoreo
Premium Member
join:2002-05-30
North York, ON |
donoreo
Premium Member
2017-Jan-17 2:21 pm
said by TuxFan: I take the money I save and upgrade the headlight bulbs instead. I did that. I have LEDs. I have had them for about 6 months now. They are great. |
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taraf
join:2011-05-07
Ottawa, ON |
taraf
Member
2017-Jan-17 2:27 pm
said by donoreo:I did that. I have LEDs. I have had them for about 6 months now. They are great. As long as they're properly aligned and you're not one of those assholes driving around with your fog lights on, I don't object.... (fog lights are designed to aim upwards from a lower angle, so the reflection on the fog goes up and over your car. if there's no fog for it to reflect off, it goes right into the eyes of oncoming traffic. this makes you an idiot, not some kind of leet lifehacker) |
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said by taraf:(fog lights are designed to aim upwards from a lower angle, so the reflection on the fog goes up and over your car. if there's no fog for it to reflect off, it goes right into the eyes of oncoming traffic. That is 100% wrong. Fog lights are designed to cut under the haze not above. Fog is usually about 2 feet above ground and the fog lights are aligned to shine under the fog. |
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to bobnoxe
Given the choice of being slowed down by people being overly cautious, or assholes travelling 20km above the limit - trying to cut me off before their lane ends ( happened this AM), I'll take the former. |
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AnavSarcastic Llama? Naw, Just Acerbic
Premium Member
join:2001-07-16
Dartmouth, NS |
to SafeMode
said by SafeMode:said by taraf:(fog lights are designed to aim upwards from a lower angle, so the reflection on the fog goes up and over your car. if there's no fog for it to reflect off, it goes right into the eyes of oncoming traffic. That is 100% wrong. Fog lights are designed to cut under the haze not above. Fog is usually about 2 feet above ground and the fog lights are aligned to shine under the fog. Concur Tariff, where did you pull that factual information from?? Here is a decent article... » www.danielsternlighting. ··· mps.html |
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to Oldster
Didn't say I wanted to drive over the limit, simply at the limit or a tad better. |
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taraf
join:2011-05-07
Ottawa, ON
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to Anav
Thanks for the correction...  That said, I still maintain that folks driving around with their fog lights on all the time are still idiots... And your article does support that conclusion, just not the specific reasoning I gave.  EDIT -- And it turns out, on reading the article you posted, I was right about the impact that fog lights have on other drivers, just not the reason it has that impact. But foreground light is far less safety-critical than light cast well down the road into the distance, because at any significant speed (much above 25 mph), what's in the foreground is too close for you to do much about. That is, at normal road speeds, whatever is close enough to be within the foreground light is too close for you to avoid hitting. If you increase the foreground light (such as by turning on the fog lamps), your pupils react to the brighter pool of foreground light by constricting, which in turn substantially reduces your distance vision—especially since there's no increase in down-the-road distance light to go along with the increased foreground light. This is also the reason why it is not appropriate to have fog lamps lit with the high beam headlamps: if you're going fast enough to need high beams, you definitely don't want to spoil your distance vision by overly lighting the foreground. Increasing the light that's put out unnecessarily is going to impact oncoming cars too, IMO. |
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to bobnoxe
said by bobnoxe:Didn't say I wanted to drive over the limit, simply at the limit or a tad better. I didn't accuse you of anything. I would never!  All I said is that if I had to choose one situation over the other, I'd rather have a leisurely drive behind a slowpoke than to deal with someone who is in such a fucking hurry that he uses the right turn lane to pass a bunch of cars, then at the last possible moment before the intersection, just suddenly pulls right in front of me in the straight-through lane. |
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