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12-03-2018, 01:34 PM #301Registered User
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Famous last words. To an extent i agree with you, however you (general you) are a straight jackass if the right lane is going 25mph and you blow by in the left lane going 50+. Just asking for an accident.
Or even worse, and i see this constantly on I-90 in WA state: Its a 3 lane highway and folks are chaining up along the shoulder in the chain-up area. The left lane is folks moving along at 35-40 mph, the middle lane is the 20-25mph chain lane, and people are keeping the right lane generally clear because people are chaining up 2' from it on the shoulder, and other folks are just pulling out into that lane from chaining up so its kind of like a pit-road scenario. I always see some douche (almost always a sledneck with a flatbed for whatever reason) see the open lane and gun it going 50mph, literally 2' from folks kneeling down chaining up, spraying the shit out of them and every so often getting loose and almost wiping out a few different parents in front of their kids.
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12-03-2018, 01:42 PM #302
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12-03-2018, 01:49 PM #303
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12-03-2018, 01:54 PM #304
As always, it depends. You still should not drive faster than you can react and stop/slow safely.
Hell - sometimes in the mountains here, even on *dry* roads, you'll get 25mph traffic in the right lane with 70mph traffic passing in the left lane. It's almost always the fault of the people in the right lane due to not paying attention to what's going on ahead of them.
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12-03-2018, 02:19 PM #305Registered User
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Had a lady driving 45 in a 65 on dry roads because she was passing a semi. I had to slam on the brakes, then follow her for a mile before she finally completed the pass. WTF? People need to have more of a sense of urgency to gtfo of th semi's blind spot.
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12-03-2018, 02:27 PM #306
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12-03-2018, 02:31 PM #307
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12-03-2018, 02:41 PM #308
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12-03-2018, 02:47 PM #309
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12-03-2018, 03:03 PM #310Registered User
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In my experience, 9/10 of why Europeans appear to be better drivers is training/testing. The limited skill set required to get a license in the US is laughable. But even in Europe, there’s a clear hierarchy of driver quality, generally corresponding to training/testing requirements, which are generally more strict in Northern Europe and less so in Eastern and Southern Europe.* The penalties levied for unsafe driving are also quite harsh, with traffic enforcement generally used to enhance road safety, rather than as a revenue source, as is more common in the US.**
* No, I don’t have specific examples, outliers definitely exist (UK & Eire jump to mind), and they’re almost all significantly stricter than in the USA.
** Not to say that there’s not a revenue component in Europe. I got my first speeding ticket in Germany and it was a doozy, although conveniently payable on the spot.
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12-03-2018, 03:21 PM #311Registered User
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Years back in Alaska there was a state trooper who targeted "Out of state" drivers. He politely informed them that he could take care of the fine on the spot if they had cash. A German speaking undercover officer driving a rental put an end to that cash cow. I do not know what kind of tires the convicted state trooper used.
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12-03-2018, 03:35 PM #312
I'm wondering where the thread is on, 'Why your AWD sedan doesN'T suck in the mountains.'?
"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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12-03-2018, 03:55 PM #313
I hate it when the right lane is plowed well and the left lane is deep rutted snow. All the trucks and people going slow are in the right lane but you can't pass them safely in the left lane. Nothing to do but be patient.
Friends picked me up on the way to Squaw this morning (I was super stoked to get to park in the carpool lot) and their Audi SUV slid and fishtailed through the stop sign on Donner Pass Rd at the Donner Lake interchange--a notoriously icy spot which he approached at a reasonable speed. I told him he should get winter tires. He said he had Pirelli Scorpions. Be warned.
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12-03-2018, 04:32 PM #314
there's also a vehicle component. vehicles sold in the US die in the US. they don't end up in eastern europe. US vehicle licensing (aside from emissions in some jurisdictions) is effectively "do whatever the fuck you want". bald tires? no problem. nobody gonna give a fuck. it's not that people don't know it's that they've no incentive to give a fuck.
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12-03-2018, 04:37 PM #315
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12-03-2018, 04:51 PM #316
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12-03-2018, 05:02 PM #317
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12-03-2018, 05:10 PM #318Registered User
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12-03-2018, 05:16 PM #319
https://www.gov.uk/government/public...cked-at-an-mot
^ UK annual test for all cars over three years old.
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12-05-2018, 03:48 PM #320
Both Bozeman and Livingston are at considerable elevation and spend much of the winter with snow and ice through out town. In those instances, whether actually in the mountains, one might as well consider them as in the mountains. Bozeman starts at 4800 feet.
FKNA eleventy billions times this!
That's where snow/ice tires pay dividends; confidence in passing during sketchy conditions.
And, there are many variants of the Scorpion, including those for motorcycles. Sounds like your buddy didn't have the snow/ice variant.
Beat me to it.
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12-06-2018, 12:06 AM #321
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09-28-2019, 08:12 PM #322
Its the time of year to bump this thread. Has anyone ran Sumitomo ice edge? Thinking about putting dedicated snows on the wife's rav4 and these are cheap. I'm sure they will be more than adequate for driving LCC, but I'm wondering if they'll be noticeably worse on dry roads than a blizzak, etc. since we have a lot of dry weather in the SLC valley.
We've been running Yokohama G015s on the rav4 for a few winters and they've been good, but we've changed up work schedules and the vehicle quiver and with snows I'd probably do most of ski driving in this instead of my f150.
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09-28-2019, 09:48 PM #323
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09-28-2019, 09:50 PM #324
Get some Hakk's and call it good. Every year, so simple.
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09-28-2019, 10:17 PM #325
I got Michelin Ice X last year because money. First time in almost ten years I drove something other than Hakkas in the winter and I was actually pretty impressed. Second and third winter will really be where the pudding shows its proof though. For half the price, I might just be ok with it if they're acceptable on second winter (which will put them over 30K KMs.
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