Florida road rage law proposal goes after left lane drivers 4108
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:58:42 GMT, Steven Canyon Hmmm ... at this point I think...
Florida road rage law proposal goes after left lane drivers 4109
The turnout law mentioned above has nothing to say about driving slowly in the left lane because it is limited to two lane roads. Vehicle Code 21656 says: On a two-lane highway where pbutting...
Florida road rage law proposal goes after left lane drivers 4110
Look Jim, the point I'm trying to make is not that others speed and I don't...
Florida road rage law proposal goes after left lane drivers 4111
Driver A is driving 100mph. Everyone is keeping right except to pbutt. He moves right after completing a pbutt and a driver...
Florida road rage law proposal goes after left lane drivers 4112
Actually they just start to adopt the MFFY of the people that are annoying them. The way US society...
Florida road rage law proposal goes after left lane drivers 4113
Road rage is never justifiable, and that's what I think this law is trying to say, that's why I'm against the wording. There are some real needles out there. People who honk if you...
Florida road rage law proposal goes after left lane drivers 4114
Get this... this is one of my bicycle clbuttics. I am waiting at a stop, I am in the center of the right lane...
Florida road rage law proposal goes after left lane drivers 4115
While I have nothing against bicyclists, some of them lessen the surprise every time I...
Florida road rage law proposal goes after left lane drivers 4116
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:15:20 -0400, "Magnulus" Empathy can wear pretty thin after awhile. When people begin to feel they're getting the short end of...
Florida road rage law proposal goes after left lane drivers 4117
That's projection-blaming the victim. It's no different than blaming a rape victim for the way they dress. Irrelevent. Your atbreastude towards time is the problem- its...
Florida road rage law proposal goes after left lane drivers 4118
The sloth scott is talking about are the same people who block my progress on a bicycle. They...
Florida road rage law proposal goes after left lane drivers 4119
The infinite tolerance arguement again. Subject a person to endless rudeness, thoughtlessness, people pushing him around, and if he at any time becomes even slightly...
Going somewhere, Deputy
Police hypocrisy for the day: I'm on GA25-spur southbound approaching the intersection with GA303 in Glynn County in the right lane doing about 45mph...
Going somewhere, Deputy 4121
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:26:22 GMT, "Skip Elliott Bowman" No, he didn't. If you never heard about this case or don't remember it, stop trying to make it fit another one that...
Going somewhere, Deputy 4122
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 03:41:43 -0400, Nate Nagel , said the following in rec.autos.driving... Just to satisfy our friend's curiosity, here's the details of...
SUV attempted pbutt
I first posted this story several years ago: I was driving on a narrow, winding road through a residential area in Bedford, Mbuttachusetts when I came upon a long line of cars following a garbage...
Who Says Cars Aren't an Investment 4124
How long does the Prius battery last and what is the replacement cost? The Prius battery (and the battery-power management system) has been designed...
Who Says Cars Aren't an Investment 4125
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:12:46 -0700, L Sternn Lab tests and real life usually have nothing in common. Least of all battery tests, which simply buttume that because of some more charge...
Who Says Cars Aren't an Investment 4126
Replace "they" with "you" in the following excerpt from "Perhaps they should ask Vancouver BC's Andrew Grant, the world's first Toyota Prius taxi cab driver. After three years of daily use his Prius had logged...
Who Says Cars Aren't an Investment 4127
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:29:30 -0700, L Sternn A cab also gives no bearing on how the battery fares over longer timespans. The lifespan that matters for manufacturers of japanese...
Who Says Cars Aren't an Investment 4128
Actually, it was you who made the claim that Prius drivers don't care about the environment. Perhaps not all of them do, but I didn't...
Who Says Cars Aren't an Investment 4129
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:26:43 -0700, L Sternn It was I who made the claim that other factors are deciding their purchase. It was...
Who Says Cars Aren't an Investment 4130
Yes, you said they wanted to look "intellectual" and they didn't care about the environment. No, I NEVER said that. You were the one who introduced the idea of...
Who Says Cars Aren't an Investment 4131
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 00:32:38 -0400, Magnulus That is not true. Steel recycling drastically reduces steel quality, which means you have to add a high percentage of new steel to get automotive grade steel...
Who Says Cars Aren't an Investment 4132
OK... here you are full of crap. The energy to make a car can come from renewable resources or resources that do not...
Who Says Cars Aren't an Investment 4133
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:14:37 -0400, Magnulus The energy comes from either oil-coal or...
Who Says Cars Aren't an Investment 4134
Nuclear power has negligible risk. It kills fewer people than mining coal does, and it also releases alot of air pollution. It's hardly...
Who Says Cars Aren't an Investment 4135
No reason it couldn't at least theoretically. And while nuclear energy is not renewable, it's practically infinite. Therefore, the energy needed to make an automobile is negligible, if you are including powering...
Attempted micropbutter
The situation: 2 lane highway, limited pbutting oportunities. 2 Pbutting lanes southbound in 50 miles, unfortunately both are within 5 miles of each other. I am southbound at 65 which...
Dumbbuttes
Idiots gawking at handcuffed wetbacks caused three separate crashes near Tucson today. Un-f***ing-believable!! The BP is acting all apologetic, as...
Dumbbuttes!!! 4138
Which one? There's one westbound JWO Buckman Springs Road, there's one eastbound JEO Yuma, and there's a temporary one...
Dumbbuttes!!! 4140
Plenty musicians better than me. No denial there. Plenty Americans who'll do that now--we call them scabs and scum bags. No need to cross a border. They get a rep and don't...
Dumbbuttes!!! 4141
Look who's talking! It does? Really? You must be joking--I thought all the world's bandleaders lived in my town! This is a shock. And you...
Dumbbuttes!!! 4142
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:43:47 -0700, "Phxbrd" "U.S. forces were not ready for war, and American hopes of...
Dumbbuttes!!! 4143
On January 8, 1815, American forces, under General Jackson, decisively defeat the British forces trying to capture New Orleans. The battle, which takes place after the Treaty of Ghent has been signed, is...
Dumb **** Gets Creamed While Yacking on her Cell Phone 4144
Are you serious? One of the overwhelming causes of accidents you read about in the paper is from some moron tuning the radio and not paying attention to what the hell they are doing. My...
Dumb **** Gets Creamed While Yacking on her Cell Phone 4145
Dave Head Operating and listening to the radio is not the same as using a cell phone. It is a habit or procedure that has been well established over decades and it...
Dumb **** Gets Creamed While Yacking on her Cell Phone 4146
Reading it again, that statement didn't say what I meant... I guess I got a little carried away. However, I'd say...
Mom of the year shops for a car
Police: Woman sold daughter for car Second daughter allegedly forced into prosbreastution Wednesday, April 13, 2005 Posted: 8:07 AM EDT (1207 GMT) OKEECHOBEE, Florida (AP...
Umberto Bigone Was Right
Scott en Aztlán Not possible in some cars. I'd just put it in the glovebox instead. I'm not one who uses suction cups to mount a...
YOU CAN'T DRIVE TOO SLOW
What the existing devices do is over ride the driver with hitting the brakes when the computer determine that an accident will occur if there is no intervention. We are...
Speeding sucks 4150
Magnulus We've already gone over this. Airbags deploy with much more force than is necessary to help a belted driver. This is due to the FMVSS 208 requirement that...
Speeding sucks 4151
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:17:20 -0400, Magnulus Driving recklessly is tailgating, blocking, everything where agression plays a role...
Speeding sucks 4152
Limits of car is important, but limist of human physiology are also important. If you are travelling at 100...
Speeding sucks 4153
Wedge is primarily about changing the front-rear balance of a vehicle. As I already...
Speeding sucks 4154
It does not smoke at idle or startup, even running regular diesel fuel without cetane improvers or biodiesel. The only time it has smoked was during winter when I was...
Speeding sucks 4155
Hey now, you are touching a nerve when you talk about my car. My car is not slow just because I don't drive with a...
Speeding sucks 4156
No. It shows that the vehicle was designed with the capability of going over 100 mph They drive TDI's on the Autobahn...
Speeding sucks 4157
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 04:53:04 -0400, Magnulus What does a 160mph speedo have to do with driveability on the Autobahn? Unlike you I know the Autobahn network in Germany very well and have logged...
Speeding sucks 4158
If Smart is doing so poorly, why is it selling in Canada now? And VW is debating selling the Polo in the US as well. The Smart car had a rough start in...
Speeding sucks 4159
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 06:39:15 -0400, Magnulus Maybe because they have a lot of unsold models they are trying to get rid of? Smart is losing millions: The Smart...
Speeding sucks 4160
Last time I checked, I was still a guy. My diesel doesn't smoke, not even with...
Speeding sucks 4161
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:44:57 -0400, Magnulus You claim you are a guy. Now behave like one and learn how to drive. All diesels smoke under heavy acceleration. Some more, some less...
Speeding sucks 4162
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:23:15 -0400, Magnulus What you have heard or not heard is irrelevant. All diesels smoke under heavy acceleration and the VW TDIs are among the...
Speeding sucks 4163
Non-sequitur. Although acceleration is highest at torque peak, you can't actually stay near the torque peak during a quarter- mile. Note, when I say 'torque' in this thread, I am referring to torque at...
Speeding sucks 4164
Magnulus stinkpots if up? It doesn't matter. The diesel-haters will hate no matter what the evidence...
Speeding sucks 4165
1) availability- lots of automatic TDI's now days, especially relatively new ones 2) traffic- don't want to fool with shifting and all the foot dancing required. Heavy...
Speeding sucks 4166
It depends on the type-age of the bus. The local busses in Orlando I would guess are all very new diesels, they...
Sloth turn lane confusion
Get this.... not too long ago I am on my way to work. I'm in the left lane of a 4...
Gas is averaging $2.24... 4168
wasn't Now its going to be too little, too late though. They were talking about stuff that was going to happen in the future, not stuff...
Gas is averaging $2.24... 4169
Abiotic oil, whether true or not, still doesn't solve the problem due to the fact that the ONE documented case of A well "re-filling" itself shows...
Gas is averaging $2.24... 4170
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 03:35:47 -0400, "Magnulus" Right you are, Magnulus. I saw a Hummer the other day with ALL its windows rolled down...
Gas is averaging $2.24... 4171
You've got significant misinformation in this post, but amazingly your final conclusions are not too far off. Absolutely *no* oil from the North Slope is being sold to Japan. It is...
Gas is averaging $2.24... 4172
Well, you will find that *every* credible caribou biologist that has worked on the North Slope says it would be a disaster. Keep in...
Gas is averaging $2.24... 4173
First of all, nobody knows that due to the enviro-wacko inspired laws to prevent...
Gas is averaging $2.24... 4174
Sounds good, but in fact what you are saying has *nothing* to do with the reality of oil exploration-production on the North Slope. In fact there are exactly three areas right now which are...
Gas is averaging $2.24... 4175
Then we'd better get busy, huh? And the reason we don't have it today is because of the enviro-wacko obstructionists that blocked it 10 years ago... Nobody knows...
Gas is averaging $2.24... 4176
years in This is true, especially in the northwest with diesel fuel- not enough refineries, so supply can be disrupted easily (Alberta, Canada had...
Border crossings
Apparently, the POTUS is reconsidering the HSD position on border crossings. HSD wants only pbuttports to be accepted by Americans...
Scaredy drivers 4178
of it's deluded perception of reality. That's why we're all criminals and idiots! You don't think any of the following was written by anyone that has a reasonable grasp on reality, do you...
Scaredy drivers 4179
And so you adovcate all out war with the greys because of their habbit of anal probing humans and cutting up cattle? You want to go on like this? I can make up...
Scaredy drivers 4180
and Which doesn't give them the right to follow at such close following distances that effectively block lane changes. Of course, more aggressive...
Scaredy drivers 4181
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 13:02:44 -0700, "Daniel W. Rouse Jr." Of course it does. The law does not require me to let you merge in front...
Car shopper, 81, hits husband, salesman, car, tree, wall
April 15, 2005 Fla. test drive totals new car, hurts husband 81-year-old woman loses control of 2005 Accord...
I'm not LBMHB
There, I said it. Just because I generally drive the speed limit doesn't mean me and LBMHB are one in the same, or that I am a weanie who wouldn't like, at...
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