"Lets Just Drive" (lets-just-drive)
02/07/2014 at 19:29 • Filed to: None
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"Lets Just Drive" (lets-just-drive)
02/07/2014 at 19:29 • Filed to: None | 2
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You may have to zoom in, but it's worth it.
What you should see is a badly spider-webbed windshield and when I say badly, I mean that this glass is just waiting for a strong gust of wind, never mind a collision. Worse, you'll see a front facing car seat in the back.
This is a flagrant safety violation.
Yet, sitting in the left hand turn lane what you don't see is the Police Cruiser that pulled along side me and gave me the dirty eye for my tinted glass and blacked out Mustang. I was like, "Really guy? Me sitting still is of more interest to you than the rolling deathtrap sitting right ahead of us?"
Note, I typically get along very well with LEO's but when I see this kind of oversight combined with missed focus, it makes me want to be sick.
The light changed, it belched black smoke and lurched off of the line. I doubt the papers were even in order. But nooooo, gotta worry about that "fast" looking Mustang. This is where I have issues with enforcement; when enforcement is selective.
TheOnelectronic
> Lets Just Drive
02/07/2014 at 19:31 |
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I agree. Back when I drove a WRX, I'd have cops follow me for several miles at a time, like they were just waiting for me to do something illegal.
A fast car can potentially increase the risk of driving, but an unsafe car is unsafe, period.
Jeff-God-of-Biscuits
> TheOnelectronic
02/07/2014 at 19:36 |
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"A fast car can potentially increase the risk of driving," Not quite the correct phrasing... A fast car can increase the chance that it will exceed the posted speed limit is what you meant to say. A well prepped car, in my own opinion, is much safer. Speed isn't inherently unsafe, unsafe drivers and unsafe cars are always unsafe.
Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
> Lets Just Drive
02/07/2014 at 19:40 |
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That Honda needs to get checked out, How would something like that pass a safety inspection?
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Lets Just Drive
> TheOnelectronic
02/07/2014 at 19:41 |
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I had an STI years ago and it was the exact same thing. Profiling.
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Lets Just Drive
> Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
02/07/2014 at 19:44 |
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They aren't mandatory here. They're only handed out as punitive measures when cops are already engaged or looking for a reason to be. We don't have annual "MOT" tests or whatever.
So as a result there are some real shit boxes on the roads. The upside, of course, is you can get away with being a mad scientist with your car up until you run afoul of Johnny Law. I mean, my buddy tested his exhaust and it recorded something like 150 decibels or something... that's the only upside of not having mandatory certification.
CPT Speedbump
> TheOnelectronic
02/07/2014 at 19:45 |
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Surely..surely any car will increase the chance of driving?..I mean... you can't drive a car at all if you don't have one... do you mean of driving fast? Or driving dangerously?
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Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
> Lets Just Drive
02/07/2014 at 19:47 |
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That was an answer I expected, Things are bit different here in Ontario, after cars get a certain age (I believe after 5 years), they need to be tested in order for you to renew your plates.
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Lets Just Drive
> Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
02/07/2014 at 19:59 |
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I don't like mandatory testing. But then again, I don't like shitty road hazards rolling around.
I just honestly wish people could grow the fuck up and that sense was common.
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TheOnelectronic
> CPT Speedbump
02/07/2014 at 20:58 |
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Hahahaha, I hadn't thought of that. A better way to phrase would be "Make driving riskier"
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TheOnelectronic
> Jeff-God-of-Biscuits
02/07/2014 at 21:09 |
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My thinking was this;
A fast car can go faster, and at higher speeds, risks are inherrently higher. With all other variables being equal, at greater speeds, the average road car will lose control more easily in emergency maneuvers, have more kinetic energy, so that braking distances are longer and impacts are more dangerous, and the amount of time you have to react is decreased.
Now, once you add other traffic, things change quite a bit. I've had way more near-accidents from a car unexpectedly doing 30 on the interstate than 100, and if you think about it, the faster you're going, the greater percentage of potential threats are in front of you, where they are easily seen.
I through "potentially" in there for a good reason: plenty of people buy Corvettes and only drive them 30 miles each sunday at 5 under the limit, but that car CAN potentially go very fast in the hands of someone very stupid.
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CPT Speedbump
> TheOnelectronic
02/07/2014 at 22:43 |
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lol, makes more sense, though only in some cases/conditions. In alot of cases a faster car means better handling and brakes too, so can avoid more collisions easier if going the same speed, and their will be a better chance of avoiding things at high speeds in a performance car then at high speeds in a 'average' car. That said, summer tires in rain or snow might be bad, driver viability might not be the best in sports cars (a WRX wouldn't be to bad for that :P ). Pro's and cons, lol
SamfaKenessal
> Lets Just Drive
02/08/2014 at 13:54 |
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You're right that there is a lot of stuff people get away with. But reconsider the limo tint...that obstructs other people's vision. I look through cars all the time when I'm driving, and illegal dark tint is a real handicap to those of us who are trying to use all the info we can to assess traffic and road conditions as we drive.
BeholdTheCamaro
> TheOnelectronic
02/09/2014 at 10:50 |
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I get the feeling that cops sometimes tail me in my Camaro. Maybe I'm just imagining things though, I know cops scare me much more in the Camaro than they do in other people's less sporty cars.
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TheOnelectronic
> BeholdTheCamaro
02/09/2014 at 11:38 |
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I've had cops pull immediate u-turns, then follow me through several turns before turning around again.
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BeholdTheCamaro
> TheOnelectronic
02/09/2014 at 12:12 |
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That's shocking. I've never had any of them be so blatant about it.
bob and john
> Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
02/11/2014 at 20:26 |
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thats just emissions testing.
thebigbossyboss
> Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy
02/11/2014 at 20:27 |
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That is just E test. Also 2 years between tests. You can drive a hunk of junk...just not forever.