"Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
01/28/2014 at 00:25 • Filed to: None
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"Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
01/28/2014 at 00:25 • Filed to: None | 1
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Because ice. In the deep south. Where clueless rednecks assume AWD will allow them to go ten over the limit without a problem. I can't guarantee I'll get anything quite like this on video, but I will be out for a walk with my camera a couple hours each day. If nothing comes of it, I'll record myself attempting to ride my bike on ice. So expect to see something interesting by Thursday, whatever it happens to be.
JalopJeep
> Rainbow
01/28/2014 at 00:26 |
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LOL do you go to GA Southern too?
EDIT: Just realized you do too. It's going to be awesome. I made sure I put enough gas in the Jeep in case donie weather actually does decide to come around and Burk is a giant skidpad. Either way, there is going to be a lot of drinking done on my side of town (completely exclusive from the driving, of course).
The Transporter
> Rainbow
01/28/2014 at 00:30 |
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0:36 How's that 4wd going to get you out of that ditch, now?
Paul, Man of Mustangs
> Rainbow
01/28/2014 at 00:35 |
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Sooo much overuse of brakes in that video. Maintain throttle and countersteer into the spin, people! And use snow tires! Gaaah!
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Rainbow
> JalopJeep
01/28/2014 at 00:35 |
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Whoa, awesome! I didn't think any other Jalops went here! I wonder if there are any others, or if there's one at SCAD or something. Would be cool if there were enough to warrant a meet-up someday.
themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
> Rainbow
01/28/2014 at 00:37 |
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to the beige toyota's credit at the start - nice recovery!
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The Transporter
> Paul, Man of Mustangs
01/28/2014 at 00:40 |
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Another thing that would have helped would be not going so damned fast. I think I could count on one hand the number of people who were traveling at a reasonable speed for the weather conditions.
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Rainbow
> Paul, Man of Mustangs
01/28/2014 at 00:40 |
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To be fair, snow tires are impossible to buy here (Not sure where that video was shot, though) unless you order them online, and even then you're wasting money since you'll only use them once every two or three years. It's easier to just not drive.
But yeah, the brakes are the most glaring mistake I see everyone making all the time. In a high school physics class I once did a project explaining ABS and why that kind of stops being a thing in icy weather, just because it was so painfully obvious that all of my classmates were too dumb to be driving.
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JalopJeep
> Rainbow
01/28/2014 at 00:42 |
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Who knows. I don't really know any SCAD kids. There were always gorgeous cars when I took my ex down to Savannah for dates though. Most of my buddies are on the same 4x4/Jeep/lifted truck kick I'm on though. There's a beautiful sounding zr-1'ish blue colored C6 'vette that's been flying around town lately. Sounds PHENOMENAL.
awe46m3zcp
> Rainbow
01/28/2014 at 00:45 |
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When I lived in Atlanta people that had moved there from colder climates always laughed when everything closed because of an inch of snow. "You southerners dont know how to drive in snow". I now live in Colorado, and people are always wrecking here in the snow. Interstate was shut down earlier because of wrecks, and there was only 3 inches. The only difference is nothing closes here when it snows. It could be 3 ft of snow, and our office wouldnt close.
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Paul, Man of Mustangs
> Rainbow
01/28/2014 at 00:45 |
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Fair point about the snow tires, but even a good set of siped all-seasons would be a better option than whatever crap the people in these videos are running. But the public's gross misunderstanding of what brakes are capable of is one of the leading causes of winter accidents. People just think that locking up the tires is the fastest way to stop, so they just mash the pedal and hope that everything comes out ok, when that's the WORST thing you could do.
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Rainbow
> JalopJeep
01/28/2014 at 00:46 |
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I don't know any either, but there are plenty of awesome cars down there so it wouldn't surprise me.
Not sure if I've seen that one, but it might be one of the distinctive engines I hear every other night. Very nice sounds, whatever they are.
The best car I've seen here, though, has got to be the Triumph Spitfire in my dorm's parking lot. I actually just managed to find a picture of the exact one I'm talking about:
I gotta meet this guy someday.
Blake Noble
> Rainbow
01/28/2014 at 00:46 |
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Open up new tab.
Go to YouTube.
Type in "Benny Hill Theme."
Play video.
Go back to Oppo tab.
Play video.
Am ... am I a bad person now? I still felt bad for the pizza guy a few minutes in.
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Paul, Man of Mustangs
> The Transporter
01/28/2014 at 00:47 |
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The freeway with the stopped traffic showed quite a few examples of that. Really, 40 is about as fast as I'd want to go on snowy roads, and 20 on icy roads. Both with massive following distances.
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JalopJeep
> JalopJeep
01/28/2014 at 00:50 |
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Wow. That's a great pic at sweetheart circle. And yeah, there are a ton of nice cars flying around here. There's a black/black GT-R I see every other day or so also. But this place really caters to my guilty pleasure favorite sound of a turbocharged diesel.
Lazzris
> Rainbow
01/28/2014 at 00:53 |
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Not just a south thing here in the north we can't drive in the snow and ice also. you think after 16+ years some people will learn to drive in this stuff, but nope. \rant
DollaMoneyAve
> Rainbow
01/28/2014 at 01:03 |
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Hundreds, maybe thousands of people traversed the same roadways in the same conditions without incident. People shouldn't blame the conditions, or the cars, it's all about the driver. I feel bad for these people, because going through a car accident is not something I'd wish on anybody, but they have no one to blame but themselves.
Dsscats
> Rainbow
01/28/2014 at 01:12 |
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I drove an Aveo in the snow once. NEVER. AGAIN.
CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
> Rainbow
01/28/2014 at 01:28 |
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I have to give a +1 to that white panther platform (crown Vic maybe? Or town car?) but they did some oppo, got out of it, and crashed...
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FelixScout
> DollaMoneyAve
01/28/2014 at 01:58 |
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Though don't forget about chance. even if you're doing everything right it can all go wrong.
Jacob
> Rainbow
01/28/2014 at 02:19 |
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A lot of that video is shot on a hill above this clusterfuck in Charleston WV, the Fort Hill Bridge. It's bad on a sunny day. Add snow/ice + poor knowledge of how to properly drive in the conditions and you get...well, that video.
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DollaMoneyAve
> FelixScout
01/28/2014 at 09:40 |
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If you're doing everything right, it won't go wrong. Chance applies to situations like when you're sitting at a red light and someone rear-ends you.
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FelixScout
> DollaMoneyAve
01/29/2014 at 01:00 |
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Chance also applies when you're doing 30 in dense highway traffic and the guy in your left side blind spot decided to accelerate and lane change into your car. You are being an aware driver maintaing a safe distance from the car ahead of you but this happens between your checks to that side of your car so it hits you. That is you doing everything right and getting hit due to chance. Or you are night driving at speed in a rural setting with close set woods near the road. You are looking for the glow of eyes to key you off to animals, you're also staying alert in general to watch out for what comes next. Which is you get hit in the driver's side door by a deer that you didn't see since it was too sheltered in the brush. This is you doing everything right and chance intervening. If you want to go slower or faster in this scenario, one that thousands of rural drivers experience, you will probably still hit the deer or be hit by it.
Skill, talent, and experience can keep you safe but only so far, at some point chance will intervene and you will do everything right and it will still go wrong.