Driving habits of rural folk

[daugen]

I have no reason to believe you were scum of the earth before you retired. :laughing:

I'm not ever going to respond to something that nasty and ignorant. Uncalled for here. Like calling all lawyers crooks.
Someone has a serious attitude problem.
If you don't like insurance, don't drive and don't have a mortgage on your home. It's DOT and your bank that requires it and it's a free country where you can
get competitive quotes anywhere. What's next, all car dealers are bad just because some are?

 

[turnkey4099]

yep. and the guy that hits you has no insurance, no assets, and maybe no driver's license and you're out your deductible at a minimum and maybe permanent neck injury.

I've been in an incident where the other person had nothing to go after. There was nothing I could do to get my money back. No assets. No job to garnish wages. Nothing. I ate it.

Example of drivers who don't know the rules. My neighbor (my house clearner) totaled her car in Sokane, Wa. Made left turn and was t-boned by and on-coming driver. She just CANNOT understand why she got the ticket and blame. "It was his fault, he should have seen me". Both me and here husband and, I am sure< the cop tried to explain it to her. Nope, not her fault. She is in her 50s and has been driving since 16.

 

[strantor]

Yellow means STOP if you have room to do so safely. Passing through a yellow when you had safe room to stop can and will get you cited.

In all the places I've driven, I've never heard that once, and it seems impossible to enforce. How is "safe room to stop" quantified? What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? All kinds of things would need to be taken into account; the coefficient of friction for the road type (modified for atmospheric conditions at the time of citation), tread % on the tires, what kind of tires, instantaneous speed, # of passengers, cargo weight, etc.

We do not have that law in TX. Here, it's simple. Was the light red when you entered the intersection? Yes?Citation. No? No Citation. Was the light yellow when you entered the intersection and red when you left it? No Citation.

 

[MossRoad]

The "cc downshifts on hills" argument is a non-starter. Your vehicle will also downshift the same way if you are not using cc, difference being it will probably downshift later as you won't notice the speed dropping off as fast as the cc does.

Ahh, but I do notice the speed dropping faster than the cruise control, so I depress the gas pedal and force a downshift before the CC does. On steeper hills, the CC will downshift one gear, then another, then another as it keeps determining it can't keep up. I force 2 gears and sometimes even 3 with my foot and do it all at once. It then holds the speed rock steady up the hill.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I might anticipate the hill and speed up to get momentum to get over the hill faster, but easier. Something CC could never do.

 

[ovrszd]

Ahh, but I do notice the speed dropping faster than the cruise control, so I depress the gas pedal and force a downshift before the CC does. On steeper hills, the CC will downshift one gear, then another, then another as it keeps determining it can't keep up. I force 2 gears and sometimes even 3 with my foot and do it all at once. It then holds the speed rock steady up the hill.

Then why use CC???

 

[ovrszd]

I'm not ever going to respond to something that nasty and ignorant. Uncalled for here. Like calling all lawyers crooks.
Someone has a serious attitude problem.
If you don't like insurance, don't drive and don't have a mortgage on your home. It's DOT and your bank that requires it and it's a free country where you can
get competitive quotes anywhere. What's next, all car dealers are bad just because some are?

I'm gonna assume he misspoke. So hopefully he'll respond with an apology or retraction.

After all he closed a thread yesterday stating "we" need to quit insulting each other......

 

[dragoneggs]

I'm not ever going to respond to something that nasty and ignorant. Uncalled for here. Like calling all lawyers crooks.
Someone has a serious attitude problem.
If you don't like insurance, don't drive and don't have a mortgage on your home. It's DOT and your bank that requires it and it's a free country where you can
get competitive quotes anywhere. What's next, all car dealers are bad just because some are?

I took it as Moss was joking (pointing out typical stereotyping) and in no way was trying to insult you personally.

 

[ovrszd]

I took it as Moss was joking (pointing out typical stereotyping) and in no way was trying to insult you personally.

I did too. We shall see.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Seems to me, looking in the rear view mirror that the scum of the earth and cream of society were one and the same.