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[BravoXray]

One can be both. It’s not always either/or.

Agreed.
Point taken.

 

[JethroB]

Let's find out-

What does 'righty tighty - lefty loosey' mean?

Just testing a theory mentioned in another thread ...😏

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It depends ,,,, on whether you are right handed or left handed.

 

[BravoXray]

...Deer that stand on the road when it's almost dark.
Dang near hit one this evening coming past a corn field.
Camera made it look lighter than it was.

 

[Jstpssng]

...Deer that stand on the road when it's almost dark.
Dang near hit one this evening coming past a corn field.
Camera made it look lighter than it was.

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Moose are just as bad. I hit one a couple of years ago, luckily I was able to get slowed down and cut the wheel so that I just grazed it, knocking it down. It then proceeded to stand in the road, waiting to see if somebody would come along and do the job right.
How do you not see a 900 lb animal at 8:00 AM on a sunny day?
It happened so fast that I had to look at the dash cam to find out what happened .. she came up out of the ditch the way that moose like to do so I couldn't see her.

 

[DarkBlack]

There's a lot more than a carburetor involved here. Actually no carb, as it's a diesel-electric hybrid. Using that logic a Tesla gets infinite miles per gallon.

300 mpg, sure, no problem, but if you turn on the radio, or heater, or windshield wipers, it drops to 100 mpg. Does it even have a radio?

 

[WinterDeere]

It happened so fast that I had to look at the dash cam to find out what happened .. she came up out of the ditch the way that moose like to do so I couldn't see her.

That's the way our local deer used to behave, and still do on occasion. Corn is the major crop around here, and PA roads generally have no shoulder, the right edge of your travel lane is the drainage ditch. Deer occasionally jump out of the tall grass in the drainage ditch at the edge of the road, or out of corn fields that are growing just two or three feet from the travel lane, right into traffic. Even worse on roads where we have a guardrail, as they jump over the guardrail and come thru your windshield, mid-flight.

It may sound hard to believe, but I've seen their behavior change over the last 50 years. In the 1980's, they almost universally jumped or ran out in front of oncoming vehicles. But it seems their behavior has changed in the latter half of the 100 years that cars have been common on our roads, to where now they mostly avoid vehicles, at least those they hear coming. I pass at least a dozen (or two?) deer every evening, we live in a very high deer population area, and I'd say maybe 49 out of every 50 of them just watch me pass from the edge of the road in the last decade or two.

 

[kenmbz]

We have one deer closer to town that waits at the edge of the road for no cars and then crosses.
It even looks both ways until it sees a clear stretch.

But during rutting, deer flying across the narrow road is constant.

 

[WinterDeere]

We have one deer closer to town that waits at the edge of the road for no cars and then crosses.

That's the way most are around here, too.

The closest I ever came to death by deer is not far from your neighborhood, that crazy bridge that runs under the eve of a tollhouse on Forrest Grove Road. Mom was driving an overloaded Ford Aerostar minivan, I was a teen in the passenger seat, and she came around that blind corner to find a deer standing just over the bridge. I'm pretty sure mom had three of the four wheels of that van in the air at the same time, at one point, trying to avoid the deer. She drove relatively fast, on those back country roads.

 

[BravoXray]

There's a lot more than a carburetor involved here. Actually no carb, as it's a diesel-electric hybrid. Using that logic a Tesla gets infinite miles per gallon.

Diesel fuel also has about 10% more BTUs per gallon than gas, which is one of the reasons diesel powered vehicles get better MPG than gas powered vehicles. Also, the higher compression ratios needed for diesels makes them more efficient.

 

[Runner]

Diesel fuel also has about 10% more BTUs per gallon than gas, which is one of the reasons diesel powered vehicles get better MPG than gas powered vehicles. Also, the higher compression ratios needed for diesels makes them more efficient.

So I guess we should be expecting to see some really high MPG cars from Mazda in the near future:

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Now, if they would just work on those dome lights....