dumbass drivers

mbalbritton

mbalbritton

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Lakeland, FL
So I'm driving to work this morning on 311 Bypass (4 lane divided hwy). It starts to rain. In a few minutes I notice a small patch of ice start to form on my windshield. I kick the heat from the floor to defrost. I also notice the windshield wiper arms and hood are building up a thin layer of ice. Meanwhile the idiot in front of me in her new Trailblazer is tailgating the person in front of her and stomping her breaks every few seconds. so I back off about a 100 yards, knowing this is gonna end well. Then she gets impatient and changes lanes (from the inside to the outside lane mind you) to go around. Here it comes! she looses it, fishtails, then she's sideways going down the highway at about 65mph, and here she comes across my lane, now she's backwards facing me in my lane about 50 yards. I'm doing my best to slow down, tapping my brakes and my ABS kicking in every time. Now she's off in the center median, throwing grass, sliding backwards and runs it in the ditch to a safe stop.

Everybody in front of her made it through the same area fine, I made it through fine right behind her. Why are people so damn stoooopid?

Now if she had wrecked I'd have stopped and helped. But since she stopped fine, I decided that maybe she didn't have any idea how to put it in 4wd (assuming it has it) therefore she could sit there and think about WTF she did wrong.
 
I'd say you did everything right. Increased following distance is about the best you can do. Time sitting there is probably the best thing needed for her. But, chances are she was calling her hubby asking what to do, what went wrong, and she did nothing wrong ect.
 
WOW! It started drizzling here in Burlington just before I left the house this morning. As soon as I turned onto the main road, my 2wd explorer fishtailed. And I had only barely given it any gas at all. I get to going down a back road and its a solid sheet of ice. Had the thing in low gear trying to coast at a slow pace and it still wasnt slow enough. Then as I am going down a slight hill, I see all the brake lights at the bottom of the hill. I think to myself there is no way I'm gonna be able to stop this thing. I have to keep tapping the brakes all the way down the hill. Finally get it stopped about 20 feet from the car in front of me. I had to turn around in a driveway and go another way. That crap was scarry. I would have driven the Jeep if I had thought it was gonna be this bad. But it probably would have done worse.
 
what you should have done was stop ask her to call her husband then take the phone and explain she was Driving like ASS..

then call the cops and explian samething.. so she gets a ticket for Being STUPID..

I have seen way to many people drive like this and they act like I did not do anything wrong.. MY ASS
 
A lady @ work tried to run over one of our tractors w/ her Explorer slippin'/slidin'.....didn't end well.
 
I hit a powerline pole...and lost... messed up the after market bumper, but I was able to get out.... see nothing leaking....back out, and ran away (bent the frame *@%$!)


The owner of the house still comes in here and picks on me about it :)
 
the one i saw was cooler, this morning there were people on both sides of me, then they both sped up and decided to get into the lane in from of me... both of them... in the same spot...

it was funny, they hit each other, and then both went symmetrically off of both sides of 540.

it wouldnt have been funny had they hit anyone, but two stupid drivers both had bad days, O.K. with me
 
even better news was that one of them was a ford focus...

...1 down, many to go

the ratios of 4x4's on the road just went up
 
BRUISER said:
what you should have done was stop ask her to call her husband then take the phone and explain she was Driving like ASS..

then call the cops and explian samething.. so she gets a ticket for Being STUPID..

I have seen way to many people drive like this and they act like I did not do anything wrong.. MY ASS
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Somehow doing 65 on a slick road sounded like a smart thing to do at the time. :shaking:
 
Wow.. My drive in at 6:45 was dry as a bone.. Good thing too, I didn't take the truck today..

By the way, folks, with ABS you don't pump the brakes..
 
I'm a fireman and our call volume went up starting yesterday AM right about 8:00. Try driving one of those beasts when you need to go fast to a call but you know you can't.
 
Rich said:
By the way, folks, with ABS you don't pump the brakes..
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always wondered about this one.... What happens when all 4 lock up and the vehicle thinks it's stopped? Does the ABS think you've stopped and it stops pulsating and just stay locked? Guess that's why I still tap on mine.
 
mbalbritton said:
always wondered about this one.... What happens when all 4 lock up and the vehicle thinks it's stopped? Does the ABS think you've stopped and it stops pulsating and just stay locked? Guess that's why I still tap on mine.
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The computer knows you are travelling XX MPH, so if all 4 wheels were to lock up, it kicks in the ABS solenoids ASAP, in a matter of microseconds, at least one wheel is rolling again and the computer knows you are not stopped, continues ABS'ing til all 4 wheels are 'locked', ie you are stopped.

Basically the ABS pumps the brakes so you don't have to :beer:
 
RenegadeT said:
The computer knows you are travelling XX MPH, so if all 4 wheels were to lock up, it kicks in the ABS solenoids ASAP, in a matter of microseconds, at least one wheel is rolling again and the computer knows you are not stopped, continues ABS'ing til all 4 wheels are 'locked', ie you are stopped.
Basically the ABS pumps the brakes so you don't have to :beer:
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ok, I guess it's the microseconds part that I'm not thinking about, but it still seems likely that you could stop all 4 tires while still sliding.. no?
 
got4-lo said:
you should see all the fawkers from florida up here in boone driving around in the winter... :shaking::lol:
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My Ex grew up in Boone, Had a bumper sticker on her car that said "When I get old, I'm gonna move to FLA and drive real slow"

You have to be from Boone to get that....
 
mbalbritton said:
ok, I guess it's the microseconds part that I'm not thinking about, but it still seems likely that you could stop all 4 tires while still sliding.. no?
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do a "panic" 30-0 stop in something with ABS, and keep your foot on the floor. You'll likely hear the ABS pump still spinning for a second after you come to a complete stop. The computer is just making sure.. ;)
 
I've hab a couple of cars with ABS. On ice, you can stomp the brakes and still be able to steer to the right or left...That said, When I bought my TJ, I thought it was ABS equipped.

I tried to demonstrate the steering while braking technique, to a friend. We were on wet grass and when i stomped the brakes and tried to steer left to avoid the tree, ooops, it locked up and slid straight into the tree. I felt like a retard trying to explain it...''well if it had ABS, it would have still turned''**pulling up on front fender to staighten it out**
 
Next time it's raining and you have really have ABS (Dylan) find a wide place in the road with no traffic and about 40mph try and push the pedal thru the floor. That way you know how ABS works and how it feels. I always do with all my vehicles ABS or not, that way I know how they react in a panic stop.

MAKE SURE NO TRAFFIC!!!!!
 
With ABS if you stomp on it HARD all it will do is sound like the entire car is falling apart around you as the ABS hammers the brakes on/off for you but you "cannot" lock the tires/create the scenerio you were asking about that is what they are there to prevent.

But, sounds scary as heck first time, EVERY time you hear em cycle that hard.

At 645 on Tuesday I rolled at the way to Gso with no issues other than all the dumb folks trying to do 45 on I-40 with no reason that I could see! I finally got in the fast lane and rolled on at 65 mph!! (All Wheel Drive is a beautiful thing, no brain activity required ha!! :fuck-you::popcorn:)

But I have to admit I took my lane changes at a nice even pace, the FJ80 is AWD and running Goodyear MTRs, not that really anything truly helps if you hit a large enough patch of ice. I always make sure to 'coast' as much as possible over bridges etc too since they ice first and no sudden movements.
 
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