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On the way ride to work on my BV500 this morning, I was on the lane next to the shoulder, there was a lady driving a big SUV next to the lane that I was driving, she suddendly changed into my lane to exit at the last minutes without notice I was next to her. I slowed down right away because I predicted that her car was changing lane, so I am OK. Her left hand was hold the phone, to her ear and talking. I gave her a long Stebel horn. Please do not ride parallel to the cars, and always scan ahead to predict traffic moving around you. Just share my experience. Ride safe.
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Thanks for posting this reminder. SUVs aren't looking for scooters on the freeway, they're looking for their destination. Let's remember that scooters are invisible to most drivers.
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Re: Beware of last minutes cars exit on freeway
BV wrote: On the way ride to work on my BV500 this morning, I was on the lane next to the shoulder, there was a lady driving a big SUV next to the lane that I was driving, she suddendly changed into my lane to exit at the last minutes without notice I was next to her. I slowed down right away because I predicted that her car was changing lane, so I am OK. Her left hand was hold the phone, to her ear and talking. I gave her a long Stebel horn. Please do not ride parallel to the cars, and always scan ahead to predict traffic moving around you. Just share my experience. Ride safe. |
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I catch myself sometimes riding next to them in their blind spot area. Bad. I speed up or slow down depending on the situation to place myself in an area where they can (hopefully) see me.
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Rex wrote: I catch myself sometimes riding next to them in their blind spot area. Bad. I speed up or slow down depending on the situation to place myself in an area where they can (hopefully) see me. |
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Amen....applies to when I'm driving in a cage as well.
Telltale sign as well, is if a car that was in your blind spot, starts to slow down but hasn't indicated that they're going to change lanes. Next thing you know they're changing into your lane. Rex wrote: I catch myself sometimes riding next to them in their blind spot area. Bad. I speed up or slow down depending on the situation to place myself in an area where they can (hopefully) see me. |
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Re: Beware of last minutes cars exit on freeway
BV wrote: Her left hand was hold the phone, to her ear and talking. |
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Thanks for the excellent safety reminder! This happens in city traffic as well when someone in the left lane decides to turn right across the right lane...
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someone please design and build a cell phone zapper. so when I see an idiot on the roads taking I can zapp their asses and either shock them or blow their phone up.
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old as dirt wrote: someone please design and build a cell phone zapper. so when I see an idiot on the roads taking I can zapp their asses and either shock them or blow their phone up. ![]() Neds on buses playing shite music through their phone speakers? <BOOM> What neds? |
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Good reminder and safety tip that we all need to heed. This is really the type of thing that happens in the city all the time. Everyone is too busy on the phone and texting instead of just driving. I can't wait until the new law here makes that type of thing illegal, it cannot happen soon enough.
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It is illegal around here and has had absolutely no effect. I was incredulous the other day when I slowly and carefully passed a car being a bit strange - as I passed I noticed that the driver was texting! She kept getting into near rear-enders with the cars in front of her.
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The problem is cops don't enforce it, even when it's on the books.
Not sure why, the revenue stream would pay for officers who only enforced that, full-time. |
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TheJ wrote: old as dirt wrote: someone please design and build a cell phone zapper. so when I see an idiot on the roads taking I can zapp their asses and either shock them or blow their phone up. ![]() Neds on buses playing shite music through their phone speakers? <BOOM> What neds? |
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Benito wrote: Good reminder and safety tip that we all need to heed. This is really the type of thing that happens in the city all the time. Everyone is too busy on the phone and texting instead of just driving. I can't wait until the new law here makes that type of thing illegal, it cannot happen soon enough. |
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genie wrote: TheJ wrote: old as dirt wrote: someone please design and build a cell phone zapper. so when I see an idiot on the roads taking I can zapp their asses and either shock them or blow their phone up. ![]() Neds on buses playing shite music through their phone speakers? <BOOM> What neds? |
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old as dirt wrote: someone please design and build a cell phone zapper. so when I see an idiot on the roads taking I can zapp their asses and either shock them or blow their phone up. As a side note there was a radio station that had a problem with their studio/transmitter link (STL). Their audio would drop out everyday between 5:25pm and 5:30 pm, for about 5 minutes- but only on weekdays. This was a news and traffic radio station. They looked for all of the normal problems a radio station would suspect to cause this problem to no avail. So, six months after this started, someone at the station had a clever thought..... Cellphones operates very near in frequency to their STL. SO they went out with special antennas and equipment during the time the outrages would typically occur. They finally found a big black SUV that was emitting nothing but noise throughout the 900MHz band. They followed the SUV home and asked what he was doing. It turned out to be a cellphone jammer. The guy ended up getting a VERY LARGE fine from the FCC for maliciously interference with a radio station that was the primary station in the area for the emergency alerting system, and interfering with other emergency systems such as 911. I believe the fine was $300,000 - but don't quote me on that. The driver's reasoning was- "I hate it when people talk on cellphones while driving, I'm afraid they'll crash into me." |
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Muad'Dib wrote: genie wrote: TheJ wrote: old as dirt wrote: someone please design and build a cell phone zapper. so when I see an idiot on the roads taking I can zapp their asses and either shock them or blow their phone up. ![]() Neds on buses playing shite music through their phone speakers? <BOOM> What neds? ![]() ![]() |
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genie wrote: Benito wrote: Good reminder and safety tip that we all need to heed. This is really the type of thing that happens in the city all the time. Everyone is too busy on the phone and texting instead of just driving. I can't wait until the new law here makes that type of thing illegal, it cannot happen soon enough. |
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I get the opposite happening,
I get people in the exit lane that are using the exit lane as a passing lane, When they change lanes back into the highway they almost take me out. If you are in the exit lane, Then you should exit, Some people make me so mad using the exit lane as a passing lane. |
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So true and much WORSE in rush hour traffic Another good reason not to work (rush hour traffic)
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Big Foot wrote: I get the opposite happening, I get people in the exit lane that are using the exit lane as a passing lane, When they change lanes back into the highway they almost take me out. If you are in the exit lane, Then you should exit, Some people make me so mad using the exit lane as a passing lane. For a while I felt occasionally guilty, thinking I might have been giving folk a hard time when they just didn't know the road, but then I realised there's thousands of pounds worth of gantries overhead to keep them right and if they can't successfully navigate a motorway junction with only two options to choose from, and configured in a pretty standard way (exit on left, onward traffic everywhere else) they're probably the type of person that's going to take out some unsuspecting PTW rider and shouldn't be on the fucking road. Anyway, deep breaths, rant over - sorry folks, I hadn't even realised quite how strongly I felt about that. |
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