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From: Josh - Today, 18:41
Finally, finally, finally, a reporter asked some real questions: http :// www .sacbee,com /2010/03/09/2595748/feds-to-probe-cause-of-runaway.html "Neibert told Sikes after the CHP caught up with him to shift to neutral but the driver shook his head no. Sikes told reporters he didn't go into neutral because he worried the car would flip." Of course the...
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From: jolly - Today, 09:45
Tata Nano Electric Vehicle in Geneva http :// www .motorvip.co.cc/2010/03/tata-nano-electric-vehicle-in-geneva.html
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From: Scott in SoCal - Today, 04:32
The scene: a major thoroughfare with 6 through lanes (3 in each direction), 2 dedicated left turn lanes, and a dedicated right turn lane. The light is red. From 1/4 mile behind us, an ambulance pulls out onto the street and is heading in our direction. The light for through traffic turns green. Three lanes of DUMBASSES just sit there, unable to figure...
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From: Scott in SoCal - 09 Mar 2010, 07:54
While driving through the grocery store parking lot I almost got T-boned by a MFFY in a fugly MB G-class SUV. He came flying out of one of the parking aisles mere feet in front of me; if I had been going as fast as he was I'd have been broad-sided for sure. You'd think someone who spent $100,000+ on a vehicle would be a bit more careful with it... -- The...
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From: Scott in SoCal - 09 Mar 2010, 07:32
Another runaway Toyota in SD, but this one had a happy ending. Seems the brakes were able to overpower the engine - with the help of a 6% up-grade. :) http :// www .google,com /hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gc pIFqke7WxQovY3MnhcyIYiLgwD9EATMO00 Prius with stuck accelerator glides to safe stop (AP) – 1 hour ago EL CAJON, Calif. — A California Highway Patrol...
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From: necromancer - ECHM - 08 Mar 2010, 23:17
Had to travel to Statesboro today for a little personal business tomorrow, and decided to take the opportunity to do a little roadgeeking of the video kind. The weather today was absolutely gorgeous - no clouds, cobalt blue sky and upper 60's for the temp. Perfect for riding windows down (and top down if I had a ragtop) for a drive up IH95 in Georgia...
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From: Leroy N. Soetoro - 08 Mar 2010, 05:41
http :// content.usatoday,com /communities/driveon/post/2010/03/did-abc-news -doctor-its-report-on-runaway-toyota-tests/1?csp=hf Did ABC News doctor its report on how a Southern Illinois University professor was able to rig a Toyota Avalon to become a runaway with unintended acceleration? Gawker,com is reporting that ABC News confirmed to them that footage...
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From: Scott in SoCal - 08 Mar 2010, 03:13
We've all run across those MFFYs who Sloth along until you try to pass them, and then speed up to block your pass. Well this time the MFFY's victim was an inexperienced driver, and the end result was the death of a 16-year-old girl. >man one of the very worst days u could imagine ..,fr iend of mine >daughter ,a passenger in a car was trying to pass another...
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From: Carl Rogers - 07 Mar 2010, 19:26
Hi Viatologists, To help make your viatology studies easier, the Worldwide Transportation Library (WWTL) is adding distance charts to highways it has photographed. This means you'll find a list of major relative cities along each highway criss-crossing the globe. All distances between are listed in kilometres. As of 7-Mar-2010, the WWTL has added...
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From: Carl Rogers - 07 Mar 2010, 19:25
Hallo Viatologen, Schönen Sonntag! Heute haben wir eine neue Autobahnfoto von der Schweiz. Sie ist eine kurze Autobahn in Kanton Luzern: http :// wwtl.info/#ch-14--de.html (Sie müssen eine Bildauflösung größer als 1024x768 haben.) Genießen Sie! Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Carl Rogers "Environment first, transportology second" ******** Worldwide...
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From: Carl Rogers - 06 Mar 2010, 22:00
Hi Viatologists, To help make your viatology studies easier, the Worldwide Transportation Library (WWTL) is adding distance charts to highways it has photographed. This means you'll find a list of major relative cities along each highway criss-crossing the globe. All distances between are listed in kilometres. As of 6-Mar-2010, the WWTL has added...
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From: Carl Rogers - 06 Mar 2010, 21:58
Hallo Viatologen, Guten Tag! Heute haben wir zwei neue Fotos der Schweizer Autobahn 1 in Kanton Zürich: http :// wwtl.info/#ch-1 2b--de.html (Sie müssen eine Bildauflösung größer als 1024x768 haben.) Wir haben ältere Fotos dieser Autobahn in Kanton Genf auch! Diese Bilder hat im Jahr 2005 fotografiert. Genießen Sie! Mit freundlichen...
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From: MLOM - 06 Mar 2010, 05:46
Yesterday enroute home from work and on a stretch of local street ending in a T intersection, I saw this interesting scenario. A driver in a rice-burner SUV (IIRC a KIA, aka Killed In Action) was driving 25 in a 25 (fine and dandy), but going down the center of the street while jaw-jacking with a cell phone. An oncoming driver wisely declined the "chicken"...
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From: Otto Yamamoto - 06 Mar 2010, 01:11
Now throughout the years(and sadly, it has been years...) I've had that uneasy feeling you get when someone looks familiar to you, but you can't, for the life of you, remember who they resemble. Well, today, it struck me like the hot kiss at the end of a wet fist! CalRog resembles Alfalfa from the Little Rascals! Not just physically, but in personality...
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From: Carl Rogers - 06 Mar 2010, 01:09
Hi Viatologists, As the Worldwide Transportation Library continues to grow, so does our feature-base. From time to time, a feature malfunctions and requires a fix. (It's a Silicon Valley way of life.) Erratum was recently discovered in our Picture Slideshow program, preventing delivery of photographs to your screen. The only slideshow affected was...
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From: Carl Rogers - 05 Mar 2010, 17:19
Hi Viatologists, To help make your viatology studies easier, the Worldwide Transportation Library (WWTL) is adding distance charts to highways it has photographed. This means you'll find a list of major relative cities along each highway criss-crossing the globe. All distances between are listed in kilometres. As of 5-Mar-2010, the WWTL has added...
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From: Carl Rogers - 05 Mar 2010, 17:18
Hallo Viatologen, Grüezi! Das sind unsere zwei neue Fotos der Landstraße 202 in Vorarlberg: http :// wwtl.info/#at-l202--de.html (Sie müssen eine Bildauflösung größer als 1024x768 haben.) Diese Straße verbindet Österreich mit zwei andere Länder. Genießen Sie! Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Carl Rogers "Environment first,...
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From: Scott in SoCal - 05 Mar 2010, 03:37
Unlike GM and Ford, who make it easy for law enforcement to steal my private data from the Event Data Recorder in my car, Toyota basically tells everyone "fuck you, you can't access that data." According to the article, until last week there was one ONE LAPTOP IN THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES that was capable of downloading event data from a Toyota vehicle after...
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From: necromancer - 05 Mar 2010, 03:23
The good: Driving to work this AM and was behind a tandem UPS rig at a stop light. Light turnes green and the UPS driver proceeds into the intersection making a right turn (as I would behind him) forcing a pinhead in a 4x4 pickup making a left turn from the opposite direction to have to stop and yield right of way like the law says. Props to the UPS driver...
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From: necromancer - 05 Mar 2010, 03:06
...the lamebrain who drives with his fog lights on on a clear night or the lamebrain who drives with his fog light on (note singular) on a clear night because one of them is burned out? -- "I... Can't drive... FIFTY-FIVE!!" --Sammy Hagar
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From: Carl Rogers - 05 Mar 2010, 01:08
If you're new to these newsgroups, you've probably come across the term 'viatology'. What does this mean? Viatology is defined as the scientific study of roads. Using the scientific method to research and discuss road-related topics, empirical knowledge is obtained and distributed throughout the world. Though the term is new (in fact, less than three...
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From: gpsman - 04 Mar 2010, 13:30
By Janice Morse • enquirer,com • March 3, 2010 A Mason man appears to be Ohio's worst repeat drunken driver - with 21 convictions - and he now has 10 years to think it over in prison. On Wednesday, Butler County Common Pleas Judge Michael J. Sage passed that sentence on Kevin J. Ante, 45, calling him "a ticking time bomb waiting to kill somebody." Ante...
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