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Yaris Hilton · 09-04-2009, 03:43 PM

Nearly all drivers think of themselves as much better drivers than they are. (I doubt I'm an exception.)

47_MasoN_47 · 09-08-2009, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by BailOut

Mason,

Your thoughts are solid, your approach is smooth and your attitude gives me hope regarding the current generation of young Americans.

Don't let the drama here get you down. I've been enduring it for 2 and a half years now. It's gotten so bad that many folks ask me questions or thank me via PMs for fear of being attacked on the forums, and I can't say that I blame them.

The funny thing is that it's just a few key people that always start the trouble. They change faces over time but it's always just a select few. Feel free to put them on ignore as they show themselves.

Thanks :) Sorry it took a while to post, been sick and some other stuff came up.

ellenbetty · 09-07-2009, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by 47_MasoN_47

Do you guys just put up with the impatient a-holes honking and screaming at you when starting off at red lights and stop signs? I generally find myself letting the car get up to 2500 RPM or so when starting because the person behind me looks like they are going to have an aneurysm. Do the rest of you have to put up with that crap? Maybe the drivers in my area are just a-holes. I know the vast majority of people here have no idea how to drive.

While I do hypermile using a ecometer, I am concerned about being shot or rear ended by someone speeding. I have been honked at a few times. I have been rear ended once with major damage to my car. I have learned to look behind me and slow down slower when there is traffic trapped behind me. I take into consideration how much space there is between me and the vehicles in front of me. If I reach the next red light just as it is turning green, and there is at lease one vehicle in front of me, I figure I am not holding up traffic and therefor less likely to be shot by some nut case.

Traffic lights are timed to give the best traffic flow for people who drive the speed limit. Those people who drive faster than the speed limit, hit more red lights.

For those who think that hypermilers should stop driving and ride a bicycle, I say, go post on the boost forum. I was rear ended while bicycling. The USAF doctor who treated me told me to never bicycle again. The USAF doctor said, with the damage already done to my body, I would not survive another bicycle automobile accident. I have been receaving disability checks ever since that accident. People disabled by speeding weaving drivers are part of the reason that taxes and insurance is so high.

RUFFSTUFF · 09-07-2009, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by ellenbetty

Traffic lights are timed to give the best traffic flow for people who drive the speed limit. Those people who drive faster than the speed limit, hit more red lights.

Not everywhere. On Union St. in Jacksonville, Florida for example, if you get a green light for the first one you have to do about 5 over to keep green all the way through.. otherwise you'll start catching reds...

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Originally Posted by ellenbetty

People disabled by speeding weaving drivers are part of the reason that taxes and insurance is so high.

Here are some others...
http://www.motorists.org/blog/why-do...-cost-so-much/

ellenbetty · 09-07-2009, 06:19 PM

That might be true for a few blocks, but try driving across a area as big as Baltimore. Given a hour or more driving during rush hour, a speeder will hit more red lights.

I know in Baltimore Maryland the state police will some times drive in a row on I-695 (Inner or Outer Beltway) to force rush hour traffic to drive the speed limit. Nothing like a 30 mile long backup in muliple directions to slow speeders down. While that is not hitting red lights, it has the same effect. The Maryland state police also likes to set up moving checks point on intercounty roads to catch drunk and drugged drivers. Again not a red light. But the moving check point forces speeders to drive at a craw.

RUFFSTUFF · 09-07-2009, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by ellenbetty

That might be true for a few blocks, but try driving across a area as big as Baltimore. Given a hour or more driving during rush hour, a speeder will hit more red lights.

I know in Baltimore Maryland the state police will some times drive in a row on I-695 (Inner or Outer Beltway) to force rush hour traffic to drive the speed limit. Nothing like a 30 mile long backup in muliple directions to slow speeders down. While that is not hitting red lights, it has the same effect. The Maryland state police also likes to set up moving checks point on intercounty roads to catch drunk and drugged drivers. Again not a red light. But the moving check point forces speeders to drive at a craw.

How do you speed for an hour in Baltimore during rush hour? Must be like Los Angeles where you have bumper to bumper traffic at 70mph.

Jahbs · 09-08-2009, 01:54 PM

hypermiling is like a style ur either used to it or ur not

tbh i dont care wat other drivers think i save moneh

let them get impatient

Kaotic Lazagna · 09-09-2009, 03:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Jahbs

hypermiling is like a style ur either used to it or ur not

tbh i dont care wat other drivers think i save moneh

let them get impatient

I agree with you. I'm driving within the range of the minimum (55 mph) and maximum speed limit, so I could care less what other drivers think of me. I'm a full time student so I'm trying to save money where I can. And driving slower saves me money.

R2D2 · 09-09-2009, 09:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

I agree with you. I'm driving within the range of the minimum (55 mph) and maximum speed limit, so I could care less what other drivers think of me. I'm a full time student so I'm trying to save money where I can. And driving slower saves me money.

Well said-as long as no laws are broken it is not your responsibility to drive in a manner that pleases anyone else.

47_MasoN_47 · 09-09-2009, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

I agree with you. I'm driving within the range of the minimum (55 mph) and maximum speed limit, so I could care less what other drivers think of me. I'm a full time student so I'm trying to save money where I can. And driving slower saves me money.

Yep, I'm a full time student as well (this is my last semester if I can pass Quantitative Methods III). My paycheck at work isn't real big so I don't want to waste money on things like gas...I need the $$ for ammo and Yaris parts :P

DevilGirl · 09-09-2009, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by 47_MasoN_47

I need the $$ for ammo and Yaris parts :P

Well ordered priorities!!

Kaotic Lazagna · 09-10-2009, 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by R2D2

Well said-as long as no laws are broken it is not your responsibility to drive in a manner that pleases anyone else.

Yup. Also, if the lane next to the slow lane is free and the person behind me is not tailgating me, I'll move over while keeping 55 mph, and let them pass, then move back into the slow lane. If they're tailgating me, I won't budge. hahaha.

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Originally Posted by 47_MasoN_47

Yep, I'm a full time student as well (this is my last semester if I can pass Quantitative Methods III). My paycheck at work isn't real big so I don't want to waste money on things like gas...I need the $$ for ammo and Yaris parts :P

At least you have a paycheck

. I have no income, so all the money that I do have goes to paying off the monthly bills and just staying alive. I've cut my meals to a foot long from Subway and may be a cheap burger everyday (until I can go back to my mom's and eat food there, and bring some back, lol).

RedRide · 09-10-2009, 03:23 PM

I have found that there will alway be impatient, a-hole drivers behind you a a red light no matter what you drive.

When this happens I just calmly and very, very slowly drive away to piss them of even more.

*VitzBoy* · 09-02-2009, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by TheJames

exactly. there were no personal attacks an any but the first post i made. i'm sure there's a legal problem with deleting post because you dont like them. nothing in the last few post of mine that got deleted was against the terms of use. go read the constitution. FREE SPEECH. i have just as much right to voice my opinion as brian or any of the mods on here. it's downright illegal to tell me i can't voice my opinion because it's different from the mods or the almighty brian.

Move on folks. Any further off-topic posts will continue being deleted. And please familiarize yourself with constitutional law before you go off claiming you have a constitutional right to speech on a privately owned forum.

09-04-2009, 03:43 PM	#1
Yaris Hilton Half a Bubble Off Plumb Drives: 2009 Yaris Sedan Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Bristol, Tennessee, USA Posts: 1,593	Nearly all drivers think of themselves as much better drivers than they are. (I doubt I'm an exception.)

09-07-2009, 06:19 PM	#5
ellenbetty ellenbetty View User's Garage Drives: 2 2007 Yaris 3 door liftback Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Stow Ohio Posts: 182	That might be true for a few blocks, but try driving across a area as big as Baltimore. Given a hour or more driving during rush hour, a speeder will hit more red lights. I know in Baltimore Maryland the state police will some times drive in a row on I-695 (Inner or Outer Beltway) to force rush hour traffic to drive the speed limit. Nothing like a 30 mile long backup in muliple directions to slow speeders down. While that is not hitting red lights, it has the same effect. The Maryland state police also likes to set up moving checks point on intercounty roads to catch drunk and drugged drivers. Again not a red light. But the moving check point forces speeders to drive at a craw.

09-08-2009, 01:54 PM	#7
Jahbs Drives: 2009 Yaris YR Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Perth Posts: 53	hypermiling is like a style ur either used to it or ur not tbh i dont care wat other drivers think i save moneh let them get impatient

09-10-2009, 03:23 PM	#13
RedRide Drives: '09 Yaris carmine red 2d HB Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Middletown, NY Posts: 1,502	I have found that there will alway be impatient, a-hole drivers behind you a a red light no matter what you drive. When this happens I just calmly and very, very slowly drive away to piss them of even more.