You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Now with 3x more gears...

[Ashartus]

Originally Posted by Knut

This morning on the way to work someone stopped in the middle of Anderson at the turn off to Macleod very quickly.. Slid a bit. Someone behind him had to swerve out of the way and nearly spun out. I was able to change lanes and slow down. I slowed down thinking there must be somebody on the road or some hazard or something. Nope... the light for the turn lane to the far left turned red. So he just stopped.

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9504...8192?entry=ttu

This spot right here. There are no lights in the Westbound direction.

That's even worse than what I've been seeing a lot of lately - drivers that refuse to turn on a solid green when there is no oncoming traffic and insist on waiting for the next turn light.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by mrkajz44

I already think idling your car to let it "warm up" has to be one of the most wasteful things you can do, but it really annoys me in my neighbourhood when everyone has a double garage filled with crap, so they need to do the "warm up" idle as they don't park their cars in the garage.

I warm up my car for 3-5 minutes so that the windshield doesn't fog up when I drive. Nothing egregious but enough for a valid safety concern.

We usually park two vehicles in the garage, but it's full of stuff right now so only one is in there. Boxes of stuff that my parents dropped off but I had an injury so it wasn't worth the risk to reinjure by moving it to the basement for the last few months. Hopefully in the coming weeks I'll move it and I've recovered enough that I won't injure myself moving it.

Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

A quick 'macho man' elbow to the lid top and center on the edge always fixes this for me.

I cut my hand on some jagged ice doing hammer fisting a bin open a few years ago. Now I get something like a shovel, mallet or hockey stick to whack the top instead.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Wormius

I went to throw a few things in my bin last night, and the lid was solidly frozen closed. I had to ram it into the side of the house to get it open. I suspect there will be a lot of bins that aren’t fully emptied. We should demand teflon-coated, heated bins.

Considering the difficulty they have with the bins as they are, a bin thats plugged into an outlet?

Oh...we'd need mandatory dashcam footage for this...for the hilarity if nothing else.

"Goddammit!! Not again!!"

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Wouldn't this require jumping off your garage?

You say 'require' like it's a bad thing...

[Scroopy Noopers]

Ah, back to that time of year where sunrise and sunset coincide with rush hour and nobody has ever heard of sunglasses. Glorious sun slow downs.

[Brendone]

Originally Posted by Locke

I'm doing my part for the environment....are you?!?

Expanding our panel and running 220v to the garage is going to be expensive, so thinking of running an old diesel generator to charge my wife’s new hybrid if it ever shows up, so we’ll be doing our part.

[8 Ball]

Originally Posted by Brendone

Expanding our panel and running 220v to the garage is going to be expensive, so thinking of running an old diesel generator to charge my wife’s new hybrid if it ever shows up, so we’ll be doing our part.

All jokes aside, I’ve been throwing around the idea of putting solar panels on my detached garage to charge an EV vehicle, or two. Is that completely ridiculous?

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by 8 Ball

All jokes aside, I’ve been throwing around the idea of putting solar panels on my detached garage to charge an EV vehicle, or two. Is that completely ridiculous?

What does the V stand for?

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by iggy_oi

What does the V stand for?

Virtuous

[8 Ball]

Originally Posted by iggy_oi

What does the V stand for?

Vagina obviously, but I also order naan bread from my favourite Indian restaurant.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by 8 Ball

Vagina obviously, but I also order naan bread from my favourite Indian restaurant.

If that’s the case what does the E stand for?

[81MC]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

To be fair there is really no reason to go under 50 when the speed limit is 50. Ice should be of no consequence at that speed if you have winter tires.

This is satire or what.

Really…ice? Icy roads/tires CoF ~ .15-.2. Dry asphalt ~.8. I don’t give a #### what you have for tires, the speed limit is the maximum legal speed conditions are adequate. Ice is objectively not an ideal condition and reducing speed on an ice covered road in a residential road is absolutely reasonable.

Straight from the government:

slow down, as posted speed limits are intended for ideal road conditions (and winter roads are not ideal)
you’re legally required to drive according to road conditions and can get a ticket if you don’t

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by 81MC

This is satire or what.

Really…ice? Icy roads/tires CoF ~ .15-.2. Dry asphalt ~.8. I don’t give a #### what you have for tires, the speed limit is the maximum legal speed conditions are adequate. Ice is objectively not an ideal condition and reducing speed on an ice covered road in a residential road is absolutely reasonable.

Straight from the government:

I like the fantasy that with winter tires we could effectively do away with laying gravel down on the roads. This is a great money saving idea and reduces rock chips. I don't know why people complain so much when the roads aren't maintained after a snow fall.

[PepsiFree]

Guys, it’s going 50, not 100. Grow up and learn how to drive.

[TorqueDog]

Going 50 in a 50 is fine when it's slippery, you simply begin braking sooner and make any maneuvers such as turns and lane changes more gradually when the conditions aren't ideal.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Guys, it’s going 50, not 100. Grow up and learn how to drive.

Learn physics.

How much does your emergency stopping distance change due to the conditions?

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by GGG

Learn physics.

How much does your emergency stopping distance change due to the conditions?

Once you learn how to drive you’ll be able to answer that question with “a manageable amount at 50kmph.”

Try it, it’s fun. Cars have horns and go vroom and everything. Beep beep.

Joking aside, if you’re too nervous to go even 50 in conditions like we had on Wednesday, even with winter tires, you shouldn’t be on the road. You’re likely a danger to yourself and to everyone else more often than anyone else is a danger to you. As Torque said, you just brake sooner and take your corners more carefully. Any semi-competent driver will have no trouble.

That’s why Ubers and Taxis and Transit and all those cool things exist. If you can’t drive, you don’t have to. Or be one of those people who goes 50 on Deerfoot, I guess.

[btimbit]

Monday night I came back from the airport and the car I had there wasn't ready for those driving conditions. I knew I wasn't going to be going 100 on deerfoot or stoney. So I took 52nd st instead.


If you want to go 50 that's completely fine. Just take roads that are 50 or 60

[GGG]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Once you learn how to drive you’ll be able to answer that question with “a manageable amount at 50kmph.”

Try it, it’s fun. Cars have horns and go vroom and everything. Beep beep.

Joking aside, if you’re too nervous to go even 50 in conditions like we had on Wednesday, even with winter tires, you shouldn’t be on the road. You’re likely a danger to yourself and to everyone else more often than anyone else is a danger to you. As Torque said, you just brake sooner and take your corners more carefully. Any semi-competent driver will have no trouble.

That’s why Ubers and Taxis and Transit and all those cool things exist. If you can’t drive, you don’t have to. Or be one of those people who goes 50 on Deerfoot, I guess.

It becomes very situationally dependant. Like you listed a whole list of reasons your aren’t going 50 on the road. You are increasing following distance, you are breaking earlier, there are curves on the road. It really depends on the precise situation and if you believe random impatient CP poster is accurately describing all of the hazards going on.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Wormius

I like the fantasy that with winter tires we could effectively do away with laying gravel down on the roads. This is a great money saving idea and reduces rock chips. I don't know why people complain so much when the roads aren't maintained after a snow fall.

I think there's a place for gravel at intersections where vehicles are starting/stopping but there's been studies that have shown that the effects of sanding does little to improve driving conditions on roads with high traffic volume. Most of it is essentially dispersed to the side by the first 10 cars or so. I just don't know why the city spends so much money on something that really doesn't make a difference especially now that they are using so much salt. Just makes a mess that makes the city look like ass in the spring and takes three months for the city to remove. It's simply not worth the massive expense.