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Watching my son speed when he already has one ticket and has been barely driving for a year...

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@WedgeRock
I 've done 182mph on an empty straight with lots of visibility and NO side winds, but I was 42 (not a 20smth punk:LOL: :laugh:) and had already had several post-graduate sports driving courses, on racetracks and on mountains (snow and ice schools).
Note that half of it was NOT illegal (still on German territory), while the other half was perfectly illegal (entering Belgium at 182mph or 292km/h):p
@Kid_Eastwood , @Thomacetti :)
 
Darthhoodie said:
When a seller states they take no responsibility for the chips once they drop them off at the post office.

Um no, you take all the responsibility. You were the one who packed them, and the insurance is in your name , not the buyers name.
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This is, IMO, the key point. If the buyer pays for insurance, the insurance claim must still be made by the seller. There's no ducking that responsibility.
 
APatHand said:
My dad spying on my driving.
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I didn't send the screen shot to his mother....that woulda put an end to freeway driving for another 6 months.

In fairness, I've driven with him, and he's pretty safe (when I'm in the car)... And it's tough to do the speed limit on that stretch... But that's also where a ton of cops sit...and we've had that conversation.
 
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WedgeRock said:
I didn't send the screen shot to his mother....that woulda out an end to freeway driving for another 6 months.

In fairness, I've driven with him, and he's pretty safe (when I'm in the car)... And it's tough to do the speed limit on that stretch... But that's also where a ton of cops sit...and we've had that conversation.
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Does he use Waze? Works great at least around New England
 
That screen shot is from Life360. I think he uses Google Maps for navigation... Which also now has the ability to report road conditions (like cops with radar guns).
 
WedgeRock said:
That screen shot is from Life360. I think he uses Google Maps for navigation... Which also now has the ability to report road conditions (like cops with radar guns).
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huh did they update that recently? thought only waze had it nice!
 
Thomacetti said:
The satnav in my A6 is google maps (permanent live feeds [traffic, accidents, road work, ...] in real time)
Looks awsome & best system I ever used (BMW, Benz, Infinity, Range rover, ...)

Example:
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my phone does waze so, that's kind of cool...
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Thomacetti said:
The satnav in my A6 is google maps (permanent live feeds [traffic, accidents, road work, ...] in real time)
Looks awsome & best system I ever used (BMW, Benz, Infinity, Range rover, ...)

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I just had to use the raw 408 horsepower to escape from either traffic or the Police in my honoured former car.
Not a fan of interconnectivity and the like; I acknowledge, however, its usefulness, getting now fuckin' older:(
 
WedgeRock said:
Watching my son speed when he already has one ticket and has been barely driving for a year...

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I used to work for the fire department right there. There was a bend in the road, just west of the train overpass. We ran more serious accidents there than anywhere else in the city.

Why? The high treeline would drop a shadow on the road allowing it to remain icey, even when the rest of the interstate would be dry. Cars would hit it and either slide up into the grass and flip (3 fatalities that way), or slide into another vehicle, leading to a multi-car wreck.

I hated that stretch, because it put us standing out on the road around a blind curve. I've clocked triple digits in that general area, but from 96 through that "hairpin", I always let up.
 
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Poker Zombie said:
I used to work for the fire department right there. There was a bend in the road, just west of the train overpass is. We ran more serious accidents there than anywhere else in the city.

Why? The high treeline would drop a shadow on the road allowing it to remain icey, even when the rest of the interstate would be dry. Cars would hit it and either slide up into the grass and flip (3 fatalities that way), or slide into another vehicle, leading to a multi-car wreck.

I hated that stretch, because it put us standing out on the road around a blind curve. I've clocked triple digits in that general area, but from 96 through that "hairpin", I always let up.
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Thanks for the talking point... I'm more worried about the other drivers, but I also remember being 17...
 
WedgeRock said:
Thanks for the talking point... I'm more worried about the other drivers, but I also remember being 17...
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You remember that long ago? Now you're just showing off your killer memory skills....
 

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