Car thread

[HellHound]

Finally, a selfie that actually isn't annoying

Less annoying, over twice as lethal!

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[Night Fox]

Less annoying, over twice as lethal!

2 * 0 = ???

what's with all the selfie hate anyway? do you think people should never take pictures of themselves or what?

[$trinick]

cars arent the only obstacles in the road genius
and i dont know what kind of strange fog you have but i can't see taillights 10x further away than i can see the road in any fog around here... 2x or 3x maybe, but 10x.........? must be nice

Cars are definitely the only obstacles on the road. I don't know what kind of stuffty roads you have where you live, but where I drive I don't worry about a boulder being placed in the middle of the road. Also, tail lights are a source of light where as the road is illuminated by light that has been filtered through the fog then reflected in an almost infinite number of directions from where the light hit. Tail lights easily have 10x more luminosity than the ambient road, the only reason it doesn't seem like it is because your eyes work on a logarithmic scale so even though something can be 10x brighter it doesn't seem like it, but it still travels 10x as far.

[Skig]

Cars are definitely the only obstacles on the road. I don't know what kind of stuffty roads you have where you live, but where I drive I don't worry about a boulder being placed in the middle of the road. Also, tail lights are a source of light where as the road is illuminated by light that has been filtered through the fog then reflected in an almost infinite number of directions from where the light hit. Tail lights easily have 10x more luminosity than the ambient road, the only reason it doesn't seem like it is because your eyes work on a logarithmic scale so even though something can be 10x brighter it doesn't seem like it, but it still travels 10x as far.

Who's the genius now....? What about animals?

[$trinick]

Who's the genius now....? What about animals?

Our freeways are raised off the ground so animals can't get onto them.

[Skig]

Our freeways are raised off the ground so animals can't get onto them.

All of the freeways? No wonder California is costly to live in

[$trinick]

All of the freeways? No wonder California is costly to live in

Not all of them, but the ones that aren't have retaining walls. Our freeways have at least eight lanes running each direction, having animals on the road would be a huge problem since the normal speed of travel is upwards of 70mph. A lot of money goes in to keeping stuff off of them.

I've never even heard of an animal being on the freeway, I've never even seen roadkill.

[Skig]

Not all of them, but the ones that aren't have retaining walls. Our freeways have at least eight lanes running each direction, having animals on the road would be a huge problem since the normal speed of travel is upwards of 70mph. A lot of money goes in to keeping stuff off of them.

The interstates in the city area where I live are raised or have walls but in some parts deer and stuff could easily make it onto the road.  Lastnight we almost hit one on the highway going 65mph on a wooded corner

[Frontrox]

It really depends on where you live.

I live on the outskirts of town and I see animals on the road all the time. I see roadkill every day lol

If you lived in a highly populated area you probably wont see many animals on the road.

[$trinick]

Deer don't exist where I live. The only large wild animals we have are like coyotes, and honestly I've never even seen one in real life, let alone on the freeway. Trust me, it never happens.

[Skig]

Deer don't exist where I live. The only large wild animals we have are like coyotes, and honestly I've never even seen one in real life, let alone on the freeway. Trust me, it never happens.

I live about 30-40 miles outside of St. Louis and probably see about five dead deer and an assortment of other animals if I look hard enough.
When I'm older I'll probably want a more suburb life where I have internet, TV and other conveniences because living in the country is just so pointless to me

[e-maxx]

i see deers all the time

not in the roads though

[Skig]

i see deer all the time

not in the roads though

ftfy

[XR-7]

Cars are definitely the only obstacles on the road. I don't know what kind of stuffty roads you have where you live, but where I drive I don't worry about a boulder being placed in the middle of the road. Also, tail lights are a source of light where as the road is illuminated by light that has been filtered through the fog then reflected in an almost infinite number of directions from where the light hit. Tail lights easily have 10x more luminosity than the ambient road, the only reason it doesn't seem like it is because your eyes work on a logarithmic scale so even though something can be 10x brighter it doesn't seem like it, but it still travels 10x as far.

You don't need to be a jerk. Most people have worries about animals because they don't all live in populated California.

[$trinick]

I'm only being a jerk because he was being a sarcastic starfish. I wouldn't have said that cars are effectively the only obstructions in the road if it wasn't true.