25-06-2005, 04:50
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Ouch!
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25-06-2005, 05:54
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Re: Ouch!
a one-step guide for these idiots:
1) If the car in front starts to get larger, rather quickly, it's best to avoid it. Perhaps turning the wheel to the left or right will help. Often, the left pedal will assist you in not dying. ('cos we all know they all drive automatics. Guess they thought it'd automatically avoid that bloody massive pile-up!)
Really though, THAT many cars? What the hell were they all doing?
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25-06-2005, 06:52
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Re: Ouch!
sleeping i reckon 
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25-06-2005, 12:09
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Re: Ouch!
Part of the problem with American driving is that the roads tend to be very long and straight, and the cars tend to be automatics. Driving is therefore uneventful and doesn't need much concentration (ideal for the Yanks, really) and so they fall asleep.
Brit motorways deliberately curve slightly to keep the driver manoevering slightly so they don't fall asleep.
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25-06-2005, 12:09
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Re: Ouch!
Left-hand drive? Must be Americans. 'Nuff said 
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25-06-2005, 12:13
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Re: Ouch!
You have to laugh don't you
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25-06-2005, 12:26
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Re: Ouch!
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Originally Posted by mrlipring
a one-step guide for these idiots:
1) If the car in front starts to get larger, rather quickly, it's best to avoid it. Perhaps turning the wheel to the left or right will help. Often, the left pedal will assist you in not dying. ('cos we all know they all drive automatics. Guess they thought it'd automatically avoid that bloody massive pile-up!)
Really though, THAT many cars? What the hell were they all doing?
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I'll lay money that they were rubber necking the police car that recorded it all... Nutters!
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25-06-2005, 12:38
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Re: Ouch!
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Part of the problem with American driving is that the roads tend to be very long and straight, and the cars tend to be automatics. Driving is therefore uneventful and doesn't need much concentration (ideal for the Yanks, really) and so they fall asleep.
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They aren't that straight. Not like the roman roads we have here.
The problem was people travelling at highway speed (65mph) or speeding above that, and not having the sufficient braking distance to stop in time.
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1) If the car in front starts to get larger, rather quickly, it's best to avoid it. Perhaps turning the wheel to the left or right will help. Often, the left pedal will assist you in not dying. ('cos we all know they all drive automatics. Guess they thought it'd automatically avoid that bloody massive pile-up!)
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Did you actually watch it? Most of the cars did swerve and avoid each other, apart from the one in the middle that swerved and clipped the car in another lane.
Disengaging the engine (i.e. using the clutch) will take some power out of the car, but it it won't produce a huge effect. It isn't made for braking, that is what brakes are for.
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25-06-2005, 13:05
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Re: Ouch!
The real problem, is that there are some terminally fcuking stoopid people allowed to drive cars!
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25-06-2005, 13:18
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Re: Ouch!
What I'd like to know is what was the mini bus doing stopped in the lane in the first place?
And how come there was someone filming it?
No need to call the yanks fior thier driving, looks like any normal multi car pile up that we get on our roads too.
We too have people fall asleep while driving on motorways etc (as I have done) and we have very similar collisions.
It's absolutely nothing to do with the drivers IQ or the fact that they are rednecks, more like it was just normal motorway traffic.
JUST LIKE WE HAVE IN THE UK!
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25-06-2005, 15:17
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Re: Ouch!
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Did you actually watch it? Most of the cars did swerve and avoid each other, apart from the one in the middle that swerved and clipped the car in another lane.
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Yes, yes i did. They swerved when 10 metres away from the cars that were stopped. They didn't see them earlier because...?
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Disengaging the engine (i.e. using the clutch) will take some power out of the car, but it it won't produce a huge effect. It isn't made for braking, that is what brakes are for.
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Yep. and in an automatic car, like i said they'd be, the leftmost pedal is....?
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25-06-2005, 15:28
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Re: Ouch!
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Yes, yes i did. They swerved when 10 metres away from the cars that were stopped. They didn't see them earlier because...?
Yep. and in an automatic car, like i said they'd be, the leftmost pedal is....?
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25-06-2005, 15:33
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Re: Ouch!
There are pedals to the left of the Loud Pedal now?
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25-06-2005, 15:55
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25-06-2005, 17:11
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Re: Ouch!
anyone else notice that the while car @ 15 seconds either has very faint brake lights compared to the others... or was in fact... not braking... 
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