This is actually really cool. I always wondered what it would be like to drive my car (2002) in the year it came out, brand new. I guess something like buying an old model Chinese car would be a good demonstration!

I just realized if I count my commute, I will spend nearly 3,120 hours of my year working…

Same for most US states. You can’t slow down to the point of causing traffic to be slow or causing brake-slamming

I know you meant “braking,” but I’m imagining someone in an absolute shitbox going “ah, there’s my axle about to fall off again” and hitting their hazards or something lmao

100%. If I see a driver sifting back and forth over the edges of both sides of their lanes, I’m 100% going to stay backed rn further than I usually do. Until I have a clear shot to pass them, and them I’m going to slip by as quickly as possible and get some distance, because there is no way I’m sitting behind a wreck waiting to happen for a whole drive.

I thought Wednesday Addam’s said that?

“In North America, the first through fourth generations were offered from 1958 through 1972, being replaced by the Corona Mark II.“

1973-2018 models (so fifth to fifteenth gen models) were not USDM. Honestly, I thought when Toyota announced the Crown replacing the Avalon this year, that it was a new vehicle. Guess I was mistaken. In fact, reading up on it, it was the first Japanese car ever sold in the US. Fascinating!

Oh yeah, Minneapolis is much more “on rails” than the roads here. Even our interstate highways sometimes are pretty old and dry on the asphalt side. I’ve had plenty of times where I’ve seen a lane closed with police around it to fill in a pothole or other road damage out in a very rural area

I’m referring to the 2021 Tennessee Code Title 55-8-154

First part of it is:

“ No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law.”

I guess I misread the law when I was researching this a while back, which is my mistake

I will say, I am speaking from experience of driving in very, very hilly, curvy hills of Tennessee. Sometimes I forget not everywhere is like that, and there will often be very little elevation changes. I guess I’m not used to that, I suppose, my bad

Look, I’m going to go straight from the Bible here, skip all the “god is real god is not real” stuff.

Look, if God is real and he created all of everything, why in the hell would he also decide that nearly every living thing would suffer forever? The only two reasonable explanations are that no animals go to heaven or hell and they don’t have souls and heaven is purely for humans, or they will be pardoned because one that doesn’t know good from evil cannot be damned. Not to mention, have you not read Genesis 2? It’s literally Adam and Eve who are perfectly fine but once they know good from evil, suddenly that knowledge allows them to be damned. If a dog or a cat can’t know good from evil, why would they ever be damned?

Please at least read the book you follow

That… doesn’t work for most multi-lane highways. For a 2 lane highway, yes. But you try driving in a city with a 4 lane highway with on ramps and exits all over the right lane and you’ll see why everybody who is not entering or exiting and just wants to go at a constant speed is a problem.

So they cruise in the next lane over. There is still another two lanes for them to pass. Technically, the “fast lane” is just another term for “long term passing,” as in they’re going faster than the other traffic for a long period of time… passing them in the process. They’ll move over when they are able to.

Ever see signs that say “TRUCKS USE RIGHT TWO LANES” and such? There’s a reason it’s not just the rightmost.

An hour and a half each way. Hoping to get working from home more often, to be honest.

It’s a lot of mileage, but it means I’ve gotten the highway driving thing down pretty well

I feel like it would be the perfect time for an “it’s a Dodge eat Dodge world out there” but you probably don’t have that much over there, if at all

At high speeds, spraying your windshield will result in some overspray from the wind, meaning the person behind you gets their windshield sprinkled with drops of washer fluid

Yeah, that absolutely holds water. I can’t tell you the number of people I’ve seen making stupid decisions on the road and barely recovering from the mistake. It’s a bad combination of misjudgment and lack of skill. I’ve been run off the road by someone merging into where I was because they didn’t want to brake, I’ve been cut off by someone who almost lost all traction after merging so quickly, I’ve been “challenged” by someone revving their engine wanting to beat me in a race (while there were many, many cars around) and much more.

I think people in general need better driving classes, stricter requirements to begin driving, and police should be more worried about behaviors like these on the roads compared to just speeding.

Honestly, one of the biggest reasons I want to build a car for auto crossing is because I want to become a better driver. It will be fun, sure, but if I can train myself to know how to react to extreme situations, then my thought is that in an emergency, I should be able to make the right reactions.

I love having an automatic that still allows me to manually change gears. Engine braking is highly misunderstood and under-utilized as a driving mechanic now, and that’s a little sad, in my opinion.

This is especially important during lane changes on the highway. I mean it’s one thing to turn at a light, it’s another to pull right in front of someone going at high speeds with no reaction room

Roundabouts in the US are a nightmare. Not sure how it is in the rest of the world, but it is complete ass over here. Nobody uses them correctly, I swear

This is definitely not normal. It only takes 1 hour and 20-30 minutes usually though, so the time isn’t the worst. Still not great, though.

If I could I would live closer to work, but it’s what I can afford