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Thought’s thought for today
So, to cut a long story short, the chariot has got a few issues, including the speedo not working, such that it sits on zero and the odometer doesn’t change. We’re cruising between sites and there’s quite a few fixed speed cameras. Thought is driving and thinks out aloud, pointing at the dead speedo, then at a speed camera: “we wont be getting any tickets because the camera wont know our speed”. I thought I could hear my heart breaking.
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Good times and bad. An LS I know got a camera ticket during the boom around 05 when I pointed out that he could just say he did not know who was driving and get out of it he was offended of the idea that he an LS would put his signature next to an untruth. A few years later during the recession he got one and pulled the same trick without missing a beat.
I paid the only one I ever got, there is no easy way out when it is a company truck.
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I’ve set my barometer for dry and sunny every day for the past month. Yesterday, it worked for the first time.
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My mother thinks if you are travelling uphill you’re going north.
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How about using a GPS devise such as Garmin when to determine your speed, there are probably smart phone apps that will work to.
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A couple of guys were shingling a roof when one noticed the other guy throwing a lot of nails away. “Hey, what’s the matter with those nails?”
“The head is on the wrong end.”
“Oh, you dumb @ss. Don’t you know you’re supposed to save them to use on the other side of the roof.”
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I use a Garmin 1490 Nuvi that gives verbal commands for directions and has a traffic adviser connector and it and any handheld gps and gps phone app has a display of speed that is more accurate than most vehicles speedometers.
My neighbor spent over $200 to fix the speedometer gauge in his motor home couple of years back when the tom tom he uses was already telling him how fast it was going.
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Actually, when the speedo first went down, I was one hour into a three hour open road drive back to the office, in the dark. The speed limit here is 60km/hr in the villages and 80km/hr on the open road, and it is strictly enforced, so you need to know your speed. Fortunately I had my smartphone with me (don’t usually carry it) and it has a gps speedo app on it that also has a HUD function, so I slipped that on the dash and got the speed projected onto the windscreen – sweet. Being gps it was more accurate speed than the speedo (80km/h on the speedo is really 77km/hr, and that extra 3km/h really counts).
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“we wont be getting any tickets because the camera wont know our speed”
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Wow 80km/hr? If you did that speed on an open rural road in most parts of the US you’d get flat run over. There are rural highways in Texas with 75mph limits (or about 120km/hr)
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Yep, what makes it worse is that 50% of the folk here travel at 60km/h or less on the open road, and 50% of those that do that drive hard on the centerline, or over it. And 100% of those that do that would never, ever yield to let others pass. Grrrrr.
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When I visited Vietnam, most travel never exceeded 40kmh and that was on an open road, which is rare because most are jam packed with drivers going whatever way they want to travel on whatever side of the road they wish in most areas.
They have been adapting to driving on the right side of the road in recent years, now in the shoulders of the road they still go whichever way they want.
Keep in mind that 90% of all travelers are on a motorcycle and taxi drivers are using very small cars and suvs.
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I find when I travel in I-75 through parts of Cobb and Cherokee County the speed of traffic is usually in excess of 135 kph and that is often the bare minimum to keep from getting run over.
I found myself in the Watermelon 500 (the 285 Atlanta perimeter) few months ago and people were driving near 140kph.
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That sounds like I45 from Waco to Austin.
In 1987 on my trip from Douglassville, Tx to Austin, Tx, in a 1971 El Camino the only vehicle that passed me was a Grey Rolls Royce Phantom and I was at 155?ñ already. It came up behind me from a dot in the rearview to catch me and steadily moved on into the forward horizon and was gone.
I am still in awe of that event.
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At least you wouldn’t get shot at. If you wanna commit suicide in Florida World drive on I95 from Miami to Lauderdale at 80 km, guaranteed shots will be fired. the South Floridians view speed limit signs as suggestions. ????
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