Vehicle pet peeves?

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by murdoc

This post made my eyes itch.

Oh I can see your eyes spinning!

[rookie]

Originally Posted by ScoobsMcGee

My car farting.

OMG Fart cannon.

[rookie]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I have a very fuzzy white cat that is in perpetual shed mode. The cloth seats are no better and my driver seat looks like I have some sort of cover on it!

Double pu55y! Can't tell where one ends and the other begins.

[soulreapersteve]

Originally Posted by ARTBRZ

Bringing up an old thread.

Hate people who have their gps on when they are local. How the hell do you get lost?!! Why the heck don't you know where local places are?!!!

I don't get out much.....

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by soulreapersteve

I don't get out much.....

And wouldn't recognize landmarks in the daylight when you do!

[ZionsWrath]

This happens by me a lot.

1. There is an intersection where the left lane can turn left only and the right lane can turn left or go straight. People in the left lane ALWAYS turn wide and go into the second lane even though they also painted dotted lines around the whole corner for where to go. Then they HONK AND YELL when they almost hit people in the right lane.

2. There is an intersection with a lot of traffic. Left lane is left turn only. Right lane is straight only. People ALWAYS turning left from the right lane to try and skip the traffic. This intersection is the highlight of my commute because the cops know this spot. I see them at least once a week on foot around the corner pointing people to pull over for this. Seen a handful of fender benders here too because of impatient people.

[mixtape]

- Passengers dry-humping the side skirts with their feet and shoes when trying to get in the car
- People eating in my car in general
- People asking me if they can drive my car
- People
- Darkness envelops me

[mdm]

Originally Posted by murdoc

I don't know, waze can be really helpful with road closures, speed traps, and accidents that can pop up in a long commute.

Today I was able to avoid the traffic that made my coworkers late by changing my route 30 minutes into my commute.

Yup, same here. Waze is pretty good in finding alternates, sometimes it tries a bit too hard for the result to make sense, but still.

[soulreapersteve]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

And wouldn't recognize landmarks in the daylight when you do!

What the hell is the Space Needle? What the hell is that giant mountain off in the distance???

Originally Posted by mixtape

- Passengers dry-humping the side skirts with their feet and shoes when trying to get in the car
- People eating in my car in general
- People asking me if they can drive my car
- People
- Darkness envelops me

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[mdm]

People who leave 200-ft space in front of them in heavy traffic. There is a bazillion cars around you, all trying to squeeze into a very limited amount of pavement, and you are wasting 200 ft of it?

[mixtape]

Originally Posted by soulreapersteve

I can't see that on my work laptop but I'll Thanks you anyway. <3

[PrDarkKnight]

1. Leaning on my car also
2. people telling me to do an engine swap.
3. people arguing with me about my car specs when they have never driven it or researched it.
4. rock chips
5. cracks and rattles.
6. stupid aftermarket prices for "affordable" car
7. people criticizing my car mods when I did not asked or care.
8. fan boys of other cars that ramble the same crap that's on the internet to down talk our cars but drive a POS. These people are car enthusiast, if you are a true enthusiast you can appreciate any car/brand and not be a brand whore lol.
9. People that do stupid S*(&t to/with our cars and give the community a bad name.

[ZionsWrath]

Originally Posted by mdm

Yup, same here. Waze is pretty good in finding alternates, sometimes it tries a bit too hard for the result to make sense, but still.

Is waze app really good? Better than google maps? I always hear people talkin about it but google been pretty good for me I guess. I thought it just for spotting cops but I guess its a bit more than that eh?

[mdm]

Originally Posted by ZionsWrath

Is waze app really good? Better than google maps? I always hear people talkin about it but google been pretty good for me I guess. I thought it just for spotting cops but I guess its a bit more than that eh?

I don't use google maps for driving because when I tried it it did not prevent the phone screen from going dark, which is pretty retarded for a nav app. I expect they fixed it, but I did not go back. The only other nav I used a bit is Here, which is good when you have to stay offline.


My experience with waze:


- its ETA predictions are usually surprisingly accurate
- like I said, it's pretty good in finding alternates, though sometimes it does weird things. For example recently it had me switch to a parallel street for two block without any advantage, I actually lost a few positions ;-). I guess it is trying to make the best of the real-time data it's getting, and a wazer got stuck on the main street for a while a short time earlier
- it's volunteer-crowd-edited, meaning that it is rather accurate and up-to-date in populated areas, and people who edit the map typically know the area.
- also, if something is wrong, the volunteers will usually respond to user report (at least in heavily populated areas) and fix it. Though almost for sure you will need to provide more details as the system gives relatively little information to the voluteers. For example, they don't receive your destination or starting point, so they have to ask the reported for it. So if you report a map problem, expect a follow-up.
- until recently it could not do u-turns, but now it can
- very recently they rolled out speed warnings, which I find not very useful, as they can be set to show up either at the limit, or 10 or 15% above the limit. I'd like to have 18 miles above the limit to safeguard against reaching VA "reckless driving" speeds.
- you have warning for cops, speed cameras, construction, hazards etc. Speed cameras are verified by volunteer editors, which is good, because people make a lot of false reports of them.
- at this point it does not support the HOV concept at all. Also, it gets confused when two streets or highways run closely in parallel or on top of each other, but that's accuracy of GPS and I guess nothing can be done about it
- obviously, if there are timed closures and the agency controlling the closure does not follow the schedule, you may be directed into a closed highway, but again that's kind of obvious
- Aometimes you can set a voice of a movie actor or celebrity who adds funny things to regular nav talk. I know it's sort of cheap, but I did chuckle when Arnold was saying 'Hasta la vista baby" on arrival, or shouted "Get down!" when there was "hazard on road". That was when the latest Terminator was out, of course.