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PostIcon Posted on: Nov. 22 2000,16:44  Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
OK, so I'm driving to work yesterday, and I get stuck behind a car driving 25mph in a 45mph zone, with no way to pass... Ontario plates. Later in the day, stuck behind another Canadian car (B.C. plates), and once more that day as well. Today, I got stuck behind an Ontario car doing like 20 in a 45.

First of all, this is the most Canadians I've ever seen in my life. I lived in Minnesota and in Wisconsin, and I don't think I've ever seen a Canadian license plate before. Now that I'm in the farthest part in America away from Canada, they're everywhere... and driving very slowly.

So, first, wtf are they doing in southern Arizona? Secondly, are they driving 45kph and haven't made the connection yet?

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If they drove all the way to southern Arizona, they're old. Old people drive slow. Trust me, not all canadians are that bad of drivers, just the old slow, lost ones.

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PostIcon Posted on: Nov. 26 2000,18:46 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
worse: i was driving to toronto to see some relatives and we had to take around 30 miles of detour because of a 63 car pileup.

that was just fucking crazy

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63 car pileup??? how the hell does that happen? i mean, i can understand up to like 15 maybe, but after that you should have seen it and been able to stop...
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Sithee, zero visability caused by fog or blizzard etc.. combined with really bad road conditions...

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dude, first off, when you have low visibility, you should be going slow. your speed is based on your visibility, thusly, zero visibility means zero speed. that is one of the few things that they actually taught me in driving school (they had a teaching problem, i had to teach myself how to park, how to merge, etc....i think ive done decent for self teaching...) and besides that, when one car hits another car, it makes a pretty loud noise, so you should hear it and realize somethins up. i still dont think its reasonable for a 63 car pileup...or are canadian driving standards lower than american's?
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PostIcon Posted on: Nov. 27 2000,17:06 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
There was a nasty ass accident in Milwaukee last winter that was similiar. 94 southbound, the accident started, and cars just kept moving into it for a while... then, cars started slowing down, and cars behind them started adding to the mess. Some semis were involved, it involved around 40-some cars, I believe... closed off the highway for the rest of the night.

Along that note, here's another phenomenon here in Arizona. There is one real practical route I know to get between Phoenix and Tucson, that being I-10... 2 lanes each direction, 75mph speed limit. Since airline rates are 10x (literally) cheaper from Phoenix than Tucson, I make that trip pretty often. Everytime I make that trip, I see an accident that backs up the highway for around 10 miles... sometimes in my direction, sometimes the other. No point, really, just really frustrating that the cops can't clean the accident out very quickly, and I lose 2 hours sitting still.

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I'm not suprised at all about a 63 car pile up. Some people are horrible drivers. and 1 bad driver can fuck it up for a lot of other descent ones.
If you've ever been driving here in San Diego when it rains you'll see the meaning of no fucking clue how to drive in adverse conditions.

on a related tiff, those drivers education courses are the biggest load of shit i've seen. They barely teach anything useful at all. The government should mandate racing schools like Bob Bondurant and some real track time before you're allowed to get behind the wheel. Then you'd learn how to actually control a car the correct way, and how to avoid accidents. I must admit, i was a pretty shitty driver before i'd done a few 360's in a controlled environment and felt first hand what was going on.

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