If a driver killed you pulling a maneuver like that I think he'd get something a bit worse than losing his job, like a couple of years in jail for manslaughter.
Go for it! Just be careful, it may not be a 406 at all More seriously if feel like the 406 was, and still is an awesome car, one of the only modern Peugeot (excluding the really recent one) The mid-2000 were so ugly...
Cue the AC/DC. Also, I went with a buddy of mine to pick up this 67 Chevelle, 350, TH400, 3.73 12 bolt, It Sure doesn't look too bad for $1800, But it's 350 is on it's last legs, running on 7 cylinders and smoking like a train. And, those wheels have got to go, he's already got a set of original 14 inch mags for it.
"Hell yeah I'm gunning it" --- Post updated --- Someone made a left without signalling at the last second and here's the result. I'm fine. I'll do a full write up tomorrow while I'm pulling the still running swap out of her. I wanted a lighter car anyway.
Oh damn, well at least now your half a radiator can cool like three quarters of a radiator. Joking aside, Is the other guy's insurance going to pay?
Honestly I have no idea. Doubt it. I feel like they won't care who is really 1st fault, they are just going to blame me because I hit him regardless. He was way in the right Lane and than decided he needed to be going left so he hit the turn signal as he turned in and I had no where to go. That rad will be salvaged. Might go look at this to swap everything over to. I'm bummed out about all this and the insurance nightmare but I've been thru worse. https://newyork.craigslist.org/brx/cto/6030034699.html
Decided to redesign the main intersection in my town. It looks like a pretty conventional 4-way, but it's terrible. Coming from the south, you can't turn left but everyone does anyway because there's no alternative route, which backs up traffic. Coming from the west, you can't see oncoming traffic very well when turning left (even more annoying with right-hand drive) and there's no turn arrow for whatever reason. Finally, coming from the east, you often can't turn right into the first lane of the north road because of parked cars on the right, which causes more problems for left turners from the west. It's also incredibly difficult to get into the driveways on the south side of the east road if you're coming from the north or west, because there's a conflict with cars turning right from the south. Who knows if what I made is any better (it would be the first turbo roundabout in the country that I know of), but I like roundabouts so I don't care
Traffic circles / roundabouts must have been designed by Satan himself as they are the most maddening thing ever conceived, especially in a tractor trailer, as the tractor could be halfway around and you've got to stop otherwise the trailer is going to smash a sign or something else that's been put in a terrible spot, and the fact that 75% of drivers are brainless lumps that rely on their car and all it's technology to keep them from hitting things or putting themselves in a spot where they'll get run over doesn't help. Make a right turn? Nope, instead get on this carousel of stupidity and see if you get lucky enough to squeeze back out of it when you've made 3/4 of a lap.
I think someone just doesn't know how to use them They're not that rare here and they actually teach you how to use them [driver handbook, 3 pages], unlike in most of the US from what I've heard. Plus the ones I've seen were all well-designed with clear signage and truck aprons so tractor trailers fit too [example]. This one, being smaller, would have a flat island so trucks could turn straight over it, similar to the UK's mini roundabouts. EDIT: I actually just found a turbo roundabout while I was scrolling around Google, so I guess the only really unconventional thing about my design is size. [link]
Yeah some roundabouts here are literally just a painted circle so large vehicles can navigate them more easily
The ones over here are few and far between, and the only ones I've ever seen have all been in the most inconvenient places imaginable, mostly all right off of major highways, and usually all with steep curbs and tall center islands with bushes on them. On three separate occasions I've seen trucks try to make it around them, fail, get annoyed and go straight over the island.
Went and looked at this thing today. It's badass. There is only one roundabout in my area that handles any sort of actual traffic. It works well. It used to back up really badly when there was just a stop sign on the north road. It still kinda backs up but it at least stays flowing when it does, and I'd much rather deal with that for a few minutes once or twice a week than a stop light every time I drive through there. I can't really speak for big traffic circles though.
Is it 100% dead, I guess the reparations would cost more than buying a new car ? The poor car... This remember me a story of a friend of mine. He had a very good Twingo in really good shape, who probably worth around 2000€, one day he was driving with my sister on a road when a parked BMW serie 1 decided to turn in the middle of the road at 10 meters of him, he hit the other car at like 50 km/h, no harm for them, but the Twingo was obviously dead. He got 400€ for his dead Twingo after probably 3 month, French insurance are not good. and he didn't had the money for buying a new car.
The car is shot and I'm not willing to fix it. Everything under the hood comes out and goes into whatever shell I can get my hands on in the next few days. 91 crx si.
Coincidentally, I actually drive on that roundabout quite often. Somehow, I never noticed it's a turbo roundabout... During rush hour, it's usually backed up quite a bit. There's another one nearby here. Never thought of it as a turbo roundabout either. It's normally pretty quiet until rush hour, where there is some traffic. The right turn lane (onto Marshall Rd.) that completely bypasses the roundabout is nice. There's also two normal roundabouts just further northwest of those.
This morning I found out from a reliable source just how hard Alaska got goofed over when it came to good roads. You know all those curvy roads around here, and how I like to complain about them being full of houses so you can't really go fast or cut close on blind corners? It turns out, most of them didn't used to be that way. A lot of the roads I wish I could race on, really used to be pretty much vacant roads leading to nowhere. Some of them were even paved. A mountain driver's dream. Unfortunately, oil-induced population boom + hysterical liberals = no fun at all. Suddenly the state is awash in people come to make lots of money in some pipeline-related way, but any time someone wanted to build new areas or new roads, some liberal had a fit about how they were ruining the wilderness and had to be shut down (annoyingly, though, some developers still managed to ruin the otherwise-stunning views from some roads with cookie-cutter upscale developments). Thus, we needed more houses in a hurry, and had to put them on the formerly-good pass roads because we were running out of space elsewhere that we were actually allowed to build on. On top of that, many of the other roads that could have eventually been good got giant berms plowed over their entrances by the government to keep people out of the deep backwoods. The few remaining "battle roads" (not that there are many or any hill racers here) that haven't suffered terminal suburban/residential poisoning either A. still lead to residential areas, B. aren't paved, C. are busy main highways, or D. have been tourist-magnetized somehow, with optional E. overrun by hikers and recreational bicyclists or F. still have just enough houses to make you think twice.
Huh? Is that a common thing up there, closed off dirt roads leading into the wilderness? That sucks. There isn't such a thing as backwoods or dirt roads around here, but if we had both and access was blocked I'd be right pissed. Dirt roads leading to nowhere are my favorite thing ever.
