Dude, quit the assumptions. You have assumed: 1. The highway was busy 2. Everyone else on the road are good drivers 3. Nobody drives much faster than the speed limit 3. My parents don't have experience pulling trailers 4. My parents took an unreasonable amount of time to pass 5. Because they are my parents, I can't objectively view the situation 6. My parents interfered with the flow of traffic. 7. My actions caused even more problems
1. The highway was not busy. It had traffic but was not busy 2. People suck at driving. If you have been driving 25 years, you would know that without a doubt. 3. My parents didn't have experience pulling that particular trailer. Owning a horse and a boat requires pulling trailers quite frequently. 4. My parents took a very reasonable amount of time to pass. 5. I can view the situation objectively. 6. My parents did not interfere any more than anyone else interferes when passing someone. 7. My "additional interference" returned traffic to its normal flow. Someone driving slightly slower than the flow of traffic in the left lane is practically doomed to be kept there by all the crappy drivers on the road. The come up behind really fast, slam on their brakes, swerve over to the slow lane, and pass. By spending 5 seconds preventing them from passing, my parents easily got out of their way and traffic flow quickly returned to normal.
I seriously don't believe you understand the asshatery that goes on on the highway. People only do what gets them ahead with no concern for those around them. Have you ever driven in a caravan? Caravan members "block" traffic all the time so they can stick together.
Finally, why do you want to believe what my parents and I did was so wrong?
I can't help but laugh at people that make fun of others while hiding at the same time, like you, coward. It is funny how Anonymous Coward is so fitting so often.
I'm not the one making irrational claims here. It is all you. You've made so many negative assumptions it is almost actually funny. I marked you "Foe" so I know you are either ~40 with the reasoning skills of a teenager or a teenager trying to pretend you know what you are talking about and can either ignore you or respond accordingly.
Here is my story according to you: My parents were helping me move and while we were going down the very busy highway with rush-hour-like traffic, we came across a truck going slightly under the speed limit. My parents, not wanting to slow down, proceeded to pass the truck. My parents don't ever exceed the speed limit so it took them quite a while to pass the truck and then waited to move back over for quite a while to be sure the trailer cleared the truck because they've never pulled a trailer before. People got so impatient they started passing on the right and my parents couldn't move back over.
Here is my story according to me: While I was moving, I had to block traffic with my car so my parents and my stuff could move back over into the right[sic] lane. They passed a slow truck and everyone was so impatient to get around they just started squeezing by on the right until I got in their way.
Here is my story as understood by fmobus: Your parents changed to the passing lane, passed the slow truck and, before your parents could return to the slow lane, people started to squeeze their way between the truck and your parents, passing your parents thru the right lane.
You are obviously bad at having a rational argument. If you want to keep calling me names like a stupid school-ground bully, go ahead. It won't make you look less stupid.
There is no way in hell you've been driving for 25 years unless you aren't quite right in the brain.
"I know I've had people like your parents in the passing lane for 15 minutes passing ONE vehicle."
I think I see the problem here. You assumed you know my parents(you clearly don't), then you assumed they took their sweet time passing(they didn't), then you assumed my parents don't have experience pulling trailers(wrong again). No wonder you look like an ass.
"If you're not experienced, you have no business either driving the vehicle, or not business on a busy highway."
WTF? How is anyone supposed to get any experience? What happens when the people with experience die?
What do you do when you pass someone? Do you move back over right when your back bumper is ahead of their back bumper or do you give a little space?
What is wrong with designing a fixed interface that will be immediately recognized and useful? When Office 2007 came out, people claimed it would kill productivity because things got moved around. If you use IE7 all the time and aren't good with computers, it makes getting a new computer smoother because you don't have to be confronted with an unfamiliar interface.
So, paying attention is the magic bullet that will prevent automobile accidents everywhere for all time? Not paying attention has nothing to do with hitting large animals. Usually, large animals on the road draw your attention.
Here's another option: "We're pulling this trailer for the first time and don't have the proper experience to judge when we can move back in the lane, I guess we'll just stay behind the slower driver and not attempt to pass at all."
That is a good option until you reach the next logical thought: "Then again, we would like to get there today while not going 20mph under the speed limit." You see(or rather you are freaking blind and don't), there would have been no problem if the extremely impatient people behind my parents didn't try to pass on the right literally as soon as there was space for their vehicles. That is when the situation turned dangerous. Everything would have been fine if they had waited a whole 5 extra seconds for my parents to be sure they were clear and move over.
I must have been asleep. What ifs never happen? I know people that have hit everything from dogs and cats to horses and cows. You'd have to be a complete idiot to deny what ifs happen. The whole point of a what if is that it can actually happen. If I was driving along and suddenly slammed on my brakes and you hit me, it will be your fault. You were obviously following too closely or failed to control your own vehicle. You said it yourself it is the following car's responsibility to maintain safe distance. What were my parents supposed to do? Say "That feels like the back of the trailer that we've never pulled before might be in front of the other car" and change lanes? After all, it is the other car's responsibility to get out of the way, right?
Those are good stories and all, but you can't honestly say people don't randomly slow down or animals don't run across the road if you've been driving that long. I was wrong, you aren't part of the problem because you don't or can't drive. I honestly hope I never meet you on the road.
Why would they slow down suddenly? Maybe a dog could run across the road or the car in front of them might suddenly slow down. The fact remains that switching lanes in close proximity to other vehicles, especially while pulling a trailer, is dangerous. If you can't see that, you are part of the problem. You think nothing bad will happen to you. I would guess you haven't had at least a semi-serious wreck yet and don't realize how quickly a situation can change for the worse.
Yes, it does say it can only do 2 cards:
Inserting an additional card works the same as CrossFire, which, like Nvidia's SLI, was only capable by having two discrete graphics cards installed on a motherboard.
Just because nobody had an accident doesn't mean it was safe. Not every unsafe action has undesired results. If my parents had slowed down suddenly, the vehicle attempting to pass them could have very easily been hit. The lack of any margin of error is what was unsafe about it.
You missed the "safe distance" part, didn't you? The first person made a completely unsafe pass on the right. While that pass was in progress, another car began to pass on the right, as well. My parent's couldn't move over because there was always someone ignoring the turn signal and passing until I blocked them and allowed my parents to get in the proper lane.
What is talking about a different kind of potential disaster called? It certainly is adding to the discussion. Would you go to AA to get over your coke addiction?
Did you even read what happened? My parents couldn't move back to the right because people didn't give them time to move over. The first person behind my parents passed on the right literally as soon as there was room for their car to move to the right.
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Dude, quit the assumptions. You have assumed:
1. The highway was busy
2. Everyone else on the road are good drivers
3. Nobody drives much faster than the speed limit
3. My parents don't have experience pulling trailers
4. My parents took an unreasonable amount of time to pass
5. Because they are my parents, I can't objectively view the situation
6. My parents interfered with the flow of traffic.
7. My actions caused even more problems
1. The highway was not busy. It had traffic but was not busy
2. People suck at driving. If you have been driving 25 years, you would know that without a doubt.
3. My parents didn't have experience pulling that particular trailer. Owning a horse and a boat requires pulling trailers quite frequently.
4. My parents took a very reasonable amount of time to pass.
5. I can view the situation objectively.
6. My parents did not interfere any more than anyone else interferes when passing someone.
7. My "additional interference" returned traffic to its normal flow. Someone driving slightly slower than the flow of traffic in the left lane is practically doomed to be kept there by all the crappy drivers on the road. The come up behind really fast, slam on their brakes, swerve over to the slow lane, and pass. By spending 5 seconds preventing them from passing, my parents easily got out of their way and traffic flow quickly returned to normal.
I seriously don't believe you understand the asshatery that goes on on the highway. People only do what gets them ahead with no concern for those around them. Have you ever driven in a caravan? Caravan members "block" traffic all the time so they can stick together.
Finally, why do you want to believe what my parents and I did was so wrong?
Touche! You got me!
I can't help but laugh at people that make fun of others while hiding at the same time, like you, coward. It is funny how Anonymous Coward is so fitting so often.
News Flash: Castro HAS ALREADY stepped down and his brother has taken his place.
Don't try to argue with him. He is unreasonable. He has already resorted to personal attacks in his first reply.
I'm not the one making irrational claims here. It is all you. You've made so many negative assumptions it is almost actually funny. I marked you "Foe" so I know you are either ~40 with the reasoning skills of a teenager or a teenager trying to pretend you know what you are talking about and can either ignore you or respond accordingly.
Here is my story according to you:
My parents were helping me move and while we were going down the very busy highway with rush-hour-like traffic, we came across a truck going slightly under the speed limit. My parents, not wanting to slow down, proceeded to pass the truck. My parents don't ever exceed the speed limit so it took them quite a while to pass the truck and then waited to move back over for quite a while to be sure the trailer cleared the truck because they've never pulled a trailer before. People got so impatient they started passing on the right and my parents couldn't move back over.
Here is my story according to me:
While I was moving, I had to block traffic with my car so my parents and my stuff could move back over into the right[sic] lane. They passed a slow truck and everyone was so impatient to get around they just started squeezing by on the right until I got in their way.
Here is my story as understood by fmobus:
Your parents changed to the passing lane, passed the slow truck and, before your parents could return to the slow lane, people started to squeeze their way between the truck and your parents, passing your parents thru the right lane.
You are obviously bad at having a rational argument. If you want to keep calling me names like a stupid school-ground bully, go ahead. It won't make you look less stupid.
There is no way in hell you've been driving for 25 years unless you aren't quite right in the brain.
"I know I've had people like your parents in the passing lane for 15 minutes passing ONE vehicle."
I think I see the problem here. You assumed you know my parents(you clearly don't), then you assumed they took their sweet time passing(they didn't), then you assumed my parents don't have experience pulling trailers(wrong again). No wonder you look like an ass.
"If you're not experienced, you have no business either driving the vehicle, or not business on a busy highway."
WTF? How is anyone supposed to get any experience? What happens when the people with experience die?
What do you do when you pass someone? Do you move back over right when your back bumper is ahead of their back bumper or do you give a little space?
What is wrong with designing a fixed interface that will be immediately recognized and useful? When Office 2007 came out, people claimed it would kill productivity because things got moved around. If you use IE7 all the time and aren't good with computers, it makes getting a new computer smoother because you don't have to be confronted with an unfamiliar interface.
So, paying attention is the magic bullet that will prevent automobile accidents everywhere for all time? Not paying attention has nothing to do with hitting large animals. Usually, large animals on the road draw your attention.
Here's another option: "We're pulling this trailer for the first time and don't have the proper experience to judge when we can move back in the lane, I guess we'll just stay behind the slower driver and not attempt to pass at all."
That is a good option until you reach the next logical thought: "Then again, we would like to get there today while not going 20mph under the speed limit." You see(or rather you are freaking blind and don't), there would have been no problem if the extremely impatient people behind my parents didn't try to pass on the right literally as soon as there was space for their vehicles. That is when the situation turned dangerous. Everything would have been fine if they had waited a whole 5 extra seconds for my parents to be sure they were clear and move over.
I must have been asleep. What ifs never happen? I know people that have hit everything from dogs and cats to horses and cows. You'd have to be a complete idiot to deny what ifs happen. The whole point of a what if is that it can actually happen. If I was driving along and suddenly slammed on my brakes and you hit me, it will be your fault. You were obviously following too closely or failed to control your own vehicle. You said it yourself it is the following car's responsibility to maintain safe distance. What were my parents supposed to do? Say "That feels like the back of the trailer that we've never pulled before might be in front of the other car" and change lanes? After all, it is the other car's responsibility to get out of the way, right?
Those are good stories and all, but you can't honestly say people don't randomly slow down or animals don't run across the road if you've been driving that long. I was wrong, you aren't part of the problem because you don't or can't drive. I honestly hope I never meet you on the road.
That is exactly what happened.
Why would they slow down suddenly? Maybe a dog could run across the road or the car in front of them might suddenly slow down. The fact remains that switching lanes in close proximity to other vehicles, especially while pulling a trailer, is dangerous. If you can't see that, you are part of the problem. You think nothing bad will happen to you. I would guess you haven't had at least a semi-serious wreck yet and don't realize how quickly a situation can change for the worse.
It is amazing what rereading will do for you. I read it as "capable of", not "capable by". My mistake.
Which one?
It wasn't Crossfire. It was definitely 3-way SLI. According to the summary, that doesn't exist.
Just because nobody had an accident doesn't mean it was safe. Not every unsafe action has undesired results. If my parents had slowed down suddenly, the vehicle attempting to pass them could have very easily been hit. The lack of any margin of error is what was unsafe about it.
Since when was a car length plus a couple extra feet a safe distance when pulling an unfamiliar trailer?
You missed the "safe distance" part, didn't you? The first person made a completely unsafe pass on the right. While that pass was in progress, another car began to pass on the right, as well. My parent's couldn't move over because there was always someone ignoring the turn signal and passing until I blocked them and allowed my parents to get in the proper lane.
What is talking about a different kind of potential disaster called? It certainly is adding to the discussion. Would you go to AA to get over your coke addiction?
If SLI can only do 2 cards, what was that when they did 3-way SLI a couple months ago?
Did you even read what happened? My parents couldn't move back to the right because people didn't give them time to move over. The first person behind my parents passed on the right literally as soon as there was room for their car to move to the right.
I think you are understanding what happened. They did number 1 and number 2, the other people were just stupid and impatient.
The Germans definitely have the right idea about highway travel.