BF2S Forums EE Chat - December

Stimey wrote:

don't laughat my misfortunes

you have to shrink one first right

aww

Yeah, so.

Have you heard about Redback spiders?

Redback spiders don't grow to be more than about a centimetre. So about the size of a pea.


Here is one eating a lizard.

There's already a fair few cars they have digital speedometers.

Yes I know but the point Im trying to make is that compared to the needle, people might realise that the difference in numbers when seen as an actual number rather than represented as a fraction of a circle would cause them to slow down.

KuSTaV wrote:

Yes I know but the point Im trying to make is that compared to the needle, people might realise that the difference in numbers when seen as an actual number rather than represented as a fraction of a circle would cause them to slow down.

Not really.

Since you don't get pulled over for going 5 over (at least, not that I've seen, I've always been told 5 over is the limit), i.e. 30 in a 25 zone, there isn't a huge mentality on this is THE MAXIMUM speed i can safely go, it's more just an arbitrary number "the man" set so that he can pull people over and get moneyz in traffic tickets...

So, anyway, i guess the solution to the speeding issue would have to be heavy and strict enforcement of speeding violations...

=NHB=Shadow wrote:

Here in California no one follows the speed limit, the flow of the traffic around here is 75-80mph even when its a 65mph limit, when I drive my 08 benz which has a digitalised mph and shows that i'm going 80-85mph, sure i'll slow down like 5mph just to stay with the flow but I really doubt that people would slow down because of that, driving a car is all about how fast you can go and how far you can push its limit, maybe that justs me but i'm sure that is what most drivers think about.

Please don't tell me you are trying to push limits every fucking time you drive. A mentality like that is fine on the track, but on a highway where there aren't heavy safety regulations, people are defensively driving, etc.... it's just dumb.

Do you really try to 'push limits' running to the store to get milk?

Last edited by Morpheus (2009-12-30 20:54:51)

fuck me, i've spent the last ten minutes trying to listen to a blank cd-r . . .

n1

lawl

okay then.

KuSTaV wrote:

Quick thought:

I had this though about speeding, right. So you know when you catch yourself going 70 or so in a 60 zone, you think, "oh its not that far over" as the needle is only a fraction over the mark, where people might judge the speed on how the needle looks on the gauge. well, you hear about people going 75 or something in a 60 zone and you think, holy shit they were speeding... do you think that if the car manufacturers changed the speedo to a digitalised version where the number of the speed is listed, it would cause people to think, holy fuck im going way too fast instead of shrugging it off?

My '81 Cadillac El Dorado had a digital speedometer.  Hardly new technology, at least for pimps like me.