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The MFFY Story, as told by Google Street View
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&ie=U...,0.032959&z=15
This lane ain't big enough for the two of us! Whole sequence of events: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1...,0.016479&z=16 --Whoops. Somebody wasn't paying attention, and rear ended somebody. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1...,0.016479&z=16 --At least everybody's OK. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1...,0.016479&z=16 --"Oh no! My lane is blocked! That can only mean one thing! IT'S MFFY TIME!" http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1...,0.016479&z=16 [honking, screeching, cursing] http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1...,0.016479&z=16 "Coming through!" http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1...,0.016479&z=16 "Another lane conquered, by MFFY POWER!!" |
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The MFFY Story, as told by Google Street View
! > wrote in
ups.com: > http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&ie=U...=37.764206,-12 > 2.477242&cbp=1,359.186289698382,0.56936911005406,3 &hl=en&ll=37.771902,- > 122.476015&spn=0.022762,0.032959&z=15 > > This lane ain't big enough for the two of us! > Was there contact? I can't see how there wasn't any. Can you say hit and run? Maybe the pictures will be found on the internet and used against the white car in small claims court. Freak'n amazing. But not surprised. Doug |
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The MFFY Story, as told by Google Street View
In article >, Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> ! > said in rec.autos.driving: > >>http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&ie=U...,0.032959&z=15 >> >>This lane ain't big enough for the two of us! > > Don't you know that lane-splitting is legal in California? Um one of the vehicles has to have no more than TWO wheels for it to be legal. > Either the chick in the white car wasn't watching her mirrors closely, > or she was determined not to let this MFFY intimidate her; in any > event, she went ahead and changed lanes anyway. The fact that their > vehicles made contact and yet she did not stop or even slow down > suggests that she was teaching the MFFY in the silver car a little > lesson. Or what I have found is that the driver in the dead ending lane doesn't realize it ends while there is time to plan and then slows/stops to figure out what to do. While this is going on, any gap the driver may have had to get over vanishes. This would fall under the 'invisible bus' heading. |
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The MFFY Story, as told by Google Street View
On Jun 27, 8:43 pm, Scott en Aztlán > wrote:
> Actually, I think you might have the wrong MFFY. If you look back a > few frames, you can clearly see a period where the silver car was WELL > BEHIND her and she had plenty of space to merge to her left. > -- > MFFYCam Videos Galohttp://www.geocities.com/mffycam/ I'm not so sure. If you start he http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1...,0.016479&z=16 And keep hitting the South arrow, you'll see that the silver car is doing roughly the same speed as the maroon SUV in the left lane and the SUV behind it, and all of them are going faster than the white car and the rest of the right lane traffic, until about 1254 19th Ave. >From 1254 to 1270 19th Ave. you can see how much distance the red SUV gains on the silver car, when the silver car has to brake to try to avoid the white car. As soon as 1228 19th Ave (if not earlier), the driver of the white car could have seen the wreck stopped in her lane, moreover, there's a red car getting over to go around it. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&om=1...,0.016479&z=16 If you spin the display around, you'll see that the white car has at least 500 feet of warning of something in her lane up ahead. What this appears to be is a case of your "invisible parked semi": people drive up to an obstruction in their lane, then force their way over assuming that people in the lane will slow down, rather than watching for obstructions in the lane ahead and working into a hole in traffic. It's the same principle behind the people that, instead of accelerating or decelerating in a merge lane into a hole in traffic, riding all the way down the lane then barging in at the last second. |
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