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Aki Ko · Jan 7, 2016

Team THRT Drift
At a rest stop in North Carolina, with two hours left to get to the state line. There was A LOT of traffic. Still fun going the speed limit when everyone else is 10-15 under.

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I love your 'Murican highways for two reasons:

They actually have corners

Drivers actually have proper etiquette. *for the most part.. even on the autobahn in Germany you have idiots that refuse to move over.

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You can never have too many maps...
This was about a half an hour away from the border

Still have to update my satnav in the car. It doesn't recognize my neighborhood so when I I park the car, I'm in the middle of nowhere

Total trip was 1689.1 km... had a couple trips to Uni.

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Also.... I went full Audi.

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... I need some help...

North Carolinians are probably trying to avoid the speed traps that goes on on the interstate. Even with the speed limit, they aren't taking any chances.

And I bet some people will get confused if they sit in your car and see kilometers on the dash.

Azuremen · Jan 7, 2016

BadgerVadge
Damn, i looked up 509 you live in washington, right? seems like you guys have more snow than Alaska right now! we had one big snow fall in October and now its mostly melted...

We've had a relatively snowy winter so far, but temps have risen enough that it is starting to melt where am at. I suspect the part of the 509 to the north of me is continuing to accumulate snow. It is making up for last winter were we basically didn't get any snow at all.

Obelisk · Jan 7, 2016

Azuremen
We've had a relatively snowy winter so far, but temps have risen enough that it is starting to melt where am at. I suspect the part of the 509 to the north of me is continuing to accumulate snow. It is making up for last winter were we basically didn't get any snow at all.

Everyone in New England got over 100 inches last winter. We welcome the lack of snow this year.

Anyways, this might be going a bit OT.

Team THRT Drift · Jan 7, 2016

Akira Ishi
North Carolinians are probably trying to avoid the speed traps that goes on on the interstate. Even with the speed limit, they aren't taking any chances.

And I bet some people will get confused if they sit in your car and see kilometers on the dash.

The trip in total going the speed limit, would take me 15-16 hours..... I made it in 12 and a half to Peace Bridge. Only had issues in North Carolina due to the traffic and was forced to slow down because of the reason you stated.

Only saw two cops during the entire trip back. One was in the middle of the highway parked in the center divider somewhere along I-95 in Virginia and I was going way over the limit. Had a mini heart attack but he was asleep.

The second cop ironically was back home. I got on the 407 which is a toll route. The bill is mailed to your house. I got off 407 to merge into 401 North. This sucker was right at the exit and I was over the limit. I didn't want to break to make it obvious and I couldn't downshift because it would be too loud. So I just let off the gas and hoped that the weight of the car would slow me down enough. It did to only ten over the limit. Thankfully, he didn't do anything.

Also, that's the reason I had two SatNavs. Made sure the Garmin was displaying my speed in MPH.

BadgerVadge · Jan 7, 2016

Azuremen
We've had a relatively snowy winter so far, but temps have risen enough that it is starting to melt where am at. I suspect the part of the 509 to the north of me is continuing to accumulate snow. It is making up for last winter were we basically didn't get any snow at all.

It seems every year everyone else is getting tons of snow besides alaska...its kinda depressing seeing my grass in the middle of winter. and I miss driving in fresh powder!

Team THRT Drift · Jan 7, 2016

BadgerVadge
It seems every year everyone else is getting tons of snow besides alaska...its kinda depressing seeing my grass in the middle of winter. and I miss driving in fresh powder!

This is the first Alaskan I've heard that misses snow... talk about Stockholm syndrome.

jjaisli · Jan 7, 2016

Team THRT Drift
Yes I know.. which is why I avoided the area completely

I cut up from West Virginia to Ohio and Pennsylvania. Barely touched New York just to get to Peace Bridge and there is a notable difference in the way people drive... they're just asshats... and then I crossed over to Canada. Don't even get me started on the morons we have that somehow managed to pass the road test.

It's just a sign of the times I suppose. 25+ years ago, the 401 between the Thousand Island's Bridge near Gananoque and Pickering was one of the most disciplined stretches of Highway anywhere in North America. And if you saw ANY police out there it was a rarity. If you drove 150 kmh or less you were almost sure to be overhauled by cars passing in the left lane at 160 kmh+. And it was a blessing to be able to hit Canadian soil after spending any time on the NYS thruway.

Then again, when I moved out to Southern California in the mid 90s, lane discipline was pretty ridged out there as well, so long as there was no traffic. The last few times I've been out to SCA, the defacto practice seems to be drive in the left lane and banzai pass in the right lane.

Team THRT Drift · Jan 7, 2016

jjaisli
It's just a sign of the times I suppose. 25+ years ago, the 401 between the Thousand Island's Bridge near Gananoque and Pickering was one of the most disciplined stretches of Highway anywhere in North America. And if you saw ANY police out there it was a rarity. If you drove 150 kmh or less you were almost sure to be overhauled by cars passing in the left lane at 160 kmh+. And it was a blessing to be able to hit Canadian soil after spending any time on the NYS thruway.

Then again, when I moved out to Southern California in the mid 90s, lane discipline was pretty ridged out there as well, so long as there was no traffic. The last few times I've been out to SCA, the defacto practice seems to be drive in the left lane and banzai pass in the right lane.

It also has to do with driver training and the vehicles back then. Nowadays everything is simple and there is no training whatsoever. People take driving for granted.

Ask an average teen today what they need to do to get out of a skid, how, etc.

I guess I'm used to Europe's training and proper, mandatory, driver's courses.

Like you said, times change... now Canada is a place where people are killed going 30 km/h. They don't even dream of 150. I think Montreal is one of the last places that have proper etiquette and discipline. Ontarians look at the Quebecois and call them crazy for driving fast... :rolleyes:

jjaisli · Jan 7, 2016

Well, comparing Ontario and Quebec, it's clear that acceptable driving standards in the Greater Toronto area have sunken to levels which I never would have imagined 20 years ago. And frankly, two decades ago in the GTA, they weren't that high to begin with. Driving anywhere around Markham is like driving around one gigantic parking lot with everything happening in some odd form of slow motion. The roads nearly all form perfectly straight grid lines which go on forever. And yet cars still hit each other. A real twilight zone kind of thing. So it's little wonder that they think people from Quebec drive too quickly--because they're operating in normal space and people in Toronto aren't.

I know a lot of people in Toronto like to blame it on such a high percentage of immigrants who didn't have the same kind of training and were able to obtain a license too easily. And there may be some truth to that. But it certainly doesn't tell the full story.

Doog · Jan 7, 2016

Team THRT Drift
Like you said, times change... now Canada is a place where people are killed going 30 km/h. They don't even dream of 150. I think Montreal is one of the last places that have proper etiquette and discipline. Ontarians look at the Quebecois and call them crazy for driving fast...

I especially love it when said Canadians come here for the winter and slow us all down with their oblivious driving habits. :cheers:

Team THRT Drift · Jan 7, 2016

Doog
I especially love it when said Canadians come here for the winter and slow us all down with their oblivious driving habits.

I saw so many fellow geese on the way back up... and I am ashamed. Completely oblivious. One old Italian couple with Ontario plates was just dead set on staying in the left lane, going 55 in a 70. Just... UGGGGH.

mustang fanatic · Jan 8, 2016

Team THRT Drift · Jan 8, 2016

mustang fanatic
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Where's @Slash :lol:

Slash · Jan 8, 2016

Yes!!! Love it

Astroboy2215 · Jan 10, 2016

Well, when I moved to Florida I had to leave my one true love behind...sarah was purchased off me by a friend that's going to take good care of here. Which meant I needed to find a new car, this is what I selected, a 2010 Nissan Versa. Yes I know it doesn't look like much but I've had a blast chucking it around back roads. I might even play with the possibility to make a cool sleeper with it XD (ignore the absolutely crap parking XD)