Re: General discussion chat A low res version of a low res version of a proof-of-concept render I'm trying. Final will be over 5 times bigger and have a total sample per pixel of 100,000. This one has about 400. This one will take about 8 hours to end up at 20,000 and 800x800. Final looks like it might take over 6 days. Haswell-e sounds nice. 16 threads at 3.4Ghz. I need money.
Re: General discussion chat I've kinda noticed the brakes in my grandmothers rx felt kinda weak, even just moving around the driveway, and I decided to test it. So I used the little bit of driveway space I had to get up to 10 or 15 mph, and stood on the brakes. Kinda like if you're driving through a parking lot and a kid runs out in front of you or something. Anyway, the brakes made a horrible groaning noise, But I know it wasn't abs cause it sounded nothing like it and I didn't feel it in the pedal. They are pretty bad, though, for a car with <50,000 miles on it and under 10 years old. Didn't feel or hear a bit of abs, so it can't even get the wheels to lock. It wasn't even strong enough to move stuff sitting in the back seat and the hatch forward. the only thing that slid forward was a cloth on the dash . I mean, as far as all cars go they aren't that bad, but for such a delicately used, low mile, car they should be better.
Re: General discussion chat It's like that on my mom's Expedition. That's why I refuse to drive it. The highway is scary when your brake pedal goes ALL the way to the floor and you barely stop. Funny thing is, Chrysler says it's fine, two Ford dealerships say it's fine, family mechanic reports nothing abnormal. BULL CRAP, MAN!
Re: General discussion chat The pedal doesn't go to the floor, it just gets fully compressed and you can't push it any farther. But yeah the brakes are pretty bad. I definitely wouldn't refuse to drive it on the highway or interstate, though. Just makes it more fun Maybe some cars just come with shitty brakes lol
Re: General discussion chat My mom has been letting me drive her car around the neighborhood every once in awhile lately. (Can't get a permit til I'm 16 so..) So far I've almost hit the same mailbox twice, didn't see a car coming while turning left, and gone almost 3x the speed limit on a road that was pretty much small stones. (They're paving it soon so it's covered in gravel and there's a 15mph limit.) My dad says I can't drive his car so I wan't to drive my sister's. (00 Passat with a 5 speed manual. My mom's car is a 10 RAV4 FWD with an auto.)
Re: General discussion chat There's a mailbox across the street that I've hit with every single family car. My dad's truck, mom's suv, dad's work car. I hit the damn thing after I picked my car up after it was signed over to me. I hit the thing right in front of him.
Re: General discussion chat In my years of maneuvering in the puny neighborhood road, with 2 mailboxes right there, to get a fairly large f-150 up my steep bottom driveway (i live on a corner), I've never hit a mailbox. How do you guys hit so many mailboxes?
Re: General discussion chat I have spacial awareness issues. I seem to think that everything I drive is the size of a driver training Ford Focus. It isn't.
Re: General discussion chat Lol I'm pretty good at that kinda stuff. The only time I've ever accidentally hit something is when I misjudged the angle of a slope and rammed the back of the jetski trailer into the ground. Oh that reminds me, one time I was pulling the truck in to the garage (extremely difficult process) and I just didn't turn right and on one side I was too close to the door frame and on the other I was too close to my mom's car. i can usually do this pretty good, but I wasn't on my game that day or some shit. But I just couldn't get it, so my dad told me to get out and let him show me how it's done. Then as soon as he gets in backs up to reposition, he smacks the passenger mirror on the garage door track. It was so fucking funny. That was like 2 months ago and I still laugh when I think about it.
Re: General discussion chat We have to move cars and trucks around the garages quite often. Most of the time it's taking the truck from the upstairs garage, where the cars are if they aren't being worked on, down to the basement (which is just a big garage) to load stuff. We also have to shuffle trailers around the property quite a bit at the lake, and I do most of it. I also move my grandmothers cars out of the garage to get the mower out every time I mow. Usually she's inside playing bridge or some shit so I go the fastest I can in her driveway lol. Those lexises (lexi) can really spin the tires though. We have also finally gotten to work replacing the rod bearings in the firebird, now that they came in the mail. Spent about an hour working on it today and got 4 done. 4 to go.
Re: General discussion chat No, it is the one that unlocks the Super driving license. I seriously can't pick a car, but I am leaning towards the R10, but it expensive. 1.9 MIL, I have 5.75 MIL thought so...
Re: General discussion chat And yet most american streets are far wider than their British counterparts...
Re: General discussion chat Makes sense, considering the average American car is twice as wide as their British counterparts /sarcasm\ or is it...
Re: General discussion chat From the hidden text, it isn't. We do get some american cars here either as imports or a few are sold here anyway. They do tend to be the larger end of the vehicle market but none are really that huge compared to our cars, besides the f250 import near me fits on the roads just fine. I can only conclude that Americans haven't mastered the art of the steering wheel, must be why they find NASCAR so exciting when it's a plain oval.
Re: General discussion chat One time I drove my dad's Focus, and I fit in a spot with 2 feet of clearance either side of me while parking a stick. It was hard, but I got it perfectly.
Re: General discussion chat I would congratulate you, but everyone in britain drives stick and 2 feet clearance either side is if anything average so really what you have done is what everyone that wants to go and shop at tesco does on a regular basis
Re: General discussion chat I think that they should at least make people learn how to drive stick here in the US before you can get your license. Stick has become more of a theft deterrent now.
Re: General discussion chat Here in order to get your license you have to pass the test driving stick and as a result the learner driver cars are almost all stick too. Its only if you repeatedly demonstrate that you are a buffoon incapable of operating a clutch and gearbox yourself that anyone even gets the opportunity to take a test in an automatic car, as a result there are hardly any driving schools with automatic vehicles available (there is only 1 automatic learner vehicle in my area). If you do pass your test in an automatic then you get a special drivers license with a lovely piece of text plastered across it that says "AUTOMATIC", aka, if you are caught behind the wheel of a manual transmission car you will be arrested for not being licensed to drive it. There are a few countries (and calls to implement this in the UK) where it is flat out impossible to take your test in anything other than a manual transmission. I know only 1 person who has an automatic only license and that was after failing a manual test 7 times (she still failed the auto a few times). I know 1 other person who is an absolute wimp when it comes to just about absolutely everything and has decided to go for an automatic only license because she thinks it will mean she'll need less lessons so it will be cheaper and because she is scared of a manual transmission, what she doesnt realise is that if you have an auto only license you are perceived by insurers as being an incapable driver and they will increase your premiums by a good 50-75% so it wont be cheaper at all. Oh. This was my car in tesco a few days ago with it parked right on the very left edge of a space: Not too straight, did't care too much. Bigger point is the 2 cars in the background. Tesco offer some of the larger parking spaces in town.
