Web-based Traffic School starring RX-8's
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Web-based Traffic School starring RX-8's
Check out the two attached pictures! I'm taking a computer-based traffic school - I got a speeding ticket back in November, and in IL, if you have a clean record (no convictions in 3 years), you can plead guilty, go to traffic school, and get a supervision period of 6 months. If you have no other tickets in that six months, you get no conviction on your record.
They now offer a web-based course so I don't have to drag my *** out to traffic school and listen to someone drone on about it. Actually, every time I've taken it (on the average of every 2-3 years ...
), I've gotten something out of it, so I guess it's not a total loss.
OK, so the point of the thread - check out the two pictures attached - for all of my driving examples, "my" car is a Lightning Yellow RX-8 - or at least their cartoony car looks like it - the biggest cue for me is the hood length and the bulge in the the hood that leaves the fenders as big curves ...
There's also a Velocity Red -8-looking thing as one of the adversary cars, as well as a blue thing that looks like a Civic Hatchback ... that must be a ricer flyby.
In one of the pics, the Red -8 and the Blue Civic are racing on an expressway and I'm caught up in the middle of it!
Thought this was funny and worth sharing.
Stew
They now offer a web-based course so I don't have to drag my *** out to traffic school and listen to someone drone on about it. Actually, every time I've taken it (on the average of every 2-3 years ...
), I've gotten something out of it, so I guess it's not a total loss.OK, so the point of the thread - check out the two pictures attached - for all of my driving examples, "my" car is a Lightning Yellow RX-8 - or at least their cartoony car looks like it - the biggest cue for me is the hood length and the bulge in the the hood that leaves the fenders as big curves ...
There's also a Velocity Red -8-looking thing as one of the adversary cars, as well as a blue thing that looks like a Civic Hatchback ... that must be a ricer flyby.
In one of the pics, the Red -8 and the Blue Civic are racing on an expressway and I'm caught up in the middle of it!
Thought this was funny and worth sharing.
Stew
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Originally Posted by StewC625
at least their cartoony car looks like it - the biggest cue for me is the hood length and the bulge in the the hood that leaves the fenders as big curves ...
Hope you at least got the 1.8T!
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Originally Posted by SpinninAgain!
That can't be you in the second one Stew. You'd never drive slow in the middle lane.
OMG! Someone stole Stew's yellow RX-8 and is driving it like a ******! Call the cops!
OMG! Someone stole Stew's yellow RX-8 and is driving it like a ******! Call the cops!
Originally Posted by fullsmoke
Option D: Aggressively cut off the blue Civic and deploy the oil.
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That traffic school actually looks informative! I took an online traffic school a few years ago and I had to learn about laws about carrying a baby in a bicycle and stuff completely unrelated. I wish I knew more about "how to get into an accident if its unavoidable" lol
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As mundane, "do the crime/do the time" traffic school goes, this is actually pretty good. Good focus on intelligent driving techniques and not too much "nanny" talk.
Although they refuse to acknowledge that driving the speedlimit can be UNSAFE when all the traffic around you is exceeding it.
Although they refuse to acknowledge that driving the speedlimit can be UNSAFE when all the traffic around you is exceeding it.
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That looks like a real online school. Online traffic school here is nothing like that. It's just online, monitored reading of the drivers manual with tests every few chapters. Oh well, it still killed the points.
it looks like a regular car. maybe i have no imagination
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Originally Posted by StewC625
Although they refuse to acknowledge that driving the speedlimit can be UNSAFE when all the traffic around you is exceeding it.
I said that my speed is based on the posted limit, but that I do everything in my power to avoid driving in situations where I am driving immediately behind, in front of, or next to another vehicle, and that I try to always leave myself at least two 'outs'. I said that this sometimes required exceeding the limit. He actually conceded that it would be appropriate to exceed the limit at times for this purpose, but that we would still be breaking the law, and that if we got caught there would still be consequences.
He also explained what a "one-percenter" is. In 99% of crashes where a given vehicle occupant is wearing a selt belt, the occupant survives. The "one-percenter" example he gave was that of a little girl in the passenger seat of a corvette when Dad rear-ended an 18-wheeler at an estimated 150+ MPH. The V8 ended up in her lap. She didn't make it.
Moral... wear your seatbelt.
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His post is here if you want to see it.
https://www.rx8club.com/west-rx-8-fo...7/#post4372173
His post is here if you want to see it.
https://www.rx8club.com/west-rx-8-fo...7/#post4372173
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