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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / April 2008

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The MFFYCam Concept is Catching On

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Scott in SoCal - 27 Apr 2008 21:02 GMT
Found these just surfing around YouTube today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeI-vmXQgtk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5v_i-8gd0M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNWXhovt2Ak
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Proud to be a wreckless driver.

Darkangel de la Louisiane - 27 Apr 2008 21:16 GMT
> Found these just surfing around YouTube today:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeI-vmXQgtkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5v_i-8
gd0Mhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNWXhovt2Ak

> --
> Proud to be a wreckless driver.

Damn... that last one in the first linked vid is only a few miles from
my house, I think! They definitely DO drive that bad around here.
Alexander Rogge - 27 Apr 2008 22:02 GMT
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5v_i-8gd0M

I like the left-turn MFFY that pulls out and then slams on the brakes.
If you're in such a hurry that you must cut in front of me, you should
be going faster than me by the time I end up hitting you.  Otherwise,
you could pull behind me and then pass.  I will not stop to accommodate
such MFFYing.
Ad absurdum per aspera - 28 Apr 2008 16:21 GMT
>> Found these just surfing around YouTube today:

Reminds me of the old Highway 17 Page of Shame (http://
www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/05.30.96/shame-9622.html) a Web 1.0
version of the MFFYcam whose author took to carrying  a camerain his
carpool commute  along that notorious Bay Area freeway.

It probably did no good -- even if the offenders saw it, their ego and/
or obliviousness probably kept them from getting the point.  But those
who think of driving as a craft in which to take some pride, or at
least as a public act that should be performed politely, got a kick
out of it.

>If you're in such a hurry that you must cut in front of me, you should
> be going faster than me

Reminiscent of a favorite from the two-lanes (it can occur on the
freeway but is a lot easier to deal with there):  someone who puts
forth great effort and takes large risks to pass you, then goes
*slower* than you'd  been going.

And then there are  the plain old death merchants.  An all-time
candidate  (though it would have been hard to get a good picture from
my standpoint even if I'd had a camera and a passenger to run it)
occurred  on eastbound I-40  a bit east of Needles, CA several years
ago.    About a half mile ahead of me, some clown in a passenger van
that had been standing on the right shoulder got a wild hair up his
butt and pulled out to pull a U-turn across the median... with the
foremost of the people *ahead* of me so close to him that they didn't
even have time to brake.

Fortunately, the one good decision he made was to perform this
perfectly volitional, optional, and moronic  maneuver with a decent
amount of acceleration, so I merely  got new insight into some already
well formed opinions of my fellow motorists, instead of being first
responder at a 75-mph side-impact meatball.  The drivers ahead of me
may have aged a few years within a split second, though...

--Joe
MLOM - 27 Apr 2008 22:58 GMT
> Found these just surfing around YouTube today:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeI-vmXQgtkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5v_i-8
gd0Mhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNWXhovt2Ak

> --
> Proud to be a wreckless driver.

Classics.  I have one in editing mode to be uploaded this week from US
56 westbound in KCMO.  It's a real Charlie Foxtrot on 47th Street
between Main and Belleview across the Country Club Plaza.  Shown on it
is a much-mishandled 4-way flashing red light and pedestrians in MFFY
mode.  The eastbound one isn't so bad.  Both shot yesterday.

Will mention when uploaded.
 
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