GT3...Drunk

[vat_man]

Originally posted by risingson77


Hell yeah, brother! Will you build me one of those vehicles? 😈

I hear you on the snoozing cruise controllers....that's why I'm kinda glad I've never had it...there's something about having to modulate the accelerator yourself that promotes...ahhh.....what's it called?......Oh yeah! Paying attention to what you're doing. I drive fast (usually ~80 mph on the highway) but I'm paying attention. And a cop would tell me I'M the hazard...not the dip**** who's half-asleep but trundling along at 60 mph. I don't buy it.

I suspect I may not live for very long after I build and test it - but it will be worth it.

I do a lot of interstate driving, and sit on cruise control at about 5-12kmh over the limit. Thanks to speed cameras and overzealous policing 90% of Australians are under the impression that if you do more than 100kmh on the highway your car will burst into flames.

I don't sit in the passin lane.

One thing cruise has shown though - people can not drive at a constant speed.

There's two things that tick me off:
- you sit on a cruise controlled 105-110kmh. You pass a car sitting in the ppassing lane doing 80-85. Three minutes later the same car goes past at about 120kmh. Ten minutes you pass the same car which is doing 80-85kmh. Repeat until extremely irritated.
- people without cruise seem to be able to detect cars that have cruise. They will often sit about 6-8 feet off your rear bumper matching speed for 50-60kmh. There's a good way to break this hypnotic spell: 1. Check your brakes are still working by pressing the brake pedal really hard. 2. Depress clutch, and put car in third (at 110kmh). Release clutch. Ahhh - sudden deceleration without brakelights - always a good one to wake a sleeping tailgater...

 

[Pako]

Originally posted by Vette_Pro
Was this topic combined with the "Playing GT3 While drunk or high?" topic? Cause I saw my reply to that topic in here, but I never replied to this topic

http://forums.gtplanet.net/showthread.php?postid=132887#post132887

 

[captainkirk]

I can agree with AltF8 on everything he said. I will just have add that if you are going to be drinking in real life, do it like you have a little bit of sense. Have a driver that isn't drinking. Walk home if the bar isn't far from home. Although this doesn't seem to solve anything... drunks like to walk where the big metal things on wheels go. Or just get your beer and drink at home, then go to bed. That helps everyone out.

I have personally had to deal with drunks on the road before. I would be approaching them from behind. I keep my distance after I figure out that they have no clue what they are doing. I watch them swerve back and forth off the road. Then they overcorrect, and go off the other side of the road. It's just plain nonsense. I just don't understand people sometimes. Think before you drink.

On a lighter note.... Friends don't let friends drive drunk, they get drunk and ride with them

:burnout:

 

[vat_man]

I drive badly enough when I'm sober...

 

[risingson77]

Originally posted by vat_man


2. Depress clutch, and put car in third (at 110kmh). Release clutch. Ahhh - sudden deceleration without brakelights - always a good one to wake a sleeping tailgater...

It's also a good way to drop your tranny in two seconds flat.

I don't camp in the passing lane...and if someone runs up behind me, I make sure that I pull over so they can pass me. Hey, why should I be point man?

 

[vat_man]

Originally posted by risingson77


It's also a good way to drop your tranny in two seconds flat.

I don't camp in the passing lane...and if someone runs up behind me, I make sure that I pull over so they can pass me. Hey, why should I be point man?

Secret is to release it gently, not just dump it. If you can avoid dipping the nose it disguises it better.

This is when I sit in the left hand lane (none-passing lane - we drive on the left here) and just mind my own business - I just seem to attract these people. All I want to do is get where I'm going - not be the head of a road train.

 

[risingson77]

Originally posted by vat_man


Secret is to release it gently, not just dump it. If you can avoid dipping the nose it disguises it better.

Rev-matching also works wonders.

<----Firm believer in rev-matching downshifts.

 

[vat_man]

Originally posted by risingson77


Rev-matching also works wonders.

<----Firm believer in rev-matching downshifts.

Ah - good old heel 'n toe!!

Nice to have a car with the pedals set so you can do it - and it backs a difference to braking.

 

[Race Idiot]

Originally posted by axletramp
Don't worry everyone, you have to be drunk just to fit in in Edmonton... Presumably you were playing GT3 outside at a bus stop.

All I know is when I OLR I do it early in the day otherwise I don't stand a chance.

First :dizzy: then :gnasher: then then then... what the hey!!!!

HEY there arent that many drunks at busstops in edmonton, anyway I prefer to play tekken at the busstop

 

[risingson77]

Originally posted by vat_man


Ah - good old heel 'n toe!!

Nice to have a car with the pedals set so you can do it - and it backs a difference to braking.

Yup, heel 'n' toe....or in my case toe 'n' toe. See, I have big feet and I drive an Integra (pedals are pretty close together in this car, for those who don't know). So I use the left side of my foot to brake, and the right side to blip!

 

[AltF8]

Originally posted by risingson77


Yup, heel 'n' toe....or in my case toe 'n' toe. See, I have big feet and I drive an Integra (pedals are pretty close together in this car, for those who don't know). So I use the left side of my foot to brake, and the right side to blip!

My foot won't bend that way, so I have to do heel-brake and toe gas. I'm not very good at it though.

 

[keeno_uk]

Originally posted by Vette_Pro
Was this topic combined with the "Playing GT3 While drunk or high?" topic? Cause I saw my reply to that topic in here, but I never replied to this topic

yeah I am fraid it was that "drunk or high topic" was originally mine and mine alone was seperate to this one I went mad for a while looking for this topic

 

[keeno_uk]

Originally posted by Y2TUSCAN


HEY there arent that many drunks at busstops in edmonton, anyway I prefer to play tekken at the busstop

yeah I beat u at it at the bus stop