New Technology, new asshats....parking sensors.

[Possessed Freak]

Some yahoo did that to me when I was in the mighty Saturn. Had to use the parking brake to start off. It was my room mate. He did it on purpose and had a comical look on his face as I started off. He thought I would roll backwards into him. Of course I had a $1k Saturn to his $600 pickup, we certainly don't care about MORE battle damage.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

What gets me is people in econoboxes and SUV's that absolutely have to floor it when the light turns green.I'll be sitting there in the middle lane and the light changes, I let off th eclutch and go at a normal pace. Mean while, the 99 Civic and 02 Explorer on either side of me are going WOT racing to the next red light 100 yards up the road.

 

[DivideBYZero]

You didn't powerslide around the roundabout, middle finger out the window, screaming about something related to his taint? :awe:

I hadn't had any coffee at this point and I knew he was going to be all over the road, so I just removed myself from the area of his inevitable wash out. Next time, however, it'll be middle fingers and taints, for sure. :awe:

WMK!

 

[PricklyPete]

Interesting. Didn't know that.

Still seems very odd that anyone would put that on a torque converter automatic given that the cars really don't need it. In my experience at least 80% of situations on a hill the basic creep will handle holding the car still. Even on very steep hills the backwards roll happens so slowly that a driver would need to be laughably incompetent for an automatic to roll back more than a couple inches.

Gotta love how new cars are largely built for people who shouldn't be driving.

ZV

My wife's ex-Civic could not hold a hill at idle. Of course, it didn't do a lot of things well...but it did hit 40mpg on the highway without sweating.

 

[thegimp03]

Recently, I was pulling out of a steep-inclined underground parking garage and I had to stop at the top to let people walk by on the sidewalk. A guy in a GTI, who seemed to be pissed off that I had pulled out in front of him in the parking garage when he had been speeding, had pulled up within a few inches of the rear of my car. My car weighs just over 2 tons and when I let off my brakes and rolled back a little, I looked back at the guy in my rear view mirror and think I saw the guy shit his pants.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Yeah we just fly over every waterway and highway.

And overpass is not a hill...hate to break it to ya.

 

[alkemyst]

you sure showed me.

 

[BW86]

Usually if I'm on a hill and I see someone coming up who looks like they're going to stop very close to me, I'll start rolling backwards intentionally before they even get close. That's usually enough to wake them up and get them to leave room. I only need 1-2 inches on the steeper hills, but they don't need to know that.

ZV

lol, I do this too

 

[jlee]

lol, I do this too

heh I have done the same..

 

[vshah]

heh I have done the same..

me four. if i'm slowing down and they look to be coming up too fast/close, i'll roll back a few inches before hitting the brakes.

 

[v8envy]

Interesting. Didn't know that.

Still seems very odd that anyone would put that on a torque converter automatic given that the cars really don't need it.
ZV

My bet the reason is reducing warranty claims. Many automatic "drivers" will release the brake and let the torque converter boil along keeping them from rolling down the hill. Hilarious heat caused hi-jinks ensue.

Seems like weird behavior, but every owner's manual I've seen has a blurb against doing specifically that, so apparently it's a widespread problem.

On topic: I found that while douches doing this to my stang were common, there are absolutely ZERO willing to pull that crap when faced with a tube bumper at eye level. Maybe deep within their reptile (or bird) brains they recall footage of monster truck shows where 4x4s crush vehicles such as theirs for entertainment.