Will you admit that "friendly bouts" on public roads is tardish?Meanwhile I've had (lost) friendly bouts with multiple top end Porches. Including a GT3RS and an old 911 with this under the hood...30PSI...I need a Hellion kit...
Fuck both of those vehicles and the people that drive them. Also fuck Yaris and fuck Elantra. All of them are weapons and I don't want any of them behind me.
It's an easy self installation, and I don't have much mechanical/technical inclination. I got the Blackvue 750s 2 ch (was on sale at Amazon for around $450 I believe). I only needed to pick up fuse taps (Amazon) and a trim remover tool, which you could probably do without. Lots of youtube videos of installation. Overall definitely worth it... see youtube dashcam videos.
Car stereo shops can do it. But it is not a difficult job for the S550. Very easy to run the wires hidden front to back, and the cameras just stick to the glass with double sided tape.
Why they aren't offered: (a) the typical new car buyer is NOT aware of how valuable they can be, (b) the typical new car buyer is cheap and so resents it installed on a car they are interested in, (c) the technology is highly fluid, anything a car maker offers could be outdated before the first one shipped, (d) marketing doesn't like potential buyers even thinking about unpleasant aspects of car ownership.
That happens all the time here in the Cleveland area. It's almost like they are waiting for you to get close enough to jump in front of you and force you to slow down because you got nowhere to go to get around them. It's like they are trying to force their morality on you by making you drive the speed limit or close to it. Here in Ohio the general consensus is you can go 10 mph over on the highways and the cops won't bother you, but go 11 and you get a ticket, so I set my cruise at 69 MPH or 9 over so I have a little cushion in case my speedo is off. Almost everyday I'll get some jackass see me coming at 69 mph and when I get close enough, they will pull out in front of me doing 60 or 61 mph. The ones that really piss me off are the ones that have noone in front of them but will change lanes to get in front of me anyway. When I encounter those idiots, I just go right pass them and dart back left as soon as possible and keep on rollin.
What works for me is a round or two of windshield cleaning. Usually does the trick at least temporarily.
Done that when my car was due for a wash. Not with the Mustang (yet).
Yeah I swear they do it on purpose. It's the same kind of deal here too... Speed limit on the highway is 100Km/h (62mph), but the cops will not bother with you unless you're doing 25-30Km/h over. So naturally, most everyone cruises on the highway at at least 120Km/h. The ones that really piss me off are fairly easy to spot, thankfully. Usually its some old person in the slow lane doing 100 while tailgating a tractor trailer (real smart), then as I approach they will cut over into my lane and keep speed with the tractor trailer, blocking EVERYONE behind them. I know I said Audi and BMW before, but these ones seem to be clown cars like a Yaris or Prius. At the end of the day its not the car, but the driver. Some people are just assholes....
We call them left lane squatters around here but I get what you mean. Most of my daily travels are on I-480 and it has a nick name of Indianapolis 480 because most drive on it like they are competing in the indy 500. But every once in a while you get some moron who gets in the left lane and does 59-60 mph and just stays there and won't leave, hence the name squatters.
When I manage to get around them—usually on the right—I flash this sign at them.
