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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 03:04:16 JST goatsarah

   Dear angry driver in the yank tank SUV/Pickup/Boeing 747 crossover: I get that you are ANGRY that an electric hatchback is in front of you, traveling at the speed limit on the link road to the autoestrada; so angry, in fact, that you're going to tailgate it without any regard to the road conditions. However, there are things that I, the driver of said electric hatchback think you should know about electric cars.

   First, they are heavy out of proportion to their size, because of the battery, and they carry that weight low. This means that when you tailgate me into the 270º bend on the entrance ramp, which has a speed limit of 40kph, and I decide to have a little fun with you by continuing at my previous 80kph, I will stick to the road as I go round the bend.

   The sight of you weaving all over the place as you scrubbed off your speed moments after the realisation that you had made something of an error of judgement was very amusing! Thank you.

   Secondly, on exiting the cloverleaf and joining the autoestrada, you should know that electric cars tend to go like an F16 with the afterburner activated, and the Leaf is no exception. While your ridiculous parody of a road vehicle made screaming noises as it struggled to change gear and locate its power band, I was pressing my accelerator about half way as you got smaller and smaller in my rear view mirror.

   Yes, you passed me at 160kph, eventually. Well done. I'd been at my cruising speed for some time by then.

   Maybe try anger management?

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 03:28:47 JST goatsarah

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     • Wilfried Klaebe
     @wonka The other driver was doing 160kph when they passed me. I was only doing 110.
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     Wilfried Klaebe (wonka@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 03:28:49 JST Wilfried Klaebe

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     @goatsarah The Nissan Leaf, model of 2018 I guess, of the local car sharing organization here can do 160kph - but I guess because general speed limit in .pt, one should not do that there, also it's not economic.
     I do like leaving other cars behind when starting from traffic lights though. Especially those that look like their owners need to compensate something. Sometimes I'm a bit sad I don't often have a need to use a car...

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     The Homespun Days (thehomespundays@triangletoot.party)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 03:32:19 JST The Homespun Days

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     @goatsarah This story absolutely made my day if not my week.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 03:42:04 JST goatsarah

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     • Wilfried Klaebe
     @wonka Indeed, on both counts.
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     Wilfried Klaebe (wonka@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 03:42:05 JST Wilfried Klaebe

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     @goatsarah Yep, but they probably shouldn't have...
     Well, my point was, you *could* probably have done 160kph too, but you didn't, because of no need to compensate something.

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     Ed Davies (edavies@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 04:23:21 JST Ed Davies

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     @goatsarah Reminds me of somebody I knew in the 1980s with a 2CV being tailgated by a BMW. He went over a speed bump at the full speed limit which the 2CV didn't notice, of course, but the BMW did. No actual damage as far we know (unfortunately) but he did see the BMW driver holding his head.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 04:27:15 JST goatsarah

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     • Ed Davies
     @edavies A lot of speed bumps here are the type where you can take them at speed if you hit them dead centre. They're fun with tailgaters too!