Someone else posted these recently. Always a good reminder:

Shut the fuck up Friday

Don't talk to the police

I felt like I was being a giant asshole but I got off the same way. Cop was trying to make me admit to driving fast. I said I wasn’t and asked what they clocked me at. They said they didn’t get me with the radar gun. I said “ok,” and just stared at her.

In my youth (look, this was like a decade ago, I don't speed much these days), I had a nice car with superb high-speed stability and a big engine (by my standards at the time anyway). It was a super beautiful spring evening, I'd just put on my grippy summer tires and the road was damn near empty. So I was cruising at 120 km/h and decided to overtake a bus going 90. Well it wasn't very difficult to go from 120 to 180 in just a few seconds and then I coasted back to a more sane speed fairly quickly.

So when I got pulled over and the cop asked me if I knew how fast I was going, I said "I don't know the exact number, I was looking at the road not the speedometer, could you tell me?" and was told they caught me at 120 km/h. Nearly sighed out in relief at that point.

I used to watch this British show called Police Interceptors. The narrator loved talking about how the officers drive Subaru Imprezas and Mitsubishi Evo 9s/10s, and that their top speed is 155mph. My thought was always "So get a car that goes faster than 155, got it"

I dont even need a damned car lol

It might surprise you to learn that some people live outside of America.

As long as you're white, otherwise it will be escalating

Not in a hybrid with Hill Descent Control. That's just more juice in the battery.

I've found leaving the distance on the ACC at the longest stabilizes the speed pretty well (when people aren't taking advantage of the fact your car is known for having ACC so they cut you off even if you're not using it, expecting the computer to give them room. Just cut off Teslas, they have the ACC and it's a nazi car company. Don't cut off my VW dammit)

I don't know if that's universal for ACC, mine will gradually slow down with traffic as long as I don't have the follow distance set to the minimum. The only times it hard brakes is when someone cuts me off or if the car(s) ahead slam on their brakes, but even in that case it will try to slow down as gradually as it can while eating up that gap.

Also, on hilly terrain it will allow a fair deviation from the set speed before it will try to accelerate/brake more aggressively (usually +/- 5-10 km/h).

I remember once seeing a test where about two dozen drivers were asked to drive in a large circle. All it takes is one or two brakes in order to have this big accordion effect going through the whole thing.

I almost got very messed up in a rental car using that. I was on a fairly tight winding road just West of Klamath Falls in Oregon. There was a concrete barrier median, the roadway, while fast was very 3 dimensional. I was overtaking a logging truck to my right with afternoon sun creating a ton of broken light (really pretty honestly). But the adaptive cruise got messed up with everything going on and did a hard braking when I absolutely didn't expect and was very much not convenient to keep control. The brakes were worn so it tried to dive to the right, toward the semi. It was very memorable.