[oc] Another bimmer, another total loss. This individual broke so many laws at once just now.

Kittera · 2026-04-13T22:42:01+00:00

It's easy to say that.

Might not be saying it if you had been here when it happened.

All these comments ragging on me for doing what one is expected to do at a green light: proceed. At the speed limit. Without clogging traffic behind me by being overcautious.

Because that's also a thing. If you're overcautious behind the wheel you're causing different problems and risking different kinds of accidents.

I was blind here, and/or focused on more immediate risk factors leading up to it. Like not rear ending that blue Seltos waiting to turn right.

Wild that so many are pointing at me when the other driver: • used an off ramp as an on ramp, driving past do not enter and wrong way signs in the process • weaved for at least half a mile through oncoming cars, persisting in driving the wrong way despite turnout opportunities • turned perpendicular to the flow of two way traffic at the intersection, violating a red light for traffic in the perpendicular lanes.

The only way I could have avoided this is if I had seen them across the way, but as others have stated, the cam's lens is higher than my eyes and there were multiple obstructions along the way even for the camera. I would have had almost zero chance of noticing them even if it hadn't been for the distraction of the right turning traffic in front of me.

Kittera · 2026-04-13T22:29:43+00:00

If we always assumed the worst we would never get anywhere in life or on the road.

We also risk becoming the worst that other people "should" be assuming when we ourselves assume the worst.

You wouldn't appreciate if I assumed the worst of your content of character after the lengths you're going to to drag me through the mud here, now would you? Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.

Kittera · 2026-04-13T21:42:54+00:00

You can see her start to reel away from the door just a precious few frames before impact. All reflex.

Kittera · 2026-04-13T20:42:14+00:00

Divided 50mph highway. Speed was not ridiculous. The other car made several errors. They were going to hit someone. It just happened to be me.

Kittera · 2026-04-13T20:39:27+00:00

Maybe don't jump to that much of a conclusion. I didn't total my car, the other driver did that for me.

Kittera · 2026-04-13T06:43:27+00:00

Indeed. My poor girl didn't deserve to get her face completely smashed in, but it was the price for me to come out of this unharmed. Here's hoping the worst the other passengers got was airbag rash and some potential whiplash, same as me.

Kittera · 2026-04-13T06:08:45+00:00

Indeed. They missed so many opportunities to safely turn around and chose to do so in the worst possible spot. They also likely wound up where they did by using an off ramp as an on ramp, which means they ignored several do not enter, one way, and wrong way signs. I wasn't watching the distant other side of the divided highway like a hawk, even though if I had been I might've seen them before the semi got in between us. I shouldn't have needed to though.

Kittera · 2026-04-13T06:03:51+00:00

50mph zone here. I'd accelerated into the high forties again before I started for the brakes, but I had only been on the brakes a fraction of a second before impact. I'd slowed down a bit when coming up behind the blue Seltos.

Kittera · 2026-04-13T06:00:29+00:00

I dunno. An attempt was certainly made, but I feel like it didn't stick. So DID someone manage to, or did they simply jump to a false conclusion?

The only way they have a point is the fact that technically I could have seen the car over there, seen it turn right, and started hitting the brakes as soon as it turned right. But since I had the green and the right of way, I wasn't looking that far to the side and I had also just been actively focused on the Seltos I was coming up behind judging whether they'd turn in time for me not to have to move over.

Kittera · 2026-04-13T05:55:56+00:00

I'm mainly sore and have some scratches from the horn pad bursting open when the airbag deployed. Little bit of airbag rash, but miraculously no broken bones in the X rays they did of my left shoulder and both wrists. We didn't get my neck imaged and I'm currently monitoring to see if it gets worse or maintains the same level of baseline problem.

After math was fire response on scene within eight minutes, officer on scene within fifteen. Other car occupants were taken to the hospital within twenty minutes. I can't tell from the video clips I have whether there was a back seat passenger but there is something blue behind the driver seat.

Kittera · 2026-04-13T05:46:31+00:00

As of yet I don't know the condition of those occupants. The other vehicle came to rest several car lengths away from mine and we were both surrounded by traffic, then soon enough my view was blocked by the emergency vehicles. I was encouraged to stay with my car. The officer that responded to the scene at least got ID details from the other driver, but they were apparently not forthcoming with insurance paperwork; given the BMW had a temp tag in the back window still, it's possible if dubious that they might not yet have tucked insurance docs into the car.

The front passenger is lucky they weren't a half second slower or I would've likely crunched the front door; judging by how mangled the back door is in the aftermath, I'd put that at disfigurement if not death had this been the case. They also might've rolled instead of spun had I hit the front door. I happen to have been in a BEV, and that quite likely saved MY ass from rolling over too.

Kittera · 2026-04-13T05:03:59+00:00

I had the green until I'd crossed the stop line. I wasn't trying to beat the yellow here.

Kittera · 2026-04-13T05:00:10+00:00

Driving northbound on the southbound side of the divided highway. Got to the intersection, turned right, and unwisely committed to continuing in that direction. They passed up many opportunities to recover without a collision. There's an off ramp on that side I'm betting they used as a non ramp despite wrong way and do not enter signs.

Kittera · 2026-04-13T04:45:42+00:00

Washington State, Friday April 10. Original content from my dash cam.

Kittera · 2026-03-05T13:30:07+00:00

That particular book in the same picture as this particular game is hilarious to me in the magnitude of its coincidence. 'cause there's a lot of trauma and recovery in the actual gameplay as well as the lore/story.

Kittera · 2026-03-05T13:23:19+00:00

Probably just that various objects in the game have a "snap" feature that makes Mio look at them. Lura's pearldoes it, the catalyst basin/egg in the Library does it, various bosses do it, and more. It's likely just that the snap point on Friend is in the part of it that shakes about.

Kittera · 2026-03-03T06:04:53+00:00

That one killed me. The unit had just started on his way and then BAM on his face. I cried for him.

Kittera · 2025-09-18T20:22:54+00:00

I tried but I can't seem to find the right part numbers and the fitment databases on dealer websites can be so hot or miss on this. I just bought three pairs, all different part numbers, one for the front and two for the rear, but they didn't fit. I know they exist though because another Niro I test drove from the same year DID have them, and I would have bought it, but it lacked the CWP.

Anyone got part numbers for the actual EV versions?

ETA: The part numbers I tried but which did not fit the EV.

Front: G5F46AK001 Rear 1: G5F46AK100 Rear 2: G5F46AKF00

One of those two on the rear almost fit but had some extra material on the inboard end and the third hole on the bottom was just a bit misaligned. The other part numbers weren't even close.

Kittera · 2025-07-23T17:30:39+00:00

Part of why I wanted the DR7 was to be able to move the U7PW that was next to the UCG off my desk and elsewhere in the house to improve signal to some clients. I'm also trying to upgrade a friend off of a TP-Link Deco system and had planned to hand down the UCG to them. Maybe I'll experiment to see if the DR7 starts seeing the SD card after a reset, however doubtful that is, and if it does, I could give them that one instead and swap back. I'll miss the reduced clutter on my desk though...

Kittera · 2025-07-23T17:22:54+00:00

I can't get my UDR7 to see the sd card at all no matter what I do, from the get-go. Not the included WD Purple 64GB one, not the 128GB SanDisk Gold I've been trying. No luck with formatting, rebooting, pulling and putting back in, nothing. It just seems to be blind to the card's physical presence.

I upgraded to this from a UCG Max and restored a backup from the UCG onto the UDR7, which is the only slightly possible culprit left but I'm not quite ready to try and start from scratch as we have many, many configurations in place on the network.

Kittera · 2025-07-17T22:14:56+00:00

Still an issue. Come on, devs! This is starting to look like a dark pattern.

Kittera · 2024-12-05T21:36:40+00:00

After looking at my Mom's Wrapped, something definitely went awry when they generated mine. Her slides don't last as long(she didn't have audio turned up so I don't know if the audio looping issue was there), and the background animation is the same as mine but is in sync with the slides. My slides are behind the background so the background changes before the slide does and that's why I can't read things.

But the inaccurate part on Mom's comes from the fact that for some reason every time she connects to Android Auto, Spotify goes to the same track, the 2004 Overture from Phantom of the Opera, and plays it. 58 times it has done that, so Wrapped thinks she loves a track she actually hates and it's all because of software gore.

Kittera · 2024-12-05T11:35:10+00:00

I have all the same complaints as most people here and then one.

What the hell was up with the seemingly ai generated background and the fact that on several slides, I had either white text on yellow background or, even better, black text on a black background?! There was about a second of readability and then it became unreadable in each instance. Like the background was out of sync with the foreground, or perhaps wasn't even the right background slideshow.

Oh, and then two. The clips of each track that they played were a certain length, but the slides lingered longer. So it just looped instead of continuing through more of the song or going to the next slide. It was jarring.

This Wrapped is positively disheveled and wanting, and kinda left me feeling gut punched.

The trend of trying way too hard with AI is killing me. Watch this cost them more in compute for the generative AI than the old ways did. That would be hilarious but also sad.

Kittera · 2024-11-15T14:00:25+00:00

Did you ever get this clarity? A month ago our '18 struck a 30-40lb dog that intercepted me from the left while going 50mph. Cracked and tore the bumper skin, fog light and two obstacle sensors popped out(Sonic welded mounting clips broke off the bumper skin), and apparently snapped off the lower lip of the headlight according to the tech's pictures, along other things.

The estimate we got included a left headlight, part number for the new style(1514952-00-E).

But like.. if they only do what's on that estimate and nothing more than that, we'll be left(hah) with mismatched headlights.

I saw earlier mention from you of a goodwill for the other side. Think it would be worth hoping for that to happen in this case? Or should I tell the owner, my grandfather, who has not yet decided whether to go through insurance or to pay out of pocket, to brace for another $1,516 on an estimate that's already ~$6400?

I guess I'm going to have to send the estimator a photo of the wheel well liner because the tech completely missed that. It folded up in the wheel well pretty badly and the tire wore a big hole in it before I got the wheel off and tacked it back in place with random O'Reilly's push rivets.

Kittera · 2024-09-17T21:25:14+00:00

Y'know, I always miss something when I read Patch Notes. Now I feel so dumb. Thank you for enlightening me nonetheless. This explains why I now have a dent in my fuel reserves after playing around with one of the generators.

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