It seems like all my hard-cornering opportunities are right turns. Onramps, offramps, even mountain roads where left turns are more blind than right (in the USA). With all that, I'm wondering if my suspension or tires fade accordingly. Am I the only one?
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It seems like all my hard-cornering opportunities are right turns. Onramps, offramps, even mountain roads where left turns are more blind than right (in the USA). With all that, I'm wondering if my suspension or tires fade accordingly. Am I the only one?
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I'm not sure I understand what you're asking...
lol I was going to ask if he ever comes home.
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LOL. I guess I was asking for that.
I'm just more afraid of the guard rail and ledge, than of oncoming traffic.
1) right-lane-driving in the U.S.A. means that there's always more pavement on your left to roam onto as you're making a right curve/turn.
2) your eyes, being on the left side of the car, see the oncoming road sooner when turning right, so you can get on the gas sooner having seen the end of the corner.
3) onramps are where I have the greatest opportunities (in-city), and it seems like those are mostly right-turning.
If I turn around and take the same corners, I have no lane of pavement separating me from the ocean or valley, and I'm a little delayed or more blind to oncoming traffic around a lefty. My passenger will see cars coming around the corner before me, so I'll be taking the lefty's slower.
If the road is flat, and visibility is unimpaired, then there should be little difference. So to clarify, the original question, Do you take more hard left turns, or more hard right turns?
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I'm just more afraid of the guard rail and ledge, than of oncoming traffic.
1) right-lane-driving in the U.S.A. means that there's always more pavement on your left to roam onto as you're making a right curve/turn.
2) your eyes, being on the left side of the car, see the oncoming road sooner when turning right, so you can get on the gas sooner having seen the end of the corner.
3) onramps are where I have the greatest opportunities (in-city), and it seems like those are mostly right-turning.
If I turn around and take the same corners, I have no lane of pavement separating me from the ocean or valley, and I'm a little delayed or more blind to oncoming traffic around a lefty. My passenger will see cars coming around the corner before me, so I'll be taking the lefty's slower.
If the road is flat, and visibility is unimpaired, then there should be little difference. So to clarify, the original question, Do you take more hard left turns, or more hard right turns?
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I completely understand what the OP is getting at and as far as I can tell, I tend to enjoy making hard rights more than hard lefts. For example, my route to work involves a right-hand turn onto a freeway that I can easily take at 40mph but on the way back home I am guaranteed to hit the light that takes me back onto the road I turn onto the freeway from when it is red, so my left-hand turns are always slow. The remainder of my drive home involves stop lights and surface streets, so no more hard cornering.
A couple more examples I can think of involve my drive to my Mother's house. I always take the exit prior to the one everyone else takes specifically because no one takes it, but also because it involves some nice backroads that involve more right turns than left (I actually counted). I tend not to go this way when I leave simply because going the other way involves a sharp left-hand corner with a guard rail and about a 15ft drop on the other side.
There is a cloverleaf on-ramp from Hwy-99 that goes to the Mukilteo speedway when you're heading north on 99 that is absolutely a blast to take. I think all cloverleafs involve right-hand turns as well.
A couple more examples I can think of involve my drive to my Mother's house. I always take the exit prior to the one everyone else takes specifically because no one takes it, but also because it involves some nice backroads that involve more right turns than left (I actually counted). I tend not to go this way when I leave simply because going the other way involves a sharp left-hand corner with a guard rail and about a 15ft drop on the other side.
There is a cloverleaf on-ramp from Hwy-99 that goes to the Mukilteo speedway when you're heading north on 99 that is absolutely a blast to take. I think all cloverleafs involve right-hand turns as well.
Actually I like taking tight left hand turns, since my body is closer to the apex. I feel like I can get closer to the apex on left turns than right...which in reality is just something I need to work on at autoX.
However for the most part, since offramps are almost always right turns and most of the fast turns in suburban areas are right (since turning left usually has you going across a lane of traffic), I get the opportunity to drive fast on right turns much more often. Example: on my way to work, the offramp is a sweet increasing radius 270º (right handed of course), back over the highway, down a hill through a "chicane" (weird set of dotted/solid lines), and then a flat ~100º (right) turn with new pavement. The same way back involves waiting at a really boring stoplight (and even if I did hit it green, it would be a very boring turn anyway) and a slightly kinked onramp.
On backroads though, all bets are off. Lefts are just as good as right, but at least you can take the blind right turns with somewhat of a proper line.
However for the most part, since offramps are almost always right turns and most of the fast turns in suburban areas are right (since turning left usually has you going across a lane of traffic), I get the opportunity to drive fast on right turns much more often. Example: on my way to work, the offramp is a sweet increasing radius 270º (right handed of course), back over the highway, down a hill through a "chicane" (weird set of dotted/solid lines), and then a flat ~100º (right) turn with new pavement. The same way back involves waiting at a really boring stoplight (and even if I did hit it green, it would be a very boring turn anyway) and a slightly kinked onramp.
On backroads though, all bets are off. Lefts are just as good as right, but at least you can take the blind right turns with somewhat of a proper line.
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