I'm Mexican and I can't help laughing at Paul saying 'Mexican' instead of Spanish when he talks about our language. Here si a brief lecture on Mexican road rules They're basically a suggestion, you ought to not overtake in a solid yellow line, but it is not illegal Turning right on a red light is permited in every state except México City. Translations (just some) Frene con motor: Use your engine brake Poblado próximo: there's a town nearby Alto: it means both stop and tall in height Zona de niebla o neblina: thick fog or mist zone
@@otm646 It is, it used to be allowed but the law changed like 4 years ago, and now it's much more strict about those things, although it isn't as bad as we all thought it would be when it was first announced
If you think being stuck behind a truck like that on a road like that is bad, then imagine the following. Some years ago we had a heat wave (>30 degrees Celsius) and I was stuck in a traffic jam. Behind a beer truck. With painted on the back, a bottle of beer with water drops all over it to suggest it was a cold beer. Heat wave, stuck in a traffic jam, and for over thirty minutes, my view was dominated by the image of a cold beer. Pure torture, I can tell you. :-)
@@subhojitmukherjee8446 I don't know where the original commenter is from, but I can take a guess that they are from the UK. Here in the UK, we are not designed for climates above about 25'C. Our houses have double glazed windows, we don't have much air conditioning and in general, our infrastructure is designed to accommodate low temperatures, i.e. keep heat in. With global warming and as the worldwide temperatures increase, we are seeing more heatwaves every year. Last year, my car thermometer recorded 39'C - I've been in Florida and Phoenix, and it was the most uncomfortable heat I've ever experienced. Our heat is incredibly humid, which makes it even worse. Don't say shit like that when you don't know what other people experience in different countries.
@@catbarr924 Hey mon (lol, we really don't speak like that), I'm from Jamaica and let me tell you, the inside of my car easily registers in the 50s on a mid summer's day. Can slow cook some jerk chicken on the dash....lol
"Frene con motor" means "brake with engine" "Zona de neblina" means "Fog zone" i dunno how to translate it propperly lol Im Mexican ^.^ been watching you since 2013/2014
I don't think I've ever seen an English equivalent for the "fog zone" sign, but that seems pretty descriptive, so would say it is a good translation. :)
9:07, It'll get fixed in the next release, I'm sorry for the inconvenience caused, I appreciate you like my map mod, since we are only a group of 4 person testing it's impossible to keep track of everything working fine as like a big company like SCS does with their employees.
I work for one of the major map providers and can confirm that we include gradient data for all the major roads, and a fair chunk of the rest. A few manufacturers are indeed using the gradient and curvature info for the road ahead in the shifting logic for their transmissions. More are also using the gradient data in planning routes in the first place, especially for reducing fuel consumption.
The new Volvo i-shift now has a feuture which exactly does what you said, it gathers information from gps signals and experience from driving on the same road multiple times
There's another good trip nearby in Zacatas state. Start from Valparaiso and take the road west. Once you pass the village of Huejuquilla, there is a large canyon to negotiate, and the road is very twisty indeed (on both sides of the canyon).
100% agree on the shifter (use an Almar myself). It beats shifting with pre-set buttons hands down. The longer throw, combined with integrated split/range toggles, defenitely adds to realism.
If Mexico is like Brazil, Yellow lines mean two-way street and white lines means one way. Solid lines are "do not overtake" and dotted lines mean "you may overtake". Double lines are for when you have different rules depending on your direction. you may have a solid line in one way and dotted on another. This is especially true in curves or hilltops.
@@carpymoreno yeah they lower fps but ONE right hood mirror wouldn't do much to impact FPS compared to double mirrors a side mirror and both hood mirrors and the befit in situations like that is obvious
We spent about 10 days on Tenerife, driving all around the island during the day, and then at night, as an amateur astrophotographer, I jumped into the car and drove up to the caldera, spent a couple of hours there doing astrophotography, and then went back down to the hotel. It was tiring, but also absolutely incredible. I love Tenerife, would love to get back there again.
The official language may be “Spanish” but Mexican Spanish is very distinctive. My Castilian Spanish teacher said that “tacos” are actually slippers in Puerto Rico.
I’ve been to Mexico multiple times when I was a flight attendant (also Dominican Republic). Those countries have speed bumps that you’re actually afraid of hahaha. They’re hills compared to the ones in Western/Northern Europe haha. You actually have to take them with 5 to 10 km/h. Imagine having to drive such a cobbly road with those speed bumps for 20 minutes in a van after a 16 hr flight hahaha. Loved the video btw, once again :D
About the auto versus manual. All auto trucks have a manual mode where you can hold a particular gear as long as you want going up or down the box. This is even simulated with the 'toggle sequential' mode in ATS/ETS
this plus your story about driving roads like this reminds me of the time me and my family went driving up to Andorra late at night, scary experience, so high up, very dark, crazy traffic, very narrow roads and only a red ribbon showing where the edge of the road leading down a very long straight drop to the bottom, needless to say we took a different route back to spain. but it was so nice star gazing from the altitude of the mountains in Andorra. but yeah, this kinda reminded me of that haha.
I live that experience everyday, referring to being up on the mountain. I live like really high up on a mountain. And a lot of the roads here have no lights and a lot of them follow rivers flowing down the mountain. It's really bad during the winter because not only do you have to take the crazy small hilly and curvy two lane roads but because we are so high up we get a ridiculous amount of snow and ice too. It gets down in the negatives around here and on top of that when the snow melts it floods so bad and sometimes it'll get real cold again right after a flood and all the water will freeze into solid ice so there will be these mountain roads with like 3 inches of solid ice on it. It sucks to climb or descend. So with that being said during the winter when they call for snow everyone will go out and buy up everything to prepare to quarantine for a couple of weeks. But in the end it's always so beautiful and I love living here 🤣🤣🤣 (Edit: I do still see a lot of modern trucks having to use the runaway ramps. The ones we have here are like huge hills made entirely out of sand. And they have like special cranes on trucks that come and get the vehicle out.)
18:50 if I remember correctly as a kid on the 18 Wheels of Steel truck game (I think it was in the sequel games like long haul) there was accidents such as rock slides, and car crashes you would see. It was always in the same place on the map, but it was not always there when you drove past. So it seemed like it was a basic generator in the game. But I do remember one part with a rock slide and you had to drive around it.
Opinion of an automatic spoken like a true old school trucker... There are plenty of good automated manual transmissions available on modern trucks, but I'll use my personal experience on the Volvo I-shift as an example. Sensors on the truck calculate grade and load, and the transmission uses that information to make intelligent and economical shifting decisions. The I-shift does an excellent job of choosing when to shift on grades. It's shortcoming is low traction conditions, like ice roads. However, if you get the optional seat-side shifter, you get full control of what gear you're in, and when it shifts. The computer takes car of rev matching and clutching, and will never miss a shift. It's the best of both worlds. Though these transmissions tend to be poorly simulated in ETS2 and ATS
Speaking about manual vs automatic gearboxes, I think what many cars are getting now - like paddle shifters. Computer controlled gearboxes that are automatic in every way, except drivers can choose to control the gearbox in "manual mode" I learned to drive on a manual, but I hate worrying about the clutch, and it's just not as smooth as automatic. I like paddle gears because you have the best of both worlds. Idk how it would work in 18-wheelers.
Automatic trans in trucks allow you to select and hold gears so you can nav up and down hills, weather, etc. There's just no clutch. Most of the auto trucks are auto assisted as opposed to true automatic transmission. Freightliner Cascadia has true automatics. The stuff you were discussing are already reality.
Pablado Proximo means houses nearby the road. Pablado meaning houses, which you might recognize from the word Pueblo, a style of mud houses in Arizona and New Mexico. Frene con motor is just a reminder to use your engine brake. Zona de neblina is a warning for mist and reduced visibility. Neblina is like the word nebula which is Latin for fog or clouds, hence why nebula in outer space are called such.
Frene con motor: brake with your engine (literal) or engine break. Alto: stop. Zona de neblina: mist zone. Poblado próximo: town ahead. Disminuya su velocidad: slow down. Extreme precauciones, curvas peligrosas: be careful, dangerous curves. Speed bumps are a thing but when crossing little towns to make you slow down and don't run over someone. And I think those are the most common signs, regards from Mexico City.
@@FDSixtyNine The fact that they already did some challenging roads in some parts of the maps makes me think that^^. They are definitely capable of creating them, they just set their priority for other (imo important) stuff right now. Furthermore, I think they put out maps pretty frequently regarding the quality standards they have right now.
Hey Squirrel! I drive a 2019 Freightliner with the automatic 12 speed transmission and I will NEVER go back! The auto does indeed know about and anticipate terrain ahead! That said, you're right about there being situations where the driver needs to control the transmission, and the gearbox can be turned into a paddle shifter with a single button. Even in auto mode the shifter paddle works for forcing a shift if you feel the truck is lagging (I use it most often when starting under a heavy load: I can force shifts at 1500 rpm and step up one gear at a time to accelerate smoothly where the auto gearbox tends to go for higher RPMs and skip some early gears trying to save fuel). It's extremely rare that the auto misses a gear, and it has saved me tons of money on fuel too, since it uses the terrain data to efficiently coast over hills and minimize wasted fuel. Truck Sim doesn't reflect how IRL truck auto gearboxes handle, unfortunately.
so, I'm from Argentina, not Mexico. but - frene con motor : Brake with Engine. - zona de neblina, encienda las luces : fog zone, turn on the headlights. - disminuya la velocidad : reduce your speed. - poblado proximo : urban zone or town nearby - extrema precaucion curvas peligrosas : extreme caution dangerous bends the speed limit is 30km/h or between 18 and 19 mph. so yeah the speed it's about correct. at a couple hundred kilometers, we have a twisty road like that, with a lake in the middle without a speed limit, you can cross it fine between 30 and 40km/h, but if you have the experience you can probably do 60 km/h just fine.
Thing you said about automatic gearbox! If you drive any auto truck in ets2, on steep hill the truck will not shift to higher gear even if the ideal shifting rpm is reached! Auto gearboxes are getting smarter
I think the main problem with motorbikes is how different they act in traffic. They can filter in different states and countries, position beside each other in one lane, etc. I'd imagine this would be the difficult part to implement, but it's something they probably would want to include with how much attention to detail they give.
I use automatics but do manual at times to when the darn thing won't change gear, but i heard at least one trucker talking about hurting knee from all the clutching.
The traffic AI is really interesting. In ETS2 had a light turn green for me to go straight, and a POLICE car turns in front of me, and I smashed into it :D !!
i am still sure there are actually animals crossing the road in Oregon. especially around the dirt roads going trough forests. got the scare of my life when i came thundering down a dirt track. went around a corner. and almost hit what looked to me like a rabbit. but then again i have not seen it since, and it could just as easily been one of those rolling brush things you see in Nevada. although it would be out of place in an Oregon forest.
lol "Problado Proximo" actually means "Town Ahead" "Alto" means "Tall" but it's also used to give a stop order. Like when the police says to somebody who is running away "STOP" in spanish would be "ALTO"
New to the channel and i love your videos. I have driven real semis for about 3 years and i love playing ATS. I really enjoy how you know your stuff. Keep the videos coming and maybe do a video on the best mods for 2019 by chance.
Saludos Ardilla (Squirrel). From a Mexican that speaks -Mexican- Spanish! Love your translations Compadre! 10:47 Yes we are slaves to speed bumps, it's the only way to make us respect speed limits. You see road and street signs down here are "mere exhortations". 14:17 100% Mexican style overtake. Solid lines encourage action: If you got the power and know your gears just go for it... Sooo never try to respect speed limits, you will be bullied. Those are for gringos (foreigners) or weyes (fools). BTW! I am amazed how well this map imitates Mexican "B" roads (UK) or regional ones. You were crossing the "Sierra Madre Occidental" mountain range, an absolute beauty to visit and drive through.
Yeah "Alto" it's more like halt, it's what a cop yells at you when you are scaping "Alto ahí!" Here in Argentina we don't use "Alto" we use "Pare" as road sings.
great video squirrel, i love the commentary. there needs to be some more advancements in the game technically . seeing your truck being loaded and unloaded , the brakes running hot, rocks actually falling are just some of the things that can be added to the game.i play both ets2 and ats but i play with a keyboard and mouse on a hp 2560p laptop, which as an i5 processor. so far i love the advancements that this game as made. 2 others i know everybody want is seeing actual hands on the steering and see your gearstick move. the pedals move in some mods which is great.
Reasons I gave up on map mods. Including pro mods...too much waiting to catch up on the updated game version. Still good to see you back behind the wheel! Lets go flying on the new F14 in DCS. Cheers
Squirrel, According to a Senior Tester at SCS he posted on the Steam message board for ATS and he said that Washington State could be released some time this Summer but he was just guessing at this point. He did mention that version 1.35 of ATS is going to be a huge update. But the more I screenshots I see of Washington State the likely hood of it being released in End of April to mid May. But I think SCS may release 1.35 at the same time as the Washington State which was hinted at a summer release.
not sure if you have heard any Slim Dusty music he sings a great song about loosing your brakes in a truck song called (The Angel Of Goulburn Hill ) one of the worse twisty hilly roads in Australia
Poblado proximo = Town approaching . . eg reduce speed as yopes (sleeping policemen) ahead . frene con motor - Down shift gear to brake. zona de neblina - Misty zone.
As an actual truck driver, (american truck) there are a few roads in my area rhat are like this one. I actually drive a peterbuilt 579 . Those windey roads, some of the switchbacks the oncoming has to wait @squirell . Good game but most of truck driving is interstate travel. Us rte 129 ,or at least a section ( the tail of the dragon) is off limits to trucks because its too twistey
@@themetalknight2005 ice road truckers is just that, a show. They put their lives on the line, just like i do everyday. And to answer your question, no I dont think i could do that. As i detest the cold
@@Slagat0r1 thanks for your answer. I want to be a driver but I couldn't take hundreds of miles of sitting there..also on the show I was sad that they don't have truck handles
One last translation from a spaniard: Disminuya su velocidad (it appeared at the top of the mountain just before poblado proximo) means reduce your speed Good video!!
Hey Squirrel. Nice video the map looks great minus the invisible walls and a few floating bushes I saw in the mountains. One thing just to steep you in American trucking lingo. We call Hairpins Switchbacks.
I hope they fix the bugs because that looks like such a fun map. I don't mind a few glitches here and there, but invisible walls can really mess up your game.
Some auto gearboxes are good, unless you drive a DAF like me, as they are pants!! Some of the cruise control systems are starting to have GPS based systems so ease off before a crest of a hill etc, Scania for example.
Hint: ALTO it is Spanish for STOP - but you really don't need to know lenguare to know that signs tell you - because shape of signs are internationally defined - particularly because of that reason above // so remember the sign shape !!
Love this vid. Also working on vids about ATS. Soon going to start publishing the longest hauls across original map of whole US uncovered at the time ofc.
Another fabulous video Squirrel, thank you! You spoke of shifters, in my search for a way to drive manually, I found several very nice, but very expensive for the most part, as a casual player, I personally can't afford the &100+ usd, I found and fairly inexpensive solution , it is called the "S-18:, it can be found at Amazon for $35. usd, and works very well on the Logitech Shifter. You can also Google it for more the tech information. Cheers!
I don't speak Mexican either, I speak American. Not being able to speak Mexican has to be one of the best things I've ever heard. I had to pause the video until I was finished laughing. 😄👍
I am not sure if you said "mexican" sarcastically, but in Mexico spanish is the language spoken xD The red sign with the word ALTO does mean STOP, however in different context it also means Tall. There are a lot of speed bumps in towns to prevent people going through them too fast, because in some parts of the country there is a lot of reckless driving. There is a lot of "if there are no cops around I can do whatever I want" mentality. I agree that putting speed bumps in the curves is dumb thou, should be before the curve lol! It is very common for cars to over take trucks in roads like these, even with solid yellow lines, so the AI is pretty accurate on that xD. Not sure if that is a mexican thing only thou. However you are not supposed to over take in both single solid yellow line and double solid yellow line in Mexico. Disminuya su velocidad means Reduce speed. Poblado proximo just means there is a town coming up close. Frene con motor means Break using engine. Zona de neblina means Foggy or Misty area, and Encienda sus luces means Turn on your headlights. Every other sign you saw were just the names of the places you were going through. In a few towns in mexico the roads are cobblestone, especially colonial towns, which can be quite religious with big cathedral like churches in them and colonial style housing. Oh and by the way, in Mexico you can turn right on red light unless there is a sign that tells you otherwise! Cheers from Mexico :)
The car overtaking you at 32:50 reminds this one time. Am an army engineer, and we were driving i a column with 6 Mowag Piranha IIIC's an 8 wheel APC with 50m between each vehicle I weren't driving but I had my head out the back of the Piranha, and was in the rear most Piranha so i had security backwards and a modern muscle car, a white Chevy had been tailing us for 4-5 km as we were driving quite slow down a 2 lane - 2 way road. the otherwise twisted road then the road when straight and the Chevy hit the gas and went straight over the full drawn line and speed past the first 2 Piranha before he had to sling himself into the middle of the convoy so that he wouldn't hit oncoming traffic, after that passed, he pushed back out and continued past the rest of the convoy. leaving us all astonished at the shear stupidity of the driver.
Not surprised he wanted to pass after following you for more than 4km. I assume that the speed limit was around 50mph and the convoy was driving less than 40? In many other countries the trucks would make some room to allow car traffic to pass. ;)
I feel like scs wont add motorbikes to their truck sims for the same reason the pedestrians don’t cross the road, they have to deal with what happens if you hit them. If they do add them the game would probably lose its rating even if nothing came of it because you still “hit” a person
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I'm Mexican and I can't help laughing at Paul saying 'Mexican' instead of Spanish when he talks about our language.
Here si a brief lecture on Mexican road rules
They're basically a suggestion, you ought to not overtake in a solid yellow line, but it is not illegal
Turning right on a red light is permited in every state except México City.
Translations (just some)
Frene con motor: Use your engine brake
Poblado próximo: there's a town nearby
Alto: it means both stop and tall in height
Zona de niebla o neblina: thick fog or mist zone
Not being able to make a right on red in such a big city must be a real pain.
Just wait for the light to change?
@@otm646 It is, it used to be allowed but the law changed like 4 years ago, and now it's much more strict about those things, although it isn't as bad as we all thought it would be when it was first announced
@@karthouw yeah haha
@@otm646 try being in the UK where you cant turn on a red. ever.
If you think being stuck behind a truck like that on a road like that is bad, then imagine the following. Some years ago we had a heat wave (>30 degrees Celsius) and I was stuck in a traffic jam. Behind a beer truck. With painted on the back, a bottle of beer with water drops all over it to suggest it was a cold beer. Heat wave, stuck in a traffic jam, and for over thirty minutes, my view was dominated by the image of a cold beer. Pure torture, I can tell you. :-)
That is pure torture as you said I feel bad for anyone that has to endure that.
30'C is heat wave?? 😕 In my place it's 40'C+ most of the time throughout the summer..
@@subhojitmukherjee8446 I don't know where the original commenter is from, but I can take a guess that they are from the UK. Here in the UK, we are not designed for climates above about 25'C. Our houses have double glazed windows, we don't have much air conditioning and in general, our infrastructure is designed to accommodate low temperatures, i.e. keep heat in. With global warming and as the worldwide temperatures increase, we are seeing more heatwaves every year. Last year, my car thermometer recorded 39'C - I've been in Florida and Phoenix, and it was the most uncomfortable heat I've ever experienced. Our heat is incredibly humid, which makes it even worse. Don't say shit like that when you don't know what other people experience in different countries.
@@catbarr924 Hey mon (lol, we really don't speak like that), I'm from Jamaica and let me tell you, the inside of my car easily registers in the 50s on a mid summer's day. Can slow cook some jerk chicken on the dash....lol
Squirrel is back trucking!
"Frene con motor" means "brake with engine"
"Zona de neblina" means "Fog zone" i dunno how to translate it propperly lol
Im Mexican ^.^ been watching you since 2013/2014
HKF1 Perfect translation....muy bueno!
"Brake", not "break". Otherwise perfect English.
@@tin2001 fixed, thx
I don't think I've ever seen an English equivalent for the "fog zone" sign, but that seems pretty descriptive, so would say it is a good translation. :)
@@Maeyanie yes i know, but i couldnt think of how else to put it :)
Squirel: "i dont know how to speak mexican" gg
I’m English but taking Spanish at my school. Hola como esta
@@mlx39996 Eu só gostaria de saber falar estadunidês
You're right Squirrel Alto means tall but it also means Stop
9:07, It'll get fixed in the next release, I'm sorry for the inconvenience caused, I appreciate you like my map mod, since we are only a group of 4 person testing it's impossible to keep track of everything working fine as like a big company like SCS does with their employees.
Even SCS gets it wrong sometimes, so don't worry about it.... It still looks awesome.
I work for one of the major map providers and can confirm that we include gradient data for all the major roads, and a fair chunk of the rest. A few manufacturers are indeed using the gradient and curvature info for the road ahead in the shifting logic for their transmissions. More are also using the gradient data in planning routes in the first place, especially for reducing fuel consumption.
"I don't speak Mexican."
*Mariachi music stops*
LMFAO
The new Volvo i-shift now has a feuture which exactly does what you said, it gathers information from gps signals and experience from driving on the same road multiple times
There's another good trip nearby in Zacatas state. Start from Valparaiso and take the road west. Once you pass the village of Huejuquilla, there is a large canyon to negotiate, and the road is very twisty indeed (on both sides of the canyon).
34:22 Did you just said anybody who understand Mexican lol
yess lol
7:08 as well
AgentIce77 did you just say did you just said anybody who understand Mexico lol?
@@turkeydude1156 that what he said in the video
AgentIce77 I meant that you said “ piddling you just said anybody who understand Mexico lol
100% agree on the shifter (use an Almar myself). It beats shifting with pre-set buttons hands down. The longer throw, combined with integrated split/range toggles, defenitely adds to realism.
If Mexico is like Brazil, Yellow lines mean two-way street and white lines means one way. Solid lines are "do not overtake" and dotted lines mean "you may overtake".
Double lines are for when you have different rules depending on your direction. you may have a solid line in one way and dotted on another. This is especially true in curves or hilltops.
6:43 this is why you should have double/hood mirrors
He never put those because they really lower the fps :/ and it's actually true.
@@carpymoreno yeah they lower fps but ONE right hood mirror wouldn't do much to impact FPS compared to double mirrors a side mirror and both hood mirrors
and the befit in situations like that is obvious
We spent about 10 days on Tenerife, driving all around the island during the day, and then at night, as an amateur astrophotographer, I jumped into the car and drove up to the caldera, spent a couple of hours there doing astrophotography, and then went back down to the hotel. It was tiring, but also absolutely incredible. I love Tenerife, would love to get back there again.
I love squirrel but they don’t speak Mexican, they speak Spanish lmao
Mexican Spanish. Like how American's claim they speak English.
The official language may be “Spanish” but Mexican Spanish is very distinctive. My Castilian Spanish teacher said that “tacos” are actually slippers in Puerto Rico.
@@cccycling5835 But still, the language is called Spanish, the same way we Brazilians speak Portuguese, not Brazilian.
@@tin2001 but we do speak English
Quite cringeworthy to hear people from Mexico speak Mexican, as people from Britain would speak British by this logic...
I’ve been to Mexico multiple times when I was a flight attendant (also Dominican Republic). Those countries have speed bumps that you’re actually afraid of hahaha. They’re hills compared to the ones in Western/Northern Europe haha. You actually have to take them with 5 to 10 km/h. Imagine having to drive such a cobbly road with those speed bumps for 20 minutes in a van after a 16 hr flight hahaha. Loved the video btw, once again :D
About the auto versus manual. All auto trucks have a manual mode where you can hold a particular gear as long as you want going up or down the box. This is even simulated with the 'toggle sequential' mode in ATS/ETS
this plus your story about driving roads like this reminds me of the time me and my family went driving up to Andorra late at night, scary experience, so high up, very dark, crazy traffic, very narrow roads and only a red ribbon showing where the edge of the road leading down a very long straight drop to the bottom, needless to say we took a different route back to spain. but it was so nice star gazing from the altitude of the mountains in Andorra. but yeah, this kinda reminded me of that haha.
I live that experience everyday, referring to being up on the mountain. I live like really high up on a mountain. And a lot of the roads here have no lights and a lot of them follow rivers flowing down the mountain. It's really bad during the winter because not only do you have to take the crazy small hilly and curvy two lane roads but because we are so high up we get a ridiculous amount of snow and ice too. It gets down in the negatives around here and on top of that when the snow melts it floods so bad and sometimes it'll get real cold again right after a flood and all the water will freeze into solid ice so there will be these mountain roads with like 3 inches of solid ice on it. It sucks to climb or descend. So with that being said during the winter when they call for snow everyone will go out and buy up everything to prepare to quarantine for a couple of weeks. But in the end it's always so beautiful and I love living here 🤣🤣🤣 (Edit: I do still see a lot of modern trucks having to use the runaway ramps. The ones we have here are like huge hills made entirely out of sand. And they have like special cranes on trucks that come and get the vehicle out.)
18:50 if I remember correctly as a kid on the 18 Wheels of Steel truck game (I think it was in the sequel games like long haul) there was accidents such as rock slides, and car crashes you would see. It was always in the same place on the map, but it was not always there when you drove past. So it seemed like it was a basic generator in the game. But I do remember one part with a rock slide and you had to drive around it.
Manuals are just so much fun to drive, they make driving a lot more interesting in my own opinion.
Opinion of an automatic spoken like a true old school trucker... There are plenty of good automated manual transmissions available on modern trucks, but I'll use my personal experience on the Volvo I-shift as an example. Sensors on the truck calculate grade and load, and the transmission uses that information to make intelligent and economical shifting decisions. The I-shift does an excellent job of choosing when to shift on grades. It's shortcoming is low traction conditions, like ice roads. However, if you get the optional seat-side shifter, you get full control of what gear you're in, and when it shifts. The computer takes car of rev matching and clutching, and will never miss a shift. It's the best of both worlds.
Though these transmissions tend to be poorly simulated in ETS2 and ATS
Speaking about manual vs automatic gearboxes, I think what many cars are getting now - like paddle shifters. Computer controlled gearboxes that are automatic in every way, except drivers can choose to control the gearbox in "manual mode"
I learned to drive on a manual, but I hate worrying about the clutch, and it's just not as smooth as automatic. I like paddle gears because you have the best of both worlds. Idk how it would work in 18-wheelers.
Automatic trans in trucks allow you to select and hold gears so you can nav up and down hills, weather, etc. There's just no clutch. Most of the auto trucks are auto assisted as opposed to true automatic transmission. Freightliner Cascadia has true automatics. The stuff you were discussing are already reality.
Pablado Proximo means houses nearby the road. Pablado meaning houses, which you might recognize from the word Pueblo, a style of mud houses in Arizona and New Mexico.
Frene con motor is just a reminder to use your engine brake.
Zona de neblina is a warning for mist and reduced visibility. Neblina is like the word nebula which is Latin for fog or clouds, hence why nebula in outer space are called such.
yeah when I saw that I just assumed Pablado Proximo meant residential zone. I think that's how it would translate so it would make sense in English.
Frene con motor: brake with your engine (literal) or engine break.
Alto: stop.
Zona de neblina: mist zone.
Poblado próximo: town ahead.
Disminuya su velocidad: slow down.
Extreme precauciones, curvas peligrosas: be careful, dangerous curves.
Speed bumps are a thing but when crossing little towns to make you slow down and don't run over someone.
And I think those are the most common signs, regards from Mexico City.
The new trucks do read the road ahead and adjust the automatic gearbox accordingly but there is nothing that beats a manual ☺️
Love those challenging roads...SCS definitely should include more of them in their base maps^^
SCS can’t even put out map expansions regularly. What makes you think they’ll be able to do roads this challenging?
@@FDSixtyNine The fact that they already did some challenging roads in some parts of the maps makes me think that^^. They are definitely capable of creating them, they just set their priority for other (imo important) stuff right now. Furthermore, I think they put out maps pretty frequently regarding the quality standards they have right now.
Hey Squirrel! I drive a 2019 Freightliner with the automatic 12 speed transmission and I will NEVER go back! The auto does indeed know about and anticipate terrain ahead! That said, you're right about there being situations where the driver needs to control the transmission, and the gearbox can be turned into a paddle shifter with a single button. Even in auto mode the shifter paddle works for forcing a shift if you feel the truck is lagging (I use it most often when starting under a heavy load: I can force shifts at 1500 rpm and step up one gear at a time to accelerate smoothly where the auto gearbox tends to go for higher RPMs and skip some early gears trying to save fuel). It's extremely rare that the auto misses a gear, and it has saved me tons of money on fuel too, since it uses the terrain data to efficiently coast over hills and minimize wasted fuel. Truck Sim doesn't reflect how IRL truck auto gearboxes handle, unfortunately.
so, I'm from Argentina, not Mexico. but
- frene con motor : Brake with Engine.
- zona de neblina, encienda las luces : fog zone, turn on the headlights.
- disminuya la velocidad : reduce your speed.
- poblado proximo : urban zone or town nearby
- extrema precaucion curvas peligrosas : extreme caution dangerous bends
the speed limit is 30km/h or between 18 and 19 mph. so yeah the speed it's about correct.
at a couple hundred kilometers, we have a twisty road like that, with a lake in the middle without a speed limit, you can cross it fine between 30 and 40km/h, but if you have the experience you can probably do 60 km/h just fine.
Thing you said about automatic gearbox! If you drive any auto truck in ets2, on steep hill the truck will not shift to higher gear even if the ideal shifting rpm is reached! Auto gearboxes are getting smarter
Squirrel "I don't speak any Mexican" my brain had a moment trying to comprehend that
I think the main problem with motorbikes is how different they act in traffic. They can filter in different states and countries, position beside each other in one lane, etc. I'd imagine this would be the difficult part to implement, but it's something they probably would want to include with how much attention to detail they give.
Man, just screaming through those 30 km/h zones at more like 30 MPH...
I use automatics but do manual at times to when the darn thing won't change gear, but i heard at least one trucker talking about hurting knee from all the clutching.
BMWs have a few models where their automatic gearbox can predict the road conditions ahead using the car's GPS.
I actually enjoy ETS and ATS at night, in VR. Makes me feel like I'm in my own little world..
The traffic AI is really interesting. In ETS2 had a light turn green for me to go straight, and a POLICE car turns in front of me, and I smashed into it :D !!
i am still sure there are actually animals crossing the road in Oregon. especially around the dirt roads going trough forests. got the scare of my life when i came thundering down a dirt track. went around a corner. and almost hit what looked to me like a rabbit.
but then again i have not seen it since, and it could just as easily been one of those rolling brush things you see in Nevada. although it would be out of place in an Oregon forest.
lol
"Problado Proximo" actually means "Town Ahead"
"Alto" means "Tall" but it's also used to give a stop order. Like when the police says to somebody who is running away "STOP" in spanish would be "ALTO"
New to the channel and i love your videos. I have driven real semis for about 3 years and i love playing ATS. I really enjoy how you know your stuff. Keep the videos coming and maybe do a video on the best mods for 2019 by chance.
Saludos Ardilla (Squirrel). From a Mexican that speaks -Mexican- Spanish! Love your translations Compadre!
10:47 Yes we are slaves to speed bumps, it's the only way to make us respect speed limits. You see road and street signs down here are "mere exhortations".
14:17 100% Mexican style overtake. Solid lines encourage action: If you got the power and know your gears just go for it...
Sooo never try to respect speed limits, you will be bullied. Those are for gringos (foreigners) or weyes (fools).
BTW! I am amazed how well this map imitates Mexican "B" roads (UK) or regional ones. You were crossing the "Sierra Madre Occidental" mountain range, an absolute beauty to visit and drive through.
Yeah "Alto" it's more like halt, it's what a cop yells at you when you are scaping "Alto ahí!" Here in Argentina we don't use "Alto" we use "Pare" as road sings.
great video squirrel, i love the commentary. there needs to be some more advancements in the game technically . seeing your truck being loaded and unloaded , the brakes running hot, rocks actually falling are just some of the things that can be added to the game.i play both ets2 and ats but i play with a keyboard and mouse on a hp 2560p laptop, which as an i5 processor.
so far i love the advancements that this game as made. 2 others i know everybody want is seeing actual hands on the steering and see your gearstick move. the pedals move in some mods which is great.
Reasons I gave up on map mods. Including pro mods...too much waiting to catch up on the updated game version. Still good to see you back behind the wheel! Lets go flying on the new F14 in DCS. Cheers
I think some automatic gear boxes use GPS now to remember specific hills and angles of the climb to choose better gears
alto is the same thing for stop and tall haha, you were not that wrong, here in colombia the stop sign says pare
Squirrel,
According to a Senior Tester at SCS he posted on the Steam message board for ATS and he said that Washington State could be released some time this Summer but he was just guessing at this point. He did mention that version 1.35 of ATS is going to be a huge update. But the more I screenshots I see of Washington State the likely hood of it being released in End of April to mid May. But I think SCS may release 1.35 at the same time as the Washington State which was hinted at a summer release.
Love the bullhorns on the front
You’re so good in riding. You can do this in real life man😁
not sure if you have heard any Slim Dusty music he sings a great song about loosing your brakes in a truck song called (The Angel Of Goulburn Hill ) one of the worse twisty hilly roads in Australia
Poblado proximo = Town approaching . . eg reduce speed as yopes (sleeping policemen) ahead . frene con motor - Down shift gear to brake. zona de neblina - Misty zone.
As an actual truck driver, (american truck) there are a few roads in my area rhat are like this one. I actually drive a peterbuilt 579 . Those windey roads, some of the switchbacks the oncoming has to wait @squirell . Good game but most of truck driving is interstate travel.
Us rte 129 ,or at least a section ( the tail of the dragon) is off limits to trucks because its too twistey
I love the show ice road truckers. Do u u think u could do that stuff?
@@themetalknight2005 ice road truckers is just that, a show. They put their lives on the line, just like i do everyday. And to answer your question, no I dont think i could do that. As i detest the cold
@@Slagat0r1 thanks for your answer. I want to be a driver but I couldn't take hundreds of miles of sitting there..also on the show I was sad that they don't have truck handles
@@themetalknight2005 my "handle" ( road nick name ) is guardrail
@@Slagat0r1 how u get that. And one more question do I how to get the truck squirrel is using
You really know your trucks, I'm happy for this but one thing is you NEED to use your right mirror more. Really enjoying this btw
One last translation from a spaniard:
Disminuya su velocidad (it appeared at the top of the mountain just before poblado proximo) means reduce your speed
Good video!!
Hey Squirrel. Nice video the map looks great minus the invisible walls and a few floating bushes I saw in the mountains. One thing just to steep you in American trucking lingo. We call Hairpins Switchbacks.
your channel caught my eye due to the steam locomotive so im looking forward to more of that
I hope they fix the bugs because that looks like such a fun map. I don't mind a few glitches here and there, but invisible walls can really mess up your game.
frene con motor means use low gear and engine brake, and zona de neblina use las luces means foggy zone, use your headlights
Frene con motor = Engine break.
Arroyo el fraile = Creak "el fraile"
Zona de neblina = foggy zone.
Watching this from Arizona USA! Rock on Squirrel! Love your vids.
downloaded the Mexico maps the other day and it is fantastic
Some auto gearboxes are good, unless you drive a DAF like me, as they are pants!!
Some of the cruise control systems are starting to have GPS based systems so ease off before a crest of a hill etc, Scania for example.
It's crazy to see TEPIC and SAN BLAS in a video game, I got some family who lives over there.
Hint: ALTO it is Spanish for STOP - but you really don't need to know lenguare to know that signs tell you - because shape of signs are internationally defined - particularly because of that reason above // so remember the sign shape !!
Love this vid. Also working on vids about ATS. Soon going to start publishing the longest hauls across original map of whole US uncovered at the time ofc.
beautiful mountain climb, something I hope for in the ets game, not the ever flat terrains with pointless climbs
Bro watching such videos makes us fell relax thanks for creating such an awesome content all the best for u r journey 😄 Much Love From India 🇮🇳
Or bhaii
In the movie young guns.. Alto was stop. And it was said by Chavez. The Indiana. Not sure but I think Apache.
Squirrel if you ever go to Frazer island in Queensland do the fly and drive it is magical
Really happy that squirrel is back again, I am glad you are doing alright!
problem with motorcycles is with collision - what should happen when you hit it with truck ? it woud conflict the rating of the game surely
the wall you hit at the exit is a boundary from the road next to you on the left.
map editors forgot to turn it off.
This map is great drove on it yesterday.
20:28: nice car bro. IT'S MOSLER Wow!
17:25 that means to decrease your speed
26:07 , that’s called a runaway truck ramp
When will there be more train SIM?
It's the Mexico map better than the coast to coast because I'm not really a fan of the highways while seeming the same set if trees
Another fabulous video Squirrel, thank you! You spoke of shifters, in my search for a way to drive manually, I found several very nice, but very expensive for the most part, as a casual player, I personally can't afford the &100+ usd, I found and fairly inexpensive solution , it is called the "S-18:, it can be found at Amazon for $35. usd, and works very well on the Logitech Shifter. You can also Google it for more the tech information.
Cheers!
"frene con motor" [Brake with engine] , Poblano [Pueblo / Town], Zona de Neblina [ "Zone of Fog" / Fog Zone]
Squirrel you should do omsi 2 again sometime I've missed that series!
love the give way matt b
I don't speak Mexican either, I speak American. Not being able to speak Mexican has to be one of the best things I've ever heard. I had to pause the video until I was finished laughing. 😄👍
Scs must put smoke in when the truck shift gears and start pulling that would be nice
I am not sure if you said "mexican" sarcastically, but in Mexico spanish is the language spoken xD
The red sign with the word ALTO does mean STOP, however in different context it also means Tall.
There are a lot of speed bumps in towns to prevent people going through them too fast, because in some parts of the country there is a lot of reckless driving. There is a lot of "if there are no cops around I can do whatever I want" mentality. I agree that putting speed bumps in the curves is dumb thou, should be before the curve lol!
It is very common for cars to over take trucks in roads like these, even with solid yellow lines, so the AI is pretty accurate on that xD. Not sure if that is a mexican thing only thou. However you are not supposed to over take in both single solid yellow line and double solid yellow line in Mexico.
Disminuya su velocidad means Reduce speed.
Poblado proximo just means there is a town coming up close.
Frene con motor means Break using engine.
Zona de neblina means Foggy or Misty area, and Encienda sus luces means Turn on your headlights.
Every other sign you saw were just the names of the places you were going through.
In a few towns in mexico the roads are cobblestone, especially colonial towns, which can be quite religious with big cathedral like churches in them and colonial style housing.
Oh and by the way, in Mexico you can turn right on red light unless there is a sign that tells you otherwise!
Cheers from Mexico :)
Alto is tall but is also used as Halt, and its spanish not "mexican"
Prettiest map I've ever seen in ATS.
frene con motor = downshift to break :D
thanks for the excellent videos :D, this game is quite good for chilling
41:14 I think it is so you slow down more for the corner
I wish it would come out for PS4
i'm imagining this Paul doing this now, on the 1.40 new light sistem... with fog and at night.
I think brake temperate if modeled, it's just not used in the game.
The car overtaking you at 32:50 reminds this one time.
Am an army engineer, and we were driving i a column with 6 Mowag Piranha IIIC's an 8 wheel APC with 50m between each vehicle
I weren't driving but I had my head out the back of the Piranha, and was in the rear most Piranha so i had security backwards and a modern muscle car, a white Chevy had been tailing us for 4-5 km as we were driving quite slow down a 2 lane - 2 way road. the otherwise twisted road then the road when straight and the Chevy hit the gas and went straight over the full drawn line and speed past the first 2 Piranha before he had to sling himself into the middle of the convoy so that he wouldn't hit oncoming traffic, after that passed, he pushed back out and continued past the rest of the convoy. leaving us all astonished at the shear stupidity of the driver.
Not surprised he wanted to pass after following you for more than 4km.
I assume that the speed limit was around 50mph and the convoy was driving less than 40?
In many other countries the trucks would make some room to allow car traffic to pass. ;)
That happens to me a lot you always got to watch out for the four wheelers
squirrel mate you need to press the my summer car developer to update more. i loved your vids on that shit.
Frein con motor means break with the engine @squirrel
I like the walle bobble head on the dash
I feel like scs wont add motorbikes to their truck sims for the same reason the pedestrians don’t cross the road, they have to deal with what happens if you hit them. If they do add them the game would probably lose its rating even if nothing came of it because you still “hit” a person