Comment on Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 10 months agoAh. So you don’t have a magic secret but will still smugly pretend you do.
That seems safe
Comment on Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 10 months agoAh. So you don’t have a magic secret but will still smugly pretend you do.
That seems safe
justJanne@startrek.website 10 months ago
Slow. Down. That’s all there is to it.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I guess people angrily speeding past and honking means they would hit the ninjas, so… kudos.
Unless they just get angry and blast high beams into my rear mirrors even more.
Don’t disrupt the flow of traffic
justJanne@startrek.website 10 months ago
The speed limit isn’t a suggested speed, it’s an absolute maximum (excluding motorways with a minimum of 60km/h). If the road is frozen over you can’t drive the speed limit either, the same applies when it’s slippery due to rain or leaves or when the lights are off.
You always need to be able to react to sudden movement, no matter if it’s a pedestrian crossing the street, a motorist leaving their own driveway or even a trash can rolling into the road. It should be in your own best interest to avoid accidents.
The entitled attitude you ascribe to the overtaking drivers but also display yourself is just going to cause problems for everyone. Trying to shave a few seconds off of your commute by speeding in dark areas isn’t going to get you home any faster, all you’re doing is increasing your own stress level and risking someone’s life.
A little bit of respect on the road would go a long way to improve everyone’s experience on the road.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Ignoring the massive disruption that going below the speed limit causes and the increased aggression it instills in other drivers who understand how to follow the rules of the road:
A sedan is, on average, 1302 kg according to a random quora page. 45 miles per hour is approximately 20.116 meters per second. So about 26.191 newton seconds. People aren’t surviving that.
So unless you are battling entitlement by going thirty miles under the speed limit (which will probably still squish a person but I am too lazy to math it), all you are doing is antagonizing everyone around you while filling yourself with a false sense of security.
Seriously, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, take a defensive driving course. Defensive driving is about learning to anticipate the drivers around you and how to minimize the chance of a collision. Which is not the law you learned in driver’s Ed. It makes you a much safer driver and will probably lower your insurance premium.