This comment section is a very good case study in why better public transportation is absolutely necessary: a lot of you should not ever drive.
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glitchdx@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
MycarHolmes@quokk.au 23 hours ago
70 in a 50 zone. Doesn't matter if its km/h or mph, that's just idiotic.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
exactly, the engineers should never have made a road with that big of a discrepancy between safe speed and listed speed limit
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
The engineers only make the listed limit speed. Government officials make the listed limit. It used to be EXTREMELY popular for government official to knock 20-25% off the design limit of the road, ironically so they can tell everyone how safe they were.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Was gonna cite 85th percentile speed but TIL on drawbacks
Screenshot of redirect from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V85_speed
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Engineers should absolutely include traffic calming features to get people to naturally slow down, but everyone should drive the limit.
Speed kills, kinetic energy is not linear.
Cars are tonnes of metal hurtling down the road. Thousands upon thousands die every year, and since the increased prevalence of massive US style trucks fatalities have RISEN, undoing decades of progress. (Both in the US, and elsewhere)
People driving 20 over the limit are arseholes (or have been influenced by car centric infrastructure and culture). Change my mind.
Speeding is never okay. Just that lots of people have convinced themselves it’s no big deal.
klemptor@startrek.website 21 hours ago
I disagree. There are two roads near me with a limit of 55 mph, and traffic on those roads regularly moves at 75-80. Driving 55 becomes dangerous when all of the other traffic is going so much faster, because nobody expects you to be that slow. You risk getting rear-ended, and if traffic is heavy, people who end up behind you now have to merge into a much faster lane of traffic to get around you.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
Why don’t they confiscate driving licences and imprison all the criminals who are driving 20-25mph dangerously over the limit?
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I live out in the sticks, and if I don’t go 70, it will take me forever to get where I need to go. Also everyone else is going 70, so the people doing 50 are creating an unsafe situation. It’s the wild west out here.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
I just let them pass you. Not worth some lunatic you piss off even more and end up shooting you.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
If it’s a 2 lane per side road the best way to get them to pass you is to not break check them but just take your foot off the gas until they get frustrated enough to just go around but this contextually sounds like a single lane sitch which you are correct is dangerous.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’m a school bus driver and the course material (and test questions) for the CDL state this explicitly. If someone is tailgating you, you slow down. Tailgaters are gonna tailgate no matter what, and slowing down means the damage will be less if they do happen to hit you. If that makes them mad tough tittie (the course material does not use “tough tittie” but you can tell they wanted to).
The great irony of people who tailgate school buses is that WE CAN’T EVEN FUCKING SEE YOU BACK THERE. Even in your fantasy world of the person in front of you feeling pressured and speeding up (which never ever actually happens), it can’t possibly happen if they don’t even know you’re there.
Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
I would fully agree that confronting a lunatic face to face is dangerous, but the chances of getting shot for driving slow is next to zero.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Just let them go, because they are eventually gonna crash into a cop car and then you’ll see fascist pig vs unhinged sov-cit in real time, great show!
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
www.wsoctv.com/news/local/…/804586303/
Boom, it happened one time so it will happen every time
WraithGear@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
But is not zero
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
people in my region have been shot at for flashing their lights at someone to tell them their lights were off. that’s why i think escalating a scenario where one or both of you are wielding/controlling deadly weapons/machinery is the only way to go.
Snowclone@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
This is correct. It’s never worth it.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I slow down to allow them to pass me safely and easily.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Zink@programming.dev 12 hours ago
This one made me bust out laughing. Such a perfect combination.
The previous one is great too. Both new to me, at least.
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
- Escalates the angry driver situation.
- Takes photos while driving.
Neither driver here is in the right.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I don’t need to be right.
Fuck you Kevin you piece of shit we could’ve been something you asshole! But I’m a bigger asshole so long as you don’t pull a gun out on me. Biiiitch. *spits*
groet@feddit.org 18 hours ago
going 70 in a 50
Both drivers deserve to lose their license
Zink@programming.dev 12 hours ago
That’s easy to agree with in isolation, but many times on the main roads near me the normal flow of traffic in the slow lane can be 20 over. Driving at or below the speed limit would create a significantly more dangerous situation than cruising along at the same speed as the nearest several cars.
Yeah, you’d be operating in a more legal way, and the faster drivers around you should be able to safely deal with it, but that doesn’t mean the risk isn’t there.
Stez827@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Probably not. It could be in the middle of nowhere or on a road where the speed limit hasn’t been evaluated and the state default is 50. There are tons of roads like that in California or even some where the limit is in the 30s but it really shouldn’t be and locals are in the 60s usually.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I don’t think losing their license is the right approach. I don’t think scolding them is the approach either. I think most people don’t realize that driving is a cooperative event. And to not only accept that and also expand on it helps most road rage go away.
tungsten5@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
When people ride my ass while I am doing (at least) the speed limit I just take my foot off the gas to gently slow down until they go around me. If its only one lane then I will go under the speed limit. Im petty too like that
Paddzr@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Using phone while driving… Great.
Fuck everyone who ever touches their phone while the hevicle is on. This shit is not okay, ever.
Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
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The phone is clearly mounted on the dashboard.
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It’s not uncommon for people to record their whole trip for social media, not just take to a picture.
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This caption could have been pasted over a completely unrelated screenshot of someone else’s video for all we know.
Don’t touch your phone while driving, but also, don’t believe everything you see on social media.
Paddzr@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
On your last point… It’s still damaging because it normalises it. UK has very harsh stance on this and you’d get in shit even for point 1. There should be zero tolerance on this. They’re a dickhead driver regardless. Two dickheads don’t make it right.
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Zink@programming.dev 12 hours ago
I have some great news for you. Look at what took effect yesterday in my state! Using a mobile device, including at a red light, is now a primary offense (you’ll get pulled over for just that).
This just applies to PA, but it’s a pretty big state with a population between Sweden and the Netherlands, so it’s not nothing!
coolfission@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Doesn’t matter if it’s not enforced. We have no holding phone rules in GA and I routinely see people using their phones while driving.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I live in PA and I’m not holding my breath for this shit to ever be enforced. I’m a school bus driver and last year I had a local cop pass me when I was stopped with my red flashers on letting kids off the bus. He was driving with one hand and looking at his phone in the other - never even saw me.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 10 hours ago
hevicle
Given the size bloat, I think heavy vehicle => hevicle is appropriate.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
tbf, going 20 in a 50 zone is probably not a terrible situation to be multitasking in. not at all like multitasking at 50 in a 50 zone
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I’m a school bus driver and many of my coworkers use their phones (talking, texting and even doom scrolling) while driving a bus - sometimes even when they have kids aboard. And these buses have internal cameras that are always recording! I don’t understand how they’re not fired or at least suspended for it, but I suppose the driver shortage has something to do with it.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Yeah, honking at me. And those flashing lights on the roof of their car are really annoying.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
what the hells a ɘɔnɒlυdmɒ
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
Love reading threads about driving cause everyone is very upset for no discernible reason.
Amir@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
Driving is dangerous, and intentionally making it more dangerous deserves anger
DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
The beauty of this comment is that it could be in support of either position.
Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
anger
Is a big reason why it’s dangerous
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I’ll do something similar to the OP. If I’m doing 29 in a 25 and you ride my ass, we will now do 24 in a 25. I like to think I’ve improved the safety of the local roadway. I won’t negotiate with terrorists.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
This is why we should move the horb somewhere and have great big spikes on the steering wheel - the danger should have never been outsourced to others.
I get, i know it’ll never take off, but the current madness of 2T shockers is indefensible to me
Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
Driving is inherently stressful. Hell, merely being around cars is proven to negatively impact your health: eea.europa.eu/…/are-you-noticing-the-harmful-nois…
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 10 hours ago
Driving seems to bring out the second-worst in people.
herrvogel@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The only reason I accept to not let these people pass is if it forces you do something unsafe, like throwing yourself over to the next lane and slamming on the brakes to match speed with the other cars. Otherwise just give them the lane and let them be a reckless ass somewhere else away from you. Safer that way. It’s not your job to enforce traffic rules.
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 22 hours ago
Exactly. You have no clue why they’re speeding either. Sure it could be some a-hole, but it could also be someone with a medical situation, or someone that’s about to poop their pants.
When I was younger I used to stay in the lane. Now I move over if it’s safe, and let them pass. Not worth the chance of accidentally upsetting a psycho.
Lemzlez@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I agree it’s safer to let them pass, but a medical (or personal) emergency does not give you the right to endanger other people on the road by driving fast and/or recklessly. That’s why they paint priority vehicles in bright colours and put flashing lights on them - to make it safer for everyone.
If you have a medical emergency, you call an ambulance. Yes, they will have to drive to you first, but care starts when they arrive. If the emergency isn’t big enough to get an ambulance, there’s no reason to drive fast either.
random_character_a@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Only time I’ve been close to road rage was when a Mercedes CL had a really bright LED strobe light installed inside it’s front grill and he activating it, if somebody was in his way.
It wasn’t a cop or other emergency vehicle. Just an asshole.
I was lucky to be in front of him for 15 minutes when traffic got compacted enough to prevent lane change.
For a moment I considered hitting the brakes on that particular tailgater.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
Sometimes you can adjust your side mirrors to reflect such a light into the driver’s eyes
TassieTosser@aussie.zone 3 hours ago
People keep saying this but I tried it and its really hard to do that and concentrate on driving.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
That works. Also, back when I delivered pizza I kept a rather large LED flashlight in my cupholder all the time, ostensibly for spotting mailboxes and house numbers. (This was back in the day when having a powerful LED flashlight was a big deal, not like nowadays when you can get 3 for $10 on Amazon or whatever.) Pointing it out the back window usually got the point across when asshats felt the need to sit three feet off my back bumper and shine their high beams at me.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 hours ago
I do this and then wonder why the fuck the asshole honking won’t just pass.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I turn it into a game to see how slow I have to go before they leave.
I have come to a full stop before, and they just kept honking. they did drive off once I got out and grabbed a crow bar from the bed of my truck and walked towards them with a smile.
I had no intention of hurting them and it was more for my own protection than anything. They clearly wanted an altercation and fled once they realized how utterly stupid they were being.
some folks just want to feel some kind of power because they feel powerless and they just need a wake-up call.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
some folks just want to feel some kind of power because they feel powerless and they just need a wake-up call.
This is, like, the perfect summation of the human condition. Probably an awful lot of it, anyway.
Vorticity@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You know, I get it, they’re probably just an asshole. Maybe they’re having an emergency, though. How about just letting them get around in case there is a good reason for driving recklessly? Or maybe just in case they’re nuts enough to make things violent?
Maalus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Going 20 is the definition of “letting them pass”. Or should she have ran off the road so the tailgating ahole could continue on going 90 in a 50 zone?
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Move out of the posting lane generally is the simple and legal thing to do.
TheBeege@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This.
Lived in Korea for awhile, and they generally seem to not have this kind of vindictiveness or self-righteousness. They’re usually like, “I dunno. Either they got a reason, or it’s not worth the effort for me to do something about it.”
That said, social pressure is much more effective here, so the vast majority of people fall in line. See COVID
MrSulu@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Fragile egos behind the wheel combined with pettiness are the worst.
Wolf@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
I take my foot off of the gas pedal, if they don’t pass me by the time I’ve coasted to as slow as idle will take me I assume they aren’t going to and return to the speed I was going previously.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
I’ll slow down to exactly the speed limit (which because my speedometer is ~2MPH fast means going slightly below the limit) if someone honks at me for going too slowly. I’ll also specifically not turn right until it’s green if someone behind me honks to turn right on red
I’m a pretty chill driver. I don’t speed, I don’t aggressively lane change or push lights, but if someone thinks their horn will get me drive in a less safe manner I will happily slow them down just a little bit more. If they don’t honk, I’ll happily make it easy for them to pass when it is safe
Justathroughdaway@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
My spirit animal
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 10 hours ago
Play some Tom Petty for ambiance while you’re rolling along.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Same day different asshole.
IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Have you ever slipped and accidentally honked at someone?
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Oh yeah. At a stop sign or traffic light, slow traffic, kinda rested my arms on the wheel and hit the horn on accident. Felt like an ass.
WereCat@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
How is that even possible?
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Easy. I did it the just other day because I forgot that my new CRF250L is a Honda, and the position of the turn signal switch and the horn are reversed from every other bike I own, and probably not coincidentally every also other motorcycle brand on the planet. Some guy in the lane next to me got super butthurt because he thought I honked “at” him as I was completing my turn, which was quite hilarious to watch. (He was in the far left lane, I was doing a right on red from the right lane. There is no conceivable reality in which anything I was doing would be related to him, if not for the fact that he had Main Character Disorder.)
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Very possible st stops. I’ve done it once, shocking myself more than the other driver.
TheSparrowPrince@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
When you repost shit on Lemmy, the repostiness is amplified by 100x.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 day ago
All fun and games until you get someone willing to escalate 😁
visikde@lemmings.world 7 hours ago
Reading the comments I thought I was on Reddit :D
Petty Lane www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-rB0pHI9fU
MetalMachine@feddit.nl 2 hours ago
This is why I’m in favor of public transit. So many people should not be on the road. This goes for the granny under the speed limit drivers and the insane road ragers.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Once she gets to work she finds a sign taped to the back of the car saying “honk it’s my birthday”