Sunday, October 19, 2014

Terrible drivers can suck it.

In reaction to the news that many new photo radars are going to be installed all over the province, angry drivers everywhere are in an uproar over what they call "ticket traps". Well if you drive correctly, these won't do anything to you, am I correct? So if you really have a problem with this, it's because you drive like you're playing GTA or something, at which point you're a threat to competent drivers (and yourselves, but I don't care that much, social Darwinism and all), and thus you need your wallet drained for you to (maybe) get the point.

Ideally, these things need to be plastered over every intersection and NOT be announced ahead of time, to really instill terror in the hearts of those who found their driving licenses in cereal bags. Of course it's not cost-effective, but I can't sympathize with people who can't be assed to stick to the speed limits, stop at red lights (and even yellows, as much as possible), or lay down their phone for a bit. Make those imbeciles pay!

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  1. To be fair, traffic cameras actually increase the rate of accidents (http://hscweb3.hsc.usf.edu/health/now/?p=404), so anger is justified. But let's be honest, the angry people you're talking about aren't angry for that reason.

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    1. Huh, weird. Then again, if the light didn't just turn green I tend to let go of the gas regardless of what it is instead of slamming the brakes if it happens to turn yellow. So in a way this still boils down to people not driving as they should to minimize the risk of accidents. Because getting where you need to be milliseconds earlier is SO worth the risk of never getting anywhere ever again.

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    2. At least around here the main issue is either bad weather or larger vehicles that take longer to stop, which would make it likelier to hit someone hard breaking to avoid a red-light ticket. Yeah it's idiots still causing accidents, but usually it's the idiot behind the first person at the intersection. Plus around here there's the issue that the yellow lights are shorter than they're supposed to be by law in some places, thus ticketing people unfairly. It's sadly one of those things that end up causing more problems than they solve.

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    3. The other day, I had someone get into a turn-only lane to my right in order to pass me, when the turn in question was only about 100 feet ahead. He was probably going over 50MPH (80KPH) in a 25 to make that pass. So he jumped ahead exactly one car in this line of 10ish cars, saving himself a grand total of maybe one second for his trip. What an ass.

      http://youtu.be/dVB_ioxmlnQ?t=2m25s

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    4. The funniest story I have about this kind of thing happened back when my brother and I were still teens. We were on the road with our parents, then suddenly a car passed us at what must've been like 160 km/h in a 90 limit zone. Well, later on we saw the car on the side of the road, its driver getting friendly with a cop. Then later we saw the EXACT SAME CAR passing us with the same frantic pace, and just as we were about to reach our destination we caught up with it at a red light. Yeah, going so fast was REALLY helpful.

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    5. Not exactly driving, but a similar story. I was ATVing up in northern Maine with my dad this summer. We were on this one trail, not too dangerous, but full of enough blind turns that you'd want to keep your speed down. These two teenagers suddenly came FLYING past us a good 20mph faster than I was going and zoomed around the corner up ahead, kicking up a massive cloud of dust. I thought to myself "You assholes, I hope you run off the road" and kept on riding.

      Not even 30 seconds later, I round the turn and see a veritable crime scene up ahead: skid marks leading off the trail, a 4-wheeler tipped on its side caught up against a couple of trees and missing a wheel, and one of the guys from earlier crawling out of the woods. I pull over and ask what happened, and sure enough, a friggin moose had jumped out in between the 2 wheelers and the second one had to swerve off the road to avoid getting hit. Luckily he was wearing a helmet, even if he wasn't wearing any other protective gear. He wasn't hurt much--just his wheeler got trashed--so I don't feel bad saying the reckless bastard deserved it.

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    6. I've read that there are people who consider speed bumps nothing but thrill rides...

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  2. Well, Japan gets the better Mega. We get Glalie...

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  3. And then there are those people who basically give the finger to cyclists, too. Thankfully, where I live, that isn't often the case.

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  4. The town where I live is too small to have any sort of traffic issues. The worst we get is old farts walking right in the middle of the road (I'd probably call them a more polite term if they stuck to the side of the road, and kids weaving all over the place on their bikes.

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    1. The biggest thing that happens in the UK where I live are the idiots who try to jump the lights at train crossings. How stupid can those people be? Trains move at super high speed and if you jump the lights you put your life and the lives of everyone on that train in jeopardy. The UK rail network spends a large amount of money yearly to try and educate people on the issue, yet people still ignore the warnings.

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