Happy Monday
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I'm always afraid of getting rear ended if I get stuck behind someone. All it takes is two people late on the brakes to ruin my life. But of course I'll try to plan ahead and pass safely instead of losing my mind.
I wish people wouldn’t do this.
Even in the pouring rain with low visibility you’ll have some absolute bellend think it’s appropriate to be less than a car length behind you when you have nowhere to go and I’m sure as shit not going to drive unsafely just so they can get home 2 mins sooner. Wankers. -
I've been driving Uber for awhile and I adopted grandma driving for my own sanity/safety.
Had an interesting chat with a chill taxi driver about this. He’d been in the business almost 30 years and says he sees people who don’t adopt this philosophy actually have health issues, and quit.
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At least where I'm at, I think it's more dangerous to drive the speed limit on the highway than to go 10 over, just because of other drivers. Driving the speed limit makes many other drivers lose their goddamn minds and drive insanely unsafely just to get around me. It's wild the things people will do just to get to their destination a minute or two faster.
Just keep right and you can drive as slow as you want. People start doing crazy shit when they have to weave in and out of slower drivers who are in the left lanes but not passing.
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it’s been a hard day making TikTok posts so I’m gonna drive around in my luxury car
without my seatbelt onand film with my left hand and maybe probably not hit anyone while I check if the angle looks goodIs there a point to all this judgment or..?
Oh no! The economic reality for young people requires them to sell themselves as influencers to make a living because we don't have actual, useful employment any more. Better make sure I cast my judgment on those who found some modicum of success doing so, so that the world and I know that I'm better than them! /s
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Drive the speed limit at all times.
Else you'll get a very hands-on introduction to the concepts of centrifugal force and static friction.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]good luck doing that on British roads
edit: also, there isn't a single road I can think of within hours of me where you cannot drive above the speed limit in regular conditions, excepting intersections. it's just bad road design
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Speed limit of the street or speed limit of the car?
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Bespoke: going the speed of traffic so the irresponsible citizens are also safe
Coke: Running the speed limit.
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So you mean m-f then? Music is a luxury best reserved for weekends, that way I know work won't interrupt my jam sesh
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it’s been a hard day making TikTok posts so I’m gonna drive around in my luxury car
without my seatbelt onand film with my left hand and maybe probably not hit anyone while I check if the angle looks goodAlso no way could they be filming with their left hand, the angle is way off unless they're holding a stick or tripod. It looks like someone in the passenger seat is filming.
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it’s been a hard day making TikTok posts so I’m gonna drive around in my luxury car
without my seatbelt onand film with my left hand and maybe probably not hit anyone while I check if the angle looks goodwrote on last edited by [email protected]You flubbed the seatbelt & cam hand, but didn't even mention the stupidly low seat that decreases visibility over their dash and, by extension, the hood & front of the vehicle.
Just sayin'. We should all be more aware of this too-often lethal geometry born of "cool" laziness. 🥲
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Coke: Running the speed limit.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Coke: reinventing the speed limit by setting the example —like a squid from a slingshot.
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Hey some of us sold cars and just drive the speed limit because we forgot how to speed.
Others moved pounds across many miles, and did nothing at all to stand out.
Still others drove school busses, and it was beaten into them while under cacophonous duress.
A few did both.
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Driving the speed limit at all times regardless of mood. Because I value my safety as well as the one of others.
But what about the "I'm late for work" mood
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wrote on last edited by [email protected]It's disturbing how normalized speeding is. It goes beyond normalization. I've had people get furious with me, flip me off, tailgate me aggressively and literally try to run me off the road for driving the speed limit.
It's especially stupid in the city. People get all pissed at me for driving the speed limit and maneuver recklessly around me before speeding off, only to get stuck at the red light a block ahead. I could feel smug as I pulled up beside them a moment later, that is if it weren't for the disappointment and frustration I feel with how stupid people are behind the wheel of these speeding death machines.
I can't think of any other law we have where a significant proportion of society seems to be actively hostile towards those who care to abide. Why do we accept this as a society?
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It's disturbing how normalized speeding is. It goes beyond normalization. I've had people get furious with me, flip me off, tailgate me aggressively and literally try to run me off the road for driving the speed limit.
It's especially stupid in the city. People get all pissed at me for driving the speed limit and maneuver recklessly around me before speeding off, only to get stuck at the red light a block ahead. I could feel smug as I pulled up beside them a moment later, that is if it weren't for the disappointment and frustration I feel with how stupid people are behind the wheel of these speeding death machines.
I can't think of any other law we have where a significant proportion of society seems to be actively hostile towards those who care to abide. Why do we accept this as a society?
People react the same way when you don't make a right on red.
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Hmmm, sitting quietly, assembling a child's toy from an instruction sheet and spending $1000 for the privilege, or driving a fast car...
Wow that's a tough one!
Edit: oh yummy down votes, they taste so good, tears of the manchild!
What kind of fast car are you getting for 1000 dollars?
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What's the hurry? I left early, and sometimes I just like the quiet. These are signs of success not defeat.
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It's disturbing how normalized speeding is. It goes beyond normalization. I've had people get furious with me, flip me off, tailgate me aggressively and literally try to run me off the road for driving the speed limit.
It's especially stupid in the city. People get all pissed at me for driving the speed limit and maneuver recklessly around me before speeding off, only to get stuck at the red light a block ahead. I could feel smug as I pulled up beside them a moment later, that is if it weren't for the disappointment and frustration I feel with how stupid people are behind the wheel of these speeding death machines.
I can't think of any other law we have where a significant proportion of society seems to be actively hostile towards those who care to abide. Why do we accept this as a society?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Yeah we are not a culture that can have cars safely.
cant think of another
Say 'genocide bad' in public. I dare you.
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Sometimes calm driving can lead to a calm mind.
And open all the windows sometimes!
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It's disturbing how normalized speeding is. It goes beyond normalization. I've had people get furious with me, flip me off, tailgate me aggressively and literally try to run me off the road for driving the speed limit.
It's especially stupid in the city. People get all pissed at me for driving the speed limit and maneuver recklessly around me before speeding off, only to get stuck at the red light a block ahead. I could feel smug as I pulled up beside them a moment later, that is if it weren't for the disappointment and frustration I feel with how stupid people are behind the wheel of these speeding death machines.
I can't think of any other law we have where a significant proportion of society seems to be actively hostile towards those who care to abide. Why do we accept this as a society?
It's ridiculous how acceptable people think it is.
I have someone I work with that seems to think the faster he goes the more important and busy he is, therefore he can treat everyone else on the road that follows the rules like they are just retired old geezers with nothing better to do.
It's infuriating. There is nothing I hate more than people with no patience or ability to plan ahead and leave at appropriate times.
