Welcome to petty lane
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Just let them go, because they are eventually gonna crash into a cop car and then you'll see the grest confrontation between fascist pig vs unhinged sov-cit in real time, great show!
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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.
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.
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Worse, too often these laws are selectively enforced only when cops are looking for an excuse to profile minorities and poorer drivers.
yeah i was gonna say. they enforced the no texting law for maybe a year here, then they just started using "I thought I saw them texting" as probable cause to pull over anyone they wanted.
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My attorney has advised me to make no statements whatsoever regarding the applicability of the Lumintop Thor Mini I just bought the other week, which outputs a mere 250 lumens but does so in a narrow cone that's got, to my reckoning, a divergence of only about four or five degrees.
I'll have to do some measuring later, but at rear-windshield-to-asshole distance it'll only throw a spot that's probably about a foot wide, delivering maximum fuck you with a minimum of collateral damage.
that's pretty expensive for 250 lumens. i can get 500 for a third the price.
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When you repost shit on Lemmy, the repostiness is amplified by 100x.
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I just let them pass you. Not worth some lunatic you piss off even more and end up shooting you.
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.
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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.
Edit because of downvotes: https://www.bts.gov/content/motor-vehicle-safety-data
Y'all are really justifying some shitty behaviour. Yeah, I get it, streets are designed shittily, and feels like it's fine to speed (especially, from what I can see, in the US), but this doesn't absolve you from doing the right thing.
Like, if it were 5 (km/h) over, I could perhaps forgive you. But downvoting me for suggesting 20 mph over is arsehole behaviour? You don't deserve a licence.
Fuck these carbrains putting their feelings over completely savable lives.
USA is cooked (and Australia, somewhat cooked, since people are buying ridiculously sized cars here too).
Don't speed, you fuckwits. Better yet, take public transport if you live in a city with cilivised transportation (obviously, not your fault if it doesn't exist).
20 over the speed limit? that's ridiculous no one should be driving over 25
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A single cop car on the side of the road can get everybody to magically follow the speed limit.
nah, it just gets them to slow to 20 over the limit here
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That's really dependant on location. I have had plenty of road trips up and down the I5 where groups of cars pass cops on the side of the road going 80, and no one slows down and the cops do nothing.
Source: I'm one of those drivers.wrote last edited by [email protected]same on I10. that bit in texas where the limit goes up to 80 is nice tho
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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.
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.
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Yeah, honking at me. And those flashing lights on the roof of their car are really annoying.
what the hells a ɘɔnɒlυdmɒ
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I just let them pass you. Not worth some lunatic you piss off even more and end up shooting you.
I slow down to allow them to pass me safely and easily.
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Using phone while driving... Great.
Fuck everyone who ever touches their phone while the vehicle is on. This shit is not okay, ever.
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.
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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!
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.
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Fun little Stalin fact: when the Bolsheviks first took over the Kremlin, food was a scarce commodity. Stalin faked being sick so he could have a whole chicken to himself every day.
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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
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Fragile egos behind the wheel combined with pettiness are the worst.
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Not so great for people walking or cycling though. Higher speeds mean more serious and fatal collisions.
Where these modes of transport mix, 20mph is becoming the default choice in western European countries, there is a global declaration on this. If roads feel like they're made for higher streets: that's bad infrastructure design.
https://www.fiafoundation.org/news/stockholm-declaration-focuses-on-reducing-urban-speed
No one is traveling on a bicycle or walking here. These roads are empty, there’s nothing there. I live in one of the most rural places in the country (United States).
It was seriously 20 miles straight with no houses, wide road, 25 mph. In residential areas there are still 25 mph speed limits.
On our 4 lane road, bicycles are not allowed, yet the speed limit was only 35-40.
Where there are sidewalks, the speed limit is 25 mph. If there are buildings, 25 mph.
Empty roads with nothing but fucking trees should not be 25 mph.
In all of my years driving on those roads, I don’t even think I’ve ever seen a bicycle. A couple of those tiny, slow motorcycles, maybe. I guess they call them scooters
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The forces involved in a collision grow exponentially with speed. It's basic physics
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Facts don't care about your feelings. You've presented zero evidence to the contrary, how are you this confident about your assertion? This is such a joke
wrote last edited by [email protected]Get ratioed and take a stats class.
