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Things are never predestined to happen because of something you do or don't do. I'd still rather have everyone around me have a robust education in operating machinery that can kill me in a literal instant.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Yeah, I didn't do driver's ed, but somehow I've managed not to get in any accidents over the last 50 years. I took driver's ed and have been in multiple accidents over the last 50 years, so there. 
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Nidhg00670000 posted:Things are never predestined to happen because of something you do or don't do. I'd still rather have everyone around me have a robust education in operating machinery that can kill me in a literal instant. I learned to drive on rural Wisconsin dirt roads in godawful weather. You get pretty good at judging traction, stopping distances, and visual conditions in a Wisconsin winter.
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It doesn't matter, you could be the greatest driver in the world but it's still an anecdote. Statistics on deaths in traffic says US has 12.9 deaths per 100k (2021), Finland had 3.8 in 2019, Sweden 2.2, Germany 3.7. So you can see there's a difference. And those are deaths so more severe accidents, just minor accidents, the risk of your car getting done in by some rando. Just driving on the street knowing how little training there is required to drive would make me very paranoid....
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:I learned to drive on rural Wisconsin dirt roads in godawful weather. You get pretty good at judging traction, stopping distances, and visual conditions in a Wisconsin winter. yeah but back when you learned, a man with a red flag had to run in front of the car warning pedestrians
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:yeah but back when you learned, a man with a red flag had to run in front of the car warning pedestrians Only in cities, so the lady-folk wouldn't get spooked and go into hysterical tremors.
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His Divine Shadow posted:It doesn't matter, you could be the greatest driver in the world but it's still an anecdote. Statistics on deaths in traffic says US has 12.9 deaths per 100k (2021), Finland had 3.8 in 2019, Sweden 2.2, Germany 3.7. So you can see there's a difference. Things like age of vehicles in general, seat belt compliance, helmet compliance (for motorcycles), etc. Even the general health of the population come into play.
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Found this incredible corner that for some reason keeps catching drivers out (do these people not have eyes?!) https://x.com/conzmoleman/status/1770370903655731653 It has a youtube channel so it's like the 11'8" bridge one but for drivers who get confused about what corners are and what they should do when coming up against one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9G-D2VkZhE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-SZQXNkDmI In the comments this classic corner as well which iirc is well signposted but people still go steaming round it at high speed and wreck for our entertainment: https://x.com/chvrlie_js/status/1770516073856835964 Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Found this incredible corner that for some reason keeps catching drivers out (do these people not have eyes?!) This one's off camber, so drivers carry too much speed into it and understeer directly into the ditch. quote:
This one is actually on the way to my doctor's office. It's a highway exit from a tunnel that's super narrow and spits you out into an immediate merge and a traffic light. Street View: https://maps.app.goo.gl/4DxQ6B5pKTMZJGq79 Safety Dance fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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Apr 15, 2024 15:51
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Reminds me of driving through central Pennsylvania. There are these twisting 2 lane roads with corn so high you can't see oncoming traffic and a speed limit of 50. I don't go near that when it gets hilly and people always blast past me.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Found this incredible corner that for some reason keeps catching drivers out (do these people not have eyes?!)
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So many people should not be allowed to drive.
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Safety Dance posted:This one's off camber, so drivers carry too much speed into it and understeer directly into the ditch. I know that one! I was stationed at Fort Lewis and was following a buddy into town when he wrapped his IROC around that light pole.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:yeah but back when you learned, a man with a red flag had to run in front of the car warning pedestrians The world went woke when they lifted the requirement to fire a gun into the air each furlong.
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I used to work in an office that was right next to a highway off-ramp that was really treacherous and there were some impressive rollovers. They rejigged it a while back but you can see the old route on google maps: (highlighted the old path across the grass) In wet, dry, snow, didn’t matter, people were rolling off it about once a week or more. And then the people that made it would go shooting across 3 lanes of traffic on a major road to get to the left turn signal causing a ton of fender benders and constant honking. You almost developed ptsd listening to constant accidents/near accidents in that loving office.
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A previous favorite crash prone area camera is https://www.youtube.com/@MilwaukeeRoundabout. There is a wide bridge/viaduct where people speed and it dumps those driving south right into a large roundabout. Too bad there hasn't been a new video in forever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00FH-OFFinA&t=11s waffle iron fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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My Daughter's classmate got run over in a hit and run last weekend: https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/harris-county/west-houston-hit-and-run-crash-girl-injured/285-45b8ef38-b1fe-4274-b040-bbc378060adb Fortunately, "just" a broken leg. In searching for the news story, I found that this is common enough that one of local TV stations has a "Child hit by car" tag: https://abc13.com/tag/children-hit-by-car/ Jesus Christ.
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Yellow poles are deadly fixed objects (DFOs). 
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Seems like the bollards worked perfectly. Also, you're complaining about no one able to see some that's 3ft tall in a parking lot?
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Olympic Mathlete posted:https://twitter.com/JoePostingg/status/1781334170444197906?t=ktVTzFPbmLb1MlohH9ukCA&s=19 I don’t have twitter so I can’t see the replies but I really wish I could see the takedown on this woman. If the pipe hadn’t been there she’d probably have taken out the corner of the bank building itself. “I can’t see them”. Then you shouldn’t drive, Jesus.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:I don’t have twitter so I can’t see the replies but I really wish I could see the takedown on this woman. If the pipe hadn’t been there she’d probably have taken out the corner of the bank building itself. “I can’t see them”. Then you shouldn’t drive, Jesus. The vast, vast majority of the replies are some variation of "you're the reason why those yellow poles exist" a lot of "you heard a crunch and kept going?!" and scarily a too few many people saying she's right and they've hit stationary objects too because they couldn't see them. https://twitter.com/DakarAdana/status/1781347736551395513?t=pVGnx0m4Dg2jH3gnFLuk1A&s=19 Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Apr 20, 2024 |
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Also she called the door handle a “handlebar”. Banned from driving for life.
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Don't drive an SUV and you'll see them. Easy peasy.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:https://twitter.com/JoePostingg/status/1781334170444197906?t=ktVTzFPbmLb1MlohH9ukCA&s=19 Like and subscribe! 
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This is why synthetic overhead view systems exist.
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Platystemon posted:This is why synthetic overhead view systems exist. Can't they just design a car that doesn't suck enough to need those in order to not kill anything that's child size.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:We used to put glass in cars Big change is rollover safety standards iirc, meaning the C pillars especially got huge. Especially to deal with how vehicles have gotten heavier as well. I would simply not roll my car over
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Olympic Mathlete posted:We used to put glass in cars And given Sir Mix-a-Lot's videos...this was a great thing.
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Platystemon posted:Skill issue. I think they usually have deployable safety bars, and it’s probably a big reason why there aren’t many of them around anymore, at least not new models. I remember the Volvo C70 way back when having quite the system to protect passengers in case of rollovers, big bars that come out due to the centrifugal force of a roll and lock into place etc.
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priznat posted:Big change is rollover safety standards iirc, meaning the C pillars especially got huge. Especially to deal with how vehicles have gotten heavier as well. one of the single biggest mistakes in automotive regulation, leading directly to all of the awful things in modern cars
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Shipon posted:one of the single biggest mistakes in automotive regulation, leading directly to all of the awful things in modern cars I agree, sometimes you shouldn’t try to save people from their own stupidity It’s be like mandating roll cages on motorcycles or something.
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priznat posted:I agree, sometimes you shouldn’t try to save people from their own stupidity Those are awesome though. 
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Ok those should be mandatory
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