I think when people wave their bodies out the window and then drive into oncoming traffic to get around someone theres idk the potential for more to be going on than "they're road raging for no reason" and anyone who just smiles and goes "heh" in their rearview mirror while thinking they're committing an objective moral good by keeping their cruise control set to 35 is basically turned person
But sure whatever. "Maybe consider the needs of other people before you smugly clap like a seal over inconveniencing them" totally means we should all drive like it's mad fucking max, yall got me
Re: yalls responses:
i'll be sure to remember that if i've ever got a loved one bleeding out in my vehicle and my attempts to stress the urgency of my need are met with smug smiles in the rear view and "lol should have left sooner" i'm actually the asshole
All the dipshits who drive at 10mph around my apartment complex because they don't know where they're going are actually not the assholes for not pulling over and figuring their shit out, and driving slow isn't ever dangerous at all
I think when people wave their bodies out the window and then drive into oncoming traffic to get around someone theres idk the potential for more to be going on than "they're road raging for no reason"
American drivers do this all the time when there’s nothing going on.
Maybe consider the needs of other people before you smugly clap like a seal over inconveniencing them
Not letting me endanger the lives of everyone around me is inconveniencing me!
Ironic how you implore us to “consider the needs of other people” while defending reckless driving at the expense of everyone else. Maybe “consider the needs of other people” before you drive your multi-ton death machine 30 above the speed limit.
And also
speed limits are generally really fucking arbitrary
Yeah, they totally aren’t implemented by engineers after traffic surveys and a consideration of numerous factors such as pedestrian crossings and type of road, that’s DMV propaganda, it’s totes completely arbitrary!
Gonna agree with bmf here on the setting of speed limits here. Road design often doesn't match the set speed limit, making the limit seem arbitrary even tho there's a (flawed) process for setting them.
[https://youtu.be/bglWCuCMSWc](The problem with speed limits)
idk it just seems silly to get mad at someone for driving the fastest possible legally allowed speed. If it's that much of a rush just pass them and then get better at managing your time.
i'll be sure to remember that if i've ever got a loved one bleeding out in my vehicle and my attempts to stress the urgency of my need are met with smug smiles in the rear view and "lol should have left sooner" i'm actually the asshole
So call an ambulance, who are trained to drive urgently and for whom other drivers are legally obliged to pull over and allow to pass. Sure it's expensive if you live in burgerland but that's another discussion.
All the dipshits who drive at 10mph around my apartment complex because they don't know where they're going are actually not the assholes for not pulling over and figuring their shit out, and driving slow isn't ever dangerous at all
Just go around them lol. Passing someone doing well under the speed limit is not the same as passing someone doing the speed limit.
A broken clock is right twice a day or whatever. They're a racist POS and shouldn't be celebrated, but they're right and their shitty politics wasn't the point of the others comments and shouldn't be used to brush them aside. They were responses to your position.
In your hypothetical situation where you feel the need for speed and the sole right to the road, have you considered the danger this poses to others? Not only other drivers, but pedestrians and bicyclists too. Have you been in an incident where you've almost been run over while using an overabundance of caution just to cross what is normally a very busy crosswalk? It's happened to me every year and three of them have been extremely close not because I just haphazardly step out into traffick, but because the drivers were distracted, going to fast, tailgating each other, or just didn't give a fuck because they are driving the biggest thing on the road.
Annoying attitude of the poster going the speed limit aside, arguing FOR the right to speed and for others to get out of the way is fundamentally a selfish position and a practice that promotes dangerous behavior on the road. If it's an emergency, call an ambulance. You can't afford to die more than you can't afford to pay ridiculous healthcare costs and that doesn't give you the right to put others in danger.
That selfish thought process, that cars own the road and should be able to do whatever they want, is why people would call you car-brained. If I had my way, the roads would be engineered so you couldn't go above 25 unless on an arterial road or a highway.
what do you suggest? should it be standard practice to speed up until the person behind us gives a decent following distance? quite often that will in effect just turn roads into a racetrack since so many drivers see someone ahead of them as an impediment.
most of the time when I'm driving I keep a safe following distance (2-4 seconds) between myself and the driver ahead (I'm driving the same speed as them, just keeping a gap for safety) and that's enough to frequently have drivers behind me tailgate, go apeshit, and aggressively pass just to end up 4 seconds ahead, or I catch them at the next light.
I think when people wave their bodies out the window and then drive into oncoming traffic to get around someone theres idk the potential for more to be going on than "they're road raging for no reason" and anyone who just smiles and goes "heh" in their rearview mirror while thinking they're committing an objective moral good by keeping their cruise control set to 35 is basically
turned person
But sure whatever. "Maybe consider the needs of other people before you smugly clap like a seal over inconveniencing them" totally means we should all drive like it's mad fucking max, yall got me
Re: yalls responses:
i'll be sure to remember that if i've ever got a loved one bleeding out in my vehicle and my attempts to stress the urgency of my need are met with smug smiles in the rear view and "lol should have left sooner" i'm actually the asshole
All the dipshits who drive at 10mph around my apartment complex because they don't know where they're going are actually not the assholes for not pulling over and figuring their shit out, and driving slow isn't ever dangerous at all
American drivers do this all the time when there’s nothing going on.
Not letting me endanger the lives of everyone around me is inconveniencing me!
Ironic how you implore us to “consider the needs of other people” while defending reckless driving at the expense of everyone else. Maybe “consider the needs of other people” before you drive your multi-ton death machine 30 above the speed limit.
And also
Yeah, they totally aren’t implemented by engineers after traffic surveys and a consideration of numerous factors such as pedestrian crossings and type of road, that’s DMV propaganda, it’s totes completely arbitrary!
Gonna agree with bmf here on the setting of speed limits here. Road design often doesn't match the set speed limit, making the limit seem arbitrary even tho there's a (flawed) process for setting them. [https://youtu.be/bglWCuCMSWc](The problem with speed limits)
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
idk it just seems silly to get mad at someone for driving the fastest possible legally allowed speed. If it's that much of a rush just pass them and then get better at managing your time.
So call an ambulance, who are trained to drive urgently and for whom other drivers are legally obliged to pull over and allow to pass. Sure it's expensive if you live in burgerland but that's another discussion.
Just go around them lol. Passing someone doing well under the speed limit is not the same as passing someone doing the speed limit.
Maybe
for a while and get some fresh air.
Am I missing something? Did you read the punchline in the title? I though you were being ironic.
If you're like actually angry rn maybe mald about real shit brother because i absolutely expect you to be better than this tantrum.
Did you read who posted it, while you're signal boosting racists lol
A broken clock is right twice a day or whatever. They're a racist POS and shouldn't be celebrated, but they're right and their shitty politics wasn't the point of the others comments and shouldn't be used to brush them aside. They were responses to your position.
In your hypothetical situation where you feel the need for speed and the sole right to the road, have you considered the danger this poses to others? Not only other drivers, but pedestrians and bicyclists too. Have you been in an incident where you've almost been run over while using an overabundance of caution just to cross what is normally a very busy crosswalk? It's happened to me every year and three of them have been extremely close not because I just haphazardly step out into traffick, but because the drivers were distracted, going to fast, tailgating each other, or just didn't give a fuck because they are driving the biggest thing on the road.
Annoying attitude of the poster going the speed limit aside, arguing FOR the right to speed and for others to get out of the way is fundamentally a selfish position and a practice that promotes dangerous behavior on the road. If it's an emergency, call an ambulance. You can't afford to die more than you can't afford to pay ridiculous healthcare costs and that doesn't give you the right to put others in danger.
That selfish thought process, that cars own the road and should be able to do whatever they want, is why people would call you car-brained. If I had my way, the roads would be engineered so you couldn't go above 25 unless on an arterial road or a highway.
The comment chain is not long comrade, you can see what was said. What we both need now is to disengage, so that's what we'll do.
what do you suggest? should it be standard practice to speed up until the person behind us gives a decent following distance? quite often that will in effect just turn roads into a racetrack since so many drivers see someone ahead of them as an impediment.
most of the time when I'm driving I keep a safe following distance (2-4 seconds) between myself and the driver ahead (I'm driving the same speed as them, just keeping a gap for safety) and that's enough to frequently have drivers behind me tailgate, go apeshit, and aggressively pass just to end up 4 seconds ahead, or I catch them at the next light.
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