If only we could know what this was about without having to view the video.
You can glance through the slides in a minute.
Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you
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I'd argue speeding is even worse, but to each their own.
Unexpectedly changing speeds seems riskier to me. I’d much rather be near somebody who was happily cruising along at 10-15 over, than somebody who just see a cop and might decide to switch lanes or slow down erratically in an attempt to hide.
I’ll never understand how people can blame speed radars for this, and not the people doing the speeding. Don’t speed and you won’t need to unexpectedly change speed.
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anecdata, but I regularly see people exceed the speed limit by 30mph in Houston without much intervention by police. The city has (imo) a psychotic driving culture, but is still roughly middle-of-the-road in us news and world report's ranking of most dangerous US cities to drive in. Large speed deltas are (conjecture I haven't bothered to research) probably unsafe under any conditions. Exceeding safe speeds for the c…
Not Just Bikes has a great set of videos on Youtube about how road design and driver psychology help to tame speeds much more than simple road signs. By now the evidence is clear: people will drive at the speeds they feel comfortable at given their environment (sight lines, spaciousness, density, etc.). Just putting a sign on the side of a wide and spacious road is not going to do much to affect driving speeds. The m…
> tree-lined streets encourage slower driving without any speed limit signs
Somewhere near me (south UK) has a dual carriageway that approaches a roundabout. There is a fence on the side of the road as you approach the roundabout, so that you cannot see what traffic on the adjacent road is doing, forcing you to slow down on the approach, rather than maintaining a higher speed when it appears you might get away with it. Seems to work quite well.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unexpectedly changing speeds seems riskier to me. I’d much rather be near somebody who was happily cruising along at 10-15 over, than somebody who just see a cop and might decide to switch lanes or slow down erratically in an attempt to hide.
I’ll never understand how people can blame speed radars for this, and not the people doing the speeding. Don’t speed and you won’t need to unexpectedly change speed.
The cop and the person reacting to the radar have collaborated to make a less predictable driving environment.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
The argument from OP was: > the odds you get a ticket from a hidden camera are very low if you just respect the speed limits And the comment I was responding to was about how speed limits are unreasonable. So I maintain that the comment did not refute OP's point. The reasonableness of the speed limits is irrelevant to whether or not you get fewer tickets when you drive below the posted speed limit.
This is the driving equivalent of "just follow instructions"; you're ignoring that they are intentionally making the speed limits difficult to respect in order so that they can ticket you. Telling people not to get tricked is just victim blaming.
Won't someone think of the overconfident and dangerous idiots who think they are race drivers
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Private cars aren't obsolete (how could they be?), and banning them is a freedom of movement issue. Not everyone lives in New York City. Not to mention the joy of driving should be taken away
> how could they be? More space, time, and energy efficient transportation options have existed for nearly 200 years. These options move more people further more quickly and safely than private cars. Furthermore, these options are more environmentally friendly, and improving them as technology advances can be done through retrofitting. My friend does retrofitting of classic cars with electric drive, it's prohibitivel…
Not everyone hates driving, and public transportation only works better in high density areas. Retrofitting cars with electric motors isn't better for the environment, it's just destroying pieces of history. (If you're going to retrofit, use alternative combustible fuels).
Obsolete doesn't mean, "I don't like it so it should be gone".
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
What experts? Majority of speed limits are in residential areas set up by the neighbour who complains, as the poster above just proudly did [1]. So the speed starts at 50kph set up by experts when the suburb is created, and 20 years later a random subset of streets is down to 20kph, because somebody somewhere lived there and was bored enough with their life to pester the city hall. And while that may sound cynical an…
Same thing happened where I live. In my case these people didn't just lower the speed limits, they littered the streets with speed bumps and "raised pedestrian crossings" which are just speed bumps with pedestrian crossings on top. I hate it so much.
Oh the horrors of stopping dangerous driving
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same thing happened where I live. In my case these people didn't just lower the speed limits, they littered the streets with speed bumps and "raised pedestrian crossings" which are just speed bumps with pedestrian crossings on top. I hate it so much.
Oh the horrors of stopping dangerous driving
Oh boo to the fake holier than thou virtue signalling :->
We will never have meaningful discussion if we pretend that the only safe speed is 0kph and we all need to stay home and anybody driving is a dangerous maniac. Because if you take the categorical stance that e.g. 40kph is reasonable and all people who want to do 50kph are dangerous drivers who must be stopped, be aware that somebody else thinks 30kph is reasonable and you are a ridiculously dangerous stunt driver for suggesting 40.
It's the old "everybody who drivers slower than me is a moron, everybody who drives faster is a maniac". Have the self awareness that your preferred speed is not the only way to be.
There are many dangerous driving aspects other than going 105kph on a 6 lane straight modern hwy.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Keep right except to pass and you won't have a problem.
Seriously. Why can't people in NA follow this basic, simple protocol? It makes driving so much easier in every way. Need to slow down because your turn is coming? No problem, move over to the right. Want to actually get somewhere sometime today? Pass and then return to the lane you were in. It's so easy! Imagine actually having protocols around traffic flow, and following them! Just wait until you hear about roundabo…
> Need to slow down because your turn is coming? No problem, move over to the right.
That's the wrong approach for a left turn.
> Imagine actually having protocols around traffic flow, and following them!
Like limits on the magnitude of vehicular velocity?