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Re: Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you

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Post by beebeepka »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #129
beebeepka wrote: post #128

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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 reason…

Oh please. I don't even drive. Ever. And a big part of that is not dealing with race driver wannabes.

I absolutely think 50 kph is a bit high for small inner city streets. There could be children, animals, old people. Shit happens. Driving slowly lowers the risk. Also, fuck car sound. I hate it. I hate pointless driving, which happens to be most of it anyway.

Based on your handle, I'd say you are from Serbia or Hrvatska. Or something like that. It's been almost 20 years since my last visit. Here in Bulgaria there is a massive contingent of extremely dangerous fucks with 20+ year old cars. The type with "blood type audi" and such. Fuck these people. They shouldn't be breathing, let alone driving and breeding

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Post by is_true »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #104
jeffbee wrote: post #81

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Hills are the exact reason to use the speed control. It drives me crazy that drivers don’t know how and when to engage it, go 50 up hills and 85 down the other side.

Classic cruise control only applies throttle not brakes

It can brake with the engine (clutch)

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Post by survirtual »

genman wrote: post #31
throw10920 wrote: post #21

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> Many speed limits are set lower than they need to be. ...the only correct response to which is to contact the state government and complain while continuing to respect the law. Breaking the law while remaining silent is diametrically opposed to the democratic system that the US, at least, aspires to. > need to be ...oh, and vehicle inefficiency increases superlinearly with speed[1]. Until the majority of the vehicl…

Actually not accepting the given speed limit is a form of voting against said speed limit (especially when done en masse). Yes, it is not formal, but it is voting nonetheless. If the system was really democratic and not tyrannical then it would take it into account and would not resort to more control and punishment.

You are correct.

The users of the roads -- drivers -- are the ones who should decide what the speed limits are. The current system is a type of tyranny because the users are subject to rules without input nor representation.

People seem to have a distorted view on what freedom means.

If the majority of users say the speed limit is 80mph, then that is the just speed limit. Localities which decide -- for what ever reason -- that they know better have the seeds of tyranny inside them. History is filled with people who "knew better" for the populace.

We have the technology to measure in realtime what the mass consensus for things like speed limits are. This type of voting is implicit, automated, and accurately captures the will of the people without friction. Right now, this technology has been hijacked by creepy advertising vermin to sell us things we don't need. I think that a time is coming soon when it is reclaimed and put to proper use.

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Post by matheusmoreira »

beebeepka wrote: post #128
matheusmoreira wrote: post #76

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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

Yeah sure. We should all be forced to drive at 10 km/h at all times because some dumbass might randomly jaywalk instead of staying on the sidewalk where he belongs. We should all be subjected to speed bumps every 50 meters until the end of time just because some morons with motorcycles raced down some street once and the people didn't like it. Some person stepped foot on the road? Gotta bring an entire queue of vehicles at 40-60 km/h to 0 km/h to accomodate the one person who couldn't wait a few seconds for cars to pass.

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Post by freitzkriesler2 »

amatecha wrote: post #85
CamperBob2 wrote: post #51

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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…

Because there's a large segment of America that sees themselves as the arbiter of laws and purposefully sit in the left lane to slow down people they (incorrectly) see as law breakers.

I almost want to become a cop just so I can write tickets for this.

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Post by tompagenet2 »

Izmaki wrote: post #121
assimpleaspossi wrote: post #100

If only we could know what this was about without having to view the video.

You can glance through the slides in a minute.

I did this, and it's a good first call, but the slides look designed to be talked along with, so I am not really any wiser now

Re: Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you

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Post by etrautmann »

beebeepka wrote: post #126
ang_cire wrote: post #92

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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

Does that characterize everyone transitioning rapidly from 65 to 35 back and forth?

Re: Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you

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Post by landemva »

stonogo wrote: post #101
landemva wrote: post #52

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I'm not familiar with noise as a speed consideration by my State DOT. Do you have a reference to the noise consideration for speed limits in the law/rule for your locale?

https://www.dot.state.mn.us/environment/noise/pdf/metro-nois... page 6: Minnesota classes some speed limit reductions as noise abatement. Washington refers to modifying speed limits with the goal of noise abatement: https://wsdot.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-10/ENV-ANE-Noi... page 20 Delaware includes modifying speed limits (classed as traffic management) for noise abatement: https://deldot.gov/Programs/highway_no…

Wow, noise measurements seem prone to manipulation. I am familiar with a State that measures actual travel speeds, throws out lows and highs, takes some %, and that is the speed limit ( <= max by law ).
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