lemm.ee

-1 points

6 days ago

Its still find and dandy for us all to slow down to below the 85th percentile. Especially cars.

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Ookami38@sh.itjust.works

3 points

5 days ago

Completely agreed, now we have to get the entire population on board. I don’t want to be trying to swerve around drivers going slower than the traffic around, and I don’t want people swerving around me all bloody day. Both of those are vastly more dangerous than simple speed. Drive the road conditions, which includes the speed of traffic around you.

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-2 points

5 days ago

Don’t swerve. Slow down.

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Ookami38@sh.itjust.works

2 points

5 days ago

Ok cool. You addressed half of my concern. Now I’ve become the obstacle. How do I keep people from dangerously swerving around me?

In fact, this has INCREASED the likelihood that I, personally, will be in an accident because now, more people around me are swerving trying to get past.

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-2 points

5 days ago

Call the police? Tire spikes?

How do you normally respond to crazy people who operate weapons dangerously in public?

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Ookami38@sh.itjust.works

3 points

5 days ago

Both of those are horribly ineffective options. Let’s call cops who won’t get here before a crash happens, and let’s throw tire spikes that will force a crash to happen.

The proper response is to create distance from the situation. In this particular scenario, by merging into another lane as soon as it’s safe, and accelerating back to the speed of traffic.

None of this changes the fact that the slower driver, while within the letter of the law, is the root cause of all of this danger. Speed is determined by more than an arbitrary number on the side of the road. It’s determined by myriad road factors, from congestion and moisture to the current traveling speed of traffic.

If you want to reduce the speed safely, you have to reduce the speed people naturally want to travel at. Anything else will result in speed disparities, which are always more dangerous than just raw speed.

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0 points

5 days ago

You realize that all drivers should be prepared to approach a bicycle going 5 kph, right?

If you can’t slow down safely when you come up behind a slow vehicle, then you’re driving too fast and should probably have your license taken away.

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