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A woman is struck by a car not just once, but two times.
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How the hell did the second car not see the massive group of people?
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Staring at a phone screen
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I legit see this every day driving through the round about near me, it’s either people who have no idea what yield means or people that are just so oblivious because of the phone up to their face. Stay alert, peeps
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I see people on their phones all the time at stop lights. Light turns green, I give them a couple seconds to see it, then honk. Most times, they’re furious at ME and flip me off. Like, who you really mad at?
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They’re actually mad at you. They’re so entitled, and think that whatever they’re doing is ok, and you should just let them do whatever it was. I hate the “I only delayed you by a couple seconds” attitude. That couple seconds cost other people minutes. Not to mention that they’re not paying attention while at the helm of a 2-ton death machine.
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My favorite is when you honk at them, they finally go, but only quickly enough that you can’t get through the light.
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Yeah, those are fun. Especially when you’re sitting back in the line, you know that *you* honking won’t do anything, and no one else honks. Then they finally go, and you get to move up 3 spaces because no one wanted to inform them of their dumbassery.
C
This is a Portland thing. No one honks, then when you do the person in front of you gets all butthurt. I’m not honking at you. I’m doing your job though, wuss!
F
Road rage/hot tempers/feelings of entitlement + vehicle + firearms = Me reconsidering that little *HONK* …I know this is a common thing, and can happen in ANY city, but honking at someone who is not paying attention to a green light can get you into some dangerous trouble in the city where I currently live (Flint, MI). I also would NEVER honk at someone in Detroit. No matter how late I was. These are just cities I list because I am familiar with them and obviously, I live here. I’m sure cities like L.A., Baltimore, and every single city in a Southern (red) state are full of folks that would just LOVE for someone to honk at them, because it would justify (in their stable minds) blocking traffic (and your car) to pull out a sawed-off SHOTGUN from the trunk/back of their vehicle to either brandish or hey, they might just forget about the brandishing and level-up to shooting shots immediately at your vehicle. So many people these days seem to get so butthurt if someone else points out their mistake. After having some scary experiences with road-ragers, I won’t honk anymore.
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Suit yourself, but I’m not gonna live with a bunch of time bandits out of fear of some rare & random reprisal. There’s far fewer maniacs than there are oblivious self-centered asshats.
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>Not to mention that they’re not paying attention while at the helm of a 2-ton death machine for real. it’s basically the most dangerous activity we do and people dont even want to pay attention
H
It is actually wild to think about the fact that we commonly drive around thousands of pounds of metal and plastic at high speeds with nothing more than a line painted on the road to separate everyone. And people are busy staring at fucking phones and shit while driving a wrecking ball Most people would not say they would trust a random stranger with their life, yet we all do basically every single day when driving
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In the 70’s they promised flying cars by now. I’m thinking of all the chaos I’m missing because we all haven’t got one yet.
B
yeah there’s no trusting these hoes with flight
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my wife is the best driver i know and i still worry about her getting into a bad accident driving to and from work every day (i take public transit). i trust her completely to drive safely, it’s everyone else that i don’t trust.
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I’ve always said, 99% of driving is avoiding everyone else.
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💯 this!!! I’ve lost count of how many crashes I’ve narrowly avoided simply because another driver made a mistake, yet I WAS PAYING ATTENTION TO MY SURROUNDINGS/other drivers. Yes there are still instances where you can’t help it if someone else rear-ends you. This was actually the first car crash I’d experienced (around age 28). A driver, who had been drinking rear-ended me while I was stopped at a light that was red but had JUST turned green. I had barely taken my foot off the brake and onto the gas when we were hit. Luckily I was in a Chevy blazer and was sitting higher up. When the driver rear ended us it pushed my blazer into a vehicle facing me on the other side of the intersection. Thankfully, I was essentially at a stop, so there was no high speed added to the situation, because that would have been worse, obviously. I’ll never forget one of the first things my father said after we got back from the hospital… he asked me WHY I HAD NOT NOTICED THE GUY’S CAR coming up so fast BEHIND ME… 🪞 🚗 🚦 😂 *side note: I swear my father cares, but like, he has problems showing it and problems communicating his feelings in general. But holy sh*t his comment pissed me off. Anyyywayyysss I digress a bit.* But this obviously was a situation where I had no control over some random guy hitting my vehicle from behind. So PAY ATTENTION OUT THERE YOU GUYS! 🚗
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Ive become an incredibly defensive and aware driver. The city I live in now is just pure chaos for driving. People making the most ridiculously risky and dangerous maneuvers out of nowhere, blatantly running reds and breaking numerous laws, and so on Getting to my destination 2 minutes faster isn’t worth the risk of getting demolished by some idiot blowing through a red light or cutting me off to make their turn
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Yet they‘d be furious at another person costing them said couple seconds. Everyone should act like the most pacifistic positive person on earth towards them as if they‘d ever do that themselves.
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I will admit I do this sometimes at lights but I do not get mad if someone honks at me because I know that they are just telling me the light is green and maybe blowing off a bit of steam as well.
H
Yeah, sometimes you’re just tired and find yourself staring into space. I do appreciate when people honk at those times.
T
>Light turns green, I give them a couple seconds to see it, then honk. The problem is some lights are only a few seconds, so this infuriates me!
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Indeed! And in NYC, if you’re not rolling as the light turns green, the cabbies are letting you know you’re too slow.
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That is legit insane to me. I mean, I’ll look at the screen on my car’s dash to check to see what song is playing/checking the GPS, but to be on your phone for the few seconds that you’re at a stop light?
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Just the other day I was behind someone at a red light on a slight incline watching a fuckwit staring at his phone in front of me. Then he took his foot off the brake and started rolling backwards towards me. I held down the horn but the cunt never looked up and just rolled into the front of my car. It was a low speed, no damage collision but FFS! What a prick! He never noticed he was moving until the jolt snapped him out of it.
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Shit I saw this woman both hands on her phone using her forearms to turn onto a busy street notices almost too late she’s going to run into a sign on the median corrects it and before her massive fucking suv even stops fishtailing puts both her hands back on her phone.
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The charitable explanation does not unfold in terms of reasoning: the unexpected loud noise elicits an adrenal response, and then this response is channeled into anger or fear. In this case, fear is both more adaptive and intelligible.
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Then they should be fucking paying attention to their surroundings so they’re not so easily startled
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it’s a causal explanation, not an ethical justification.
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*You’re* an ethical justification.
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No, you’re a towel.
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No, I… You’re… I.. You.. You wanna get high?
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I used to think this was boomers yelling at clouds, but it’s literally every day. Every time I’m at a stop light, I can look left or right and most of the time both people are looking at their phone.
B
worked for a car ferry once. People would drive on the boat staring at their fucking phones and not paying attention to what the crew members were trying to tell them to do. As soon as you told them to put the phone down, all hell would break loose and “THIS CALLS IMPORTANT YOU DONT UNDERSTAND!” I would just turn em around and send em off the boat citing “unsafe driving habits, crew and passengers in danger.” I kinda miss doing that actually. I loved seeing how everyone was the main character there. “I have something to do on the other side so i need to get off quick!” was a favorite. Cause yeah everyone else here just enjoys driving their car on and off a boat and has nothing better to do.
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I pass a school zone on my way to work and almost every time I drive through the crossing in the morning (a little late so it’s almost always empty at that time but the speed restrictions still apply for a bit longer and kids are occasionally coming late) there’s someone coming the opposite direction on their phone.
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I’ll never forget the time I was waiting to turn left. I had the red arrow, but the straight lanes next to me turned green, and nobody went. I looked over and like 6-8 people were all looking at their phones. I hunk my horn and they all simultaneously looked up and started moving.
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All the time. Not the most dangerous thing, but so often im waiting behind someone who is zoned out at a green.
H
it’s boomers yelling at boomers. if you see someone above the age of 45 driving, they’re likely on their phone.
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And boomers are some of the worst offenders. They’re either holding it in their lap and looking straight down which I guess means they think they’re being sly, or just blatantly holding it right in front of their face, futilely trying to focus their aging eyes on facebook minion memes.
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Nothing sly looking down at your groin every few seconds. It’s fucking obvious.
Z
“No one will know I’m looking at my phone if they can’t see it!” – Boomer behind the wheel logic
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I was on the freeway yesterday where I saw this car swerving in front of me during rush hour and I immediately assumed they were on their phone. I generally feel safer after I have overtaken these people. So as I’m speeding up in preparing to overtake I can see the back of the driver’s head which is leaning to the right of his head rest, so it looks like he’s actively _staring_ into his screen. As I pass this fucker I can see his phone stuck on the dash and he’s actually face timing with someone. Not only that but to my horror he’s actively gesticulating while being on the call! I have 0 sympathy for someone crashing because of these actions, it’s just that oftentimes their actions victimize others.
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Yield signs have definitely become completely pointless where I live and it’s sad. There’s one particular 3-way roundabout where most people go straight across but if you’re approaching to make a right turn literally nobody yields to you. Even though all 3 directions have a yield sign, they just drive at full speed through it. I wish they’d just make it a stop sign.
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This is a roundabout where the cars already within have to yield to the cars *approaching* it? Is this the default we’re you’re from? Or is this a special case? Or am I not understanding what you said?
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No, you yield when you enter the roundabout. Or at least you’re supposed to
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Literally happened to me this morning. Car stopped in the rotary to let the incoming cars in. I only know it was a boomer because they had their right blinker on for 2 miles and after finally going through the rotary, pulled into the town senior center……
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I live in a state where texting has been illegal for a while and a “hands-free law” went into effect in January. I’d say 50% of people are still holding their phones while driving.
H
I think texting has to have been illegal in 50 states since at least 2009, right? It’s not like there are people out there who think they’re doing something safe and legal. Edit: some of y’alls states are crazy. I can’t believe people were legally texting and driving for so long.
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There are definitely people who think they are “good at texting while driving.” Just last year, I had a realtor tell me how good she has become at texting while driving. She was telling me this in a conversation about cars and cyclists sharing the road. If you do something 20 times without consequences it does not mean that thing is safe or OK–or even that it’s because of your skill. It just means you got away with it 20 times. Confirmation bias is a bitch. Edit to add– she went so far as to mention that she would sometimes realize that she had gone through multiple intersections without noticing–saying that that’s how good her subconscious is at navigating!
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It was definitely after 2009 in my state. Mid teens sometime. Maybe late teens, come to think about it.
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