[ale] [OT rant] selfishness

Fri Jan 11 14:10:11 EST 2013

I just avoid downtown the best I can.

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Brian Stanaland <brian at stanaland.org>wrote:

> The Tampa Tribune ran a story when I was in high school (we won't mention
> the years) about the perfect vehicle for commuting in Tampa. It had .50
> cals, rocket launchers, pontoons, etc. It was very funny and not too far
> from wrong.
>
> Regarding driving, I would love to be able to NOT drive 60 miles every
> day. That's not even my whole trip. That's just from home to the College
> Park MARTA station and back. There is a bus that runs from near my home to
> the office area but there are only a few runs morning and afternoon. Plus
> it takes a bit over two hours to get home using it.
>
>
> --Brian
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  On 01/11/2013 12:28 PM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>>>
>>> Just the reason all emergency vehicles should have a 50 cal. on the
>>> front.
>>>
>>> Only a 50 cal? How about a 40mm autocannon with AP shells to go through
>>> the engine block?
>>>
>>
>> Just a cow-catcher blade like on a train will be enough. I want the
>> jackass alive for trial and public humiliation.
>>
>> "Fred the douchbag was convicted today of  failure to yield for an
>> emergency vehicle. As a result, a little girl died of her injuries at the
>> scene. Fred is now officially barred from driving for the next 10 years.
>> Here's a picture of Fred so everyone can splash him with road water for the
>> next decade".
>>
>> Yeah.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> From my iPhone
>>> Geoffrey Myers
>>>
>>> On Jan 11, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  There was a wreck on I-285 that required fire trucks, ambulance and
>>> closing down 3 lanes next to the center divider. Of course traffic is
>>> backed up for a few miles. As the emergency vehicles are approaching,
>>> people were, in general, making NO APPARENT EFFORT to clear a path for the
>>> emergency access. I could see the approaching lights and hear the sirens a
>>> full 2 minutes before they were finally adjacent to my car. Finally, as
>>> they were nearly adjacent, traffic began to ignore the lane markers and
>>> spread apart to allow an envelope of open road to appear just ahead of the
>>> emergency trucks.
>>>
>>> And then the most blatant example of selfishness I've ever seen
>>> occurred. The car behind me had not made a single move to clear the way for
>>> the ambulance. From my view, the cell phone call was far more important
>>> than the road conditions. So when I was finally able to squeeze left, along
>>> with the cars in front and the right side traffic squeezing right, the car
>>> behind me took the new hole as an opportunity to jump in front of the
>>> traffic that was making room for the ambulance and fire rescue trucks.
>>>
>>> The driver actually impeded the flow of the emergency crew as she
>>> finally tried to merge back into traffic but there was no room. So she
>>> stopped moving, laid on the horn and looked like she was about to ram a car
>>> out of they way when finally some serious other car packing allowed her to
>>> clear the way.
>>>
>>> As a species, we are doomed if that mentality continues. I hope the fire
>>> truck got her tag and she loses her license. We need to have urban
>>> transportation that is not propelled by individual interest. The roads are
>>> simply too crowded and people are too distracted to always be safe drivers.
>>> We can't force people to be safe but we can remove opportunities for people
>>> to be stupid and selfish. I like the idea of being able to get to
>>> work/pub/friends/food without needing to sweat the details of driving and
>>> still make it in less than 2 hours. I ESPECIALLY want to hit my fav pubs
>>> and then get home without endangering anything but my own liver.
>>>
>>> We are close to having the capability but we are light-years from having
>>> the social will to make the leap.
>>>
>>> </rant>
>>>
>>> um. duh. The auto2 should have a hardened, real-time Linux system brain.
>>>
>>> --
>>> --
>>> James P. Kinney III
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>>> tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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>> --
>> James P. Kinney III
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>> *Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
>> gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own
>> tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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