[ale] [OT rant] selfishness

Fri Jan 11 14:17:35 EST 2013

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On 01/11/2013 01:27 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jslozier at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> 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.
> 
Actually my vision of the perfect emergency vehical is unfortunately
based on technology that does not exist yet. Arm the damned thing with
disruptors so they can fire the beam on the A$$Hole blocking the way
and poof they're gone!!!!!
> 
>> 
>> -- From my iPhone Geoffrey Myers
>> 
>> On Jan 11, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> 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 //// ///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. - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain //// 
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