[ale] [OT rant] selfishness

Sat Jan 12 08:35:12 EST 2013

Years ago Indiana license plates had the motto "Wander" which I always
thought was quite appropriate!
 On Jan 11, 2013 1:52 PM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

>   Having driven to all 49 continental US states and 8 Canadian provinces
> I can tell you that driving is NOT universally better above the Mason-Dixon
> line.  In fact it seems to vary state by state or province by province.
> In NJ/NY on I 95 you’ll see traffic as bad if not worse than anything
> you’ll see in Atlanta.   What you do see is that usually in and around
> large metro areas traffic is worse both in volume and in manners than in
> other areas.****
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> One big exception is that in most of Indiana it seems that ALL drivers go
> out of their way to be in your way.  Indiana has annoyed me because none of
> the states around it seem to have the same issues.  Even Chicago drivers
> seem more courteous than those buffoons.   ****
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> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of *Jim
> Kinney
> *Sent:* Friday, January 11, 2013 1:19 PM
> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> *Subject:* Re: [ale] [OT rant] selfishness****
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> I have noticed on my jaunts to Boulder that above the Mason-Dixon line,
> driving changes radically for the better. If I'm approaching someone in the
> left lane, they pull over to the right. If I use my turn signal to indicate
> I'm changing lanes, the car I'm about to pull in front of will either make
> a bit more room for me of flash lights to let me know I'm clear when it's
> really close. No one guns it to cut me off from changing lanes.****
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> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:**
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> I am so glad I moved to North Carolina right now.  I believe I saw two
> cows and a squirrel on my way in this morning...****
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> On Jan 11, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Jim Kinney <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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> </rant>
>
> um. duh. The auto2 should have a hardened, real-time Linux system brain.
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