Once again: “a bad driver never misses their turn”
a year ago by jqubed to c/idiotsincars
And another bad driver will not be looking at the road and plow into multiple people.
Here’s a source from People magazine.
Drivers involved in the crash suffered bumps and bruises but no life-threatening injuries, [Fox 8] reported. Their vehicles were extensively damaged.
I always assume that all other drivers are dangerous morons that are trying to kill me. I know that's not true for most people but it only takes one.
That's the basis of "defensive driving."
You're my wife. And worse, she didn't start driving until she was 50. One thing I figured out, she thinks a mile is about a kilometer. So when the sign says, "1 Mile", she thinks it's close.
Did they seriously just drive off after that?!?!
They usually do
No, I've never done a hit and run, but the point is that if I got into an accident one day, I might become one whether I want to or not, because it's an unconscious reaction.
I think I'm a good person but I'm not gonna think, "I caused all this, I'm sticking around to tell the cops", y'know?
You catch me on camera and then show up at my door and I'll be like "Oh was that what all that noise was? Damn." and wish them a fine evening as I close the door. /j
E: Added humor training wheels. My bad, don't shoot
You aren't helping your case
That is not only immoral, but also illegal. That is called a "miss and run"
That wasn't at all obvious. Sounds more like Schrodinger's asshole, talking shit until you get called out then falling back on "it was just a joke". No you're just an asshole.
For my kids, I stressed that while knowing your way around is critical, it’s also beneficial to always use GPS because it will always calculate a new route. Just miss any turn or exit and it will get you there either way minimal impact
I missed my exit once and it was like 15 minutes before the next one to turn around but that's better than killing someone.
tolled
So sorry you live in a place like that
Tbf a stopped car in the middle of the road on a sunny fucking day also shouldn't cause a collision, either. Guy in the grey van fucked up worse than anyone but they'll be blaming the stopped car instead of their own inattentive driving
There's a minimum speed on highways because it is dangerous to slow below that limit, the stopping distance for 70mph is around 240 feet and 2.5 sec for perception & reaction.
Yeah, but cars do break down. I once had all the transmission fluid in my car drain out while doing 65 or so on a highway. A mechanic failed to replace the drain plug properly, and suddenly the car started shaking violently. I was lucky to coast off to the breakdown lane before coming to a stop.
And I’ve seen things like improperly secured ladders and chairs fall onto the highway as well. Nothing like having cars suddenly swerving in front of you to avoid those sorts of hazards.
While true, cars that breakdown don't come to a complete stop, generally. You should put your hazards and roll to the shoulder. That's not always possible, of course. But if a vehicle is clearly disabled, you wouldn't stop behind it waiting for it to move out of the way, which is what happened here as well.
Right, zoning out for a second is definitely way worse than selfishly illegally stopping like that /s
One is illegal and the other isn't, for good reason. Willful mistake versus moment of distraction
The red car is still the cause here.
The gray van is a consequence of that cause. It would happen regardless. Even if the person in the gray van was paying attention, someone else would not be paying enough attention and still wreck.
You're confusing proximate cause and root cause. The van is a mechanism of failure, the red car is the cause of failure.
This is still the red car's fault, entirely. The van of course is holding my ability for being the proximate cause, but at the end of the day blaming the van for not paying attention doesn't actually prevent situations like these from occurring.
It’s pretty infrequent that roads go on after an exit to 150km uninterrupted highway or some other reason to behave this way.
These people are maddening.
They tend not to have a good command of the accelerator pedal’s capabilities to boot. There were a few opportunities for the problem driver to get going.
That’s great ODOT put out a psa not to do this. Could they put one out about people swerving into the exit lane way after the exit.
Because we live in corporate dictatorships and fossil fuel corpos made everything car-centric. Now we have to allow the negligent and incompetent to drive or else we'll damage "the economy".
This is true, but it's more than the economy. While driving is a privilege, we've created a world where living without it is incredibly difficult and in some cases impossible. While it could hurt the economy it also starts to become a cruel and unusual punishment, even though it shouldn't be it is due to the car centric environment society has created.
Welcome to Portugal!!! Wait a minute…
Went to the dispensary today and I had so many people pass me just to swirve back ahead of me to take an off-ramp and get off the highway instead of waiting 2 fucking seconds to reach the exit without being a fucking piece of shit driver.
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