<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Erik Mathis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erik@mathists.com" target="_blank">erik@mathists.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Thats soo true, I got my DL in GA. I literally drove around the block, didn't speed and used my blinkers. Thats ALL I had to do.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></blockquote><div><br>I would support a mandatory retest, rules and road, at every renewal time on a 5 year rotation. The rules _do_ change and people can pick up bad driving habits. Maybe add in a reaction time test as well as an eye test. Getting mom to stop driving was horrible (you can't drive if you pass out sitting on the couch!).<br>
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On 01/11/2013 03:10 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:<br>
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Is just too easy to get driver license here. For me back in my country<br>
took over full 4 months (whole traffic law + 60 hours driving lessons<br>
+ medical emergency + some car mechanical basics). No wonder why the<br>
roads are full of morons.<br>
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But on other hand I understand here you need car as much as water and<br>
food. So it got to be easy.<br>
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE)<br>
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Don't let the squirrel run in front of you and cause you to hit a tree.<br>
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Jerald Sheets <<a href="mailto:questy@gmail.com" target="_blank">questy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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I am so glad I moved to North Carolina right now. I believe I saw two<br>
cows and a squirrel on my way in this morning...<br>
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On Jan 11, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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There was a wreck on I-285 that required fire trucks, ambulance and<br>
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closing down 3 lanes next to the center divider. Of course traffic is<br>
backed up for a few miles. As the emergency vehicles are approaching,<br>
people were, in general, making NO APPARENT EFFORT to clear a path for<br>
the emergency access. I could see the approaching lights and hear the<br>
sirens a full 2 minutes before they were finally adjacent to my car.<br>
Finally, as they were nearly adjacent, traffic began to ignore the lane<br>
markers and spread apart to allow an envelope of open road to appear<br>
just ahead of the emergency trucks.<br>
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And then the most blatant example of selfishness I've ever seen<br>
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occurred. The car behind me had not made a single move to clear the way<br>
for the ambulance. From my view, the cell phone call was far more<br>
important than the road conditions. So when I was finally able to<br>
squeeze left, along with the cars in front and the right side traffic<br>
squeezing right, the car behind me took the new hole as an opportunity<br>
to jump in front of the traffic that was making room for the ambulance<br>
and fire rescue trucks.<br>
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The driver actually impeded the flow of the emergency crew as she<br>
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finally tried to merge back into traffic but there was no room. So she<br>
stopped moving, laid on the horn and looked like she was about to ram a<br>
car out of they way when finally some serious other car packing allowed<br>
her to clear the way.<br>
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As a species, we are doomed if that mentality continues. I hope the<br>
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fire truck got her tag and she loses her license. We need to have urban<br>
transportation that is not propelled by individual interest. The roads<br>
are simply too crowded and people are too distracted to always be safe<br>
drivers. We can't force people to be safe but we can remove<br>
opportunities for people to be stupid and selfish. I like the idea of<br>
being able to get to work/pub/friends/food without needing to sweat the<br>
details of driving and still make it in less than 2 hours. I ESPECIALLY<br>
want to hit my fav pubs and then get home without endangering anything<br>
but my own liver.<br>
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We are close to having the capability but we are light-years from<br>
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having the social will to make the leap.<br>
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</rant><br>
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um. duh. The auto2 should have a hardened, real-time Linux system<br>
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brain.<br>
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