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Do not get me started on the lack of knowledge of traffic law by
the some of the county mounties and local traffic courts.<br>
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On 01/11/2013 10:51 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAEo=5PxCwUHx8rFmXwrVuOFxuVzwHJkT=GYCD_d-GOPVM_j6xg@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">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. <br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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We are close to having the capability but we are light-years from
having the social will to make the leap.<br>
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um. duh. The auto2 should have a hardened, real-time Linux system
brain. <br clear="all">
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