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I was thinking a forklift like contraption on the front. Less blood,
less prison time.<br>
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-Erik-<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/11/2013 12:28 PM, Geoffrey Myers
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<div>Just the reason all emergency vehicles should have a 50 cal.
on the front. <br>
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On Jan 11, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Jim Kinney <<a
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<div>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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