[ale] [OT rant] selfishness

[Jay Lozier]

+1

Do not get me started on the lack of knowledge of traffic law by the 
some of the county mounties and local traffic courts.

On 01/11/2013 10:51 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> </rant>
>
> um. duh. The auto2 should have a hardened, real-time Linux system brain.
>
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Jay Lozier
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