[ale] [OT rant] selfishness

[Jim Kinney]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:03 AM, gcs8 <gcsviii at gmail.com> wrote:

> Or we could all just work from home.
>

The retail employees can't. Ditto for most all of healthcare and education.
Same for mechanics, transportation and most jobs. Only the office shlub can
do the work from home deal.

>
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> 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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*Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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