[ale] [OT rant] selfishness

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Don't let the squirrel run in front of you and cause you to hit a tree.

Ron


Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:

>I am so glad I moved to North Carolina right now.  I believe I saw two
>cows and a squirrel on my way in this morning...
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>On Jan 11, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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. 
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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. 
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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.
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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.
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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.
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>> </rant>
>> 
>> um. duh. The auto2 should have a hardened, real-time Linux system
>brain. 
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>> James P. Kinney III
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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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