[ale] [OT rant] selfishness

[Erik Mathis]

Thats soo true,  I got my DL in GA. I literally drove around the block, 
didn't speed and used my blinkers. Thats ALL I had to do.


-Erik-


On 01/11/2013 03:10 PM, Boris Borisov wrote:
> Is just too easy to get driver license here. For me back in my country
> took over full 4 months (whole traffic law + 60 hours driving lessons
> + medical emergency + some car mechanical basics). No wonder why the
> roads are full of morons.
>
> But on other hand I understand here you need car as much as water and
> food. So it got to be easy.
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE)
> <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
>> 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...
>>>
>>>
>>> --jer
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 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.
>>>> --
>>>> --
>>>> James P. Kinney III
>>>>
>>>> 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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