http://isocrates.us/bike/2009/10/our-acceptance-of-inattentive-driving/ Getting Around on Two Wheels and Two Feet Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:08:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://isocrates.us/bike/2009/10/our-acceptance-of-inattentive-driving/comment-page-1/#comment-4848 Craig Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:09:49 +0000 http://isocrates.us/bike/?p=1855#comment-4848 When are we going to learn? We give a license to a 16 year old and there is no further requirement for any effective evaluation or training. The worst possible traffic offense you can commit, based on the number of hours expended in enforcement, is speeding. Running red lights, no or ineffective signaling, no discipline to lane use, DUI, and road rage, to mention only a few, really are minimally enforced. We design highways with left exit and entrance ramps, mixing cars trying to speed up with those trying to slow down. Limited access highway lanes separated by 10 feet of grass? Unbelievable. Our speed limit system caters to the "slowest common denominator". How often do you come upon a traffic jam to find out it was merely one car driving right next to another on a highway with no consideration for anyone else? Don't try and signal them to get over, as will be seen constantly in Europe, they will slam on the brakes and cause you to smash into their rear-end. Unfortunately, for the vast majority, driving is a right that cannot be taken away because there really is not effective alternative. In Michigan, tax dollars expended on mass transit is constitutionally limited. Guess why? Because the Michigan based "Big 3" wants to sell cars not buses or trains. I've said this for years, 40,000 dead every year! When are we going to learn? We give a license to a 16 year old and there is no further requirement for any effective evaluation or training. The worst possible traffic offense you can commit, based on the number of hours expended in enforcement, is speeding. Running red lights, no or ineffective signaling, no discipline to lane use, DUI, and road rage, to mention only a few, really are minimally enforced.
We design highways with left exit and entrance ramps, mixing cars trying to speed up with those trying to slow down. Limited access highway lanes separated by 10 feet of grass? Unbelievable.
Our speed limit system caters to the “slowest common denominator”. How often do you come upon a traffic jam to find out it was merely one car driving right next to another on a highway with no consideration for anyone else?
Don’t try and signal them to get over, as will be seen constantly in Europe, they will slam on the brakes and cause you to smash into their rear-end.
Unfortunately, for the vast majority, driving is a right that cannot be taken away because there really is not effective alternative.
In Michigan, tax dollars expended on mass transit is constitutionally limited. Guess why? Because the Michigan based “Big 3″ wants to sell cars not buses or trains.
I’ve said this for years, 40,000 dead every year!

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