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:1:Tailgating is endemic in America.
It all started with those fancy disc brakes.
More money invested in well thought out mass transit and better designed cities would help a lot, but that cow has already left the barn.
If a long sharp spike was installed on the steering wheel I bet there would be a rapid decline in these incidents.......
That might be true!!We were playing ball in the driveway one day when a brand new very unusual white car came down the road. We looked at it but didn't move out of the way because we knew it didn't belong at our house.But it pulled in, and my Dad was driving it. He had traded our blue 1959 Renault Dauphine for a brand new 1963 Renault R8! (A shocking surprise to my Mom, who thought she was managing the money .... ).The first thing I noticed was a big decal in the back window which read:"CAUTION - FOUR WHEEL DISK BRAKES"That was a really good car, as was the R10 that followed it. But the era of disk brakes had officially arrived in Virginia that day ....Lannis
Maybe the education system needs to go back to the kind of driver education training I had where part of the classroom time was watching real life films of paramedics peeling screaming people out of mangled hunks of steel and glass. It's been over 40 years since I sat in that class and I still remember those films. I did have an impact on how I drive/ride.
Three crashes this morning on a road near here. As usual, people are saying "It's a dangerous road, something ought to be done!"Lannis,This post without identifying the road in question is almost useless. :>)TomOriental, NC
Just spent the last weekend in England. I will go on record as saying that the English are better drivers than Americans as a whole. A large part of that is civility, but also skill was superior. Buses everywhere. Traffic moved thru London and Birmingham quite well.
I remember those as well. One in particular, Signal 30, was filmed on Route 30 here in Ohio.
Quote from: Lannis on August 04, 2015, 07:08:40 PMThree crashes this morning on a road near here. As usual, people are saying "It's a dangerous road, something ought to be done!"Lannis,This post without identifying the road in question is almost useless. :>)TomOriental, NC
US won't go where it needs to. Loss of license for 6 months for first DUI, loss of car and license gone for 5 years next DUI, permanent loss of license and 20,000 fine third DUI. Texting while driving 1000 fine, then 5000 fine and 1 month license loss. Things like that.
Charlie B- there was just a big ta do last week here in the Tampa Bay News about the increasing numbers of people unable to pass the written drivers exam. Seems only one third of the people who take the exam can actually pass so now they are considering re-writing the exam to make it "easier to comprehend the questions". Now how much easier can they make it? Already if you don't read, write or understand English they allow someone to interpret the questions for you. And I am sure since the examiner is not standing there the interpreter isn't helping with the answers. More dumbing down of our country.
You don't want to characterize people TOO quickly! We have Octogenarians on this list that can probably outride and outdrive both of us ... !Lannis
The decline I've seen in US drivers over the last 10 years has made me give up riding, plus the Convert needed repairs that I wasn't interested in doing. And I'm sure it will get worse as we load up the new cars with even more distracting electronics. If I become unable to drive a car in 15 years I don't think I'll be too disappointed.
Having the whole picture means that you are doing your part to keep your vehicle as safe as possible while moving 1000ft a second.