Bad Driving Has Become Normalized

[@ShawnGBR]

It staggers me how many people don’t get how indicators need to be used to indicate a future intent, not indicating what you’re already doing.

[@NT-hr3eu]

think that's a new skillset required; to predict what the idiot infront is going to do and avoid an accident. Take it as a warning that they are oblivious to their surroundings.

[@truthbtoldwright6411]

Wait isn't there a law that states it's illegal to turn left or right without indicating? It's an offence in the UK.

[@77R_]

Well what you mention really depends on what exactly you’re talking about when it comes to indicating. In some countries it is required to indicate and then move forward/backward to allow for space to lane change whereas in other places you give yourself space and then indicate to change lanes. As for turning if people don’t do that in advance already that’s straight up wrong.

[@b.3277]

It isnt enforced, and therefore isnt really illegal.​@@truthbtoldwright6411

[@potatojake197]

​@@truthbtoldwright6411 Yes but who cares about legality anymore

[@User24x]

People not signaling reminds me daily that people suck at driving.

[@Silver77cyn]

I don’t let people merge unless they use their goddam blinker.

[@User24x]

@Silver77cyn They'll force a merge and honk at you for "being a bad driver"

[@squiddler7731]

Also those same people will slam on the gas to prevent you from merging in front of them if you do signal

[@trainluvr]

People? How about MTA bus and NYC Sanitation drivers? Zero accountability.

[@xijaomao]

I always use my signal, even in parking lots and even when I'm on a bike. It doesn't matter what the vehicle is, I signal, whether with lights or with hand signals.

[@CatChat240p]

No joke, just 3 days ago some lady backed up into a parked car, panicked and put her car in drive, hit the gas instead of the brakes and drove up onto the car in front of hers and flipped her car in the process at my work. 3 cars ruined in parking lot, 2 of them were stationary. Lady didn't even get her license suspended or anything.

[@CorwinS-kd6yu]

Everyone makes more money off of her if we keep her driving. Businesses fix the cars, hospitals fix her and those she hits, insurance raises her and everyone's rates, the only problem is the common man who will be injured or killed by undertrained/uncaring people. Its also worth mentioning when government doesn't really foot the bill for medical costs.. they aren't going to care much if the private Healthcare system profits off the publics stupidity

[@newmobile1455]

and drivers think bicycle commuters are a dangerouse threat and I use parking lots and the grass on the shoulders

[@f-86zoomer37]

Of course she didn’t. That would be “gubbermint tyranny!”

[@BlumpkinSpiceLatte]

Sounds exactly like how my mother in law drives. I swear, about half of the accidents on the road would be avoided if we just retrested drivers at 50 and if you fail you lose your license and need to go through the whole process again, permit then license, practice hours, etc.

[@SheilaPatterson]

@@BlumpkinSpiceLatte seriously they are a danger to themselves and others! Just visited my grandma in FL, it was terrifying how badly she drove. She almost caused two accidents just the few times I rode with her 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@welon17]

Cab driver here. I once was asked by a client, very politely, mind you: "Excuse me, are you gonna stop by every light? I'm in a bit of a hurry." My response: "If every light is a red light, then yes, I am going to stop. That's what you're supposed to do at the red light."

[@Finn_the_Cat]

The guy clearly confused himself with GTA 5

[@grmpEqweer]

Commercial drivers have way more at stake than their passenger.

[@Shredneck92]

"Should have woken up earlier."

[@johnchedsey1306]

People also forget that you can be the best driver in the world 99.999% of the time but 2 seconds of inattention can be fatal for yourself or others.

[@lallerprime]

That's just the sad reality of being on the road. Everyone should know it, and accept it before driving.

[@smearfo5612]

@@lallerprime Now if only the road weren't such a necessary thing for even basic functioning in modern america.

[@tatersalad76]

Even worse: You can be the best driver in the world, but all it takes is for someone else to not care

[@drpepperman2765]

Honestly, it's like we're all forgetting what a car actually is: it's a 2 ton hunk of metal on wheels being pushed forwards by tiny explosions right in front of the driver. That doesn't sound safe to you? IT SHOULDN'T!! The more I understand about cars, the less I want to drive fast because holy hell, these things are hitting speeds that can turn humans into red paste, both inside and outside of the vehicle

[@lallerprime]

@@drpepperman2765 please keep learning, keep practicing, be attentive, and let experience, caution and skill replace fear and anxiety. Cars aren't dangerous, drivers are.

[@KuleGuy27]

"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrafice I'm willing to make"

[@TehPwnerer]

- Laughed the car manufacturers, all the way to the bank

[@DrEpicPhD]

@@TehPwnerer Especially Ford.

[@deathby1808]

@@DrEpicPhDLord Fordquad

[@DrEpicPhD]

@@deathby1808 Ford Farquaad

[@leighcounry9956]

Said President Elon Musk, as he plans to make Tesla self-driving cars the default for everyone in the USA.

[@RikusentaiOfficial]

As an American, not having a car basically means you're under house arrest....

[@DrEpicPhD]

or disabled.

[@breach005]

Its 100% true where I am, and its a serious god damn problem. Im in a rural place with basically ZERO public transportation. I never even see bus lines running between the two bigger cities in between (~70mi or so). There are no trains or anything else. Just pavement and everyone and their penis extension lifted bullshit trucks. That is great, except that means theres about 100k people that are 70+ years of age out there... I feel bad giving them a hard time but JESUS CHRIST they should not be driving at all. Its just going to keep getting worse as they get even older without kids or public transport to get them around.

[@anthonyfaiell3263]

And maybe that's a good thing for a lot of people...

[@SoulDevoured]

​@@DrEpicPhDwhich is nearly the same thing

[@raydemarco427]

Living in a major city like Chicago, Philadelphia, New York City or the DC area, you really don't need a car. It's nice to have don't get me wrong. But it is nice to not NEED a car

[@Xamry]

Autonomous vehicles still needing a driver to be attentive to ensure its safety is literally the unsafest thing ever. When you are responsible for steering and acceleration, deceleration, and stopping, you are more actively engaged with your surroundings because you have to be actually attentive, not when you are passively engaging and casually monitoring your surroundings.

[@hydra70]

They don't need an attentive driver to be safer than human driven cars. The requirement for an attentive driver is for liability, not actual safety. The average driver is so shockingly bad at driving, that even right now driverless cars are vastly safer than human driven ones. Humans just have an in-built bias against new things and demand perfection instead of imperfect improvement.

[@welon17]

I dread the future where cars drive themselves.

[@logank444]

​@@welon17it will be safer and there won't be any traffic jams. However this will be when the technology gets good

[@welon17]

@@logank444 yeah, we're still waiting for technology to be good on ATMs and they still struggle accepting bills and keep losing money, now let's change that problem but instead of money is people's lives

[@sjfs231]

@@hydra70 current self driving cars are not an improvement in any way, they make more errors than the average human.

[@goldmaskfiend]

Real tired of getting aggressively tailed every day despite consistently driving 5-10 over the speed limit Edit: Since some people can't read, I'm talking about single lane roads, for the last time

[@mononaut]

It's either that, or there's also this weird new fad of going 40mph on a highway on-ramp, at least where I'm at in Austin. The ramp I use most near my house, about 60% of the time I use it I'm stuck behind someone going 40mph and not accelerating at all. I feel like it must be some kind of tik Tok challenge that I haven't heard about or something, it's absurdly common.

[@Kyle496]

​@@mononaut I drive an 18 wheeler with a liquid load, the most easily flippable vehicle on the road with no exceptions. I CONSTANTLY get stuck behind useless airheads who go so slow on ramps where even I have zero chance of flipping (unless something catastrophic happens like all tires on one side simultaneously exploding).

[@homedeezyfasheezy5662]

I take you live in Austin too? Lol

[@homedeezyfasheezy5662]

@@mononaut it’s definitely like that on 183 at most of the ramps in the Arboretum area. I have all sorts of back roads I take to avoid that area all costs.

[@goodamacthesecond5931]

​@mononaut i hate this with a passion, ive seen it as bad as going 35 into a 70, like i dont need to risk my life like this because you cant merge right

[@piedpiper1172]

10,000 hours of bad driving makes you an expert at driving badly. People assume they get better just by putting time into it, but all it does is reinforce what ever habit you have during practice.

[@valeriaswanne]

Practice doesn't make perfect; PERFECT PRACTICE makes perfect.

[@sterlingodeaghaidh5086]

My math teacher taught this: “practice makes permanent NOT perfect.

[@ratboygirl]

@@NiEalterest people buying giant four wheel drives when they don’t know their own space on the road piss me off. why buy an off-roading vehicle when you’re just driving regular ass roads? they struggle to take a corner without taking up 2 lanes and straddling the line!!! ugh. just get a smaller car ffs

[@ratboygirl]

@@NiEalterestyoutube ate my reply but i agree with you and hate people who buy giant vehicles but don’t know how to drive them

[@nonoiscool98]

As a car enthusiast I support more bike lanes and transit. I still enjoy driving, but some people just shouldn't drive. Plus less wear and tear on the car, I can save it for roadtrips and fun trips. Rather than the mundane trips for every single thing.

[@Lunarl4ndr]

Plus the roads will stay smooth and nice for when you want to drive

[@ambiarock590]

Same here. I've been a car lover for my whole life but I love using my bike to get around. Makes me healthier, saves me money, bike commuting is way more fun; win all around for me. Car commuting is boring as hell and I avoid it whenever I can

[@owen5640]

I'm also a lifelong car nut and I love that I'm fortunate enough to live in a walkable neighborhood, although my city has poor public transit so I still have to drive to work

[@takuhiro]

Even as a car enthusiast I always try to cycle if I can because it actually HURTS my car to take short trips (less than 10 minutes). As long as I am physically capable (which is nearly always) and I don't need to haul anything larger than a backpack (also nearly always), I will choose to cycle of walk.

[@riccardo9953]

and now they want to fix pollution with EVs instead of just reducing the number of cars which is just such a shame. they are making cars boring without solving any of the issues.

[@WhoCutTheCheese]

I got hit by a car on my bike. I can tell you firsthand that drivers absolutely do not realize how dangerous they are.

[@someguy198]

It's almost like operating incredibly fast and heavy machinery is something that humans didn't evolve to do or something.

[@adiroseschierbaum6445]

I got hit on my bike too and her insurance blamed me for it. I was like wtf she hit me and I was crossing at a crosswalk

[@AskYourWifeAboutMe]

Ironic

[@mackenzy.mp4]

That reminds me of this video of a guy getting car jacked, like bro you are driving a 2000lb weapon

[@dshoultzfox]

I got hit 3 times on my bicycle. Each time, I was following all of pedestrian laws and traffic laws. This all happened in one of the drunkest cities in the US (hint it's in WI). 2 hit and runs, and the 3rd driver actually had taken responsibility. I'm extremely glad that I moved, and got a car.

[@BillionairesArentYourFriends]

My biggest issue is how ungodly bright the lights have become on cars. Even the red tail lights are too bright now. I can't even drive anymore without risking migraines. I literally can't even walk on the side of the road because I have to, in broad daylight, avoid looking directly at the car. It's horrific and not even mentioned. Car enthusiasts will demand it's orientation of the lights but my seizure disorder being triggered says otherwise.

[@Morpheus-pt3wq]

The solution to this is obvious - don´t look into lights of other cars. Ofc it´s easier said, than done, but peripheral vision helps a lot. My greatest gripe are cold white LEDs. Halogens have much better color temperature, but many people on the road tend to have the lights intentionally misaligned (or they replaced damaged reflectors with british ones, which have reversed angling). One interesting bit of info - cold white light is useless in rain. The water will completely disperse any of that light, causing the driver to not see a thing. It´s why old cars were using yellow light for ages. As for rear lights, well... If i´m sitting in a traffic on red, i´m often opening the sun shade to prevent my retinas from burning out.

[@animuswonder]

i get headaches from looking at car lights, but what’s even worse for my safety and all those around me is that i have a visual eye snow- making me have long lasting strong after visions (look at a bright light and then close your eyes, now imagine that it stays for longer and also is just as visible when you open your eyes and look away) i don’t have my license, but when i sit in the front seat, i know i simply cannot drive at night. its not safe for me.

[@ryanhogge8]

No, no, I'm a "car guy" and while it's true that some people have misaligned lights, the lights themselves are too bright in the first place. It's nice that george in his brand new luxury truck can see for a mile down the road, allowing him to go way over the safe speed for conditions out here, but now I can't see anything at all, and he still can't see the deer that's just inside the cornfield or timber, about to jump out in front of us. I've taken to just pulling over and putting my hazards on when they're so bright. Sometimes you can focus on the white line to the right and keep your lane that way, I still don't really trust that when it's the rut and the other guy is going well over 55.

[@brainvector]

To reduce the impact of overly bright headlights at night, I use yellow-tinted or night driving glasses. They work surprisingly well, enhancing visibility while still allowing me to clearly see the road after dark.

[@nonyabusiness4151]

I had to get a night visor, it's glorious. Shout out to all the people who run the yellow lights, God bless you!

[@whyparkjiminnotridejimin]

As a German who goes on vacation in the US from time to time, it's unbelievable how bad US drivers are. Young teenagers are allowed to drive huge unsafe trucks and ignore rules. It's a fever dream.

[@angelachouinard4581]

Absolutely. I am American but I see it every day. And American road design encourages it.

[@mastercharlesdiltardino8058]

As a German, how is the mass immigration going?

[@alka1ine]

Most of our states even have "keep right" laws like the Autobhan, but virtually all US drivers don't know about them and they're only enforced in certain extreme circumstances. They just think left is the "fast lane" and they can hang out in any other lane as long as they're not going over the speed limit. As a classic BMW enthusiast in the US, it's infuriating. 20yrs ago many drivers used to know what flashing lights at the car in front meant, but now they seem to think somebody is just freaking out because they're impatient and self-righteous and somehow think in their head that they have no responsibility to move over and stop impeding the flow of traffic.

[@qjtvaddict]

You not ready for China 😅

[@drewdevon2009]

how are huge trucks unsafe? the tiny tin cans they drive in europe are unsafe

[@FlawedNicely]

“A bad driver never misses his or hers exit” was told to me by another truck driver in my first years. I have never forgot that statement, and I definitely understand what they mean!

[@Ragnar452]

What does that mean tho? Why would you miss your exit? Unless you select the wrong lane at which point it's your fault. How does not missing your exit make you a bad driver?

[@FlawedNicely]

@ think about it this way. Everyone makes mistakes, and there’s nothing wrong with that. When it comes to drivers missing their exit, they’re 3 lanes away so they cut in front of all the surrounding drivers around them, causing a massive issue on the highway, risking it all to make that exit. Seen it many times. I never done that even though I’m anxious to take my exit, but I suck it up like a big girl, and take the next one. That’s the difference between a good driver and a bad driver. It’s how you drive.

[@Ragnar452]

@@FlawedNicely I see what you meant now. But you can select the correct lane in time and thus not miss the exit without putting others in danger. If you ask me I don't know why people stay in the second and third lane if they are not passing anyone.

[@FlawedNicely]

@ exactly. But that’s how drivers are, and it’s pretty common which is sad. That’s what causes them to miss it. But you sound like a great driver! That’s what I always do, I make sure I’m a mile from the exit to prevent missing it. But it’s all about being fast with these drivers.

[@poutineausyropderable7108]

​@@Ragnar452 If they are in the wrong lane, if there's any reason they can't/shouldn't take the exit and grt the next one due to safety reason. Like an obstacle or a car in the way (mostly due to being in the wrong lane)... They'll say fuck it all and forcefully take the exit. Everyone else on the road be damned.

[@DiamondOrPoor78]

Jeremy Clarkson said it best, "If you have no interest in cars, you have no interest in driving. And if you have no interest in something, it means you are no good at it, which means you must have your driver’s license taken away."

[@FlyingOverTr0ut]

Drivers hate other drivers but are so thoughtless about what causes traffic that when they see a bike lane, they all of a sudden have great solidarity with other drivers and believe that bike lanes, and not themselves, cause traffic.

[@77R_]

A bike lane that is barely used at all will undoubtedly cause more traffic when it takes the place of a lane for cars

[@stephanos6128]

​​@@77R_ its barely used cus the bike lane itself is poorly done, not protected, and drivers still suck at driving and go OUT THEIR WAY to bully and intimidate bikers, walkers, people waiting at the bus ect ect people are literally getting hit on sidewalks, do we get rid of sidewalks cus theyre useless and people die in them? the issue IS the car itself

[@77R_]

@@stephanos6128 I don’t know if the bully part is even a thing or not, but my time driving in the city with a barely used bike lane has shown me that there’s barely any cars that bully bikers that do ride on those lanes. In fact, they are so unused, they exacerbate jams on the streets that have them.

[@77R_]

@@stephanos6128 “people are literally getting hit on sidewalks” I think that’s just murder if cars go out of the road and strike pedestrians. I also have never seen that in the city I drive in and through the other cities I’ve traveled through, I don’t really think it happens unless the drivers is out for blood.

[@77R_]

@@stephanos6128 But I do agree though, the bike lane should be protected, but it cannot be the only thing that encourages its use. The fact that it, by itself, is not being used speaks to how unpopular it must be in the city I drive through.

[@nathanlevesque7812]

The level of entitlement that bad drivers feel is absolutely obscene.

[@ThugShakers4Christ]

Stay the hell out of my way

[@shadowshatto]

The absolute entirety of r/driving on Reddit. Every single unrelated thread has someone in the comments spouting off "just stay out of the left lane"

[@MIAspartan]

@@shadowshatto tbf to that sentiment, left lane camping is a problem. Obviously it’s not always the correct answer or solution, but it does create problems. People who slow to a COMPLETE stop and then turn are incredibly obnoxious yes, but that is going to be a given on *any* multi lane road. The best way to avoid it, is indeed to stay out of their lane. Not saying Redditors aren’t obnoxious pricks 90% of the time, they are, but they’re not entirely wrong there.

[@idontwantahandlethough]

you ever notice that whenever someone is driving, it's always the OTHER person's fault somehow? I've never seen someone go "oops, it was my turn to merge. My bad bro!"

[@KatieT97]

My husband and I were just riding down the highway one morning when someone almost hits us and this person is blowing their horn, and so I look behind us and this lady who almost rear ended us is driving *in the shoulder* and gaping at us full shocked pikachu face as if we almost caused the accident.

[@TheBlademan-]

In the US you really only have to be a “good driver” one time and that’s to get your drivers license. you can have one for the rest of your life as long as pay to renew it even you have a terrible driving record

[@ryancraig2795]

You don't even have to be "good" one time, just barely competent.

[@Lunarl4ndr]

​@@ryancraig2795exactly! We make ourselves more and more car dependant, but aggressively lower the skill requirements and aggressively increasing the car speeds.

[@موسى_7]

Just like here in Iraq

[@6Sparx9]

​@@Lunarl4ndrspeed limits are being aggressively reduced over the past 30 years, so dunno where that idea is being pulled from aside that advancing technology allows making power with smaller engines.

[@jenm1]

everything in the US is designed to be a reactionary response rather than preventative care. police wont do anything until you die by the hand of your stalker, for example

[@Dragonsamuari]

It's not just overconfidence. A lot of drivers are purely selfish and don't care about the rules of the road. Some keep blowing through speed cameras and treat the fines as a small price to keep speeding. People make U turns in places where it's not allowed. I even seen someone cross over a median to make a U turn because they didn't want to wait at turning lane at the next light to do it (there's a no U turn sign there anyway). When there's nearly zero consequences for bad drivers, bad drivers will keep being bad drivers and some will upgrade into being dangerous selfish drivers that will do anything to get to their destination 4 seconds faster.

[@StealthTheUnknown]

Something tells me you yourself are tailgating and driving in blind spots within the passing lane. Loads of what you described is dangerous only in circumstances with other factors - it’s perfectly safe to speed on an empty road, I will occasionally “run a red” with due caution if the signal isn’t working right and there’s no oncoming traffic, and I had the thought yesterday that prohibited U-turns shouldn’t be a thing except for vehicles that can’t do it or in places where it’s actually a severe problem (usually it’s an arbitrary feature of intersections where it makes no sense.) There is no safe way or time to tailgate or obstruct the passing lane from someone’s blind spot. Ever. Yet people ignore these issues despite the endless dash cam videos showing accidents that started with these.

[@alphavasson5387]

That's also one of the reasons we should have income-based fines! A $200 fine might stop a poor person from speeding, but it wouldn't stop a rich person because that amount is negligible to them. It's the same reason so many rich people park their cars in prohibited spots - they treat the fine as just the fee to park there because the fine doesn't impact them financially at all. Meanwhile even 1 ticket can mean the difference between having food on the table or starving for a working class family. Not only is a flat rate unfair, it fails to discourage so many people from poorly driving.

[@jordanwhite352]

​@@StealthTheUnknownA yes, another classic case of "since I do it safely everyone else does it safely" aka see dumb ass gun owners. The issue, and I can tell you from experience is they think because they can do it on an empty road that they can do it on a congested one too.

[@randomtinypotatocried]

@@StealthTheUnknownYou are forgetting "empty roads" can change in an instant as someone who literally would be on scene after a car crash as an EMT/firefighter

[@jaydubcee_]

People should absolutely need to be retested for their license every few years. It astounds me we get a license at 18 and then the state just shrugs and says “we’ll take it away if you fuck up enough…probably.”

[@lordderpington8021]

Driving tests should be done with manual transmissions as well. Our reliance on technology will absolutely be our downfall.

[@dbpeanut510]

​@lordderpington8021 I'm gonna be blunt here. The issue is not technology. The issue is capitalism. The issue is not the person who does not know how to drive stick, the issue is not the person who prefers to use their backup camera, and the issue is not the person walking across the street. The issues are the people who feel comfortable risking other people's safeties and the corporations who lobby for it, and force cities to maintain it. The issue is the system that chooses to let the elderly and the blind keep their licenses despite the inability to react in emergencies and the issue is the system that says to take a car rather than providing a bus, a safe bike route or a train. The issue is twofold, people who do not care about others and a system reflecting that.

[@MsScarletwings]

Honestly won’t fix anything until the testing itself stops being a complete joke. A middle schooler could have passed the road test I got. No merging onto a highway. No parallel parking. Just a couple minutes doing a circle around the block on nearly empty roads.

[@jk-1508]

@@lordderpington8021I like manuals a lot but theres not much about a new car being manual that takes it away from being almost entirely controlled by a computer other than not having a tcm. In that case wheres the push for carburetors? Its not that simple

[@truckercowboyed2638]

It's actually at 16

[@antinatalope]

I can't tell you the number of times I have taken my life into my own hands by legally crossing the street. One guy even laughed as I had to jump back from him barrelling down on me. He didn't care.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

There have been drivers who just started driving when the light was green for them and they drove too close to me. They didn't care about pedestrians or didn't use sense. Instead they just blindly followed the signal lights and were just eager to go. I've seen many pedestrians and myself unable to cross super wide roads in time before the light changed. They don't give pedestrians enough time, roads are so wide, and some people can't move fast. They could be disabled, old, pushing strollers, or carrying something heavy. I hate how many drivers won't look at the situations of pedestrians and won't use sense. It's hard to communicate to drivers because their windows are up and they can't hear or they drive off too fast. But drivers can express anger at non-drivers by honking, yelling at people, doing punishment passes like driving too close on purpose then speeding off and getting away with it.

[@takatamiyagawa5688]

You take your life into your own hands if you cross without looking to verify that cars have stopped for you. I recall being given that advice at school as a very young child.

[@cnj420]

I've experienced so much aggression towards pedestrians, first hand. You really have to be vigilant and cautious out there.

[@jenm1]

something very sinister happens when people get behind the wheel. we need to ban cars

[@jenm1]

@@user-gu9yq5sj7c i've started walking really slowly when someone is trying to cross as the pedestrian crossing signal is on

[@skillonly5506]

I think the biggest problem is shaming people who can't drive. If it was social exceptable to never get your drivers license because you weren't comfortable driving, a lot of these problems wouldn't exist. Also, being paired with the fact that most public transportation is bad forces people who might not ever want to drive behind the wheel.

[@KaritKtana]

I am a terrible driver so I chose to not get a license. The weight of the responsibility is terrifying, and it saddens me that I'm such an anomaly. But the biggest problem is that almost everywhere in North America is designed for cars. The distances are great, the public transportation is awful (and _perceived_ as something only for the poorest of the poor), and both cities and suburbs are built in a way that prevents walking, cycling, and convenient non-car solutions.

[@CrossbredManiac-vids]

And yet public transport is few and far between... got to go across town for a court mandated meeting? Either drive or hand over $80 to a driver... and then another $80 on the way back. Can't afford that? Someone will come pick you up... in a cop car. Even riding a bike is horrifying. Can't ride them on the sidewalks anymore (not that there are any sidewalks) and laws for riding bikes are inconsistent no matter where you go. Haven't been able to ride a bike to the store since I was 11 in a rural town. Not even crossing the street is safe anymore. Can't be anywhere near a road. Sometimes I think cars act more like armor for when the inevitable happens than anything else.

[@jacktulloch8678]

I have a seizure disorder, but there’s no public transit in my area. How am I supposed to get to work? It’s infuriating.

[@evelynnart37]

I am aperently a decent driver. I... don't believe them. I don't trust myself behind the wheel. So. I walk and cycle everywhere, cause its safer for me AND everyone else. Yes america has AWFUL pedestrian and cyclist infustructure but it's better than having one more bad driver on the streets.

[@meowcow21]

The biggest problem isn't shaming people who can't drive. It's lack of decent public transportation like you said.

[@bipo819]

I hate the culture that we have in America that’s especially prevalent amongst young men, and that’s being extremely careless towards the safety of other and just generally being inconsiderate. And all for what? Revving your engine in residential areas at 3 am, street racing in cities, cutting up (cutting off people rapidly while speeding), vandalizing saftey features, running away from the cops? What is that all for? And the funny part is that you are not considered a good driver to many people if you don’t do those things. And what baffles me is their attitude about all of it. “I don’t care if I hurt someone, I don’t care if I wake a whole neighborhood, I don’t care if I destroy things. I want to do whatever I want!!!”

[@respawnlock666]

Its the end of empires. How can a country have unity and success when only the individual matters

[@Dandaman1687]

Where do you get all this from? The “ culture” you’re talking about doesn’t exist. And just saying that all young men like it is a horrible generalization. The vast majority of people dislike what you’re saying, and agree with you. I don’t know a single person who recklessly endangers other people, and I am in touch with the “ street racing” scene you seem to be describing. Basically everyone tries to remove all effects of what we do to themselfs. That’s why it all happens on open roads with no one on them, so that it something happens, the only person who may be hurt is the driver, who is in control of what happens. This is such a dumb thing to suggest, that “ young men don’t care about anything and are okay if they hurt other people” get a grip Karen

[@PuppyTeethVEVO69]

What I've noticed since COVID's first lockdown ended (early 2021): People on their phones WAY more. Nobody signals to change lanes. Nobody stops at stop signs. People stuck in a slow lane will veer out of lanes into other lanes without signalling at all. Nobody goes the speedlimit anymore.

[@highlordlaughterofcanada8685]

All of this was common well before COVID ended

[@PuppyTeethVEVO69]

@@highlordlaughterofcanada8685 Not nearly at the same level, at least not in my city. Been driving long enough notice the difference. Not to mention COVID (the virus) and the lockdowns have measurable impacts on traits of selfishness, future-consideration, patience, and anti-social behaviour. Studies confirm this.

[@rinatail7248]

​@@highlordlaughterofcanada8685 True, but it did get worse.

[@picachugirl2036]

No cop + no other drivers = no stop. And ill love by those words. I always look both ways tho, just in case.

[@izzy1356]

@@highlordlaughterofcanada8685 True, but after everyone got let out the issue just got exacerbated even further: - Long covid rotted a lot of people's brains (even permanently ruining cognitive functioning in some), making a lot more careless drivers. - People's emotional/mental states deteriorated and they no longer had as high a capacity to care anymore, making more angry drivers. - A lot of these newer drivers were highschoolers who spent their whole highschool experience in lockdown, and in some cases had their permit/licensing tests cut down to basically "pass the online test, clock some hours of practice we can't prove, you're now a driver." Making more unknowledgable drivers.

[@Veltrosstho]

When getting a license is as easy as driving around a block and taking a 30 question test, you have to accept that most people on the streets are under qualified.

[@KyleEvra-15]

That's terrifying how many bad drivers get a pass because of this poorly man made high school test. 🤣

[@acedelta12]

My area has a variety of things around: Winding roads, roundabouts, one-lane and multi-lane roads, highways, stoplight intersections (duh), parking lots, etc, so I like to think I have a good area to go around in to practice due to said variety, but there's really no telling if that's actually the case until I actually start to go for my license.

[@deft__12]

I started driving earlier this year after 23 years of public transit, and let me tell you, the lack of attention and communication on the roads is what sends people to the pearly gates. I almost got slammed by a semi truck who decided that running a red could save more time than waiting for 40 seconds at most. My insurance tells me that even with 6 months of driving experience, my driving was safer than 25% of drivers 😬😬😬 Stay safe out there non car conformists

[@Lunarl4ndr]

Something to consider about semis in particular is that if the truck is close to the light they are gonna run it every time since slamming on the brakes may destroy their cargo or not actually stop the truck outside of the intersection. It's not right, but until the speeds are lowered the trucks will continue to run lights.

[@speedrunner9907]

I have been driving the Ohio turnpike for over 20 years. I used to always see semis driving 60-65 mph in the rightmost lane, sometimes the center lane if passing. These days it’s common to see semis barreling down the leftmost lane at 75-85 mph. It’s crazy, and it’s just what we have to live and die with. I hate it. It makes me want to [censored for youtube].

[@xijaomao]

My driving is likely safer than at least 50% of drivers if not greater.

[@sociallysatanic]

i am 30 and only just now getting my permit - your comment gave me some hope that at the very least i will also be a safer driver than most people because i am so nervous to drive and will likely be a very cautious driver.

[@kuraiaku2997]

@@Lunarl4ndr There's a reason that those type of cars have their own set of licenses separate from normal cars, they have to be more skilled than normal drivers. When approaching those lights they have to already slow down a bit to accommodate the time it takes to stop and not just slamming the break like a damn doofus. Skilled drivers can approximate when the light will turn red and a yellow light is there for buffer to stop the vehicle. Remember yellow doesn't mean "Hurry up slam those gas pedal deep guys!"

[@Raven_.666]

It's almost like we shouldn't have formed a society that requires everyone and their mother to control a 2 tons heavy chunk of steel on wheels

[@-_-----]

...OR, having designed such a society, we should've taken measures to ensure that the health (including brain health) and personal quality of the average person was commensurate with operating such vehicles in a quality fashion.

[@MinusThePrevail]

@@-_-----OR designed a society in which the physical/mental health of its people was of a priority? Who am I kidding, this is humanity we’re talking about!

[@Dandaman1687]

That just doesn’t exist, or more so can’t. There is no form of transportation available today as effective as a personal motor vehicle. How do you suppose farmers get around? Or people in rural areas? Make them go to cities? Or maybe get a bus to everyone’s home? Or make communal bus stops for the people who live miles from the nearest other person? You’re just complaining about the something for the sake of complaining without thinking about how the world actually works

[@kevlarcardhouse252]

A compounding issue is when you take the fact that most people think they are above average at driving, that bad driving behaviors are normalized, and that accidents are due to "personal responsibility", you have a toxic environment where nobody will accept blame. When I got rear-ended, the driver insisted the problem was that I slowed down too fast at the intersection, not that he was riding my tail for miles even though the passing lane was empty.

[@dylanluhowy]

Generally people only take “personal responsibility” for their successes. When things go wrong, they invariably look for someone else to blame.

[@Spearra]

​@@dylanluhowyTaking being healthy for example. They have two options, acknowledge people put in work to be healthy, but subconsciously acknowledge that they themselves did nothing to improve their own health/situation. Or option b. say they were just born like/with that and it's completely out of their own control to become healthy, improve their own situation, etc.

[@Steelexxe]

Another factoe of this is costs. Costs are so high that if it's your fault, youre paying thousands. if its the other driver's fault, you can potentially get them to pay for your repairs. Nobody wants to dish out a shit ton of money like that (regardless, the guy who hit you was being ridiculous)

[@P7777-u7r]

Thats why in the mountains we're taught to pass and let by. It's why I dont understand "you shall not pass" people I get called impatient by flatlander and cityfolk standards but really I hate having someone who refuses to pass way more I'll pull off for them even

[@kyrabook9556]

New driver because unfortunately getting around is impossible without a car here + dog-- during my driving exam we almost got T boned on a left turn. Not because I made any mistakes, it was a perfect turn with perfect checking for cars etc, (as per my examiner) but because someone on the on coming road completely blew a stop sign while we were mid-turn. The examiner gave one hell of a look to the person. Causing another driver to take evasive actions, failing to yield right-of-way and disobeying traffic signs/signals is an instant fail on the driving exam, yet this person who was doing so non-chalantly and will probably continue to do so, retains their license with no issue or review. Most of my fears as a new driver isn't "I'm going to slam gas by accident." it's other people. Because it doesn't matter if I follow my lessons correctly, I have to worry that someone might just be aggressive as hell, or do the craziest shit out of nowhere. Which of course, one should account for while driving, but it's insane that the actual defensive driving course materials themselves literally go 'if someone's being nuts on the road, let them go nuts, make sure you're on the lookout for crazy drivers, they're everywhere.' (just in the implied 'tone' that gets used with the number of lessons on these guys-- like 1.5-2 hours of the 5 hour course) because it's so 'fact of life'. Those people shouldn't have licenses. I'm of the mind that everyone should have eyesight/reaction exams (esp at age) and post-license driving exams every couple years or so. If they don't pass they need to get accommodations to hit base-level or can't drive at all (i.e. severe reaction time delays / failing the driving exam). We also need more accommodative city planning. Also-- If you get caught being an aggressive driver, you need to be reassessed. These people's mindsets/ driving habits are actively dangerous on the road. People get mad when I'm driving the speed limit on highways (not in the fast lanes). The "slow lane" is effectively the speed limit lane. People will even go insane on normal city roads if you're at speed limit. And there's too many people who will try to actively cause problems for you or retaliate for it which is INSANE. If I go over and get pulled over for going over the speed limit-- I can get my shit revoked because I'm still new, so I can't break traffic law for your convienence. I have absolutely no problem taking my time if I have to go somewhere for safety, or if other people are driving bikes. Taking longer on a drive if I have to drive, without having to worry about madness, and making our public transport system pristine is what I hope we get someday.

[@mynks]

I moved to a small town in GA and was baffled by the fact that sidewalks are so rare. As a person who can’t afford or even needs a car, I’m forced to have to walk on streets with cars it’s nerve wracking asf. We need to normalize walking, biking, and other forms of transportation.

[@bearsausage8599]

I saw someone riding a horse near like Greenville GA almost 2 years ago I'd say.

[@paulmaurer294]

Elected officials should be required to bike or walk the last 2 miles to their office yearly to experience the difficulty. I like the idea of a random surprise day.

[@rendomstranger8698]

@@paulmaurer294 Make it a period of 2 continuos weeks and 7 disconnected days. And if they work in more than 1 location, require that either 3 or all locations are visited by bike twice a year, whichever number is lower.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

They don't think that 15 minute cities aren't an vote winner

[@qjtvaddict]

Ohh well high speed E scooter then

[@rebecca3647]

3:30 What's even more frustrating about the chronic speeding in North America (US specifically, since that's where I live) is that depending on the state you are driving in, not only is speeding not ticketed near the rate it occurs, a person who is driving the speed limit while everyone else is speeding can be ticketed for not "following the flow of traffic"

[@bldontmatter5319]

That's because speed limits are artificial. There should be none. There should be a steady flow for each lane the farther left you go. That's common sense for Germans!

[@hendrik2792]

​@@bldontmatter5319as a German myself, I think speed limits are mandatory. Yes, the autobahn has no speed limit and is very very safe, it also has a lot to do with the way we get our driver's license. It takes a relatively long time for us to get the license meaning that our drivers know how to drive and drive safely. Speed limit are needed everywhere except the autobahn. Most of the time you won't even go faster than like 140kmh on the autobahn

[@selkrasouza6262]

@@bldontmatter5319get ready for 60mph speeding vehicles in residential neighborhoods then. That’s what would happen in one of my neighboring cities with how impatient drivers there they’d to be.

[@harryaudette]

@@selkrasouza6262i think his argument is hyperbolic, speed limits in cities and towns absolutely make sense. However speed limits on long rural stretches of the interstate make no sense, traffic usually travels at 90+ on these types of roads anyways. When you can see clearly for 30 miles speeding is going to happen. The most dangerous part of speeding is the differential of speed, if everyone is going 95 and you have someone doing 60 in the left lane people need to go around him and that's far more dangerous

[@EBWgreen]

I am too anxious to drive, so I don't. It sucks because nothing is built for pedestrians. And as a pedestrian, pretty much everyone is a bad driver on some level. People get tired or cranky or self-entitled or straight up uncaring. And you call them out and they get mad.

[@mossy_skeleton]

Don't even get me started on the pointless crosswalks. I literally have to cut through woods to get to a crosswalk to cross two two-lane streets then cut through more woods if I wanna go from my college campus to some food joint. Of course I could walk on the side of the road where there are absolutely no safety regulations or anything to keep me from getting hit, but y'know, I think I'd rather walk behind a few trees than next two 50 2-ton vehicles coming at me at 50+ mph.

[@Diliophosurosrex]

They would never know what it's like walking on a dangerous road/intersection, because they don't do it.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

Many drivers who don't use sidewalks much, don't bike, and don't use public transit also think that there are sidewalks everywhere when there isn't. I've seen some car people say that. They then get mad that people have to jaywalk sometimes because there aren't sidewalks everywhere. Those drivers won't look and see that there aren't sidewalks or bike paths everywhere. It's hard to tell them too because they have their windows up and can't hear you or they are speeding by too fast.

[@joshuamartinez-go2hr]

My main transportation is by car, i always give pedestrians respect. Some car drivers are so far gone they dont see people as humans from the inside of their cars pov.

[@Toast2005]

As someone who has walked a lot everywhere and also rode my bike around places a lot I feel superior to the other loser road users

[@collenjets123]

they dont do it because its dangerous, so they stick to their cars.

[@Johnbon555]

They get mad they have to wait a few seconds for pedestrians.

[@CNM3]

This is my belief it's crazy how we planned cities around everyone having access to a car and nowadays people are just batshit crazy when driving. People work too many hours, not have adequate vacation and rest time and all the stress of traffic can be a toxic concoction.

[@bearsausage8599]

Just lack of sleep too, and the high cost of living just means more improperly maintained vehicles.

[@Ella-g2m]

Stress definitely increases aggression and impulsivity, which is why drivers are so much worse since the pandemic. Every single day I see people blowing reds and aggressively cutting people off. Humans are not capable of driving cars safely. Too many emotions, too many distractions, too many variables.

[@anthonyfaiell3263]

I love that you are making excuses for these people... . It could be those things. Or it could be just that they are not equipped with rational thinking abilities and should not be on the road in the first place...

[@DrDesumThePanda]

@@anthonyfaiell3263 "Or it could be just that they are not equipped with rational thinking abilities and should not be on the road in the first place..." That's exactly their point. Not everybody is rational or capable of driving a car, thus it makes no sense to force people to drive them.

[@anthonyfaiell3263]

@@DrDesumThePanda Nobody is forcing anyone to drive... You are the one sitting here saying that people are owed socialization and driving is the main means of achieving that.

[@jasonschubert6828]

One of the biggest issues I see (in Australia) is that there is never any consequences for people that cause car crashes and/or kill people. Recently near me there was the case of a woman picking her kids up from school, doing a u-turn and somehow crashing over the nature strip, through the fence and into the school grounds, hitting a group of primary school kids and killing at least one of them. She was released with no charge. This seems to be the default for all serious "accidents". 🙁

[@TheFalconerNZ]

Bad driving is hard to police & therefore fine but speeding is easy to police so easy to fine so that is where the attention by police & governments goes - into revenue collecting & not fixing bad driving behaviours.

[@n3lis94]

@@TheFalconerNZ speeding is a bad driving behaviour...

[@TheFalconerNZ]

@@n3lis94 It CAN be but a car driving 20 km over the speed limit while the driver is paying FULL attention to driving is far safer than a car driving 20 km under the speed limit when the driver is NOT paying full attention to driving like texting, daydreaming or looking over their shoulder to talk to the person in the back seat. There are too many 'Passengers' sitting in the driver's seat & this is the Bad Driving Behaviour that needs to be changed. My last car was written off by a 10 km rear ending at a roundabout as we slowly moved forward car length at a time when the drive behind me wasn't paying attention because they were talking to the person sitting in the seat beside them. 40 years ago I drove over 21,000 kms (over 3 years as I drove from home to university) doing 80 km/h over the open road 80 km/h speed limit without a single incident let alone an accident. I got my share of tickets for it but NEVER came close to having an accident because I was taught that driving is a full time activity that requires 100% attention 100% of the time. My instructor was a retired traffic cop who taught me both how to drive legally & illegally saying it is safer sometimes to actually drive illegal. And after 40 plus years of driving as he taught me has keep me nearly accident free, (only 2 & both at intersections & not my fault) & his teaching me how to handle my car at speed has saved me on 2 other occasions. So yes speeding can be a bad behaviour but bad driving is far worse.

[@n3lis94]

@TheFalconerNZ speeding is always a bad driving behaviour and yes there are also many others. Oh yeah I'm not gonna read all pf that ofc that's waay to much text man. I also don't think you realise what impact the 2 has in E=0.5mv^2

[@TheNwr1]

@@TheFalconerNZAdmittedly for police it gets a bit messy. Hard to know if the person who just ran the red and almost hit a pedestrian, will actually slow down if you go after them. That said….it’s pretty easy for governments. At least it should be. There’s cameras everywhere and they are readily used to ding people for innocuous nonsense. They should be able to revoke someone’s license for running over and killing a child. Damn, the bar really is that low.

[@jpeg7352]

Something a understaffed department did in my area is that they put an extra highway patrol car with no officer on the side of an area of highway that had a particularly high amount of speeders and fatal accidents. They got permission from a distressed land owner who had a property exit on the highway. Over the course of a year of that vacant patrol charger sitting there, all accidents decreased by about 70%, and no fatal accidents occured. The trick was that every so often they would drive out an officer to occupy the vehicle, this strategy also proved to decrease speeders in the area.

[@the_victoriousdragon]

Ah yes, the idea of fully automated cars. Ever heard of trains?

[@forgotten1s]

Who r u talking to

[@ShaddySoldier]

Yeah America has the most rail lines of any country in the world. No one wants to ride then anymore is all.

[@idontwantahandlethough]

@@ShaddySoldier this is a purposefully misleading "fact". The vast majority of rail in the U.S. is not for passengers... it's for cargo.

[@pauldeddens5349]

@@ShaddySoldier The US was the most prolific source of trains at one point. Then the government decided trains didnt need to be publicly managed, and left it to companies. These companies have since removed most of the rail lines in America, or left them defunct. And then nearly exclusively run cargo trains on them. Cargo trains that have over time become overloaded, and ran at speeds far too high. Causing major derailments and catastrophic failures with extremely dangerous cargo, such as in Palestine Ohio. No one considers trains a source of transport anymore because the fastest trains in the US take days to transport someone a meager distance that could be covered in 8-12 hours via car. And no one considers high speed rail because that requires both cooperation between multiple states, and the public idea that rail is fast. Where the public perception of rail is "Oh yeah, theres a train that runs through here, I avoid it so I dont get stuck at the crossing". States got progressively larger, distances became greater, and the main way to move was through trains and horses. Until roads were paved and cars became trendy for the rich. Then they became important for certain capital ventures. Then they became indispensable to war. After that, they became the default. You cant drive a train to Walmart or Mcdonalds, you must stop at a _station_ atleast 10 minutes away, and WALK to them! Americans are terrified of even short walks. My young brother in law is very into body building. Gymrat type, obsessed with getting ripped. He hates the idea of walking somewhere, completely despises it. He wants so badly to stay in shape, but he cannot stomach walking. He likes hikes, but not walks. Its a damn paradox.

[@CorelUser]

Yes we watch Adam Something too

[@needsmoreboosters4264]

Normalized deviance... people aren't immediately punished for their bad decisions, so they think it's okay, and keep doing it at an increasing frequency and severity until it does cause a crash, and likely a much worse one than if the rules had been followed. It doesn't only occur on the road, and is a well-documented cause of industrial accidents. We need to address this...

[@FlamingCockatiel]

I like so much how you put that. Several other comments poo-pooed tickets for "lesser" things, but one for five over or aggressive driving is something I'd like to see more often for that very reason. I took physics, so I understand that these increases are not that small in their impact as people imagine, and even seasoned cops have a limit to gory accident scenes they want to see. Why are we afraid of making individuals unhappy when their driving puts more than one person at risk?

[@MasterGhostf]

@@FlamingCockatiel ITs the whole "my feelings are more important than facts" crowd and the "personal responsibility" crowd. They don't have either of those. They just don't want to be told what to do while participating in society.

[@FlamingCockatiel]

@@MasterGhostf You are, sad to say, correct on both accounts. People can't seem to get through their heads that benefits of rules are tied to the burdens they supply; stated alternatively, rules of the road apply to others.

[@PeninsulaCity2024]

Collisions are rare for the average person, but near misses are not. And yes, road design, traffic light cycles, and even living conditions (mainly distance from home / work, and lack of reliable public transit) do contribute to the dangerious roads. And I'm saying this as someone who enjoys driving, but even I find it ridiculious that (at least in the US) that if you don't have a license, you almost can't live here. Being a rideshare drive where I live was eye opening to how stuck a lot of people are when driving is not an option for them.

[@SoulDevoured]

I think every single time I go out in rush hour I have a near miss. It's why I try ny best to avoid rush hour. And I hate driving this time of year because of the holiday traffic from stressed holiday drivers. I think reminding people that even though they've done it a thousand times they're operating a 2 ton machine that can and will easily kill a person would do alot of good. There's no reason to run the lights or cut people off and no reason to not look and pay attention. You're operating heavy machinery, not washing dishes. Treat it with the respect it deserves.

[@breach005]

Ive lost count of how many accidents Ive avoided by simply paying attention in the moment, which almost no one else is. I dont listen to music, I dont mess with my phone or anything else. I drive, and watch our for fucking stupidity happening near me. I already dont trust any of them so its easy to prepare and be surprised with stupid doesn't happen for a change.

[@victorkreig6089]

That's literally why trains, subways, and busses exist though

[@Motoko_Urashima]

@@victorkreig6089 Hey, remember how literally yesterday a woman on the New York Subway was set on fire in an arson attack and died? Robbery and assault with a deadly weapon is something like a monthly occurrence on the trains out here in silicon valley. why would I ever want to be around other people when they act like that?

[@OneTrueCat]

​@@victorkreig6089 correct. Now show me the north american cities that have adequate transit infrastructure to match the needs of the people in those cities by being accessible and time-efficient at any time the people need to get places.

[@megan00b8]

9:08 never jaywalk in black. The worst combo is a pitch black coat and dark grey pants because you're just camouflaging against the road at that point. A human driver could also not see you until it's too late.

[@tacticallemon7518]

as someone who rides my bike to/from work, i somewhat prefer not being seen people don’t seem to understand that being predictable should be your priority don’t wait at the stop sign and wave me on, it’s night time and your windows are tinted, just run the sign like everyone else because i’m just going to assume you’re on your phone and will floor it the second i’m in front of you

[@mvuanyeusii]

Someone from my hometown was hit & killed because he was wearing all black and had headphones in. He was homeless and developmentally disabled. That story has stuck with me for years.

[@matthewkuhl79]

i tried high-vis for a while. It seemed counter-productive after _more_ near-misses occurred, presumably due to being more attention-grabbing

[@nixon2tube]

The really bad thing about that one was the auto system should have seen the human since they use radar and LIDAR and so the human shouldn't have been invisible to them. Expecting the actual human in the car to compensate for that situation is totally unrealistic. Megan is right, but everyone wants to jaywalk carelessly while dressed to be invisible.

[@DaJackCracker]

I recently drove home on an absurdly foggy night. The speed limit was 60, but I slowed down to 45 because I couldn't see shit. Somebody came up behind me, flashed their brights several times, and then decided to not just pass me, but actively drive me off the road.

[@yazcona13]

Wtf?! Actually insane

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

Had a dude do that once at like 2 am, we were the only cars on the highway, and he had 5 open lanes to the left to pass...

[@ExploitableLoophole]

Dude tried to brake check me for the crime of trying to merge onto the highway. 100 ft behind me and I wasn’t gonna take an exit for his special ass. But specialest boy in the universe wanted to do 100 in the right

[@MadisonFalcoFoods]

People not slowing down for conditions is so bothersome People ride my ass in neighborhoods for going the speed limit every single day. I just pull over and let them pass but it just doesn’t make sense. I care about pedestrians and wildlife. No speeding in neighborhoods

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

@@MadisonFalcoFoods For surface streets in general I usually feel the speed limit is about right. Neighborhoods around me recently got lowered from 25 MPH to 20, but even before that I rarely went more then 15! It's highways that are messed up, 4+ lanes in each direction, straight as an arrow with viability for miles, speed limit 55. The "slow lane" usually moves at 70, and I regularly see people including the police doing 80+.

[@spaghettiking7312]

Bad cars have also become normalised.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

Watch Kavernacle on dangerous problems with the cybertruck. Such as a piece on the accelerator sliding out, getting stuck, and causing the car to keep accelerating and causing drivers to not be able to brake and stop the car.

[@ezmatt]

@@user-gu9yq5sj7c all cars from the factory have braking systems stronger than the motor/engine. so yes although this is somewhat dangerous, a driver should still be able to react and press the brake.

[@TheNwr1]

@@ezmattSure, but a vehicle that’s both braking and throttling itself is going to take longer to stop than the same vehicle that’s just braking. And that difference in time is not exactly something a driver can always account for or accommodate. And I’m in favor of putting more onus on drivers to drive carefully, but come on: you can’t expect the average person to overcome physics.

[@ezmatt]

@@TheNwr1 ya true i guess thats a good point, i never really thought about unintended acceleration at speed, for some reason i only pictured it from a stop.

[@breach005]

Oh come on, surely the 15 TV screens are not causing a problem. When did cars become a Home Entertainment System on wheels, beyond ridiculous how much needless bullshit cars have in them now to distract you. My favorite lately was my old work truck ('18 Shiterado) infotainment screen, warning me about distracted driving, while Im driving...

[@whyparkjiminnotridejimin]

How come a car country has such bad drivers. Getting a drivers license is a joke in the US. They should improve it.

[@user-gm4kv2my4u]

they need to require higher levels of training and licencing to be able to operate a full sized pick up. (and that should include modern Tacomas and Rangers since those trucks are pratically the same size as a full sized pick up in the 90s.) They also need to crack down on infotainment and touch controls in cars.

[@MoltenSamurai]

I agree. It should be much harder to get a license, and maybe we should even have multiple license levels, either for access to higher speed limit lanes or maybe for operating performance vehicles (crazy hellcat drivers, etc.)

[@ThePrairieChronicles]

Estimated millions (especially illegals) don't have a driver's license, and don't have insurance. They buy fake or stolen licence plates, and often "borrow" or steal a vehicle. When they crash, they simply walk away without any consequences. It's a popular thing here in canada, too :( It's scary to realize many drivers around you on the road know _nothing_ about driving, don't have a driver's license, and don't have insurance.

[@ItsPapaEddy]

I’m a trucker that frequents Toledo, Detroit, Flint, and everywhere in between. A lot of our roadways Can be improved to make pedestrian access more safe, but more often than not a lot of the accidents I see (and believe me I’ve seen more than enough so far) are caused by driver stupidity. Very excessive speeding. No signals. People treating solid lines like they’re suggestions. So many drivers are flat out selfish, stupid, and don’t realize how dangerous even the smallest car is Driving safety should be taught in classrooms as part of the standard curriculum

[@aranavenger]

Driving safety shouldn't be required but actually is because driving shouldn't be a core necessity of life here but is. If you don't drive, you might as well be an invalid for all that you are capable of in our society

[@madeliner1682]

I'd also like to point out that you can make infrastructure improvements like narrower lanes, large trees planted next tto roads, etc. that naturally make people feel less free to go 65 in a 30. The only time this ass backwards country built infrastructure with the future in mind was with roads, where induced demand fucks you over. Also we built them to theoretical design standards set by car enthusiasts instead of the kinds of roads that statistically kill less people. Yelling at humans to stop speeding isn't going to stop speeding

[@ItsPapaEddy]

@ I agree, however such a large amount of our population doesn’t live in an area where public transportation or alternative transportation is a viable choice. I live in the rural Midwest, there’s no way I could go anywhere or get anything done if I didn’t have my personal vehicle

[@aranavenger]

@ItsPapaEddy exactly. I live in a rural area as well. There is no such thing as public transportation and everything is really far away. The closest alternative is taking the horse out and they aren't exactly allowed in town anyway. But that's no excuse for the city anyway. Rural areas existing shouldn't stop other areas from functioning

[@My_name-is_Skylar_White_yo]

It's terrifying how many people drive their cars. Recklessly and how low the bar is. I got a zero on the eye test the DMV and was still able to get my permit despite being dangerously unqualified

[@dollarstorevodka]

I have little to no depth perception because I have monocular vision and I'm still allowed to drive lmfao

[@My_name-is_Skylar_White_yo]

@@dollarstorevodka yeah it's a miracle nobody got hurt when I was driving

[@dollarstorevodka]

@@My_name-is_Skylar_White_yo Craziest thing is that I was told I'm a better driver than most people despite my impairment, due to how shit most drivers are where I live

[@My_name-is_Skylar_White_yo]

@@dollarstorevodka yeah not me, I almost hit somebody in a parking. I decided (somewhat selflessly) not to further pressure my license. As a reward I was hit in a crosswalk and on my way to the hospital called by the cop saying it was my fault for not wearing a high visibility vest

[@dollarstorevodka]

@@My_name-is_Skylar_White_yo Wtf that is insane, Im sorry

[@shadowxgaming4247]

Can confirm. Was hit by a car while riding a bike. The road was well lit and they had an entire lane to pass me... They chose to go through me.

[@AlexBurnashev-l5r]

And they probably hate YOU for riding a bike. Like how dare you...

[@isaacgogna9856]

Only thing I don’t miss about riding a bike around. Nearly got hit every day without fail.

[@aranavenger]

My mom was hit while in a crosswalk and fractured her skull. She lived, thankfully, but the driver sped off after hitting her.

[@AlexBurnashev-l5r]

@@aranavenger was he later found?

[@magicalgrim3471]

That really sucks man hope you’re doing ok

[@petep]

Something my partner and I have noticed, as we both bike as our primary form of transport, is that many drivers will do something very unsafe like drive fast past you on a narrow street, but they won't even look at you. My hypothesis is that the modern car culture teaches drivers that they and their trip are the most important thing in the world, and everything and everyone else will conform to make it so.

[@lallerprime]

Also it could be that a lot of people never ride a bicycle as a kid anymore, and have no clue what is it like when a car passes you.

[@fallenshallrise]

The psychology of driving is fascinating. Even though they are surrounded by windows people literally think that they are anonymous inside a vehicle and that no one can see them in there. In the city when you catch up to a driver at the next red light if you tap on the window they get furious as if you've interrupted them on the toilet.

[@Arunnn241]

If the road was designed for a car and a bike, it wouldn't be dangerous for either to pass. If the road is narrow enough that passing a bike is dangerous, then yes I would like the driver to take their eyes off the road (sarcasm). It's common knowledge that where a distracted driver is looking is where a car will go. It's been proven that drunk drivers veer into lights and other roadway distractions. "modern car culture teaches drivers their trip is the most important". No. Human psychology does. You must also believe your bike ride was the most important thing because you believe it was your right of way and cars must wait for you. The solution is to use your brain. People are people. If a person in a car is tailing you, you're blocking traffic and it's a narrow road, then let your ego go, pull to the side and let them pass. If you're the driver, then honk wait and pass when safe.

[@coopersweeney1336]

People don’t even see other drivers and bikes as people anymore. They are just “objects” to them. Remember when you’re behind the wheel there is another person behind each and every car truck and bike you see.

[@mingoringo_]

As for the size of vehicles being a growing issue, if there are more bigger vehicles on the road, the more it feels unsafe to drive smaller vehicles. If it feels unsafe to drive smaller vehicles, the more likely it is for someone to instead by a larger vehicle to be safer when driving. This will continue to be a growing problem if something doesn't change.

[@cordingdesert9566]

This stuff really grinds my gears. It took me weeks of research to find a small, aforable compqct car. They just don’t sell them in the u.s. U.s car companies only seem to make big giant death machines.

[@Jay-n8e4w]

You couldn’t find a used Civic, Corolla, Forte, Versa?

[@77R_]

Yeah the first reply explains it well and also it doesn’t really take that much work to find an affordable compact car. Numerous cars from the 2000s would fit your compact definition such as Camrys, Buicks, etc. that do not go for very high prices at all.

[@breach005]

Your entry level pickup truck is a $60,000 monstrosity you can barely get in a standard sized parking space. Even the Maverick is still too damn big, where is the little Ranger like my '85 I still have rusting out back.

[@FlamingCockatiel]

@@breach005 Some of those things I have a hard time considering actual pickup trucks, as the beds are ridiculously small (four or five feet) and can't handle a serious load. Eight-foot beds used to be standard. I don't understand getting something that can't haul stuff that you're not going to try to use to haul stuff anyway. My dad's 2013 pickup is way more user-friendly than his 2020 one. I have trouble seeing close to the front of the latter when I am sitting in it due to the hood. Fortnine made a video on this grille trend.

[@keyboardwarrior6296]

​@@breach005Ironically, safety regulations make it illegal to sell new small pickups. I'd give anything for another squarebody.

[@ThatOneAwkwardLady]

My town is so hostile toward pedestrians that I'm forced to drive to work when I only live a mile away. I feel so ashamed and guilty of driving such a short distance when walking or cycling would be much better. But I almost got hit several times when I did try to walk for a few months. And so many people in cars threw drinks at me and yelled insults when literally all I was doing was minding my own business on the sidewalk. I hate American cities and suburbs with a passion. My town doesn't even have a 24 hour bus service to accommodate people who don't have a car and need to get to their night shift job.

[@beefy45]

I work 3miles away but i start work at 530 am, the bust system doesn’t start until 5 but the first bus to stop near my home is 5:30 and it is never on time

[@highlordlaughterofcanada8685]

No shame in prioritizing your safety.

[@Rico401Prov]

My job is about a 5 min drive but the walk is 30 mins from my house due to the heavy traffic and big roads. I refuse to walk that and will be quitting my job this week as I just sold my car. I’m looking into more pedestrian friendly cities with the money I’m saving. Worry about your safety over everything else!

[@3amAfterlife]

Same. I feel like I'm gonna get smashed by a Ford F-150 if I wanna go on a walk cuz people use residential streets as drag strips. In high school my friend started biking instead of taking the school bus, but she got hit by a car one morning and that ended that for a while. She was okay, no major injuries, but it gets me mad that people hit children with their cars so often.

[@burtbiggum499]

This is a made up story

[@hhjhj393]

America has a HARD ON for putting people into awkward situations and then making fun of people for being awkward. Like if you look at most social media posts usually people blame other people for doing something stupid but no one ever questions why they are in that situation to begin with??? Maybe instead of constantly throwing people into gladiator style competitive pits we could build a society where people don't have to do all this insanity. America LOVES to pin all the blame on the individual because it's easy for corporations and policy makers to avoid any blame. America is the worst of all worlds because we have all the responsibility of "freedom" with none of the benefits.

[@yearginclarke]

Everyone always has someone else to blame I've noticed, but *_cannot_* admit when they themselves are wrong, or admit fault when it comes down to that. People pretending that they somehow can do no wrong is really laughable and stupid.

[@christianames2161]

Facts! For some reason every problem is approached with the philosophy of "Who morally failed and should be punished?" rather than solving societal problems holistically. Look at the discourse around the dangers kids face in public schools. People only talk about how to change and adapt security in a variety of ways (which is important, kids shouldn't be able to access weapons), but people act like the plummiting mental health crisis is some magical problem that came out of nowhere and can't be fixed.

[@theurbanspokesman]

We americans love forced struggle culture. Thats where you add unnecessary struggle into your life so you can later brag about how you made it through an often unnecessary struggle. 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@18_rabbit]

@@theurbanspokesman sorta yeah. It's more that there is a long-existing desperation and low-rent sorta way of thinking about things, namely bcuz wages at the bottom end have been horrifically low until quite recently.

[@brettstarks1846]

This comment needs way more likes. Yes, Americans conflate the natural hardships of life and the human condition with unnecessary societal hardships.

[@famousutopias]

“If you don’t like my driving get the heck off the sidewalk!” -a bumper sticker seen many years ago

[@shinescythe]

Walkable cities and public transit = less cars on the road = a better driving experience for a car enthusiast like me. Only downside is that car manufacturers have grown so used to everyone needing a car that they might struggle.

[@Ragnar452]

Public transit is not that great nor safe. At least in my country pickpocketing is a huge industry especially in crowded places. People doing it are so good you won't even realize it happened until much later.

[@danielragsdale9849]

Feels more like car manufacturers have and will continue to have incentive to keep it that the way because they created that incentive out of thin air. And then they continue to make cars bigger and more dangerous purely for profit after they’ve scared everyone into thinking they need them. Car culture in the U.S. specifically comes almost directly from the companies selling them.

[@EnchanterBitter]

They lobbied our politicians to not invest in public transportation so we would have to have a car. Yea, they would definitely struggle if we did the logical thing and had more available public transportation. It’s also another way to keep poor people poor. What can you do except get a car, get it fixed, get all the titles, the insurances, etc….it is so foul. And Americans think this is normal to just not have public transportation. No walk ways….nothing but overly expensive cars that are built to break faster than ever. I hate it here.

[@Joe_of_Arc_]

Oh the shareholders! Why does nobody ever think of those poor shareholders?

[@thatsiciliankid]

High speed trains would help with distances only really traversable by cars.

[@alexkrieger2768]

I went to San Francisco for a concert and within a mile radius, I was dangerously cut off and almost hit by two separate autonomous cars. The technology is NOT there yet, it's dangerous for them to be out in society now.

[@alexdhall]

As someone who drives (and hates driving) this video sums up everything wrong with driving in the US. Its not safe for pedestrians. Honestly at times I've not felt safe as a driver. When the pandemic started in 2020 things went off the deep end. Things haven't gotten better. People run red lights, speed. Heck one local driver nearly took me off the road with their jacked up F-150 super duty free-dumb mobile. These arent accidents. People are purposely doing this and dont care about other people (drivers, pedestrians, bikes, etc). The individual driver thinks they are more important than everyone else...

[@krazysissy]

It’s so bad now, in the past three ish years the amount of large cars that’ve straight up tried to run my tiny car off the road is insane, if my car couldn’t accelerate/swerve on a dime I’d be toast

[@flamingosedai1820]

Actual accidents are truly rare. The vast majority of collisions are avoidable.

[@purplesoda8303]

Road rage is another part of this. Had a guy keep break checking me even when I wasn't close, and at some point he stopped mid road, causing me to rear-end his car and totalled mine, while his was fine.

[@luna_soleil]

It's been normalized for YEARS in Boston. I'm 33 and only got my license 2 years ago, the biggest reason I waited so long was because of how DANGEROUSLY everyone drives. Now that I've been driving, it's even worse than I imagined!!! Imagine this: you're going the speed limit on a main road, no cars ahead or behind you. A car approaches from a side road less than 30ft away. You'd think they'd stop and let you pass. 9/10 they're going to FLOOR it, almost spin out because they cut a turn too fast, you slam the brakes, and what was a very safe and casual drive became very dangerous very quickly. And before you even processed what happened, the car speeds off into the sun.

[@thehindenburg3402]

It's like most people in America are too stupid to handle the simplest of tasks.

[@4thanonymousperson]

Boston, and just about any major city in Massachusetts, is HORRIBLE to drive in because drivers don't care about anyone but themselves - not even other people on the damn road!! I hate that I have to drive in this state every day

[@yazcona13]

In NJ, people will speed up to cut you off from merging all the time. Its annoying

[@natelavallee4034]

I went to school in Boston and now live in cape cod let me tell you all the old folks out here should not be driving. They’re all entitled and don’t know/wont let people zipper merge ANYWHERE. Eveyone fights for every little inch it’s insane

[@Johnny-jr2lq]

This happens a lot around here it’s like everyone forgot how to drive….. not joking I’m being very serious I also can’t stand people who drive around with there brights on like that’s how your supposed to drive at night.

[@uptildawnltd3253]

The other day I was going 75 in a 70 mph highway. I see two cars come by, each going atleast 85, one of them was a police officer. The officer did not pull over the other car going 85, he instead sped up, and passed him. We go way too fast.

[@lilsabin]

A cop cannot arrest another car for speed limit if the cop is themselves in a moving car 🙂

[@clubstep8244]

Meanwhile in germany people who are going 130mph move to the right lane when its free :D

[@tonyjohnson1580]

Happens to me almost every day coming home a night. Cops are going 75 in a 55 and I'm going 65. Nobody does anything half of the time their up on my bumper, before speeding off in the passing lane. I only know it's a cop when they pass by and I see the roof lights.

[@-_-----]

That's because the cop had something more urgent to attend to than nitpicking someone else's speed compared to a completely arbitrary limit. Freeways (and highways to a slightly lesser extent) are where cars are supposed to go FAST..... how fast should be up to the HONEST self-assessment of the skill and comfort level of the individual driver, combined with local circumstances. For me, 70 and below is SLEEP-INDUCING. I need to keep my speed at or above 75 to even stay focused on the road - and I do so VERY safely and VERY courteously to the drivers around me. Those not comfortable at higher speeds stay right, those comfortable pass left. Works just fine.

[@uptildawnltd3253]

@ [excuses for driving too fast that contribute to worse accidents]

[@GordonFreeman.]

Make the driving test actually hard to pass. Give the youth actual drivers training. And crack down on inattentive drivers. This would solve all our problems. There is NO reason our driving test should be so easy.

[@highlordlaughterofcanada8685]

My driving test didn't require you to parallel park or reverse park. I thankfully had taken Driver's Ed before hand and knew how, but I can only imagine how many can't.

[@rolandxb3581]

Great way to show you haven't actually learned anything from the video. The roads are the biggest problem, not the drivers. There will always be people who are distracted or who simply stop paying as much attention after passing their exam. Oh, and even great drivers can lose focus or be distracted on a bad day. What we want is roads that force people to drive more safely (i.e. slower) and force them to pay attention. Even above average drivers start driving worse and worse on badly designed roads. A stricter test would be great and would save some lives, sure, but it is not going to fix the problem. Aside from the fact that half of the US would be in house arrest if bad drivers were taken off the road. That's how bad traffic engineering and urban design is. What is this pathological focus on individuals rather than the system that allows them to cause so much destruction?

[@GordonFreeman.]

@ Yea I’m not gonna read that entire thing because the entire point of the video is braindead levels of stupid. We aren’t going to redesign all our cities and our entire road system. So why don’t we think of shit that will actually help.

[@rolandxb3581]

@@GordonFreeman. That's a small amount of text that's already too much for you apparently. Anyway, roads are replaced every two decades or two. When that needs to be done anyway, make a few simple changes: make the lanes narrower, add traffic calming, a decent sidewalk and a bike lane, and done! You've made traffic much safer, one street at a time. In 20-30 years, you'll cut fatalities by 75%. Is that "braindead levels of stupid"? It's not even expensive! You even save a lot on asphalt, for example.

[@rmidifferent8906]

​​@@GordonFreeman.The USA managed to bulldoze its cities to accommodate cars, so it is possible to change them back. It is also very important to do, because there will always exist the issue of traffic - which will not be fixed by simply teaching people how to drive. Also important thing - one improvement does not mean no other improvement can be made. Both things are important, but teaching drivers can only get you so far. After all even professionals make mistakes "Not just bikes" is a channel that goes into traffic in depth, including examples of well made cities

[@madpie5147]

reminds me of how when people were complaining about how unsafe the cybertruck was to others in the event of a crash, some people dismissed it as a non-issue because cars aren't supposed to crash so why would they need to plan for something that shouldn't be happening in the first place I... wish i were making this up

[@YukariAkiyama]

Us car enthusiasts should be supporting urbanists. More density and trains = less drivers = less traffic and idiotic laws on emissions

[@terrancewalden7462]

💯💯💯

[@WhiskeyNixon]

Idiotic laws? You enjoy breathing toxins, or what?

[@NT-hr3eu]

@@YukariAkiyama its funny how most car drivers hate driving and do nothing but complain about it...while clogging up the streets spoiling it for enthusiasts.

[@thiccchungo1041]

I love cars but have driving because it is so stressful to go out knowing how dogshit at driving people are

[@ДАРТАНЬЯН-з2щ]

URBANISTS ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOTHING TO DO IN THEIR LIVES,WE SHOULDN'T LISTEN TO THEM

[@TheFalconerNZ]

Car culture in America is not just normalised - IT IS ENFORCED. Any move to reduce car dependency in America is blocked by lobbyists for oil companies, car manufacturers, fire departments along with other first responders, city councils, local businesses & residents. They say it will hurt their profits, it will increase response times, it will increase city spending or it will remove roadside parking. They say anything that will allow them to sit in their car & get fatter. America amazes me as I have seen pictures where the the access to a gym from the parking lot is on top of a 3 to 5 meter rise & there is an external escalator beside the steps to take people up & down the rise instead of giving them a few moments more exercise.

[@chaoticsilver8442]

Okay- I honestly never really thought about how de-car-ifying cities would effect first responders (well, firefighters and ambulances.). I always figured it'd be a net good to have everything be less car dependent, and I still think that's the case, but... What about first responders? Maybe some sort of unique, 'emergency lanes' that could be exclusive to them, or something, that COULD run through parks and the like, but are closed off to the general public? Maybe some sort of trolly system, that have stops at every local fire station and hospital, with specially designed carts that would basically act as ambulances, and an actual ambulance and fire truck parked at every stop, so that firefighters and paramedics could take the trolly from the fire station or whatever, to the nearest stop to the emergency, then hop into the fire truck or ambulance, and drive it the rest of the way? Like, all the other lobbying is complete B.S., but for emergency services? Those save lives too- How do we improve the roads so there are less deaths in car crashes, or even removing roads altogether, while keeping emergency services just as, if not more, available? Maybe some non-road solution entirely? Maybe firetrucks could be replaced entirely with helicopters or planes, that would dump water, or some other fire-"R-word"-ant onto fires the same way trucks would with hoses? Give firefighters parachutes so they could quickly get to the ground and chop through the building to save lives? Would a parachute be able to hold someone, wearing a full fire-fighter suit, with an fire-ax strapped to their back, in the first place? Idk, I feel this maybe needs to be thought more of.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

Another indicator of car culture in America is how pretty much all news titles are bias for cars, just call it accidents as if nothing can be done about it, biasly blame non-drivers, or not call for people to change things by redesigning the streets instead. I think I saw an urban yt-er talk about this bias and apathy in the news. It backwards how gyms have treadmills and cycling stations, but people won't provide walkability and more bike paths. Then gyms make you pay for it too. Instead of it being free walkable and bikeable spaces in public. Feels dystopian.

[@Jwellsuhhuh]

Some other video on another channel showed that fire trucks in the USA are way oversized for absolutely no reason. Every time someone has a defense against reducing lanes “it will affect emergency vehicles!” Bullshit, emergency vehicles will be way faster anyway with less overall vehicles on the road plus they can go on bike lanes and sidewalks if needed. And fire trucks don’t need to be larger than a city bus

[@dominiccasts]

@@chaoticsilver8442 This has been discussed in other videos, but the short answer is that fire truck designs don't have to be as wide or as big as they are in North America, and other places have smaller fire trucks that do the job just fine.

[@at_omic8578]

@@chaoticsilver8442 it has been thought of. The Netherlands has all of its emergency equipment and considerations built physically into its infrastructure. Not Just Bikes made a video a few months back about it, to the point where response times are actually *faster* than here in the US, even accounting for distance. It's entirely possible to integrate emergency infrastructure into city infrastructure, the problem is that it requires lawmakers to actually, yknow, care, and for emergency services here in the US to lose all of their complacency.

[@kairam5142]

Should everyone be driving? No Does everyone have the potential to learn how to drive safely? Yes Will they? Probably not

[@BillionairesArentYourFriends]

I don't agree. Some people are too jumpy or anxious to drive. Ther are seldom things in life that *everyone* can do.

[@DakotaFord592]

Some people should NEVER drive!!!!

[@kairam5142]

@BillionairesArentYourFriends fair point. Though, being anxious/jumpy is something that can be overcome with time and experience on the road. You can also practice staying calm rather than panicking. Like many things in life, the more experience you have driving, the more confident you will be on the road

[@holstatt6896]

I do not think a person with downs or epilepsy will ever be qualified enough to drive safely. We need to get rid of cars and refocus on public transit.

[@eeeggg33]

Some people genuinely aren't cut out to drive, like the sheer number of people who have terrible night vision. And because so many drivers have awful night vision we're now stuck with cars being fitted with those awful ultra bright LED lights, which make driving with actual working eyes a nightmare because you're being dazzled constantly!

[@Frostgnaw]

The entire reason I hate bike lanes is because every lane I've seen outside a major city is just some half-assed virtue signal. The one near my home starts randomly on one street amd once it reaches the end of said street, it just fades away. What's the point?! Either commit to creating bike lanes throughout the city and it's outskirts or don't.

[@erikgustafson9319]

This is why having good public transport is important

[@NT-hr3eu]

and that's why they don't provide it so you have to keep driving.

[@barleymepodcast2301]

And yet, since it costs money and may require construction, it never passes in city/county votes in America

[@wyhesggifrid]

indeed, viable alternatives to driving is a must

[@jakesoros2376]

Impossible for now in most areas, they're simply too low density in population to have a public transport system that makes sense. Most people have commuted 20+ miles to their jobs ever since most cities went to the dogs following the race riots of the 1960s. The cities, as a result, only have 2 main groups living in them, the elites and wannabe elites who can afford the high taxes and don't care about the deterioration of the city's ability to support genuine family life, and the poor, ghetto class who comprise the majority of the city's population after their recent ancestors actions drove out the decent taxpayers in the 60s and 70s. Around half of this group don't even have jobs and live fully on welfare and by doing other minor work that goes untaxed. Public transit programs exist aplenty in these areas, including dedicated buses to pick up workers who are disabled in some way to take them to their jobs, and yet these public systems run at a deficit because ordinary people don't want to be stuck on a bus or a train where they'll get into a Daniel Penny type of situation dealing with a violent vagrant or young thug. It's the deterioration of American public life that makes them unwilling to use public transport and live in the cities. Deal with that, and people will return.

[@ShaddySoldier]

America *had* good public transportation. American also *had* a cohesive country. Not so much anymore.

[@slg2771]

I'm a commercial driver in the southern united states, and I log well over 50,000 miles a year so I think I see more bad drivers and accidents than the average driver. I would say the biggest problem at least around here is not even speeding or drunk driving but distracted driving. YOU CAN NOT BE A GOOD ENOUGH DRIVER TO USE YOUR PHONE AND DRIVE AND GET AWAY WITH IT!!! At least ten times a day I witness a distracted driver nearly crash and save it at the last minute. PUT DOWN YOUR PHONE AND LIVE!!! and of course I would love to see a well laid out sidewalk and bike path along every street, there is nothing I would like more than to be able to ride my bike safely into town. Great video, thank you for your work!

[@rolandxb3581]

This video literally says that blaming individual drivers is a distraction from the real problem and that road design is the most important factor in traffic safety. So, please don't focus your outrage on these drivers. The bigger problem is that the roads are designed in such a way that it's incredibly easy to drive fast without paying much attention, while you're also put into conflict frequently with other road users, including pedestrians (look up 'stroads' if you're curious). Getting angry at people who do dangerous things is just a lot easier than getting angry about dangerous road design that makes this possible in the first place. It's not cell phones, as the video explicitly mentions. There are plenty of distracted drivers in Oslo or Utrecht. They are not half as deadly as American distracted drivers. Roads should force you to pay attention. The absence of traffic calming in streets kills thousands of children every year. Right turns on red are a total disgrace. The practice of allowing left turns into oncoming traffic would be hilarious if it didn't kill so many drivers. Highway sized lanes in city centers cause massive increases in speeding and therefore spikes in traffic deaths. Nobody seems to care. The true outrage is that most of the public, who are almost all drivers, place their speed and convenience above the lives of others and even their own lives while victim blaming pedestrians and cyclists. And don't forget the government and traffic engineers who facilitate this callous attitude with fake science and a utterly dishonest 'concern' for road safety, and the car companies who bankroll it all.

[@slg2771]

@@rolandxb3581 Hello, I should probably have elaborated more in my previous comment. Although city road designs are horrible around here, ( Southern louisiana, our city's were poorly planned in the 1700s so there isn't much that they can do without demolishing historic buildings ) I was really referencing the interstates as well. Our interstates have 12 foot wide lanes and are mostly straight and well maintained, and I have still been almost side swiped and ran off the road by people distracted while driving. I know that city design is important and that if people feel too comfortable while driving that they tend to not pay attention. I don't know what you can do to one of our interstates that would fix distracted driving without causing an issue for large cargo vehicles. (such as narrowing the lanes.). Edit: as well, the vast majority of us at least where I live drive typically 30 minutes to an hour each way for work, taking the interstates not small city roads. ( I live out in the country and commute into town for work about an hour each way taking the interstate which is straight driving, no stops, no pedestrians, no traffic lights, driving 70mph; there is nothing around this interstate, no houses, no buildings, no people, just un-inhabited swamp and yet there are still crashes every day by people who can't seem to go in a straight line for an hour. So I guess my opinion is that yes we need better road design in cities, but that also our drivers are also bad.)

[@rolandxb3581]

@@slg2771 ​ @slg2771 Thanks for your thoughtful reply. My tone was more confrontational than necessary, sorry about that. To your point about interstates/highways, I can see what you mean. Stricter tests before you get your driver's license would be helpful there. And perhaps more consequences (like losing your license) if your bad driving causes an accident. In terms of road design, I can't think of too much, would it be possible to make the lanes just a bit narrower? That would help at least somewhat. Interstate lanes are wider, I think, than a lot of highways in Europe. Now, you got bigger vehicles, too. I've also seen highways where the left lanes (meant for overtaking) were narrower than the right lanes. You think that'd be possible? But it's not going to solve everything for sure.

[@slg2771]

@@rolandxb3581 Thank you for being willing to have a genuine conversation, I really appreciate that! I definitely agree that we need stricter driving tests here in the usa. I only drove for a few blocks to get my standard drivers license and only a quick paper test for my class D drivers license ( the smallest commercial license here. ). At least here in the gulf coast area, you couldn't narrow BOTH lanes even slightly without causing issues for our oversized loads for the oil fields and refineries. ( I don't know where you are from, but if you have not seen them you should look up videos of america's "oversized loads" or "wide loads" tractor trailers. I've been stuck behind an oil field trailer that was almost three lanes wide or about 30 feet! Although this is still pretty rare lol.) I have never heard of narrowing just the passing lane though, I really like that idea! The big rigs could work around that, and if you want to go slow and not pay attention you can drive in the slow lane and if you want to go faster in the passing lane the narrowing would force you to pay attention and naturally make you more hesitant to speed, it seems like the perfect idea! Thank you for the reply, I hope you have a great day!

[@illucidate3749]

"Let the semi pass Look further ahead than you have to Drive with your mirrors (constantly checking)" Words of wisdom from my dad who was and is a truck driver

[@YukariAkiyama]

A good one my mom taught me, when you’re checking your blindspots, don’t just look in the lane directly next to you. Also check the lane next to the one you’re merging into, 9/10 theres an idiot that is about to merge into your car

[@highlordlaughterofcanada8685]

The optimist in me wonders why this isn't taught more.

[@ZombieBait998]

I used to speed and think I was such a good driver and that my only problem was that I liked driving fast. I got t-boned by someone on their phone, and then I got hit by a van while I was riding my bike because they ran a red light. I also got tickets from a camera. Needless to say, I don’t speed anymore and I drive normal. Please be careful guys and don’t use your phones or put on makeup or do anything that takes your distraction away from driving

[@DisFaBish]

Because you cant pay attention l, stop projecting your bad driving to other people

[@ZombieBait998]

@ dude both times I was in an accident it wasn’t my fault. One was a teenager on his phone and the other one I was riding my bike and a guy ran a light while mine was green. Literally on reports it was the other persons fault. I’m not projecting

[@LiOH-H2SO4]

​​​​@@DisFaBish You know, your reply has a really weird taste, kinda like iron. A real irony flavour right there. You nutcase, like, genuinely, is there something cognitively wrong you?

[@gabetalks9275]

One of my biggest pet peeves is drivers constantly complaining about how reckless and entitled cyclists are while they themselves drive, park, and dump snow into their bike lanes. Rules for thee, but not for me.

[@aygwm]

Share the road, we are all humans here

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

It's even more hypocritical because there are hardly pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and trains in many places. In many places, the streets are empty except for a lot of cars. It's moving cars that are dangerous, scary, and more annoying. Even to other drivers. I hate how drivers won't look around and see that there aren't sidewalks and bike paths everywhere so that's why people have to jaywalk sometimes. Then they just blame non-drivers. Too many innocent people are charged by policemen or face police brutality because of having to jaywalk. It disproportionately affects African Americans.

[@benjaminhigham3624]

as someone who frequently rides a bike I second this. Also, I find some drivers get very annoyed if I am in their way (where I live the bike lane goes in between straight and right turning lanes). I’m sorry but it’s not my fault that Florida’s DOT is horrible at designing bike lanes. And also the effort it takes to drive a car is so much less than using a bike. So is it really that big of a deal they had to slow down slightly to not hit me?

[@benjaminhigham3624]

@@user-gu9yq5sj7cIt’s ridiculous that places won’t build safe pedestrian crossings for literal miles and then criminalize jaywalking.

[@ambiarock590]

Definitely. One reason people on bicycles can roll through stop signs consequence free is because they're on a machine that weights 60 pounds (about 300 including the rider themselves) and those things travel far slower than cars. Less mass, less velocity, far lower kinetic energy; safer for everyone and thus there is little to no consequence on the surroundings for someone on a bike to roll through a stop sign (provided it's safe for the person on the bike to proceed). In fact letting people on bikes roll through stop signs and thus spending less time in danger is better for everyone

[@GogiRegion]

I think one issue is that you can get a license when you’re a teenager and then never retake any test again, even if driving laws change. There’s people who have gotten a license before stoplights were normalized who have never gotten tested on them.

[@cryotheum]

What a weird culture we have around cars in the US

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

CityNerd asked how many pfps do you see of people in their cars? Then I started noticing it a lot and many of them were Americans. Also, how many people post videos of them talking in their cars even while driving. Or looking at the camera too much while driving.

[@oldcowbb]

its yet again caused by oligarchy and their propaganda of why everyone needs a car, US history is written by oligarchs

[@TheAliceUwU]

a forced culture.

[@dragonusmolamola4140]

​@@TheAliceUwUthis is offtopic but i like your vib ribbon profile pic :3

[@meepmoopiethe3rd]

I'm a mail carrier. Very few days go by where someone doesn't try to run into me. I was on a rural highway today, no one else really around, when some guy flies up on me and has to swerve into the other lane and almost hit someone else there because he wasn't paying attention; he then waited for me at my next neighborhood to tell me to get off the road, asshole! As if my job doesn't sometimes involve stopping in the street. It's not just people on phones or the elderly. Sometimes it's someone staring straight forward, seemingly attentive. It's just that very few people are good enough at driving to deserve a license. I've even made a song about people who don't deserve to have a license or car. Because I'm in these situations so friggin often.

[@edthelazyboy]

Nowadays, you are more likely to be punished for not speeding by other drivers. I have been tailgated and cut off for following speed limits.

[@ceasinghornet40d40]

I've been tailgated and cut off for speeding, but just not enough. speed limit in front of my house is 25 mph, but I usually go around 30. I do this because everyone else goes 45+. when I need to turn into my driveway, I put my signal on well before the 100ft requirement and brake VERY slowly, but I've still almost been rear-ended several times. I've had people swerve to avoid me even though I gave them a very advanced warning that I was stopping to turn

[@OutdoorLonghair]

I moved half way across the state from a city of 60k to a town of one hundred because of this. They're out here too, just not as many.

[@Johnny-jr2lq]

I have noticed this myself. It’s really irritating when my wife takes my 3 year old son to do errands. And she comes home telling me some Bro maggot in a jacked up pickup was ridding her a$$ for 30 miles. All because she was doing the posted speed limit. At first I thought she was just over exaggerating. Till we started driving her car instead of my pickup to save on gas and insurance expenses. We that’s when I realized she wasn’t exaggerating at all. Actually there has been a couple times do you some bro maggot though it was a girl driving. Till we would pull up to a light and my 6 foot 240 pound a$$ got out of the little Pontiac vibe. That’s happened TWICE now it’s completely unacceptable to drive that way and treat fellow motorists with that kind of disrespect. And I OWN A TRUCK MYSELF

[@Johnny-jr2lq]

@@OutdoorLonghairyes we me and my family did the same thing. Actually it’s kinda worse out here and very aggravating. The bro maggots who think there truck is the only thing on the road.

[@picachugirl2036]

I practice passive aggressive driving when that happens. I usually go 5 to 10 over (rural area), but then when someones tailing me, Ill ease off that gas and go 5 under. Partially because im petty, partially because if they do rear end me, at least its slower than it wouldve been. And rural area means hard stopping on the highway randomly because of how many dang deer + elk there are.

[@breegan9527]

I drive semi trucks and dump trucks for a living and holy moly the sheer number of drivers that blatantly ignore even the most fundamental of road rules is staggering from reckless over taking over double yellow lines nearly resulting in head on collisions to diving from the left lane to make the exit because they can’t STAND the thought of exiting behind a truck. I encourage the creation of alternative transportation just so there are less cars on the roads and so it can be safer for everyone.

[@DesertRat332]

Can you imagine if you told someone in the 1880s that someday we are going to let anyone drive machines that weight 3 or 4 tons at speeds of 80 mph just inches from each other and from pedestrians. And we're going to let others drive 40 ton vehicles hauling commerce at the same speeds and distances from each other. They would say, "That's insane! In the future people must be dying like flies."

[@Toast2005]

And they are. A ridiculous amount of people die from automobile related accidents everyday

[@IstasPumaNevada]

Don't forget that those people who are driving the 40 ton vehicles typically have to work 60 to 80 hour weeks. Because that's not illegal for some baffling reason.

[@oiltoast3723]

​@@Toast2005 cool name

[@theturkey1523]

I had a bad driver pull out and hit me while I was riding my bike at 40kmh and I ended up nearly dying. Broken pelvis, wrists, vertebrae, knee, severed artery, ligaments, tendons, bladder and now I’m stuck in pain everyday and I’m unable to do anything that I enjoy at the ripe age of 20 (19 at the time). please don’t drive if you’re a nuckfut, you’re in the moment “oh why not” decision could kill someone on their way home

[@mr.spockchap1345]

The canal at 17:46 was converted into a highway in the 70s, and reconverted back to a canal recently because people realized how harmful car infrastructure was

[@eepynicky]

i love the way some drivers will break down and cry at the sight of a bike lane but to them, a parking lane on either side of a 4 lane road making literally half of the road completely unusable is just fine.

[@deadtotheworld00]

Yo this! It drives me crazy when I mention eliminating street parking would help so much and then people look at me like I'm insane

[@highlordlaughterofcanada8685]

I've seen people do that on 2 lane sub-urban roads in school zones and act like it's fine

[@TheSuburban15]

One third, bud.

[@Bioniking]

I think it’s more to do with crap signals, poor drivers, and too many conflict points on our roads. Having parking on the side, and the implication that that’s slowing down cars, is basically the “one more lane will fix it” fallacy. I agree with you in that drivers will find anything to blame but other drivers for congestion, but I don’t think it’s side parking (parking in general is a whole other issue, the fact we just let people store their private property on public space usually for free is insane to me)

[@amegalodonwithinternetacce5863]

I just got my first car at 17 and I hate driving. I absolutely despise it because it feels like I am the only person putting in the work to learn and understand how to safely drive for everyone on the road. It pisses me off that people care more about getting to their destination than preserving the lives of the people around them

[@WeyounSix]

One big issue not addressed is that there is a very large amount of people who drive 40 or more minutes all the way across town or into town, and the commute can take an hour or more, so asking these people to reduce the speed limits is like talking to a brick wall. Nobody is going to want their Hour+ commute to become 2+ hours because of slow speed limits, and for these people, the distance means public transit is absolutely impossible or not feasible. I used to have to take the MAX (Trimet, one of the highest rated transport companies in the US, still shitty) and then a bus to my destination, and then walk 20 minutes to where I had to be. This took me nearly 2 hours both ways every single day, and I was so depressed that I wanted to die. When I got a car that commute turned into 35 minutes and my mental health got so much better. I do think that more alternate forms of transportation will help reduce people on roads and make traffic better, in fact I ride my bike to work on my commute nowadays, but there are so many people where public transport is not feasible at all. I used to live downtown and work in the suburbs, and I still had to take multiple busses and walk miles from the bus stop to get to my destination. Relying on public transport here in the US is so tough to do because of how far people have to travel on a daily basis, that most people will get a car just to avoid the excruciating commute of public transit.

[@luritdurit]

A 40 min drive is nothing to do in good public transport i do that daily taking about the same as driving the question is MOST of the time not distance but quality of public transport

[@WeyounSix]

@@luritdurit as someone who has had to do multi-hour commutes on public transit + walking i very much disagree. Even a fantastic train line would not have made that any better.

[@Aviation494]

I am taking the train to the airport instead of driving.

[@ZachREGame]

Sadly my city has no train infrastructure for anything except for cargo despite having a train station and being built on trains. Oof

[@jonnyblaze69in]

Can i borrow it? mine just got totaled by a careless parked car one night when i was driving with no lights on

[@NT-hr3eu]

good luck finding a place on the train to stow your luggage if everyone else if going at the same time! I share the same train for my commute and some days the cases are everywhere blocking the aisles and all...that'll probably be the day you need to go to the airport! depressing.

[@babydriver8134]

I get it, LOL.

[@peter5.056]

In 2004, I rode my bicycle 50 miles every day without a care in the world. Twenty years later, doing that would be sue0side.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

Movies are a lie because I saw a video that said when they depicted kids walking or biking safely around in movies, the studios just rented those big areas or built fake sets.

[@PlasticBag4Status]

What country and city?

[@peter5.056]

@@PlasticBag4Status United States, Lafayette to Baton Rouge area. After Katrina's displaced people moved in, by late 2005, I could not ride a bike without having people literally try to run me off the road.

[@PlasticBag4Status]

@@peter5.056 You're a madman for biking 50 miles daily not only in a humid, swampy climate, but also where roads are busted and drivers have no regards for bikes.

[@peter5.056]

@@PlasticBag4Status 20 years ago, it was safe on the roads.

[@marluna_x]

My dad used to work on self driving at Bosch for Benz/Daimler. The company being in Germany makes the safety required much higher than elsewhere. The technology and complexity is insanely impressive, it literally takes landmarks like houses and churches into account to know it's exact location. And all that for highways only. It really shows how far away self driving cars are from going anywhere outside straight simple safe highway roads.

[@almazingsk8er]

Driving tests are far too easy because they are absolutely necessary because cars are absolutely necessary. I sometimes think about how much money and space is wasted in our cities just providing parking for cars, not even considering the roads themselves

[@3N1StaticGaming]

People get mad at me when I go the speed limit. I really don't understand that. One dude almost wrecked behind me because I was doing just that and refused to go his speed. There was a car next to me too, so his speed caused him to weave in traffic unsafe like because he had to avoid me and the others. It amazing me how some people act like that.

[@xraze6906]

Obviously I cannot comment on every road you've ever driven on. However one of the most important rules while driving is to stay in the slow lane whenever possible, unless passing somebody. Unless you cannot enter the slow lane, just get over and let the faster vehicles pass. If it's a one lane road tell them to kick rocks or something.

[@BulletRain100]

They're not mad at you for going the speed limit, but that you're knowingly making the lives of the other people on the road harder. If a guy is being crazy behind you, the safe thing to do is let him pass. Driving is a team sport.

[@marcush4741]

I understand what you mean. But context is what matters when it comes to the speed limit. Example: multilane highways. Passing on the right is more dangerous than speeding. People sitting in the leftmost lane at 65 while people are going 95... the person doing the speed limit is the problem. Theyre also breaking the law in all 50 states. But the fine is lower than a 30mph over ticket, harder to convince a jury of, and falls into a lower tier for quotas. More relatable to folks who dont speed (myself included)... there is nothing illegal about a tractor with its hazard plackard driving 15 in a 40 down a 10 mile section of road with no passing lines. But a tractor worries about safety will pull over and let folks pass once a critical mass of drivers has formed behind them. Ask anybody... if the farmer DOESNT let people pass, folks who are late enouhh will start passing on a double yellow, even if its a blind turn. Driving the speed limit is legal. But doing so when folks are actively trying to pass or go faster? That requires nuance. The speed limit driver who UNDERSTANDS that social/legal nuance is a safe driver. The speed limit driver who stands his ground? Theyre some of the most dangerous drivers. This is literally the basics of defensive driving. And there is a reason that insurance companies charge less to folks who have passed said classes. It isn't about who is most right. It's about everybody individually trying to get everybody home safe... even when others don't care about doing so.

[@dyslexicsoap7605]

love how every single reply assumes you weren't in the correct lane bc you MUST be at fault here somehow

[@3N1StaticGaming]

@@dyslexicsoap7605 I don’t blame them for being skeptical considering they don’t know me or how I drive. I just view it as a form of lawlessness to speed. Speed increases danger. And not just for yourself but also others. So in a way it’s also inconsiderate to speed because you risk others on the road. Probably the reason insurance is so expensive.

[@no-ic5gw]

Its amazing how people can drive everyday and NEVER improve.

[@WTC2014]

When im driving to or from work at night with minimal drivers, i notice i prefer to drive SLOWER than the speed limit, as it feels safer and is just more enjoyable. As soon as day hits and the roads wake up, there is just a mad dash of people going everywhere to fast. it takes away from the fun of just driving and enjoying the scenery.

[@Worldaffairslover]

Don’t drive under the speed limit in the passing lane, or impede the passing lane. All it does is cause accidents.

[@WTC2014]

@@Worldaffairslover I'm talking about 3am in the morning when there are no other cars

[@Lunarl4ndr]

​@@Worldaffairsloverso the accidents are caused by safe slower drivers, somehow?

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

It's nicer and easier to take in the scenery while walking, biking, or riding public transit instead. Walkability and density also incentizes building a beautiful environment with greenery more. Density and mixed zoning invites more small local shops where people can decorate their own shops. Car centric design incentizes building deserts of asphalt and super wide roads just for cars to speed by. It incentizes building giant parking lots too. Suburb HOAs and NIMBYs also forces people to make their homes or blocks look the same and bland too much. There are many videos with comments there that complain about modern ugly architecture. But they won't stop supporting car centric design and getting to a major root of the problem.

[@WTC2014]

@@user-gu9yq5sj7c I would use an alternative means of transport, but my job requires a car and could send me out to a location over 100 miles from where I live.

[@therealronniej]

Another Not Just Bikes channel in the making!! Congratulations on a wonderfully made and informative video!

[@tahderich]

The thing is, a LOT of people hate driving and only want the freedom to get to any point without transit logistics. This in turn will make the worse drivers raise the insurance premiums until they make human driving the worse. Then they will skip to the auto driving car leaving all the good drivers with the higher floor for insurance premiums.

[@hhjhj393]

I don't like cars, but I don't like American public transportation either.... I used to take the bus and light rail when I was in highschool. It would take me like over an hour to get home and it was a simple thing. As soon as I got my license and a car it only took me 10-15 minutes.... America just sucks idk. Almost everything is crumbling, unpleasant, and not really all that enjoyable.

[@xraze6906]

@@hhjhj393 Something that "more public transit" types never seem to get no matter how much it is drilled into them. Each US state is comparable to a EU country in size, but not population. Each city is much, much, further away from each other. No matter how much money you dump into it, public transit will never benefit the rural half of the country in any significant way due to how spread out it is. However, they will still always be on the hook for paying for it (taxes). That being said, the way cities are made to make life harder for peds is terrible. Just don't make it a burden on the rural population and they honestly won't care to stop it. The argument of "well they go to the city every few months so they should have to pay too" is nonsense as they go about as often as people from other states do. Should other states have to pay for it too?

[@StonedHunter]

@@xraze6906 so what? you can still make a comprehensive public transportation system and when that's done and becomes more the default, guess what? the times get better because there are more lines and options to get where you wanna go. Part of why transit sucks is because it's stuck in the same traffic as cars. Give them their own lanes instead of parking lanes or needless turn lanes that cars can't go into, and watch how much faster transit gets. I hate people trying to say "the US is too big to do anything good or useful" than either a) we need to force states to do better and work together or b) maybe we shouldn't be one oversized country at all. If the US is too big to do anything than it's too big to exist. Period.

[@xraze6906]

@@StonedHunter So because it is more expensive for the US to build comparable infrastructure as the EU because of size, we should destroy the country! Sounds about as reasonable as most of your type's proposals.

[@holstatt6896]

​@xraze6906 if you move the farmers closer to the city and use more space efficient farming techniques, you minimize this exact problem. As an added bonus, the abandoned land is returned to the natural cycle. But that would take a level of political will that our country lacks.

[@PTSayoriD]

I'm at the point now whenever I see a German luxury car or a Dodge sports car coming up behind me, I automatically assume the person driving it is a dbag. I'm usually proven right.

[@highlordlaughterofcanada8685]

Where I live you have to add lifted pick-up trucks, taxis and middle aged Minivan drivers to that list

[@RussOlson-pl3kf]

I'm law enforcement, criminals always have those cars.

[@opticalsalt2306]

I’m at the point where I’m convinced the way luxury car drivers actually use the road, more than 3/4ths of them don’t even have full ownership or a title for the car, they finance their shit brainlessly or are just that dumb to drop money on a car like that judging by how they operate

[@RussOlson-pl3kf]

@@opticalsalt2306 It's someone else's car half the time. When I started this job it blew my mind how many gangbangers are homeless going couch to couch and bumming off girlfriends.

[@fine-n-dandy]

lifted pickups and jeeps = i'm about to get cut off or tailgated

[@SpaTelliteAM]

As a Canadian. I don’t drive because of financial costs. People also overlook the environment these days.

[@peternorton592]

This is a great video but the crediting of sources is so bad it comes off as at least unintentionally resembling dishonesty. Beginning at 13:56, the video presents an extended, 66-second summary of my first book, Fighting Traffic, including images I uncovered., A microscopic credit to this source appears in a corner for just six seconds - as if only one point in this video segment came from the book, rather than the entire segment. No closing credits are offered. And then the book itself is entirely omitted from the main references list, even though a summary of this book accounts for a whole chapter of this video. Instead readers are referred to a link for additional sources, while other sources that were used far less are featured in the main list. For the sake of hard-working scholars who uncovered the information you use, please do better.

[@thekingoffailure9967]

Bump

[@BillionairesArentYourFriends]

Double bump

[@Conorize]

Wtf? This should be higher.

[@-_-----]

Quadruple Bump?

[@Dee_Just_Dee]

As someone who drives daily to drag myself in to work, and then drives *_at_* work, I'm constantly flabbergasted by people's driving behavior... all the stupid nonsense that some drivers will pull to get "ahead" in traffic, and the way other drivers distract themselves from driving as if it's such a chore. I was beholden to public transit schedules to get around well into my twenties, and so when I finally got around to getting my license and buying a car, driving felt like such a luxury. I never let myself forget that.

[@charles.personal]

well, you gotta keep in mind that it really is a chore for many, since it is the only way they're able to get to and from important destinations like work, hell, if we had better city planning and more frequent/better funded transit options quite a few people would likely prefer that, if not for the convenience of having to drive yourself, than for the cost savings

[@denelson83]

All because people have had their viable alternatives to driving taken away from them.

[@keyboardwarrior6296]

Okay, move all of your appliances to a new location. Your best option is now rent a truck or to use amish technology. Those without are at the mercy of those who have. 😢

[@denelson83]

@keyboardwarrior6296 Like with health care in the US. And I said viable _alternatives to,_ not "replacements for", driving.

[@LexYeen]

​@@keyboardwarrior6296bro, alternatives don't remove the thing they're an alternative for. stores still carry milk while _also_ carrying non-dairy milk alternatives, y'know? so we can have driving alternatives _without_ removing personal automobiles. just, like, remember that not _everyone_ is interested in owning and maintaining a car and _some_ people _can't_ drive for a variety of reasons. making mobility _require_ a car automatically makes the lives of those people much harder.

[@keyboardwarrior6296]

@LexYeen You can't reconfigure the infrastructure without disadvantaging one means or the other. The one means is critical to the functioning of the economy and the maintenance of our human rights, the other one is a novel piece of exercise equipment. Our modern infrastructure requires modern vehicles. I don't think a quadriplegic would appreciate being taxied by rickshaw.

[@denelson83]

@@keyboardwarrior6296 Driving should be _an_ option, not _the only_ option.

[@quixomega]

The speed camera on park side drive has been thrown into the lake now. That street doesn't even make sense to speed on because you're just going to hit the next stop light anyway.

[@KeriRautenkranz]

As a long-time commuter: people stop using turn signals because as soon as one indicates a desired lane change, people next to them invariably speed up to get in front. Even if the person intending to merge is quite some distance in front of the people that want to be in front. Often dozens or even hundreds of meters / yards in front. Somehow, we have to make considerate driving normal. Perhaps bringing back really slow cars like my Trabant would help...

[@-_-----]

At first, I signaled well-in-advance of my move.... but no one ever made room..... so I end up slipping in to my target lane when and where it works. Then eventually, I signaled right-before my move... and since I only signaled where there was room.... I ended up slipping into my desired lane when and where it works. Using signals doesn't matter if there are too many clowns who A) never notice your signals when you're changing lanes, and B) never make way when you use them to signal your intent to merge.

[@downbytheriver501]

I’m from a small town in Montana and decided one winter to experience a few months in socal, to switch it up a bit. I came up with an unfortunate quote that rings true to your post: “Using your turn signal in heavy traffic only gives the enemy your intentions.”

[@dipdip7250]

Bro is carrying the urbanist movement on his back

[@terranceaddison4599]

I commemorate him for it...i dont see alotta folks bringing car centric awareness to the table..hopefully the movement grows

[@justv7536]

As someone who has to drive thanks to disabilities and distance, I see on my daily commute of a total of 45 minutes, more than twenty people merging without indicating. It is diabolical how terrible some people are on the road.

[@MrRealeyesrealize]

Driving is a fucking privilege. Operating a 4K lbs plus metal machine. Seeing people not give a shit about it makes me mad

[@bastianw2217]

100 times per day a vehicle crashes into a building in the US????? If this happens in Germany you could read nationwide in the newspaper of such an accident. And I don't remember having read nearly as much accidents of this kind (based on the population)

[@gerhard6105]

It is because of them driving an automatic gearbox. We Dutch and you Germans etc mostly drive a hand shifted car.

[@blitzn00dle50]

@@gerhard6105 Copout answer - you can still get going super fast and then leave the road with a manual transmission

[@lagunitoast]

@@blitzn00dle50 yes but you cant do your makeup, text, or eat your breakfast while driving like most americans do

[@yearginclarke]

@@lagunitoast As dumb as american drivers are on the whole, and as an american myself, I still wouldn't say "most" americans do those things while driving. Also I never owned an automatic transmission vehicle since I started driving in 2003, until 2 years ago. Manuals are easy to drive, nothing hard about it.

[@breach005]

I actually keep mental note if the place Im in had bollards out front or not. That shit happens way too often where Granny makes a mistake the rest of us pay for at the Walgreens