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Never underestimate an Amerikkkans inability to know how to drive. Or their willingness to say that a big yellow painted truck with reflectors and a giant ass flashing sign is somehow not noticeable (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 36 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Sometimes my job requires me to work on the highway or do traffic control. It is terrifying how little caution some people drive with. This one person came around a bend on a mountain road doing probably 75 (there was a sign a ways back saying work zone, speed limit 45) and they smashed through cones near me, one of which flew and hit me. That kind of work is Possibly the only time I appreciate the presence of a cop, as it gets people to slow down a little bit

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  • [–] 38 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    I've long maintained that road cops (highway patrol style) are the most necessary cops because drivers are psychos who must be brutally oppressed.

    I'm calling for a dictatorship of the pedestrians/cyclists ecoterrorist

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  • [–] 33 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Seems to be the only time chuds are against the cops as well.

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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Chuds when they get a $20 fine for doing 120mph through a school zone: do-not-do-this dorner

    Chuds when someone gets executed for stealing a bag of potato chips: frothingfashi-am-adolf-hitler

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Dangerously anti social activity should be allowed if you claim you 'know the road and can actually drive!'

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    California drivers are having a conniption over mobile speed cameras about to be deployed to road work sites, even though they already have a 11mph tolerance above the limit. No interaction with cops seems like a plus to me.

    They talk about how their appeals are going to be “auto-rejected”. I used to work for a DOT and the reason most of them are rejected is because most of them are bullshit lmao.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    speed and red light cameras are part of the panopticon and in some states they're considered a violation of your right to face your accuser.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    I would rather that than dealing with an ego driven armed killer at the side of the road. These were mobile cameras deployed to work zones and the workers seemed to appreciate them. Although I would definitely not trust the US government with that information…

    TLDR China should annex the US and do their traffic thing here

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago

    Yeah, traffic control is just about the only good thing the cops do * .

    Says a lot about how fucked of a system car-centrism is, that injecting random patrols by armed men actually improves it.

    * Of course they're cops so they'll use this as an opportunity to promote racism

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago

    Reminds me of the people I've seen pass on the double yellows near my town on windy mountain roads where every turn is a blind curve and there's no shoulder for 90% of it. Those lines are yellow for a reason but it doesn't mean I haven't had to dodge suddenly because somebody was passing and came flying around a turn all the way inside my lane. If I had been looking at my phone at that moment they'd have knocked me off the side of the mountain and I'd be fukken dead.

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