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Just 27 months for killing a cyclist and lying to the authorities. (www.rnz.co.nz)
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[–] 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

a sad thing is that just operating the vehicle is now often less safe than a decade ago

i.e. you can get a distracted driving ticket for using your phone mounted on your dash for navigation (zooming out / panning), but you won't get one for adjusting touch screen climate controls on your super shitty unintuitive dashboard UI, a much more difficult task

i.e. you can get a ticket for driving 5 km an hour over the limit, but you won't get one for having LED headlights so bright that they completely hid a pedestrian in a crosswalk at a four way stop and the oncoming driver nearly ran them over (I have seen this happen multiple times in my own neighbourhood)

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

    i.e. you can get a ticket for driving 5 km an hour over the limit

    I'm a school bus driver and my superior once tried to tell me that it was legal to drive 5 mph over the speed limit. I laughed and said "what the fuck are you talking about?" TBF it's de facto legal to do it because you're extremely unlikely to get a ticket for it and you could argue in court that a recorded speed 5 mph over the limit is not statistically different from the actual limit, but that's not the same as actually "legal".

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago

    lmao I don't think I've ever heard anyone argue that it's legal, only that it's expected or that it's standard practice. but oh boy do people ever complain about how speed cameras would ticket people for going "only 5km/h over the limit in a school zone" (context: my province recently banned all speed cameras and took them all down. yes, all of them. it's dumb as fuck)

    to add some clarity to my previous comment, I was thinking of a 60 km an hour stroad where it's designed for 80+ and you can comfortably drive 90 because it's two lanes each way with shoulders, divided, and a separated sidewalk that nobody uses because it's unpleasant as fuck. in that case, driving 65 in a 60 is just.. it makes no difference. the road is designed for 80.

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