tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post3151529360124745502..comments2024-03-13T03:24:01.167-04:00Comments on Marginalizing Morons: Marginalizing Bad DriversCaptiousNuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14440029537418230507noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-30510256072817716332007-01-30T17:14:00.000-05:002007-01-30T17:14:00.000-05:00sean,
Dude, that's funny because I was thinking y...sean,<br /><br />Dude, that's funny because I was thinking your "post" makes you sound just like one of the bad drivers I was talking about.<br /><br />As for the "idiot" label. Realize that after demanding someone vacate a lane for <em>you</em>, you seem to be claiming the left lane as "your personal travel lane". Freud would have a field day with you.<br /><br />don riley,<br /><br />First of all, for a second I thought you were describing Tiger Wood's mom as the stereotypical bad driver. I forgot she is all Asian. Tiger does have that deal with Buick...<br /><br />Secondly, 90 in your BMW? In Philly? I may have to report you to your local authorities. Only a Fedex-ed Primo hoagie can buy my silence.CaptiousNuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440029537418230507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-68247072413560652652007-01-30T16:56:00.000-05:002007-01-30T16:56:00.000-05:00If you go 73 mph in a Suburban, I can defintely do...If you go 73 mph in a Suburban, I can defintely do 90 mph in my BMW. I will still come to a stop in a 100 yards shorter distance than you, and I will also be able to out manuver a Chevy Suburban doing 73 mph , in case a eighty year old, half black, half asain woman on a cell phone, and driving a Buick, makes a dumb move in front of me !!!!Don Rileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09354335376715027209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-30052660704285147072007-01-30T16:42:00.000-05:002007-01-30T16:42:00.000-05:00Dude, your post makes you sound like one of the ba...Dude, your post makes you sound like one of the bad drivers. Get out of the left lane regardless how fast someone is coming up behind you. I hate idiots who use the left lane as their personal travel lane.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17615353101558703337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-71550766066560184492007-01-30T10:26:00.000-05:002007-01-30T10:26:00.000-05:00It kind of depends on the roads one is driving on....It kind of depends on the roads one is driving on. In the South and Western part of the country, roads are well maintained and straight. Up here in the northeast, the roads wind and are always under construction. I am fully aware that 80 mph in Nevada or Georgia can be very safe.<br /><br />I tend to go on long driving trips a lot. Often times the middle lane will be going like 63 mph and since I need to make time on a 5-10 hour trip, I have to go say 73 mph in the left lane. With a limit of 65, I shouldn't have to get out of the way of anyone. I definitely move most of the time, but like I said in the post, I don't think anyone (on northeastern roads) is <em>entitled</em> to drive 80 mph. I probably should have mentioned the regional differences in my post.<br /><br />On my shorter highway trips, I drive my Suburban exclusively in the right and middle lanes. I value my kids too much to play games at high speeds.CaptiousNuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440029537418230507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-5986924035646573632007-01-29T22:46:00.000-05:002007-01-29T22:46:00.000-05:00I almost completely agree with you. If you're rea...I almost completely agree with you. If you're really opposed to right lane speeders/weavers, then this is an unreasonable position: <br /><i>I also can't stand these drivers on the highway that think coming within six inches of your fender is a normal way to ask you to shift right and let them pass. High beams from a distance are rude enough. Bear in mind that if I am driving 10 mph over the limit already, I feel no compulsion to switch lanes. No one is entitled to drive 80 mph. The highway is a dangerous place to have pissing contests but sometimes you have to push back provided safety permits.</i><br /><br />Left lane speeding in appropriate vehicles (i.e. not your Suburban) is absolutely <b>not</b> unsafe. About the only dangerouns part of driving 80mph in a well maintained late-model sedan are the guys who assume it is their god-given right to drive slowly in the left-lane and refuse to move to the right. Please re-consider your stance on this. Otherwise... good post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-64533410313141544272007-01-29T16:54:00.000-05:002007-01-29T16:54:00.000-05:00I would never tell anyone what to think.
The thru...I would never tell anyone what to think.<br /><br />The thrust of my post is a generalized complaint about reckless driving. Some of my post is anecdotal but those snippets are hardly the entire basis for my thesis.<br /><br />I have lived in five different cities, Boston is by far the most dangerous to drive in. "New England" includes a lot of rural areas. It's probably more dangerous to drive in Latin America, but that doesn't mean 40,000 Americans don't die on the roads here and that nothing should be done.<br /><br />Why would anyone defend "Bad Drivers"?CaptiousNuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440029537418230507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-10558793438454332962007-01-29T16:19:00.000-05:002007-01-29T16:19:00.000-05:00Considering that New England and Boston have the l...Considering that New England and Boston have the lowest death rates of any region in the U.S., what should we the readers think about the rest of your rant?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-90102930446602274362006-12-21T09:23:00.000-05:002006-12-21T09:23:00.000-05:00Haha.
With admitting or denying your accusation, ...Haha.<br /><br />With admitting or denying your accusation, I will say that I make mistakes all of the time. Just yesterday I superglued two of my fingers together.<br /><br />No accidents or tickets for me in 14 years. I have a clean driving record jabroni.<br /><br />A lot can and does change in a decade and a half. For instance, back in the early nineties I recall that you used to occasionally beat me at golf AND you were slightly better at picking up broads.<br /><br />Who would believe that now, you inveterate tail-gater?CaptiousNuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14440029537418230507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-74987981375225715772006-12-20T22:31:00.000-05:002006-12-20T22:31:00.000-05:00ummmm...are you insinuating that you are a good dr...ummmm...are you insinuating that you are a good driver?...rewind 16 years...didn't you fail your test 3x? OH RIGHT...you had an inordinate amount of "doctor's appointments" that winter...Fafard on the 16thhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06411418019512565413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-86237288663379849672006-12-17T08:41:00.000-05:002006-12-17T08:41:00.000-05:00Sorry about your bad back. I hope technology will ...Sorry about your bad back. I hope technology will provide the answer to bad drivers in the future.<br /><br />It looks like the accident was the result of multiple mistakes (assuming that the driver of the PT Crusier was running either a yellow or red light). (a) It seems that the pedestrian in the video made a mistake, i.e., he was crossing the street while there probably was a yellow or red light. The stop/walk sign most likely was on "stop" at the time of the accident. (b) The design of the traffic lights was not as good as it could be. Should they be swinging in a light breeze? I bet one has to look for the traffic lights in order to see them, i.e., they are not as obvious/visible as they could be to the eyes of the drivers. (c) It looked like the car that flipped over started to move forward sooner than it should. It feels that the car was already moving before all the cars (except the PT Cruiser) came to a complete stop. Had the driver waited a fraction of a second longer, he probably would have seen the PT Cruiser before it was too late. (d) Should a car flip over so easily? I heard that side impact is the blind spot of both car manufacturers and government safety regulation. (e) Of course the biggest mistake was made by the driver of the PT Cruiser. A tragic and inexcusable mistake.Tax Shelterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06971182282511022187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11336670.post-54756282710370088962006-12-16T11:07:00.000-05:002006-12-16T11:07:00.000-05:00If we want better mass transit, we need to allow p...If we want better mass transit, we need to allow private individuals and private companies to compete with the mass transit monopoly.<br /><br />I agree it's tragic when people die in car accidents but I am not sure if you have a valid criticism against illegal immigrants when one of them happens to be involved. You could make the same argument about a legal immigrant (if only we had had tighter quotas, this LEGAL immigrant never would've been here!) or a citizen (as you did with the "if they hadn't been on the cell phone/driving with dog in lap/other distraction, this never would've happened!"). Maybe there is a statistic somewhere that says that just by nature of being an illegal immigrant, this class of people tends to drive worse and more recklessly than other classes of drivers, but I am not sure I have seen that statistic.<br /><br />This is the same problem I have with some of the arguments against illegal immigrants centered around the high cost of medical care. It's argued that illegals are driving it up because they make frequent visits to the emergency room and are otherwise uninsured, so they can't pay the bills and someone else foots it. Yeah, but so do poor people who are on Medicare/Medicaid or make visits to the doctor/emergency room uninsured. The only difference is one of these people happened to be born inside our borders and the other didn't.<br /><br />Frankly, I don't want to pay for other peoples medical care whether they were born inside this country or not. I don't think having citizenship status entitles you to some special privilege to leech off me without me being peeved by it.<br /><br />If my "metrics" or perspective is off in this case, please correct me, but this is how I have seen it.<br /><br />Again though, you're right that if the illegal was never in the country in the first place, he never would've gotten in the accident. In terms of reducing risk, maybe this person would've been a good one to remove from the roads for everyone else's benefit. But like I said, you could make the same argument for a lot of different classes of drivers... there has to be a reasonable limit, otherwise people could point a finger at you and say "As careful as you are C-Nut, it's possible you could make a mistake and hurt or kill someone else... we're taking your license."<br /><br />The best solution to traffic problems would have to be complete deregulation of the insurance market and a complete privatization of the public roadways. Whatever solution the free market would then come up with for road use would be the most economical, most responsible and safest.The Ownerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16192780977787646373noreply@blogger.com