Commuting is a sport?Because it is. Just admit your too scared and ride in your cage.
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Depends on how her husband feels about it.
What makes you think that we commute?
Prana Ferox
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I passed a guy today on the interstate, who was going slow in the far left lane, windows up, visibly wearing a pair of over-the-ear noise cancelling headphones
I hate that.
There used to be a law against that here, but I don't know any more. People come up with the excuse "well, you let deaf people drive" and then file a lawsuit against the government, saying that they are being discredited against somehow>
My answer would be: "we don't allow deaf people to wear headphones while driving, either".
Prana Ferox
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This area is notorious for distracted driving. The worst I have seen was someone clearly slumped over the steering wheel eating from a bowl of cereal on the dash.
Teslas are popular here for many reasons, a huge one being the auto-driving. There's a quietly aggressive arms race between Tesla's methods to determine if the driver is still paying attention to the road, and the various methods and gadgets intended to defeat them so the driver can read / sleep etc. Tesla will actually send you pictures the car took of you screwing off instead of watching it drive for you, to warn you to knock it off or it'll take autodriving off your account and make you turn the wheel yourself like some filthy plebeian.
The good news is that the Tesla is far, far more attentive and responsive than the human drivers who select them likely ever were, so on a good day you can trust them not to wander from lane to lane, and on a bad day you can cut them off close and know they'll give you space. Honestly, taking the keys away from normies who hate driving to begin with, and handing them to AI, will be orders of magnitude more effective for road safety than all the various nags, beeps and exploding hoods ever could.
Teslas are popular here for many reasons, a huge one being the auto-driving. There's a quietly aggressive arms race between Tesla's methods to determine if the driver is still paying attention to the road, and the various methods and gadgets intended to defeat them so the driver can read / sleep etc. Tesla will actually send you pictures the car took of you screwing off instead of watching it drive for you, to warn you to knock it off or it'll take autodriving off your account and make you turn the wheel yourself like some filthy plebeian.
The good news is that the Tesla is far, far more attentive and responsive than the human drivers who select them likely ever were, so on a good day you can trust them not to wander from lane to lane, and on a bad day you can cut them off close and know they'll give you space. Honestly, taking the keys away from normies who hate driving to begin with, and handing them to AI, will be orders of magnitude more effective for road safety than all the various nags, beeps and exploding hoods ever could.
Just make them live in the 15 minute cities & let the rest of us have the roads.
There used to be signs on Illinois interstates that said "Slower Traffic Keep Right", or something about keeping trucks out of the left lane.
Don't remember seeing anything like that in years.
Don't remember seeing anything like that in years.
At the beginning of this year South Carolina put them up at each entering interstate to SC. Now they are starting to proliferate up & down the interstate.
While I can't quote the law, the basics of it is that if you are not passing other vehicles and you are in the left lane, they can give you a ticket for impeding traffic (whether there is anyone stuck behind you or not.
In fact, you can get a ticket for impeding traffic EVEN IF YOU ARE GOING THE SPEED LIMIT IN THE LEFT LANE THUS BLOCKING PEOPLE WHO WANT TO ECCEED THE SPEED LIMIT. That is just too cool.
We have this law in South Carolina also. It's a relatively new law. So far, I haven't heard of them trying this.
But some places have gotten in trouble for making the yellow caution light on traffic signals shorter so that they could raise more revenue and claim that there is an epidemic of red light runners that need to be stopped, there by getting the general population ticked off with people who run a red light, making it difficult to fight it in court.
Some people got the idea to time the lights and have managed to sue. It seems like the caution lights got put back to the normal duration & the law suit was settled out of court.
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"They also have a law that if you come upon police on the side of the road you are required to move into the other lane if possible."
Same in FL
Same in FL
dasdoing
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In Germany you can be fined if you stay on the left lane of a highway: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rechtsfahrgebot
I wasn't sure how that worked in places where they drive on the wrong side of the road???
Killingbeans
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You're thinking about the UK?
Don't they drive on the left side in Germany?
I thought that was through most of Europe?
Killingbeans
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Nope, only the UK.
EDIT: And Ireland and Cyprus... but you get the point
EDIT: And Ireland and Cyprus... but you get the point
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Countries That Drive on the Left Side of the Road
Driver’s ed 101: In America, we drive on the right side of the road. But some countries do the opposite, driving on the “wrong” side of the road. If you’ve ever been to the UK, Australia, Japan, or India (or watched TV shows and movies set in these countries), you’ve seen people driving on the left side.
And it’s not just a handful of countries that drive on the left… over 70 countries follow this rule!
Why Do Some Countries Drive on the Left Side and Some on the Right?
Most of the world drives on the right side of the road because Napolean Bonaparte was left-handed. This system goes back to horse-and-buggies. In the Middle Ages, horse riders and cart drivers rode left-handed because they wanted their right hands free to grab their swords in case of attack. So most of the world’s “traffic” stayed to the left back then.But then, left-handed Napoleon was more comfortable driving on the right so he could keep his left hand free for sword-drawing. Napoleon was such a powerhouse that he convinced France and much of the European continent to stay to the right on the roadways.
But the Brits stuck to the left. And, colonizers that they were, they expanded left-handed driving to much of the Commonwealth. You’ll find that many of the countries that drive on the left today were once part of the British Empire.
Why Do Americans Drive on the Right Side of the Road?
Americans drive on the right for a couple of reasons. First, old freight wagons were pulled by teams of horses. Right-handed drivers rode on the left rear horse to use their right hand for maximum control over the whole team of horses. With this setup, driving on the right made more sense.Secondly, the U.S. had no loyalty to Britain and felt no obligation to follow its left-side lead. The fact that Britain went left may have even incentivized patriotic Americans to go right. It’s also possible that influential Founding Fathers who spent time in France, like Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin, pushed for right-hand traffic rules based on their experience abroad.
Then, in 1913, Henry Ford created the assembly line to mass-produce early vehicles. This pretty much cemented the right-hand driving rule across continental North America.
Territories and Countries That Drive on the Left
Want to know if you need to be ready to drive on the left? Here’s a list of places where driving on the left is the norm.Oceania
- Australia
- Christmas Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Cook Islands
- Fiji
- Kiribati
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- Niue
- Norfolk Island
- Papua New Guinea
- Pitcairn Islands
- Solomon Islands
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
Asia
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- Brunei
- East Timor
- Hong Kong
- Indonesia
- India
- Japan
- Macao
- Malaysia
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
- Thailand
Africa
- Botswana
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Malawi
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- South Africa
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Europe
- Akrotiri and Dhekelia
- Cyprus
- Guernsey
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Jersey
- Malta
- United Kingdom
South America
- Guyana
- Suriname
Caribbean
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbados
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Dominica
- Grenada
- Jamaica
- Montserrat
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- US Virgin Islands
Other Islands
- Bermuda
- Falkland Islands
- Maldives
- Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan de Cunha
- Seychelles
- South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
Well I'll be horn-swoggled!Nope, only the UK.
EDIT: And Ireland and Cyprus... but you get the point
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