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Driving my car (phone in pocket, do-not-disturb on): Yesterday: Passed a college-aged kid on a (edit: motorized) scooter, no helmet, going about 45 mph, readin
by davidrupp 8y ago
Driving my car (phone in pocket, do-not-disturb on):
Yesterday: Passed a college-aged kid on a (edit: motorized) scooter, no helmet, going about 45 mph, reading his phone.
Today: Passed a middle-school-aged kid (edit: on a bicycle), with a helmet, going about 3 mph, reading his phone.
Not sure which earns his Darwin Award first. It's a problem, either way.
- johnthedebs 8y agoI don’t know if I follow, are you saying the second example is a problem? If you are, it’s not clear to me why that is. And are you sure the scooter was going 45mph? That seems unrealistically fast given that even on my bike (which is probably much more stable) achieving 20+mph in NYC is pretty uncommon.
- davidrupp 8y ago(edit: "Scooter" is overloaded. Think "Vespa", not "Razor".) I didn't have a radar gun on him, no. But I was doing about 50 passing him, so ...
- davidrupp 8y agoAnd yes, the kid on his bike is a problem. More of a problem, in some ways. This was in my neighborhood, so speeds were low all around. But I had to time passing him very carefully, and I was very aware of how much he was weaving around the road, however slowly. And this kid will be on a scooter next. Then in a car. And having his phone available at all times will be even more second-nature to him. Maybe he'll get lucky, and truly autonomous vehicles will be a thing before he gets himself killed or badly injured. Maybe.