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Yeah, I'm trying to think of scenarios where I go over the speed limit, and they're all blatantly obvious cases of accident avoidance in my mind. Specially due
by SonicPondered 2y ago
Yeah, I'm trying to think of scenarios where I go over the speed limit, and they're all blatantly obvious cases of accident avoidance in my mind. Specially due to other people being really terrible drivers.
For example, I'll sometimes go over the speed limit when overtaking someone, because they don't actually know that you should NEVER speed up (only maintain or lose speed) while you're being overtaken. Oh no, that's not common sense, that's LAW almost everywhere.
But the worst of all cases: 3 lane highway. Me (car A) and another guy (Car B) in an acceleration lane (so 4th) trying to merge in. A car (C) in lane 3 is trying to weave between us two, as the lane is also an exit. All fine. I'll merge in, the Car C will too, and Car B will do so a bit behind.
Car (D) speeding up on lane 2 quickly turns and clearly shows themselves meaning to go to the exit lane, but noooooo, not behind anyone, he MUST go ahead of Car C. There are three outcomes in this mongoloid's cerebral physics puzzle. He crashes me if I don't get out of the way, he crashes C if they don't give way, or he panics, does something weird and either of them crash into B.
I slammed the pedal faster than I could even process what was up. If some stupid retarded automated system got in the way of that moment, I'd be in the workshop and considering my position on political activism a bit more than before.
- USiBqidmOOkAqRb 2y agoTwo wrongs don't make a right. If everyone around you is driving like a maniac you shouldn't try to best them.
- snvzz 2y agoYou should definitely read that again. There's no "besting". Those were examples in which the ability to accelerate prevented actual accidents.
- USiBqidmOOkAqRb 2y agoOh believe me I read the second scenario several times. For the first one it's "blatantly obvious" that you should just stop overtaking if someone is being hostile against you. Even if you have a rally cross situation behind you, the physics works out to be safer if you abort. Second one is rather confusing, but it would appear that this driver of D having realized intentions of C decided to brute force the situation with speed, making driver of A to solve everything again with even more speed. This mentality of speeding just ends up amplifying until something gives.