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Good. I spend time in the "third world" where they honk all the time and don't care about road laws (i.e. lane lines are merely suggestions, no requirement to
by Der_Einzige 9mo ago
Good.
I spend time in the "third world" where they honk all the time and don't care about road laws (i.e. lane lines are merely suggestions, no requirement to buckle your seat belt), non existent road law enforcement.
It's amazing. Every type of vehicle shares the road in relative harmony. It's the ultimate "mixed use/complete streets" liberal wet dream of transportation infrastructure. It maximizes the utility of the roads. There's also far fewer lifted trucks and similar which harms the visibility of the highly alert drivers.
Everyone is still on their phones, but because they are used to a far more chaotic roads, they pay FAR better attention. Furthermore, the average health is infinitely better (almost no obesity), so even their 80 year old grandmas are far healthier and thus more fit to drive.
Unironically deregulate the roads. We need to radically increase speed limits, significantly reduce penalties for meme stuff "i.e. california stopping at stop signs", and yes go after "do-gooders" who think that risking jamming ambulances is worth getting their "slightly safer roads"
Unironically, put Tullock's spike in every car.
Traffic cops are road marauders/parasites. Many tickets shouldn't exist. And no, I don't have any driving tickets.
- markgall 9mo agoWhat? I am living in one of these places right now. The rate of road deaths is vastly higher than even in the USA. This is not a good model.
- Der_Einzige 9mo agoCharlie Kirk was literally in the middle of talking about the need to accept "taking one for the team" when he "took one for the team". Similar principle here.
- llm_nerd 9mo agoThis sort of comment occurs on almost any conversation that touches on road safety. A ridiculous "where there is chaos it is actually safer!" bit of nonsense. Absolutely, unequivocally destroyed by actual metrics. These "chaos" places like India have absolutely atrocious road safety, with hundreds of thousands of deaths yearly. They only look good per capita because of the relative rarity of vehicles and miles driven, but driving is a perilously dangerous activity there and in similar countries. The bit about obesity is just doubly weird nonsense.
- alexjplant 9mo ago> significantly reduce penalties for meme stuff "i.e. california stopping at stop signs" That's not a meme. Rolling a stop sign is failing to obey a traffic control device at the expense of everybody around you. I've almost been hit multiple times as a pedestrian, cyclist, and motorcyclist by ignorant drivers pulling such shenanigans. If you think that encouraging people to run stop signs is a good idea while harboring contempt for this guy then your worldview is, charitably speaking, inconsistent to the point of absurdity.
- youknownothing 9mo ago> where they honk all the time and don't care about road laws (i.e. lane lines are merely suggestions, no requirement to buckle your seat belt), non existent road law enforcement. that sounds like Los Angeles to me...
- komali2 9mo agoTell us the country and I'm pretty sure the traffic nerds here (me included) will come back and show you how what you perceived as harmony is actually a place with shockingly high per-capita traffic fatality rates. > Traffic cops are road marauders/parasites. I do agree with this, but mostly because better road design and cameras can completely eliminate the need for traffic cops.
- Guillaume86 9mo agoDon't need to be a nerd, 5 secs google search: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-road-incidents?tab=discrete-bar&time=latest&mapSelect=OWID_LIC~OWID_HIC~OWID_UMC~OWID_LMC https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-road-incident...
- loeg 9mo agoThis comment seems entirely tangential to the article.