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So, don't fuck around with your phone while driving. Stick to the traffic rules. Avoiding him seems really, really easy. Anyone who chooses to grab their phone
by Freak_NL 8mo ago
So, don't fuck around with your phone while driving. Stick to the traffic rules. Avoiding him seems really, really easy.
Anyone who chooses to grab their phone while driving a car deserves all the negativity they get. Unlearn that habit. Seek help if you're addicted to that device. Or just take the Tube.
- adammarples 8mo agoI think a lot of these are while idling at traffic lights and tbh, I have a little sympathy
- MBCook 8mo agoDoes the law say that’s OK? If not, the driver is still in the wrong.
- IshKebab 8mo agoThat not really how it works though. Laws and morals do not perfectly align even in mostly civilised countries like the UK. More importantly, laws are written under the tacit assumption that they won't be perfectly enforced. Have you ever driven 31 mph in a 30 mph zone? Illegal! You're in the wrong! I have never watched his videos so I don't know what proportion of his videos are of people stopped at lights briefly looking at their phone... but I don't think many people (even cyclists) would seriously object to that. I both cycle and drive a lot. There are a lot of bad drivers that I wish would get snitched. But I also occasionally look at my phone while waiting at a red light.
- Traster 8mo agoSo, in general, you support vigilantes?
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- MBCook 8mo agoIn my mind vigilante implies actually doing something to the criminal above and beyond documenting what they’re doing. “a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate)” That’s from Miriam Webster. I’d say he isn’t punishing crime, I could see an argument that he’s suppressing it, but it doesn’t really fit my normal view of the word.
- Traster 8mo agoRunning into traffic to pick a fight with them? Throwing your bike in front of their car to cause a collision? Jumping onto their bonnet to try and pretend you're being run over? The guy is quite literally taking the law into his own hands and it's very clear that running around trying to cause car accidents is making people less safe, not more. In many cases the "accident" he claims to want to prevent is caused by his actions.
- linkregister 8mo agoIt's trivial to find laws that the majority of Hacker News posters (and you) find abhorrent. Do you really equate law with moral correctness?
- cwillu 8mo agoAnd what about the people he harasses who are literally stopped?
- Y-bar 8mo agoYou mean he harasses the people who are so entitled that when called out on their dangerous and illegal driving they get confrontational?
- n4r9 8mo agoIf you're queuing in traffic or stopped at some lights, then you're still in control of a big metal machine on the road and have a responsibility to have your attention on the road. If you're distracted then you might not notice a situation where you need to move the car aside in order to prevent an accident from escalating.
- Traster 8mo agoYeah this is the animosity I'm talking about. I'd just point out that this also translates to drivers showing that animosity to cyclists on the streets in London.
- ndsipa_pomu 8mo agoThere's a huge difference between "animosity" because someone is endangering your life and "animosity" because you're stuck in traffic and don't like seeing a cyclist making progress. Most of the "animosity" from drivers is due to them not thinking clearly about the situation and also being aggressive bullies.