What is it with all the distracted driver lately.

[JeepHead]

A good friend of mine killed himself texting and driving about 5 years ago. He was apparently looking at his phone and ran into the back of a semi crushing himself.

 

[Gator6x4]

Nice posts about stupid drivers. The problem on the highways today is you cannot fix stupidity and stupid people are buying and driving motor vehicles.

 

[rontaki]

One third of American adults had mental illness or substance use disorder in 2024: Report

New data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration shows that while some progress has been made in reducing mental illness and substance abuse, 86.6 million Americans aged 18 and older had either a mental illness or substance use disorder in 2024.

justthenews.com

This likely does not help either. A third of the population. Scary

And more than a third of these BS administrations are just making sh^t up to justfy their paychecks!

 

[rontaki]

We live on a 45mph street, where people drive 60. Rush hour going home traffic. Guy ran up on my wife while she was slowing to make a right turn into our driveway. Apparently was not paying attention, so he had to slam on the brakes, then realized he couldn't stop in time so he headed for the right shoulder. But there is a tree and our mailbox on the right shoulder so he turned further right to avoid the tree.

After my wife turned into the driveway, he was again, coming right at her, almost T-boned her in the driveway, so he cranked the wheel hard right again and made a big donut in our front yard, then pulled back out on the road and kept going.

Sheesh....

Install speed bumps. That might get the city's attention, if so, either they fix the problem or become liable for damage done.

 

[Gator6x4]

Install speed bumps. That might get the city's attention, if so, either they fix the problem or become liable for damage done.

Don’t think so. If you install a speed bump on a public street your neck will be the one in the noose, not the cities.

 

[Oaktree]

The problem on the highways today is you cannot fix stupidity and stupid people are buying and driving motor vehicles.

And why the automakers are being required to have all this annoying BS nanny crap on cars...auto lane keeping, auto braking, etc.

 

[Dftodd]

A good friend of mine killed himself texting and driving about 5 years ago. He was apparently looking at his phone and ran into the back of a semi crushing himself.

A girl in school with my daughter spent a year at children's hospital learning to walk and do most tasks we take for granted.

She was texting and pulled out in from of a pickup at the last second. Got T-boned in the drivers door.

 

[redman135]

Rontaki, post 104 re speed bumps. HELL NO!!! I get assaulted 30 - 60 times per day in the name of Saaaaafty??? ! BULLS*IT. The roads are rough enough as it is!!! The worst run is 160!!!, yes 160!!!, overkill. They are NOT on side streets, they are on arterial roads and industrial roads to TARGET trucks. This is blanket harassment and bullying and in spite of international studies showing distracted drivers cause crashes they counsils are putting speed bumps in at intersections to ENSURE!!! DRIVER DISTRACTION.

They ignored the Australian experience. Target your proffesional drivers and they get pissed off and piss off and you get MORE crashes(removal of the safest ad most experienced drivers has that effect). It took an Official Inquiry to reach this conclusion!!! Wow

Then you have the DAMAGE(vandalism by proxy) and OBSTRUCTION(by proxy) of fire and ambulance and the DAMAGE to their expensive equipment. Both are illegal.
Where were the lawyers advising the
councils?

As well, the general harassment is showing up in worse driving and less courtesy in general. If you get stranded at an intersection or trying to merge good luck being given a gap these days.

Noone on my council has a CDL and they are thunderously silent on the safety comitties license's too.
If people want speeed bumps on residential streets that is 1 thing, but infesting arterial roads with speed bumps is very counter productive.

 

[KennyG]

In France they have added curbs in some villages to make a one lane bottleneck on a two lane road to slow the traffic. I've always wondered about the trade off between speeding and head on collisions.

 

[Oaktree]

In France they have added curbs in some villages to make a one lane bottleneck on a two lane road to slow the traffic. I've always wondered about the trade off between speeding and head on collisions.

I've seen something similar around crosswalks. Don't know what, if any safety advantage there is, but I'm sure the highway dept. just loves having to plow around them in the winter.