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  • Sure, but just because they are morons, doesn’t mean I have to drive faster than what I deem is safe.

    This is what people responded to.

    The answer to that remains the same. What you deem as safe is irrelevant, what is safe is the speed of traffic. I don’t care about blame, I don’t care about fault, I don’t care about legality, or ideological purity of you’re perceived self righteousness. Safety should be the measure all other things hinge off of, full stop.

    Under the metric of safety the people who drive much faster or much slower than the speed of traffic are the most dangerous people on the road. They are the cause of and at fault in the most accidents because in both cases, their ego is more important than their or others lives.


  • I never said I think that society as a whole should drive faster, I said that the safest speed is the average speed. You don’t lower the speed by putting up signs or blindly driving slower than traffic. You lower it by narrowing lanes, crowding the clear zone, and implementing other physical calming measures (sharper corners, speed bumps, trees overhnging, etc).

    I dont make decisions based on some ideological stance on how things “should” be, I make decisions based on the reality I live in. In reality, what we both live in, the safest speed to drive is objectively, the average speed of traffic. You’re certainly free to drive 20 km/h below the average speed, but you’re getting down voted because it is an ideological stance not based in reality.





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    14 days ago

    Counterpoint, aluminum is bad for you, anti-persperaint is hard to clean off your body and cloths, humans are allowed to smell a little. As long as you’re not smelling like a highschool gym and shower regularly and after exercise, a light application of deodorant should be plenty for the majority of adults.




  • The problem with some of these “safety” features is they malfunction at such a high rate they seem more likely to kill me than save my life. They also don’t anticipate future consequence in any way.

    The collision detection malfunctions regularly giving a loud beep or applying breaks when nothing is ahead.

    The lane departure does not understand situations where you had someone wander into your lane and you may drive onto the shoulder quickly before signalling. I don’t need my car fighting me while im making the correct call. I also think having the car take over, even gently, is so startling that it could cause the accident it was meant to prevent. If I’m startled I might over correct and lose control. While that has never happened, with everything considered, it seems safer to leave some of these features off.

    I don’t need to be an early adopter on flawed technology that could get me killed.






  • You must be oblivious if you think this isn’t already happening. The us left wing is more organized than any time since the robber barons. Why do you think the right is fear mongering and getting more aggressive every day. Unions are on the rise, community signal chats, parallel system, all happening. None of that is a magic wand. People are still holding their breath, because if the left makes the first move, the fascists will certainly use it as an excuse to end elections. What you are drooling for is violence, which will only make things worse.