• gustofwind@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Might not believe me but there’s a subset of drivers that actually enjoy the ride being dangerous and thrilling 🤷‍♀️

    It’s reckless and incredibly immature, most probably won’t admit it or even understand they do it on purpose. They just enjoy the adrenaline and going fast and being an animal about it

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      3 hours ago

      I know a lot of them 🙃

      Some argue they drive this way to stay awake, junkies 🙃

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      I absolutely believe it. I live off a major street. This street passes through a residential area. It has many cross streets every few seconds.

      The speed limit through the residential area drops to 25.

      People drive through at 80mph. Not exaggerating. I avoid the main road, especially at night when the roads are clear. Never know when nothing will be happening, totally quiet, and then ZOOOOOOOOM a car from 2 miles away nearly runs you over before you see it.

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        5 hours ago

        We need to make trains better and far more numerous to make driving the lesser alternative.

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          Don’t disagree, but you won’t get rid of cars entirely and they’ll still be a major part of transportation. I’m just saying they should at least be safer.

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          Too impractical in most places in America sadly. I’m just hoping this high speed rail in Cali gets finished. I commute from Sacramento to Los Angeles once a month for stupid meetings and it sucks my choices are drive 7 hours or fly or take a 15 hour train ride one way for a higher price than the other options.

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        3 hours ago

        Seeing how car company refuse responsibility and driver often not paying attention and takeover when needed, this is a bigger disaster waiting to happen.

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        I work at an major airport. We have human sized roombas that just drive around scrubbing the floors.

        There is no rhyme or reason to where they go. They coild be going in a straight line, and then no reason cut in front of you. Or spin 360 a few times just spinning in circles.

        Or just abuptly stop, and then start zigzagging.

        Point is, I do not want these robo cleaners to be car sized, car weight, car fast, and also, hackable.

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          They tried this before in Japan and Hawaii and it was terrible! People got burnt, electrocuted, and pulled right off the streets!

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            It could totally be done if people could get their heads out of their asses and cooperate. So yeah unrealistic… But I’ll still assert it as the ideal we should all aspire to. I can’t believe anyone can go down a street and see all the space being used just to house vehicles. This system we have constructed is utterly ridiculous