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Just LOOK at the GODDAMNED ROAD!
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this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2025
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I mean if you really want to get down to it, people have the transportation options they vote for in most cases. I live in an area where people are pretty enthusiastic about transit and cycling and even here people feel like they have a god give right to do 10mph over the speed limit.
We recently had a big push to install speed cameras outside schools, which would only be active for two hours pers day, and the council meeting was still absolutely filled with assholes trying to argue that literally just enforcing the speed limit during the start and end of the schoolday was a violation of their rights.
The older I get the more I realize that people are always at least part of the problem. Especially in a democracy, since democracy is something you do, not something which is done to you.
I can't meet whatever threshold of proof, but there's no way "Driving any slower than the speed limit is just as dangerous" ISN'T what the raging lunatics on the road tell themselves when weaving thru traffic before they comment the same thing on posts like these.
It's such a common brain blind spot. Videos of lunatics flipping their own cars trying to pass someone will have comments blaming the other car.
It’s absolutely and obviously untrue that driving slower is equally dangerous.
Absolutely and obviously until you get someone merging at 30 into a highway; merging at far lower speeds is very dangerous. Blind turns not going a reasonable speed limit can also be dangerous. Like, I fuckin hate cars. i bike everywhere. But I'm not going to make a take like "being slower is never as dangerous"