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originally posted in:The Garage
3/31/2013 4:22:15 PM
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We need stricter driving laws and stricter drivers education.
Yesterday I witnessed a terrible wreck. I was in the left turn lane at the intersection, and there was a car next to me in the lane that goes straight. Our light turned green and I started off, but out of the corner of my eye I see a red suv speeding like crazy. I quickly slammed on my brakes, and honked. The suv missed me by a little bit, but the guy in the straight lane wasn't so lucky. The suv hit him on the drivers side, but that wasn't the worst part. The suv overcorrected or something, and flipped. It was crazy, the suv lady had children in there. To me this is why we need stricter driving laws, and education. If we improved upon laws and education then maybe this wouldn't happen.
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I think a gene based certification program for breeding will solve more issues than just this.
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Edited by Wyldfyre: 4/3/2013 4:35:45 PMDriver education, yes. Driving-related physics education, yes. Stricter laws, hell -blam!-ing no. But I would say that because I'm extremely biased so I doubt anyone would even take it on board. Thing is, lack of enforcement isn't the problem, it's the situations in which attention of enforcement is applied. I always see family cars, old people, foreigners, etc... get pulled over and suffer legal and financial action all the time because they strayed over the limit by accident or they forgot to renew their tax/insurance or similar such minor offenses that the police use to fill quotas or whatever. But rarely do I see the show-off idiots in dangerously modified Corsas, Golfs, Saxos, BMWs, etc... get any police attention simply because they wait until police are nowhere about. Our police force is strained as it is, but their attitudes on coming down hard on borderline-criminal drivers only works on the old or unsuspecting public, often unknowingly breaking the law. As long as we have roads and laws, people will break those laws. The only way I see any progress to be made in this area is simply to educate and alert other "safe" (I use the word vaguely) drivers to be aware of unusual or [u]potentially[/u] dangerous other drivers. A speeder is only endangering the public if there are slower, stubborn or oblivious drivers around them. (Or they're being show-off morons, in which case I reiterate my previous points). Police only usually make the situation more dangerous, if they bring their attention to it at all.
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I think people just need to learn more patience. I can't count how many times a day I see people running red lights, swerving lanes to get ahead, etc because they're in a hurry. People just need to calm down and realize that in a city, in traffic, it's gunna take a while to get places..
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Edited by Rotten Tanuki: 4/3/2013 3:33:49 PMI think the road test should be given only with a manual transmission. Other countries do it and I feel like it filters out the weakest drivers.
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Better education and more testing (especially re-testing at periodic intervals), I am totally in favor of. Just this morning I almost had a wreck, driving down a divided street, two lanes in my direction, I am in the left. Come to an intersection, my light is green, someone on the right is turning right on red (fine), but instead of going into the right lane that was nearest him he just casually drifts over into my lane, almost causing me (going at speed) to hit him. I honked and he swerved back to his lane. Either still drunk from last night or half-asleep, I guess. F that, though. Get those people off the streets.
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1 ReplyNo, we need personal freedom and accountability for our actions. It's called responsibility.
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1 ReplyWhat we need is more enforcement. With the shit hole that is the economy my local cities have been cutting traffic cop hours. Since then driving related accidents have gone up. -A father and his daughter were killed by a teen speeding in an SUV. -A woman was killed by a man running a red light in just the next town. -Three weeks ago I was nearly run of the road by a driver so engrossed in talking with his passenger that he didn't notice he was drifting into my lane and nearly hit me. He didn't notice when I blared at him with the horn either. -This week I witness two people having an argument while driving. They were each driving separate cars. I got a $300+ ticket for "holding a passing speed too long." The problem isn't the lack of strict laws. It's enforcement. We do need stricter driver's ed though. And mandatory retesting on both the paper test and driving test every time you renew your license.
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4 RepliesDid you help out? And sure, I would agree to more education (to help more people realize DRIVING IS NOT A -blam!-ING JOKE or something to be absent-minded about), but no need for stricter laws. Accident will happen regardless, and it could be a number of factors: Mechanical error, human error, a mix, nature, so on and so forth. Do you know the circumstances that caused the accident? Did the woman have a failure with the vehicle, was speeding, texting, or etc?
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1 ReplyI think i heard somewhere that it takes one (maybe more i cant remember) year to get a driving licence in Finland and they have barely any car accidents, and they have stricter laws too i believe, so to some extent i do agree with you but ultimately it all comes down to the person who is driving the car, just having a bad day can make you drive more aggressively and in my eyes a person's mood isn't something you can control.
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1 ReplyStricter laws? nah Stricter education? yeah
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6 Replies15s,16s,17s shouldnt be driving. Simple as that.
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I don't think it should be so easy to get a license, so I agree that we need better driving education and testing.
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1 ReplyThe stricter laws wouldn't change anything that much. However, the education would make a huge impact.
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3 RepliesHow would stricter laws, and which ones btw, have made this accident not happen?
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I agree completely, seriously, it's like some people got their licenses out of cereal boxes or something, stricter tests and harsher laws will get these retards off the streets.
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Wait, so it was a lady driving the SUV? It allllll makes sense now...
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1 Reply...No that's just one shit driver who probably was the guy who sat in class messing around Also when you braked you were in the left lane? Did he have bad handling of the car and just spin out causing his car to go into part of the left lane?
