you have seen stop signs, right? you know how to deal with them? congrats, you now know how to deal with a broken or turned off traffic light.
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this means that you DO NOT do what I keep observing happen on the traffic light near my apartment: 1. pull up to the traffic light, notice it's broken and blinking red 2. roll a six-sided die 3. wait that many seconds 4. close your eyes and go
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A BROKEN TRAFFIC LIGHT DOESN'T MEAN ALL SOCIETY HAS BROKEN DOWN AND THERE ARE NO LAWS ANYMORE you do not get to turn into Mad Max just because the stupid traffic light control computer is busted.
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The tests you should have taken before you got a license would have asked you about this! Your driver's ed class taught you this! the driver's handbook you read before going to the DMV taught you this!
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IT'S JUST A STOP SIGN. I KNOW IT'S A WEIRD ONE WITH POSSIBLY MORE LANES THAN YOU'RE USED TO, BUT COME ON. YOU CAN DO THIS. I BELIEVE IN YOU
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fun fact: this is why fuzzy dice hanging from the mirror got popular in the first place. Gotta have some dice handy so you can decide how to drive.pic.twitter.com/LBTnz8g1bP
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"oh look, a roundabout/traffic circle! What do I do? *roll dice* 1-2: go left 3-4: go right 5-6: go straight, over the center "
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"I'm going down the highway, but I'm not in a hurry. It's a 4 lane road, so which lane should I be in? Also: The far left lane is an carpool lane, and I'm the only one in the car. *roll dice* 1: HOV lane 2-4: leftmost non-HOV lane 5: second from right line 6: right lane"
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"I'm in a hurry on a 2-lane road. The speed limit is 35 and I'm behind some ASSHOLE doing 40 in the right lane. What should I do?" 1. slow down. Life will wait 2. pass the fucker 3. honk at and then pass the fucker 4-5: tailgate the fucker 6: tailgate the fucker while honking"
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"I'm stuck in traffic on a 3 lane highway. The left lane is a carpool lane, plus there's a double white line and a sign saying "DO NOT CROSS DOUBLE WHITE LINE", so even if there was more than just me in this car, I shouldn't cross into that lane. What should I do?"
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1-3. Check for cops, then cross the double-line 4. Honk a few times, then cross the double line 5. Check if there's someone driving in the carpool lane, and then cross the double line once they pass 6. Check if there's someone, then cross over in front of them. Fuck 'em!"
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I used to drive to work in Mountain View CA from Fremont, so you go over a short spot where there's an express/HOV lane (from 880) to 237. It's protected, so that for the first 2 miles, no one on 237 is supposed to merge into it, right? that's why 2-double-lines.
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in those 2 miles, there is a "DO NOT CROSS DOUBLE WHITE LINES" sign every 1000 feet. For those of you who use more sensible measurement systems, 2 miles is 10,560 feet. There are seriously TEN SIGNS saying "DO NOT CROSS DOUBLE WHITE LINES" on that short segment of road
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and I don't think I ever made it to work on that road without seeing at least one person cross the double-white line.
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seriously, half the reason I got a dashcam is so I can edit together a megamix of just cars crossing the double white line.
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BTW, the traffic circle thing isn't really a joke. Asheville, NC (my mostly-home-town) had only one traffic circle and it was in a parking lot in front of a walmart, with a nice grassy area in the middle.
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About once a month someone would drive right through the middle, because their brain vapor-locked on seeing the circle... and for three weeks there'd be two car tracks cut through the grass, ruining the look completely.
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so they'd finally send out some landscapers and fix it and it'd be nice... for a week. then another confused person in an SUV would pull up to the traffic circle, their brain would turn into the windows hourglass and FUCK there goes the grass again.
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Traffic Circles are a great thing but good lord they can be a mess when they're in places that don't have many of them, because they confuse people so badly.
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And really the last thing you want when dealing with people driving around in giant metal fire-powered deathboxes is for the operator of them to not know what to do while it's in motion.
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my life is an eternal pendulum of 1. I'm a programmer, I know how bad these big-data machine learning algorithms are, and how the companies making self-driving cars are doing it for blatant profit motives at the expense of lives, so I don't think self-driving cars a good idea
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and 2. I just spent half an hour driving up to a coffee shop and gas station and coming back, and I saw so many stupid driving mistakes that I've changed my mind, and now I don't think humans should be allowed to operate any machine more dangerous than a toaster oven.
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(toaster ovens are actually surprisingly dangerous. People fail to clean them and crumbs and such build up on the bottom, which then catch fire the next time they try to use them. )
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