would love to know what relative percentage of SUV sales go to multilane highway driving environments though, because there is a *good* reason to drive one here — it makes you much easier to see in a mirror
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yall think im joking about being a top tier urban driver but i used to be able to *nail* my arrival time anywhere in the city
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a lot of the inefficiencies that made me great have been eked out though. i used to be in the top 20% of aggressive drivers in terms of exploiting openings custom and politeness would dictate you not take advantage of
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this wasnt all of what made me great, but it definitely made me more efficient
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it’s moot now, because *everyone* is an exploitative jerk now. i cant get ahead, the best i can do is not get cut off
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which is honestly, a very very good skill to have here. im also rarely surprised or unnerved by others asinine behavior, because i can usually anticipate it. frankly im often impressed at how ballsy everyone is now
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in case it’s not clear, im talking about downright reckless lane switching and “slot competition” but honestly, what kind of behavior did we think 12 lanes of car laden highway would breed??
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if you feel like im being weidly vague, im deliberately dancing around what i mean here so that i dont spill half of a thing and lose my motivation to do a longer piece
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also it’s way past my bedtime and i could write 5 tons of words on this topic, easy
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if i ever write a memoir, a full quarter of it is going to be on traffic
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