| >People used to *always* look | >before crossing. Now it's common to see people cross | >without breaking step, | | Does anybody remember being taught "The curb step" as a child?
I remember "look both ways before crossing". It sounds like you're talking about something similar. In my city the police got a $10K federal grant to run a scam trap to catch drivers who don't stop. A plainclothes woman cop steps into the crosswalk as a car approaches. If they don't stop they get a $200 fine. The city made far more than the grant money in a single weekend. I was thinking.... what happened to "look both ways"?
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Cheers, Bev
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Which is what every older generation says. If this continual degradation of the 'young' were true we'd be back in the stone age. Don't take my next comment personally, it could apply to me too, but have you considered that all that bad stuff you see that causes you problems is because when you were younger it simply didn't bother you and/or your defensive driving skills and ability to "see ahead" and avoid those situations was better. So what you think of as everyone else getting worse is at least partly due to you getting worse at avoiding those positions?
Like you, I see bad drivers all around but I"m not convinced that on average it's any worse particularly when the accident rates keep going down.
I have one single memory from when I was perhaps 18 months old and it's having to climb up a tall curb step in Albany NY in the winter. It seemed VERY tall and someone holding my hand helped me levitate up to the top.
The fire engine color is based on the same faulty logic of DRL's. Studies have shown that you can see a Chartreuse colored fire engine from farther away then a red painted one. Therefore, as the logic goes, Chartreuse must be a better color to paint a fire engine. That fallacy of that, as well as of DRL's, is that there is no need to see a fire engine that is so far away that if it were red you would not notice it. When it's that far away it's just not of any significance to you. The same is true of DRL's. It's true that a DRL car can be seen farther away. But no one needs to see a car that's a mile away, they only need to see the ones within perhaps a quarter mile of them and the worst drive is more then able to see a car without any DRL's at that distance. That's why the studies of DRL's show that there is no net safety benefit. Some types of accidents go down and other types of accidents go up because while people look at the DRL's they fail to see other cars coming crossways toward them, cars that they would have normally noticed if those bright lights up ahead of them hadn't distracted them from the actual danger that was just off to their right or left.
The gvt doesn't want to pay for the electric to turn them on nor to maintain them, it's strictly to save costs. There are better sign materials that would make it so you don't need to use your high beams as much but that stuff costs more so the gvt will either simply not use it cuz they don't want to pay for it, or they will use it but not before the old stuff is completely worn out. Since the sign sheeting is expected to last around 10 to 20 years don't expect to see it replaced any time soon.
Most of those workers have no idea about safety to the public, they just stick em wherever it's convenient for themselves and a light that shines ALL AROUND works a lot better, and you need less of them, then a light that is directional and shines mostly downward so it won't blind people. As you should know by now, gvt isn't there to serve you, you are there to serve it. Pay your taxes and shut up.
Some definitely do. Left foot braking is generally hard on brakes, One car I drove for a few months pretty well REQUIRED left foot braking, or the car would stall at intersections. Replacing the dash-pot solved that problem.
Depends. Is the person left foot braking skilled at it? However, knowing that would only let us speculate since there is zero data. Speculatively, a skilled left foot braker will have less accidents because they have, on average, shorter perception-reaction-braking times then a right foot braker.
A driver that ALWAYS uses the right foot to Brake and Accelerate is the one most likely to use that right foot on the wrong pedal. Someone who is skilled at left foot braking is far less likely to try to push the accelerator with the right foot with the intention of braking. I'm sure there are always exceptions.
For a while I rode a 1960 Ducati street bike and a 196x Honda dirtbike. Even if I think about it now I can't decide which is the 'correct' Japanese side to shift on, I have to find a picture. At the time, dirt triggered one shift method and street triggered theother one. I still can't remember which is 1 up four down or 1 down 4 up.
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. It's not. The tank is just like mine, although I can't verify that all my parts were stock. I painted it orange.
And then there were the two different Japanese metric threads...
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Cheers, Bev
"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child,
miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied,
demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless.
Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats."
PJ O'Rourke
And the left foot break idiot(s) who rests his/her foot on the brake pedal and thus drives around all day with their brake lights on? Not to mention wearing out the brake pads or (even worse) overheating the brakes so they fail at an inopportune time...
I see that a lot, so I vote no to left foot braking. Unless you can't use your right foot, but we are talking about folks without any sort of handicap (cast, missing foot, etc.).
John :-#)#
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