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The golden rule you have to follow in a carbrained society is that you are invisible to anyone driving a car, even if you are in a car. The more and the bigger the cars on the road get, the more you have to follow this rule.
Especially if it's huge cars in a city where there is no reason for it, that is a free for all.
This is a good one. 2 more rules for driving:
As a pedestrian when I was young an eon ago - I assumed drivers would be predictable, see me, and slow down. But starting about 15 years ago - I thought it was wise to assume the opposite. My view was I must assume drivers are entirely unpredictable, they won't see me, and not only will they not slow down - they might even speed up because who knows what the fuck they're doing in their private little world on wheels of their own - aka their car. Playing on the phone. Eating. Drinking something. Not paying any attention. Driving drunk. Driving dangerously high. Etc. Or some horrible combo of those. And then years passed and Tesla's fucking autopilot appeared which is one more reason American drivers suck.
I know trials are far more rare than they should be but I assume if drivers face civil lawsuits and/or criminal trials after accidents they directly caused - they blatantly commit perjury. In fact - I'm surprised this civilian car-brained version of testilying doesn't have a name and its own Wikipedia page.
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Ninja edit I entirely forgot predictability so I added it.
What I found interesting is that my mother told me she was educated to walk across the street the moment the green signal appears without fear, while I was taught to be careful and wait for the cars to stop, before I cross.
Idk if there's any way to confirm this by data, probably not, but I do wonder if liberalization of economy made streets much more dangerous. I mean it almost certainly did in some ways, but it would be interesting to see like comparisons.
What strikes me is how selfish and thoughtless Americans are - drivers in particular. I don't mean to imply that everything was great before. The US has been car-brained since - I dunno - the 1950s? And a thoughtless society doesn't appear out of nothing. But it seems to me that the last 2 or 3 decades things have gotten really bad. I certainly hope parents have taught their children to expect only the worst from drivers. Looking both ways and waiting for the green signal (or the walk signal) is wildly insufficient.
Another thing I forgot to mention is the enormous military-like size of many "normal" vehicles and their atrocious wall-like front ends. It's as if they were designed from the ground up to kill. Children need to be taught to avoid those things as though they were rabid grizzly bears that can attack at any time without warning. I wonder how many of those car owners run over neighborhood kids or even their own kids. I guess freedom isn't free.
Depending on your mother's age it was probably less "liberalization of the economy" and more "money from the auto lobby influencing traffic laws and civil design."
Yeah that's what I meant by liberalization, private sectors, in this case automakers, influencing laws and structures of society, to boost their profits. Although I might be using it wrong in which case I'll learn not to do so in the future.
I've lived long enough to start seeing big American Fords on the streets as the ultimate result of this ig, it's almost always a single driver too who isn't carrying anything just driving around the tiny streets not meant for this size of truck. Which hasn't even seen any dirt. 
You're in the baltics right, I don't think you're using it wrong in that context. Others might just be thinking in a western context where liberalization isn't the right word.
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Yes correct. I will try to make it more clear in the future what I'm referring to.
No you probably used it right and the word just went over my dumb American head
Not enough people drive predictably… Most of the cam cars are just as oblivious as the focus of their clips. They notice what’s happening when it’s too late and then they swerve, honk, and act like the other person caused it and needs to be judged by other car-brained morons on YouTube.
Nor defensive driving. It's taught in driver's ed classes, the DMV emphasizes it in every pamphlet/driving manual/permit test, insurance company sources, and so on. The #1 rule: graveyards are full of people who were legally in the right.
If someone tries to cut you off, put your ego aside and let them merge over. Yes, they're an asshole. Yes, they probably broke a few laws. Yes, they probably do this because they know they can get away with it. But it absolutely is not worth your life, the lives of the people in your car, nor the lives of other people nearby because you want to get into a pissing match with another driver.
You cannot control how other people drive, only your response to their shitty behavior. You see a lot of dashcam footage where the driver reacts to a dangerous situation by deciding to play bumper cars instead of trying to avoid an accident.
back in the late 2000s, i started prioritizing live-work situations where i could drive less. less miles, less frequency, etc. easy to say, hard to implement, but i was committed.
this was legit like 20 years ago, and it took quite some time to actually start making a difference. i remember once spending an entire afternoon exploring this oddly sprawled area with weird residential zoned fragments of homes to find the shittiest rental unit ever that i could walk all my daily shit from. it was gross (fleas), i got burgled twice, once by a crew of three raccoons, and it used to be where the local dealer lived so rando characters would drop by. there were also the occasional shouting contests among drunks at midnight. my situation has improved so i'm not at that place anymore, but i was there for like 3 and a half years lmao. and the value of being able to work/school and get grub without starting my car was huge. i could never go back.
but one of the things i noticed is that now that i drive infrequently, i am significantly more of a defensive driver than i was. if it's a place where there's potential pedestrians or cyclists, i am always a little under the limit and i'm watching like a hawk, audio turned down. i'm predictable, i do things slow and deliberately, i know my route and alternates ahead of time. and i have everything adjusted/gps/phone all set up before i put it in gear. if i miss a turn, i take the long way round nice and easy. because, really, who gives a shit about an extra 15-20 minutes? i mean, besides from everybody else on the road jockeying ruthlessly for an extra 4 seconds.
when i ride with people who drive all the time, they are noticeably more cavalier and routinely distracted.
also, as a daily pedestrian, every day i see drivers doing dangerous shit and probably once a week i get to have a close call with an oblivious one who can't see the giant human in bright colors walking across the downtown ped crossing with flashing lights and just blows through with a panicked look on their face.
The honking gets me so irritated when I make the mistake of watching dashcam or helmet cam videos. People will waste precious seconds hitting the horn instead of immediately taking defensive maneuvers. Some dingus ran through a stop sign right in front of me the other day and I had to swerve off the road to avoid the accident. If I had tried to honk at the fool there would have been contact.
They're also almost always driving too fast for the conditions. Everyone speeding constantly is a huge issue for causing accidents.
Carbrains would rather feel smugly correct while dying inside a totaled lump of metal than to simply drive safely, even if the other party is in the wrong
They would rather crash and kill everyone involved than to cede right of way
I like the right of way as a means of doing an algorithm instead of having to think so much. But damn if there are ambiguities and, frankly, mistakes sometimes. At that point you need a superceding principal of "just don't hit me"
At 01:36 you can quite clearly see, in broad daylight, the bump ahead that the person wrecks on and that's with the shitty dashcam quality
tbf, even shitty dashcam footage can give a clearer view of some things than the driver had. I see all kinds of weird discolorations and shadows and shit that aren't actually dangerous, I probably wouldn't think twice about driving over this. but I also wouldn't be going probably 30 over the speed limit so I'd be ok anyway
01:59 I don't even think I have to point out how fucking carbrained it is to swerve blindly into the opposing lane of traffic because you couldn't be bothered to just brake a bit and wait all of 3 seconds
Pretty sure this one is a semitruck that literally can't stop in that distance. They seem to brake within a second of the dickhead stopping in the intersection and it's just too late to slow all that mass down.
Pretty sure this one is a semitruck that literally can't stop in that distance. They seem to brake within a second of the dickhead stopping in the intersection and it's just too late to slow all that mass down.
Dude's going too fast then. If you can't stop within the distance you can see you're just hoping everybody can get out of the way in time.
The distance you can see is from that green sign to the intersection??? Pretty sure I can see a whole lot further than that. But it wasn't until the cam perspective had reached the green sign that the dickhead hit the brakes directly in the middle of the intersection. As far as the trucker could tell until that point, they were just going to go straight through and be long gone by the time their paths crossed
As far as the trucker could tell until that point, they were just going to go straight through and be long gone by the time their paths crossed
This is sort of exactly what I mean, you can spot from a mile away that the guy towing 4 cars with an F250 or whatever that is who is slowly inching his way into an intersection despite traffic approaching from both sides is not gonna do the smart thing and you should probably hit the brakes a bit to make sure you can come to a stop
I've been coincidentally watching a lot of these recently, too. It's had me waiting a few beats when lights turn green (people running red lights is huge in my city) and being super wary of changing lanes when there's a bit of congestion.
Most of this shit could be avoided if people slow the fuck down when around other cars/bikes/people (i.e. pretty much all of the time you're driving in the city/town). It's also crazy that people can't let go and prioritize safety over the right of way when someone violates it.
01:59 I don't even think I have to point out how fucking carbrained it is to swerve blindly into the opposing lane of traffic because you couldn't be bothered to just brake a bit and wait all of 3 seconds
I think this one was an overloaded big truck, so it actually couldn't stop in time if it tried. The point still stands, slow the fuck down would solve it. Capitalism can be blamed when this driver eventually kills someone.
I think this one was an overloaded big truck, so it actually couldn't stop in time if it tried. The point still stands, slow the fuck down would solve it.
love to be unable to come to a stop within the visible distance of the earths curvature as the example here happens to take place in gm_flat
Most of this shit could be avoided if people slow the fuck down when around other cars/bikes/people (i.e. pretty much all of the time you're driving in the city/town). It's also crazy that people can't let go and prioritize safety over the right of way when someone violates it.
A lot of it is also just being attentive to what happens around you including and especially the illegal maneuvers pull. It seems that this surprises people a lot when it really shouldn't.
And then also just a few common things that keep cropping up a lot, like driving straight between the first and second car that are turning left from the opposite side. This shit never works out, the first car goes, everybody just assumes its clear and also goes. Every time and everywhere, I'd've been long ran over on my bike if I didn't know this
love to be unable to come to a stop within the visible distance of the earths curvature as the example here happens to take place in gm_flat
It's basically a freight train on the road. They're probably driving obscenely fast because the companies all six sigma themselves into shipping everything just-in-time.
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And then also just a few common things that keep cropping up a lot, like driving straight between the first and second car that are turning left from the opposite side. This shit never works out, the first car goes, everybody just assumes its clear and also goes. Every time and everywhere, I'd've been long ran over on my bike if I didn't know this
People left turning across 5-lane stroads from a business/parking lot are always wild. Real war boy energy.
Oh, and I'll add that my favorite part is just hearing what people are listening to lol
It's had me waiting a few beats when lights turn green
Nah that's necessary. I've seen people fly through red lights at 40mph over the speed limit several seconds after my light turned green. The light doesn't mean anything, I'm waiting till I see the cross traffic stop.
I mean, it's like: light turns green, I press in the clutch and put the car in gear while looking both ways a few times before going.
I see people take longer at a light because they're clearly scrolling shit on their phone while driving 
anybody who has a dash cam is gonna have an even greater degree of carbrain than average. like, normal ppl don't have dashcams
some insurance companies give you a discount for using or straight up require a dashcam
why are you harming yourself by watching these
I occasionally just watch 2 - 3 when the algorithm washes them upon my screen to see how the carbrain is going
The person stopped at the green light at 06:00 and the person recording (Who is still coming up to a car with brake lights on a little hot) both did a great job of stopping and waiting at an unpredictable situation. Rare to see that kind of judgement and respect for a human life on the road. That could have been a way different video.
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