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Mar 14, 2016

Violators unlikely to be ticketed!

DW and I traveled from Florida to Maine recently and we are thankful to have arrived home all in one piece.

I saw an article on television about the driverless car manufacturers planning to put their new cars on the highway just as soon as they program integrity and moral driving skills into their computer driving systems.

I think it would be very beneficial to retrain our current highway drivers on driver integrity and good moral driving skills.

The number of horrible drivers we encountered on our trip home were frequent enough to make us wonder why we expose ourselves to this incredible danger. We observed incidents of road rage, impatience, driving to endanger, speeding, aggressive maneuverings, following too closely, no signal use when changing lanes, abruptly changing lanes, no courtesy and to boot, these actions were done buy truckers and passenger cars alike.

I am to understand that most city folks believe that these driving methods are normal and to be expected. Every morning in Florida the news had coverage on several road closures due to car crashes. Just the "cost" of commuting! In my opinion, this is unacceptable and mostly preventable if better driving was practiced.

Maybe I am in the minority with these thoughts, so thanks for hearing me vent.


Lakeside

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  • Glad you brought this up. Yesterday was driving on the highway and noticed a car driving like they were drunk, said to myself another driving while talking on their cell. When I drove pass them I noticed they weren't on their cell the driver was driving with their dog on their lap and the driver was trying to drive with their arms around the dog and holding on the steering well at the same time! People who drive with their dog in thier lap should be find!
  • Driver less cars are nowhere near ready to be put on highways. Just last week, one crashed into a bus while trying to merge - it expected the driver to yield.

    Unlike human drivers who can react quickly to unexpected behavior or obstacles on the road, autonomous vehicles aren’t always able to do that yet.
  • lakeside013104 wrote:
    I think it would be very beneficial to retrain our current highway drivers on driver integrity and good moral driving skills.

    Good luck with that! :E

    Rudeness and the 'All About Me' attitude seems to be an epidemic in America.
  • Not sure what backroads you mean, probably US and state routes? Although they can be nice rides they are far more dangerous than the interstate limited access highways. There is almost never a head on collision on an interstate but cars coming at me doing 55 or 60 mph and passing with just lines on the road for protection worries me more than the infractions I see on the interstates.
  • Thank you FunnyCamper, Back roads sound like the way to go from now on, if we go at all!

    Lakeside
  • Age rage, not road rage. As we get older our fuse is a bit shorter and we notice non compliance a bit more. We have a dash cam on our coach and I could easily make a movie. We just cruise along, and plan our route through the bigger cities. My vent!
  • yea I hear you. drivers are maniacs. seen it all also.
    will it change, probably not :)
    we actually drive more back roads now when we can. slows down the speed and life for us. instead of the insanity at warp speed on the highways.
    also hubby now just stays in the right lane on highways and we do our speed with our big rig and hope to stay away from most of the mess :)
    vent away, I think most would agree on this rant!