• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    8 months ago

    Exactly. It both pisses me off and terrifies me every single time. And it happens at least once almost every time I drive. I honestly don’t understand it. I’ve never been in a place where so many people refuse to use turn signals.

    • Zink@programming.dev
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      8 months ago

      Many people need a near death experience to teach them respect for the mass and energy involved in driving.

      I had a bad crash over a decade ago where somebody ran into me at low-ish speeds. It was head on though, and it was more than enough for me to remember for life. I wasn’t a bad driver or anything before that though.

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 months ago

        the best way to teach people how mass and inertia works in a car, is to put them in the passenger seat, get up to highway speeds, and then send the brake pedal to the floor.

        They won’t be able to breathe.

    • BlueMagma
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      8 months ago

      A kinda solution is to increased your distance with the front cars in that area