Fucking.

Wild.

That kind of behaviour should just be an immediate and permanent revocation of the license, car towed on the spot. Fiddling with phone to get directions or dismiss a notification is one thing but actively watching entertainment?

I have ADHD. It’s not super severe but it’s not great. I can drive 16 hrs (with appropriate breaks) without the radio. I will admit, I tend not to be super respectful of speed limits. But driving is enough stimulation for my scatterbrained self. Brain rot is a hell of a drug.

People like this are why safe drivers’ insurance premiums are still so high. The safe drivers are subsidizing the dangerous ones. We’re being forced to pay more because the risk of being hit by a braindead watches-movies-while-doing-100 driver has increased.

That’s absolutely wild. Before my state started selling legal weed, I would sometimes take trips to Massachusetts to buy enough to last me for months.

The one thing I never did on those drives? Speed.

I figured I was already technically breaking the law by carrying so much weed across non-legal states. To get pulled over for speeding could’ve led to massive trouble. Why put a target on my car (beyond already having an out-of-state license plate)?

I went the other way - I meticulously watched for speed limit changes and set my cruise control accordingly, so it would be one fewer thing to worry about. When possible, I drove so there’d be a car some distance in front of me, but still within my view. That way, if there was a cop up ahead, I’d see the other car slow down first and it would give me a heads up.

Adding more distractions and driving more erratically when you’re already breaking one law is a really stupid way to get caught.

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@makeshiftreaper @CompactFlax I wish I had tens of thousands of dollars

I don't want to be treated like a child. I just want people to be responsible for their own actions.

Driving is simultaneously the most boring and most dangerous thing people do day-to-day. They want the driving to stop as soon as possible, so they speed. They don't want to be stuck with their own thoughts for even a single second, so they text.

And there's no choice. It's not like they can get anywhere without a car in this shithole country.

It sucks too because the old trucks with a low bed were so much better for actualy doing work if you care about your back at all.

Honestly, I would love a lil Japanese kei truck in addition to my daily driver vehicle. They seem like the perfect lil truck for dump runs and transporting materials from Home Depot or what have you.

And it's all the bad drivers and reckless pedestrians too!

I think that's been true for a long time though

bah. children are not the future. Ever talk to one? pretty ignorant.

Don’t forget the rising costs of living, forcing more people onto the street, creating more pedestrian-vehicle collisions generally.

I'm sorry, do you seriously think the rise in pedestrian collisions is attributable to the homeless? And do you think they literally live in the street or something?

Stroads are an absolute fucking menace. And way too common.

That sounds made up. Maybe if you could provide evidence of an equivalent rise in homelessness. Even then, more homeless doesn't mean more people are wandering into the street.

Thanks for the laugh 😆

Phones cause more accidents but mortality rate rose sharply with the increased size of vehicles.

Humorous 'slur' for a robot or artificial intelligence, in this case self-driving cars. Originally from Star Wars

Cost of living in that time has gone up substantially nation wide. In my city (Albuquerque) there are easily twice as many people on the street today as 15 years ago. This report says it's gone up %40 in just the last 2 years alone.

How is that legal in the US?

It's more like walking on train tracks and being surprised when you are hit by a train.