I’m a school bus driver and every year our boss has to remind us not to use our smartphones while driving the goddamn things. Because every year some of our drivers still do it. Last year one of them actually rear-ended a stopped car at 45 mph while on her phone and somehow still has her job.
Also cops can be fully typing on a full Size laptop or talking to their buddies holding the phone to their ear with 0 repercussions ever.
They can shoot your dog, rape your wife, and strangle your black neighbor with 0 repercussions.
I’m a school bus driver and a couple of years ago I had a cop pass me in the opposite direction when I was stopped with my red flashers and stop sign out and about to let kids out to cross the street. He was face down in his phone. If I hadn’t noticed him coming he easily could have hit a kid … and then I probably would have been arrested.
They can literally murder people in broad daylight and at worst they get a paid vacation and a transfer.
I wish more cars had built in keyboards, it would be less distracting thsn typing on a touchscreen
They also don’t wear seatbelts.
That’s for the best.
Or follow the speed limit. But when they do, it’s 5 under and they scare the shit out of other drivers
I think about this a lot while I’m cycling through traffic and see or have a few near misses. I’m trying to be careful and sometimes I have near misses with pedestrians or other cyclists, and I’m glad not to drive a car, because this shit would terrify me. I don’t understand how people can drive a car and not constantly be worried about killing or hurting someone. I don’t understand how lots of motorists can be so cavalier while driving a multi ton motorized vehicle.
I drive a car and I am constantly worried that I will hurt a pedestrian, cyclist, or animal with it. My car is an older EV that doesn’t make a noise outside the car when it is running, and it especially seems to startle deer and cyclists. Only thing I can do is give them more room.
Maybe bolt one of those whistling arrows to the outside of the car? Or some wind-powered noise maker more pleasant to listen to but still easily heard?
I might just see if I can adapt the noisemaker from a newer version of my car. Or install my own with my own set of sounds.
With a name like yours, there’s only one option. You must make it one-to-one scale, stuka klaxon and mount it to your hood
