You laugh but this is not a joke. Oregon drivers are too fucking courteous and drive slowly. It’s like they are so happy to live in such a beautiful place that they can’t be bothered to rush about.
Ok, so hear me out, what if instead of treating it as a race, fight or other expression of competition, we would just treat driving as a way to get from point A to point B? Speeding on a highway is a great example of diminishing returns coupled with high risk, so why not just enjoy the ride and sit back for a moment?
I assume that’s the law pretty much everywhere. That said, most of my troubles have been with people who speed by a lot and weave through traffic. Slower cars are less of a problem because while it might be the same speed difference, I see them much better and they usually don’t switch lanes erratically.
That said, I like traffic where I live now, because speeding 15% will get your license suspended, 30% will get you into jail. Traffic tends to be speedy, but coherent, everyone drives around the limit.
Weaving is not moving properly though either. Speeding and weaving through traffic is public endangerment where I live. We have a very good road safety record as well.
Even better would be taking the train, because it gives you time to study nature, read a book or take a short walk if you feel like it without delaying your arrival.
Among us bicyclists, they’re called niceholes. They’re just trying to be nice to the bicyclist, but we would rather they just follow the traffic law so that they’re predictable.
You laugh but this is not a joke. Oregon drivers are too fucking courteous and drive slowly. It’s like they are so happy to live in such a beautiful place that they can’t be bothered to rush about.
Ok, so hear me out, what if instead of treating it as a race, fight or other expression of competition, we would just treat driving as a way to get from point A to point B? Speeding on a highway is a great example of diminishing returns coupled with high risk, so why not just enjoy the ride and sit back for a moment?
You can do that in the proper lane, the right one
What if each morning we send out a few grannies driving side by side to accumulate traffic so everyone can enjoy an hour drive instead of 20 minutes
You’d have some dead grannies
There are a few simples principles that would make traffic a lot better, and yielding the left lane for faster cars is one of them.
The other simple one is if you are not passing another car, stay on the right.
I assume that’s the law pretty much everywhere. That said, most of my troubles have been with people who speed by a lot and weave through traffic. Slower cars are less of a problem because while it might be the same speed difference, I see them much better and they usually don’t switch lanes erratically.
That said, I like traffic where I live now, because speeding 15% will get your license suspended, 30% will get you into jail. Traffic tends to be speedy, but coherent, everyone drives around the limit.
They weave because of the slow cars not moving properly
Weaving is not moving properly though either. Speeding and weaving through traffic is public endangerment where I live. We have a very good road safety record as well.
The gas is meant to hug the floor tightly, engine is meant to roar, adrenaline to be pumped, and zoomies to be upheld.
…in a race. However, zoomies apply everywhere.
I drive 3 hours round trip commuting every day. I can assure you those “diminishing returns” result in days of my life back at the end of the year.
Even better would be taking the train, because it gives you time to study nature, read a book or take a short walk if you feel like it without delaying your arrival.
Okay but I have a counterpoint…
Vroom vroom
I rest my case your honor
Aka, niceholes.
Among us bicyclists, they’re called niceholes. They’re just trying to be nice to the bicyclist, but we would rather they just follow the traffic law so that they’re predictable.
Sounds like what happened to former drill sergeant Bob Ross after he moved to Alaska