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When an oncoming vehicle drifts towards your lane, but does not enter it & you choose the ditch, should the oncoming driver be responsible for your over reaction? Because there was no contact, there was no crash that included his car, so he continued down the road.
Commuting lately seems easier than usual, maybe the idiots see my cam. When I am on foot, I notice that turn signal laws must have been repealed. Or just not enforced, must not be profitable.
Our drivers are bad enough as it is...guess this new crop will be even worse.
When is the last time you had your speedometer calibrated; do you really know your going 2 or 3 above the limit just because you think it?
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
Since the point and object of driving is to get from point A to point B for most people, and since most people follow the human psychology of wanting to do that task as fast as safely and comfortably possible, then yes, you do force people to pass right. This is proven in my field tests of slowing down a slow LLC. 9 times out of 10 they'll just pass on the right, proving the left lane really wasn't that important to them, they were just being passive aggressive maniacs.
As your response indicates, you've never calibrated or certified your speedometer. Complying with the speed limit will not eliminate your encounters with being impeded by a LLC. Not all LLC's are as nice as your willingness to exceed that speed limit by 2 to 3 MPH. Some decide 5 to 10 under is perfectly suitable.
Also, as indicated earlier, forcing people to change lanes to pass will cause greater traffic and congestion. People will not be willing to accept your, or anyone else's arbitrarily judged "speed of the day."
Eight+ years ago when Mr. Insane ran me off the road and destroyed my Outback, he took off and was held harmless by the police because there was no vehicular contact (duh, that's because I took the ditch to avoid said contact!). I learned my lesson: Anything like that happens in the future, contact WILL be made before I leave the road, or I will at least do my best to ensure it. That way, there's no plausible deniability regardless of other circumstantial (e.g., video like that above) or witness evidence.
People will lie to get out of their responsibilities.
Sad.
(How that wasp woke up at 40 below is still a mystery).
Going beyond your vehicle's limits and capabilities to try and avoid something is a rookie driver error.
In case you didn't already know that Speeding and crashes are unrelated. Speeding doesn't come anywhere even close to entering the top of any list when it comes to the causes of accidents in any State.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-cause-of-the-most-fatal-car-crashes-2015-5
If you plan on fighting a ticket; be prepared to get run over by unethical people:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2015/05/orange_county_prosecutor_misconduct_judge_goethals_takes_district_attorney.single.html
IF they lack ethics in cases that affect people's lives (life), how much ethical consideration can you expect from that group if all that is at stake is your property (money/fines/penalties) from traffic violation accusations?
1) The incompetent senile judge in my small claims case for the accident March 2014 finally corrected his problematic math errors after a 2 month delay, and entered a verdict awarding me twice the diminished value Mercury last offered. Now I just need to get the check! It's still far less than the actual diminished value, but it's far better than nothing.
2) The Sheriff that double dipped on my "lack of 2 license plate" charges agreed with my letter to him, and dismissed the 2nd citation that he was the cause of for the same violation/fix-it/correctable ticket.
( I do this with special warmth and consideration for the other drivers who aren't tailgating as much.)
as for dudes like the euphinator who like/own the smoooth left lane crawling along at the speed limit on long uphills with bigrigs passing on the right, I can't always blame him, as I have had multiple levels of spine replaced. I'm looking into magna-ride for my next vehicle, to help minimize future spine replacements. Either way, I'm glad to pass on the right, euphinator! See average speed table below.
It seems optimal to drive with reverse-lane-discipline, safely yielding wherever possible to all ahead traffic, including traffic in other lanes:
Left-lane: speed limit plus 9.9 mph
middle-lane: speed limit plus 14.9 mph
right-lane: 3 x 10^8 meters/second
to answer A3's question, yes I've had my speedo calibrated. Once by a speed shop which cut a custom speedo gear to match the randomly wrong factory gear on the transmission side (1985).
More recently GM confirmed that reading exactly 3% fast was within the design-spec in 05 GTO. (A hidden diagnostic display shows the real speed in very tiny numbers, while the dashboard pointer and big-LCD-display shows the 3%-fast speed.).
Also at least 25 state police officers help to confirm the accuracy/calibration of my speedometers over the decades during roadside-detentions after I tell them truthfully that I was going "about 80".
as for lane-splitting, i am all for it. cool that Cali is finally codifying it. it was fine in the bay area as far as I saw for my years living there. as usual, california is tops with vehicular/road code. speedtraps are illegal in california, as is traffic enforcement via unmarked cop vehicles.
yes the best choice for an small animal in the road is often to run it over, if you can't stop safely. the most prevalent animals around here are TURKEYS and DEER. I tagged a deer about 20 years ago (vice versa actually). It was not enjoyable, but the deer hobbled/jumped up the santa cruz mountain afterwards.
SHOCKING!
;b
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
Comply with the full RCW and get that old Lincoln out of the left lane. Comply with reality, the world is a different place.
Speaking of a perpetual rolling traffic block, aka LLC er's, they are among the WORST offenders!
I like how the "outlaws" are often middle aged accountant and pharmacist types
..."In two-vehicle crashes, 75 percent of the motorcycles involved in motor vehicle traffic crashes collided with the vehicles in the front of them. Only 7 percent were struck in the rear."...
The NHTSA has noted for any number of years , the epidemic qualities of both the motor bikes's accidents and fatalities rates. http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/812035.pdf
This is against the back drop of some of the LOWEST PVF accidents and fatalities rates, since they have been recording them.
yellow yard signs like campaign posters on wire holders.
Sounds like the data shows that motorcyclists should watch out for cars!!!! LOL.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
in front of a car she hadn't seen.
Luckily I was NOT speeding and was going about 30 in 35 zone on highway. I was alert as she started to move out and hit brakes and bright lights. I can't believe how short my leSabre stopped. I would have hit her possibly if she had slammed on brakes after starting to turn toward me onto highway. But she hit the gas and instead of making left turn toward me, she went straight across; that left more distance between us.
I cranked wheels left and followed her to get her license plate number. Then continued on my way down the sleepy highway HOPING that the LEO would be at a typical place running radar on out-of-towners at south end of town. I was going to suggest he might patrol more and remind this young girl's parents that she needs to be careful.
I saw no cellphone. AND the LEO was not in his money-making spot. The small town has a fancy police car with license reading cameras on both sides of trunk. Town of 4500 with 1 McDonalds and 1 stoplight. Really nothing more going for it now. But the LEO is always out looking for speeds on the 2 highways through town. LOL
Time for portable camera in dash that I can move between two cars.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
I think there is also a scam (i.e., insurance) going on, but I do not know the details. Because of the FALSE narrative/s, that you cite, I surmise many to a majority of motor bike riders carry inadequate to NO insurance/s. So in those accidents and fatalities segments, the "deeper pockets" are usually the car drivers. This gets falsely converted to: now it is always the car's fault until the motor bike is proven @ fault, WAY beyond reasonable doubt.
In fact, IF they should (CA) codify/ies so called "lane splitting", it should be legal for CARS to be able to split lanes with motorcycles ! The majority of the time, it is initiated or done by motorcycles TO cars! My anecdotal experiences seem to be that most to all motorcycle drivers do not like it @ all !! ???? I wonder why?
I also think its about time bicycle riders carry insurance/s also. I know that in cities and rural popular hiking and biking and equestrian trails, there are simmering animosities and accidents caused by bicycle riders that go unfunded. Bike riders routinely scoff @ traffic laws.
I'm not happy with my Small Claims judge, but at least he was able to admit he was mistaken in his first award ruling judgment.