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BTW, Mack makes (or at least they used to make) their own engines, transmissions, etc.
I called the 800 number when I got home a few minutes later, talked to his safety director (Saturday evening), identified the truck from a number that had a digit missing, and the safety director in Colorado identified the truck by location by county using GPS, and was talking to the trucker on his computer! He said it cost him $100,000 for the system but it was worth it. That company's trucks almost always are traveling near the speed limit and driving safely when I come across one on the interstate.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Also since many GPS systems can give altitude it shouldn't be to hard to fix it so that you could tell if it was going up or down hill. Not that anyone will do that.
Remembering the Mayberry episode where Barney was giving truckers tickets for speeding even thou Andy told them they could go faster to get them momentum to get up the hill.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
Well I did the only sensible thing and just slowed down until the idiot got around me. But I tell you I was so tempted to downshift and blow off the BMW when it went to pass me. Ah but I much to big of a man to be that petty :shades:
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
It really confuses me when I see mini-vans fly by me at way above the speed limit, almost dangerous speeds, and their vans have what looks to be a wife and kids on board.
Well, anyway...I haven't been on the drugs all year so you better be careful!!! I don't know what the statistics say but I feel more threatened on the roads in my car than I ever have in my life. People here just don't care about being nice on the roads. They'll ride you if you don't go as fast as they want you to and then pass you, cut you off, and they rarely signal so you never quite know what they are doing. I sat nose-to-nose with another vehicle two nights ago trying to make a left turn and this car sat there for about 20 seconds without a signal and I never knew they wanted to turn too.
It looked like a bunch of college/high school kids with their ugly backward baseball caps.
While I realize from an insurance point of view that driving is considered the most hazardous of daily actions, the statistics say the USA roads are the safest they have been in the whole time they have been recording these things. Oxymoronically this is even with more vehicles, more miiles, more trips, more drivers.
That is because of better designs in the roads, safer cars and better safety equipment. People still drive like idiots.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
james
I think it's harder to get into a wreck than it used to be. I've never had one in 19 years of driving and I've driven all over the world and across the U.S. four times. I think most accidents are brought on by drivers, not unavoidable circumstances.
That said, I'm always surprised by how a mass of people will act as a single entity. I guess people just feel comfortable going whatever speed someone else was going... so you get clumps of traffic with a quarter of a mile in between them. Drives me crazy.
I saw one of those clumps dissolve today. The first two lanes just had slow drivers, and the third had an LLC. After 15min or so, I saw that driver lower his arm (he had been on the phone) and zoom into the great void before him, at 90mph in some late 80s sports coupe. It was like a pressure valve opening... the traffic clump deflated as half its members escaped at 80mph. And all was well.
It was the Caddy that we bought this summer for "special occasions". Me and the wife bought it for the date night thing. While the Hyundais are good for the run of the mill mundane driving like commuting or getting supplies at the home improvement store we wanted something nice for when we go out. And that LS6 makes it more than a match for the 740.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Kyle
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
I've seen you make this comment probably a dozen times over the years. I've never understood it. Who knows, I might agree with it, but...what is the point you are making here?
After all, national statistics are made up of local ones, by definition. It's impossible for that to be a case for dismissal. That would be like saying Dubya ain't our Prez in NY. If only.
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/STSI/index.cfm?Year=2003&Accessible=0
Over the years, I have heard many times that most or the majority of accidents and fatalities happen within a 50 mile radius of where one lives.
And curiously, the 50-mile radius thing applies to other states, too.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
South bound? The same downward hill northbound making it an accident magnet makes it far less likely to rear end somebody UPHILL..
Well since a majority of some ones driving is within that distance. I wonder if you took the percentage of driving within X distance of some ones home and compared it to the percentage of accidents within that same distance what your results would be. My guess is that a greater percentage of accidents then driving would happen further away from home. I make that guess on the fact that one would be more familiar with the roads and traffic near er to their home.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
Most driving mileage-wise is within 15 miles from home. Your experience may vary.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
Surely you can't think the purpose of NHTSA statistics is to predict who will collide with whom. Therefore you didn't answer my question. What is your point? Your point seems to be that NHTSA stats are not useful since they are based on local data. Is that your point? Even though all data is local?
I'll pre-empt a bit since I doubt I'll get a straight answer. You seem to be saying that data about millions of CA drivers simply does not apply to millions of NY drivers (for example) since they are different drivers, different cars, different roads, etc. Do you really think those variables are so different (if at all, in a relevant aggregate sense) to lessen their value? Frankly, I see not a shred of evidence or merit in that position.
In fact, this is testable, since the fatality statistics on (for example) classes of vehicles and classes of drivers would be significantly different. But they are not. SUVs roll over more everywhere. Small cars have higher fatality rates everywhere. MVs and wagons have excellent safety everywhere. Young and older drivers have more accidents and more fatalities everywhere.
Of course, you may have meant something entirely different. Clarify if you so choose.
National data is comprised of local data. It is YOU that is saying that I am not saying this. So using your quote, there is nothing to clarify, You are painting yourself into oblivion, not me.
If what you are saying is as true as you make it out to be, then for states to have different accident and fatality rates is oxymoronic. But as you can see and do know, states do have different rates. So I will let you bliss out
No, I asked what you were saying.
...for states to have different accident and fatality rates is oxymoronic.
I don't think that word fits there. In any case, of course the raw numbers are different...did you imagine that this was meaningful? It's the overall trends (like the ones I cited) that are the same.
I will let you bliss out
I think you overestimate your abilities :=)
There is nothing to clarify...
That's exactly what I thought
We can move on.
Most accidents are caused by "human error in judgement" of some sort, including distractions, failing to observe, etc. as opposed to mechanical failure, falling trees, etc.....yes.
But I think you beg the question as to whether it is true "negligence" (or being inconsiderate, if you will) rather than being an "understandable lapse", an admittedly loose term.
Well, there are fewer accidents per registered vehicle, for sure. And overall, fewer accidents in raw numbers. So, no.
US crashes:
1988...7,481,000
2002...7,173,000
FWIW:
For example, I have been the last driveway on my road for many years now, and there was nothing but a cul-de-sac beyond it and 0 traffic - perhaps one vehicle per week would travel down there. This summer, some developers came in and started building. There really was no change to the traffic patterns outside of the 0800 to 1700 time frame because nobody lived at these places. Then, when people began moving in, suddenly there was off-hours traffic! Now, this is what I would consider a ~10 mph road (1.5 lane, pull-off-when-somebody-else-is-coming type of an access) but "new" folks seem to think of it as a 30mph expressway. The first morning of this I nearly T-boned a newbie that was flying up the road because I just didn't expect them there, even though I did look (I have a blind driveway up until the last 15 ft or so from the roadway). I had to do a double-take, convince myself that there really was a car there, and then take evasive maneuvers in order to avoid a collision. My road entry habits have since changed, and I added a couple speed bumps to the road, so there have been no problems since. But, it made me realize that there is a difference between habitually looking for potential traffic conflicts and really being observant of (and preparing for) such possiblities.
In all the many away-from-home miles I have traveled, I have never even been in a situation where I would consider it a very close call because I just unconsciously tend to be more wary and truely aware of the traffic patterns around me.
Sounds like inconsiderate driving to me.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
No they were inconsiderate for being right in the middle of a two lane exit.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D