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Randall Munroe@xkcd.com |
Driving PSA xkcd.com/2932
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Guy
@e-warren.bsky.social
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Can verify.
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Randall Munroe@xkcd.com |
Driving PSA xkcd.com/2932
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Guy
@e-warren.bsky.social
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Can verify.
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Stephen Perrin
@steperrin.bsky.social
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Reminds me of this:
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Taka Hanazawa
@takahanazawa.bsky.social
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FUCKING THANK YOU. I used to run into this all the time trying to cross a two lane street with my dog. They would try to waive me across enthusiastically and I would be like "there are two lanes of traffic and you are only blocking one of them"
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Julie Van Keuren
@julievk.bsky.social
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So much of "nice" driving is just dangerous or incredibly irritating.
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ddouglas 💎 🇺🇦 🦋
@dd9000.bsky.social
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Bad day yesterday?
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Gazpacho Soup
@whatsupgazpacho.bsky.social
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no, you go just in front of the kind driver and I know this is the hard part, but you *look* to see if the lane is clear
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Tugrim
@tugrim.bsky.social
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OMG, I detest when people give up their right of way. I only look at your window when I noticed you didn't go. I'm not looking for or expecting a hand wave. I'm watching your tires and your speed, not the driver. I'm waiting. Take the right of way. It's yours. Get out of the way. Fucking GO!
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Geoff Holtby
@gdholtby.bsky.social
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This is a highly unrealstic scenario because all of the cars are sedans.
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Danny
@danielton.bsky.social
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It's even worse when I'm riding a bicycle or walking and they wave me through, because they think they're being nice and I'm being an asshole for not trusting them. No, I don't want to get hit by all the cars that are whipping around you while you hold up traffic. Especially if I have the stop sign.
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@freyveil.bsky.social
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I'm all for being nice and generous on the road, but after a while I've come to believe that the most dangerous thing you can do is create a situation that others don't expect, regardless of intentions.
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Lionel Hutz
@lionelhutzesq.bsky.social
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He better time travel right back because this behavior is tortious as hell
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Mr. Jason
@herr-jason.bsky.social
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I got this note that I'm supposed to post in reply to this image? "Randall, Future Randall is still mad about the ice cream you didn't save for tomorrow. Also, thanks for announcing this, the assassins that were hired will have to have tried something else. Randall" What does all this mean?
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Nikole
@picnik.bsky.social
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Car-free is carefree!
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Nicolas Demers
@npdemers.bsky.social
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I really hate this as a pedestrian! I don't need you, Nice Motorist, to stop for me. I didn't ask for it. It's actually more dangerous for me to cross now, rather than wait 10 more seconds for traffic to clear on its own
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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠
@scaredy.fish
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Yes! My #1 driving rule is 'be predictable', and the most predictable thing you can do is to follow the rules.
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Zork Aficionado
@zorkaficionado.bsky.social
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Some drivers LOVE to do this to cyclists.
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spider rider
@microgorilla.com
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everybody thinks "time assassins would never come after me!" waving someone ahead when it's not their turn feels like holding the door for them, but as you negotiate a new legal code using only gestures and facial expressions, you get tunnel vision. neither of you sees the oncoming bus.
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Whomst'd've Thefuckedly
@whomstdvefuckedly.bsky.social
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I get the urge to be nice when driving but every time someone does it makes me do something wildly unsafe. Observe right of way not niceties.
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Karen Newcombe 🐈⬛
@karen-newcombe.bsky.social
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This week’s driver with suicidal wish: person in right hand northbound lane who cut across cars in the two lanes to his left to then cut off a driver in the northbound left turn lane, made a u-turn cutting off three southbound cars and an eastbound car, before settling in southbound.
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Mike Snider
@mikesnider.bsky.social
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When people do this wave-on when I’m cycling, I literally throw my hands in the air give them the “are you fucking serious!?!” stare.
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Quietly Curious 🇺🇦🇨🇦 🏝️
@quietlycurious.bsky.social
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This is one of my gripes. I hate it when drivers do this sort of thing. Just fucking drive by the rules of the road!!!!
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Quietly Curious 🇺🇦🇨🇦 🏝️
@quietlycurious.bsky.social
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I hate being on the road with drivers who won’t drive according to rules of the road.
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Sandeha Lynch
@sandehalynch.bsky.social
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Very happy to see that you also hate these people. I don't carry a flamethrower in my car, but I do get thoughts.
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Chirag Jay Patel
@jayaisdg.bsky.social
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4 way stop maybe, everywhere else ’not today Satan’
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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫
@vegetablegremlin.bsky.social
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this street looks mega psycho
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Jennifer W. Hanson
@jenniferwhanson.bsky.social
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Also, now do that but with a rotary.
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@idioticmeatbag.bsky.social
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Drivers who do this and wave you through inside their car are the worst. Use your headlights to get my attention. The inside of your vehicle is a black box to me.
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RobertPayne556
@robertpayne556.bsky.social
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Welsh Drive UK viewers: WRITE THAT DOWN!!
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OldeHippi🦋
@oldehippi.bsky.social
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There should be tickets for being "too polite on the road".
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Clancy Parliament
@clancyparliament.bsky.social
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Bote Man
@boteball.bsky.social
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More fundamentally: don't buck assumptions. If you have the right-of-way, then TAKE IT. Just like everyone nearby anticipates you to do. Anything else invites confusion and bent metal.
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Amazon Piss Jugs
@amazonpissjugs.bsky.social
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lol love this
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Pellegrina Springlering
@pellegrina.bsky.social
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This also applies to pedestrians.
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Nissan al-Gaib
@coolsword.bsky.social
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Except in my case the guy waiting to turn left t-boned me
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Ryondor
@ryondor.bsky.social
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Preach!
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Loaf Warden, Frood
@eagain.bsky.social
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As a cyclist, I want to show appreciation to any driver who even acknowledges my existance let alone tries to be nice to me, but I often have to pretend I can't see them waving me into danger.
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@uno.name
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this is ryan
@thisryan.bsky.social
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People will do this when I'm on my bicycle and they get SO MAD when I wait my turn & refuse to budge, as if I'M the jerk bc they're being NICE™
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John Cutting
@johncutting.bsky.social
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My biggest pet peeve on the road. You have the right of way. You can't wave away your responsibility to act on it
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Death will not release you!𓅽
@7leaguebootdisk.bsky.social
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That's how I was trained as a school bus driver, TRUST NO ONE!
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Gaknar
@gaknar.bsky.social
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Ah, I see you've driven in Rhode Island.
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Vyrus
@vyrus.bsky.social
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Tell me you live in Seattle without telling me you live in Seattle...
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TheSoundOfChildrenScreamingHasBeenRemoved
@malikdama.bsky.social
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had this occur, never new it was a time traveler though
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Jeff Hanna
@jeff-hanna.bsky.social
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I detest those people. "I'm being generous to you, a single car - while I inconvenience the multiple cars behind me! This makes me feel good!"
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Bejo
@bejo.bsky.social
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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@leesarenae.bsky.social
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This but for kids. Do not stop and let kids cross! Saw a child was almost creamed by an on coming car and the child has no agency to wave a car through.
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Jared Gonia
@jaredgonia.bsky.social
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Go fast turn left
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Scooterb23
@scooterb23.bsky.social
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Somebody watches the same dash cam video channels I do...
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Leiracal
@leiracal.bsky.social
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This exact scenario played out for me last year and I still haven't truly forgiven the passenger for screaming at me to make the turn.
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Auctorita
@auctorita.bsky.social
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Good luck explaining this to Midwesterners
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HaydenHyperion/Mako
@haydenmako.bsky.social
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This would have been helpful two days ago when I got into an extremely similar accident
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Briar!
@likelynotafae.bsky.social
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Me every time someone waves me through an intersection when I'm on a bike.
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Your🐀text🐀here
@worldoffoo.bsky.social
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For real I hate this shit!!! I get people are trying to be nice, but they're just ruining the flow of traffic and causing confusion. Way more dangerous as well!
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VikingIrishGoddess
@vikingirishgoddess.bsky.social
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I ‘never’ take the wave in. And boy do they get pissed about it.
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MrComfyChair
@mrcomfychair.bsky.social
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I fucking hate when people do this, especially on a two lane. “Look how nice and courteous I’m being to this one guy, by holding up the 17 people behind me trying to get to work”
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Bruceski
@bruceski.bsky.social
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My brother got clobbered by someone doing this. The people were okay, car wasn't, guy who waved him in drove off and the police tracked him down later ruling him responsible for the accident.
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WorkNowitzki
@worknowitzki.bsky.social
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I was the right lane car last year. Fun times.
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mokrates
@mokrates.bsky.social
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yes. If you have the right of way: use it. As slowly as caution requires and as quickly as not to make anyone wait. And in a velocity that doesn't make anyone think you'd be letting them go first.
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Eva is a GenX Trans Hippie🏳️⚧️(she/her)🍉
@emcarlsen.bsky.social
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I was in a very serious accident similar to this when I was 19. I stopped trusting people who wave me across traffic ever since.
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Azzarinne
@azzarinne.bsky.social
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I've been in this exact situation. Totaled my last car.
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Robot
@robotofdawn.bsky.social
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When this happens I just stare straight ahead without acknowledging them, and eventually they’ll get frustrated and go.
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Boxes and Lines
@archietecht.bsky.social
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Try reconciling the new UK rules on pedestrians crossing minor roads at T-junctions with reality and physics.
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Dr. Fortyseven 🥃
@fortyseven.bsky.social
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PSA: Never assume the other driver is competent and will know the rules of the road.
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Lina 🏳️⚧️✨
@gridlockbrained.gay
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this really needs to be part of the driving test or something. also, just in general, i wish people would realize that being nice instead of just following the rules of the road usually just makes things worse for everyone and isn't actually nice.
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Felix Ling
@perfectlygoodink.bsky.social
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My one car accident in my 51 years is due to an incident much like this. I was turning left, and a driver in backed up traffic in the closest opposite lane waved me through, but I got hit by someone in the other lane.
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Lighting Rod [Bluesky Older]
@yendorcire.bsky.social
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Plus, they think they're being nice to one person but they're being mean to all the people stuck behind the guy who is obviously in no hurry to get where he is going.
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Altaico🐯(🦊)
@altaico.dad
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I fucking HATE these people. not only is it not courteous. It actually causes more traffic.
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@goodfriendvic.bsky.social
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Absolutely! Who doesn't know that⁉️⁉️⁉️
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Darlo (ダーロ)
@darlosworld.bsky.social
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Similar thing happened to a mate when I was at school. Bus let him walk across the road, car never saw him until he rolled up the car’s bonnet.
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shuyguy2.bsky.social
@shuyguy2.bsky.social
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Except that it was a right turn lane, that's exactly why a high-schooler in his challenger he just had repaired from his last accident pulled out in front of me.
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Roslyn Reid
@the-moonshadow.bsky.social
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This actually happened where I live - somebody stopped to wave a driver out of the street where they were waiting & they got T-boned by a car coming the other way.
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эссенция кусенция
@margonica.bsky.social
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I wish there was a bot that translated those mph and other inches into something human.
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@toofmullets.bsky.social
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I've had this accident happen while I was waiting at a light. Bad idea. There's a spot by my house where I see this happen so I rock the right lane every time.
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KevandreCactus🌵
@kevandrecactus.bsky.social
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next level paranoid catastrophizing I approve
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Kristi Wallace Knight
@kwknight.bsky.social
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THANK YOU!!
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Leivy 🔜 TFS
@leopardlynx.bsky.social
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This graphic tells me that it's better to turn right and turn myself around rather than risking the chance of getting t-boned.
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Dan
@sulik2.bsky.social
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Had a sister in law get hit in this exact situation and the cop gave her the ticket despite being the car with the right of way and no way to see the turning car.
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MattBatt
@computergeek06.bsky.social
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OMG YES....or maybe I'm the one going straight at-speed and the one being waved from the side is the one being set up to try and eliminate me?
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Integrable Lena
@leadvest.bsky.social
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This often breaks the flow of traffic, meaning it ends up costing everyone time. The crazy thing is how offended people get when you wave them back, like they are genuinely convinced you should appreciate the gesture.
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Peace, Truth, Science
@mrchompchomp.bsky.social
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This happens even more often when you’re on a bike. People also get more offended when you don’t accept their offer to ride into speeding traffic and die.
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Faerie Nuff
@faerienuff.bsky.social
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This is such a common cause of accidents. I never go on the word of a helpful idiot. I need to see that it's actually clear.
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Björn ☀️ Starkimarm
@bjoern.starkimarm.de
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Do you really have such kinds of intersections without traffic lights? 😳
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JTK222
@jtk222.bsky.social
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What about just being grateful, but still not disregarding all traffic laws? Like just stop at the sight line, you will be fine, and you even followed traffic regulations
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XXLG Dogg
@dennissalazar.bsky.social
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Thank you so much for illustrating this. "Go ahead, I'm so nice, let's get you killed!!!"
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@domleoni.bsky.social
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A friend, who recently passed away (not traffic related) taught me a rule, and I stand by it: "Be kind, but never wave!"
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C.J. Raven
@raggededge.bsky.social
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I’d like to give you my mom’s phone number so you can talk her through this.
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Jon Grantham
@pseudoprime.bsky.social
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This is great, but I don't understand why the assassin has to be from the future.
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mad angel
@madangel.bsky.social
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All drivers are demons
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Samantha (Sam) Mills
@samtasticbooks.bsky.social
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Omg the time traveling assassin frequently tries to get us at school pickup. Yessir thank you for completely stopping traffic in one direction but unfortunately traffic has not stopped in the other direction so I cannot in fact walk my children into the street!
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Allen Garvin
@allengarvin.bsky.social
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Is that a New England thing? I had a number of cars do that when I was in RI last year, first time I've driven in NE since '90. I've rarely ever seen people do that before.
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Andrew Menotti
@cesarini.bsky.social
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God I hate this. A similar thing happens to me at an intersection with a two-way stop sign. It should be a four way stop bc cars which line the street make it impossible to look left and right from the stop sign and it’s busy. Drivers sometimes stop and wave me on, which is not safe.
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Izzy Seabiscuit
@ijspurcell.bsky.social
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lol this is how i got hit on my motorcycle, random driver didn't see me and waved someone out
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Sheila the Wonderbink
@wonderbink.bsky.social
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Man, I've got a lot of assassins after my ass. The left turn into my complex used to be an absolute nightmare. Lost a fender to a "helpful" person and after that when somebody waved me to make the turn, I'd just shake my head and sometimes cover my eyes as if to say I CAN'T SEE THROUGH YOU, BONEHEAD
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biokinetic
@biokinetic.bsky.social
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Lost a friend this way. Asking drivers to act intelligently is sisyphean though.
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De Will
@dewill90.bsky.social
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Thank you for your service!
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Erika Fundelius
@erikatvicoms.bsky.social
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This is even super fun when people honk at blind ppl standing at corners to cross- they are there listening for traffic and idling cars are a masking sound for the rest of the intersection. They are taught not to move
#Disabilities #Awareness
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Rrruff
@rrruff.cofurries.social
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This is where you pull up in the middle, block off the guy that was being nice and check around him for any other cars. Or do people blindly just go?
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oscar in the orange hat
@igarara.bsky.social
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I see you've been to Savannah, GA.
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Nick Goede
@ngoede.bsky.social
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The opposite of this is when people behind your car get unreasonably upset at you for not turning at a stop sign or right on red when they cannot see the traffic and you can.
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Nican
@nican.bsky.social
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I made that mistake once. Never again.
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@mgillard.bsky.social
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Don't be polite, be predictable
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Laura Odelius
@lauraodelius.bsky.social
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My hugest peeve ever. At last a plausible explanation.
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Clarke "METRO Mutt" Macbeth
@votemacbeth.org
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Related: Minnesotans have mastered the zipper merge while forgetting all the other driving lessons.
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Jason Skiles
@jasonskiles.bsky.social
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They can be awfully persistent if you don't accept their "gift". My hack for this is I just look away. Deny the driver eye contact and they quickly give up. Works great as a driver and even better as a pedestrian.
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Bear Up A Tree
@bear-up-a-tree.bsky.social
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My favorite is when someone waves a single car to go out of turn while like 15 others are stuck behind them. You aren't being nice to the one, you are being an asshole to the 15.
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@wmyfowlkes.bsky.social
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I have seen this exact accident before me.
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Patty Hoyt
@patois42.bsky.social
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Thanks for the reminder. And the idea.
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Ill Topo
@dqspider.bsky.social
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*being dragged away, kicking and screaming* JUST FOLLOW THE RIGHT OF WAY!! IT'S SO MUCH EASIER AND SAFER!! YOUR COURTESY IS KILLING PEOPLE!!!
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Green Trees
@greentrees.bsky.social
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I already assume that about every other driver no matter the situation.
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@xkcd-titletext.bsky.social
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