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[image] oldtimer-11: I do not see any tickets given for this behavior, most of which I see much more dangerout that 10 mph over speed limits that are set not by road designers or traffic engineers, but by politicians. Everybody wants a low speed limit in front of THEIR house. Well, I, fo…

You really are focused on only part of the problem.

Trust me, I see the following all the time, even send photos of it to law enforcement: Drivers going the wrong way through one way intersections. The other day, a driver exited the supermarket parking lot by going to the left of the island dividing entry into the lot from exit onto the Post Ro…

The responses seem to be making a laundry list of bad driving practices. But, let’s define the problem that needs to be solved. U.S. drivers drive about 3 TRILLION miles per year, and about 40 THOUSAND are killed. That is, for each death, there are about 75 MILLION miles driven. The probability …

[image] oldnotdeadyet: speed did not kill, The choice to speed can. Just as my example of someone toooootally screwing up an entry/exit point to a shopping plaza can catch other, obedient, drivers off guard :laughing:

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[image] ChrisTheTireWhisperer: someone toooootally screwing up an entry/exit And when that is caused by the designers of a road? Example, my city put raised medians in, leaving gaps for left turns. A median blocks the entrance to a drug store, but left a gap for traffic to turn into the exi…

Regarding rural roads: one source said that 70% of our driving is on rural roads. If only 54% of the deaths are there, they may be safer. I would prefer to drive a quiet rural road when I compare it to the busy rural interstate that it parallels.

[image] oldnotdeadyet: one source said that 70% of our driving is on rural roads That must include interstates, which are very safe. From this it looks like about 2/3 of all miles are urban. vm1.pdf 92.02 KB

[image] ChrisTheTireWhisperer: just pure and utter stupidity and lack of common sense. Those should have been sorted out in the home, when that driver was still a child. That isn’t happening. Do you expect it will? Can driver’s ed teach it? I suspect people learn from their parents. [i…

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