11-16-2013, 08:58 PM
Black wrote:
[quote=gabester]
At the same time, I'd confess, I've seen much more egregious aggressiveness.
The number one fear that every parent in this country lives with (except the Amish and the people who keep their kids in basement closets maybe) is that their kid will get hit by a car. It's so completely ubiquitous that we almost aren't even aware of it, and barely talk about it.
Maybe "aggressive" is not the right word here, but imagine you saw this out your front window several times a day with your kids playing outside.
Black, not hard to imagine, my friend. I DO see it outside my window with my kids playing the front yard, every day. Heck, on the walk to school there was a car I'd regularly seen for about a month that would run a four-way stop sign two blocks from my house in just the same fashion as this driver in the video space-time posted for us (i.e. not slowing down and even accelerating THROUGH the intersection.)
Frankly, I'd just like to see all the bad drivers have their licenses taken away. It would be a key plank in my platform if I were to run for office. "Get bad drivers off the street, reduce traffic and commute times." I'd aim to eliminate the worst 10%.
I'm even willing to admit that I may well fall into that worst 10% category. I'd be the first to hand my license over... I can't wait for the era of self-driving cars, because then I could get out of the unpleasant business. Not because I don't enjoy driving but because I don't enjoy other people's driving.
Final addendum - I think my number one fear is that my children will be shot by some nutcase with a gun or sexually abused by said nutcase because of the power having a gun gives them.