Road Rage Justice

Some of you may have already seen this...but I just had to share.

Talk about justice.

 

I wouldn't call that justice.

More like hubris.

 

Well, sometimes there are people in the fast lane...going faster than the posted limit.
So they'll think they can't go faster "safely" (She was going 60, faster than 55)

I pass people all the time like this, you just do it and move on. Most I do is roll my eyes.

But this guy...he came up on their rear REAL close. That is reckless driving.
Second, he didn't have to go past them ...then go back & forth, back & forth.
Third, he took his hands off the wheel...and his eyes off the road.
Finally he didn't notice other slower cars quickly approaching his as he went faster.

He's the idiot, no matter the law or guideline.

I see many gunning their vehicles (especially trucks) so they zoom up to the next car in the fast lane.
Getting uncomfortably close to intimidate them.
They're just asking for an accident.

I try to get over as fast as possible...I don't want their stupidity/aggression getting me into a crash. (no matter who's fault)
And I don't drive slow at all...I'm quite fast.

 

They were both idiots.

 

I read she also claimed he had been doing that for maybe 4 minutes before she ever started recording. If true, that kind of throws out the 'she needed to turn left' argument. I doubt many people would claim that, in light traffic especially, you need to get over 5-7 miles ahead of time.

Do we know that he financed the truck? That his job didn't make the capabilities of that truck a tool he made use of?

Or is that just an attempt to politicize an interaction between two idiots who are just both clearly clogging up the gene pool no matter what their politics are?

 

None of us are genetically prepared to drive on highways, so we'll have to toss that angle out.

 

Some are more genetically inclined to be idiots though, no matter the environment.

 

Behavioural decisions are often not correlated to genetics though. Or, at least, they're difficult to attribute to genetics.

People worried about the gene pool shouldn't focus on people making bad decisions. They should focus on people using birth control and fertility drugs. That's where the travesties lie.

 

I guess that is probably true, though my comment about the gene pool was mostly jest.

Maybe we can agree that, if we are to base it on the behaviors in that video, they'd both raise idiots by nature or nurture.

 

Idiots through and through. Agreed.

 

This doesn't even point out the maiming that auto accidents cause. Permanent chronic pain cased by whiplash is a bitch. For all we know, this guy is now living a lifetime of excruciating, disruptive pain that has taken a toll on his family.

Yeah, he was an idiot, but that kind of life is a living hell. No one "deserves" that.

My point? We treat air travel like some hallowed experience. It seems people treat driving an automobile as being closer to riding a bike.

 

To be clear, I'm talking about how they treat it, not what they think about it or how they respond to it emotionally.

How many drivers act like professional commercial pilots?

I think may of them act more like "Hey, I'm bring my shit through. Look the fuck out."

This keeps coming up, but here it is again: Motorists cutting each other off VS pedestrians cutting each other off - The Oatmeal