🚀 go-pugleaf

On 3 Feb 1997 16:49:41 GMT, nkibe@worldbank.org (nkibe) wrote:

>A common practice in Europe seems to be, in order of importance,
>
>1.	Drivers watch their mirrors and move over to the rightward
>	lanes on their own;

If you keep looking back you rear view mirror in US, When the cops see
you do that they are going to pullover and fuck with you.  They're
going to think you are paranorid.

>2.	The overtaking driver first puts on his left indicator;

I do that..  if the driver who want to pass me dosen't do that i just
let him get aside of me and try to go the same speed as him. if he
goes faster i go faster. if he slow down and try to get behind me i
slow down too.  I almost kill someone like that.. and i liked it.
I'll like it even better if he really gets kill.


>3.	If no response, flashes lights 2 or 3 times;

i do that.

>4.	If no response, gives long hard flash;
i do that.
>5.	If no response, beeps (but I have never seen that!).
>
6. if they dont' response still bump the bumper
7. push 'em off the road.

>The problem in the US seems "cultural" (i.e. drivers have a different set 
>of shared values).
>
>1.	Society is legalistic rather than law abiding (Western Europe is
>hardly "lawless");
>2.	Society cannot bring itself to state that not all laws can be followed
>all the time; that physical reality is different from legal constructs; that there
>are differences in the relative importance of different laws;
>3.	Vigilantism is well developed;
>4.	People have little first hand experience of driving in Western 
>Europe; they do not seem eager to learn from others or even to acknowledge
>that theirs is not the best or only way;
>5.	Shortsighted selfishness and insistence on individual rights ("I am
>king-of-the-road" when I block others until I meet the next k-o-t-r 100 yards
>later who blocks me).
>6.	Insistence on laws which are simple, easy to follow but lack nuance
>to deal with varying situations.
>7.	Mercenary enforcement of easy-to-ticket for lack of compliance law
>rather than of the more important law (see 2 above).
>
>Such a shame, such an annoyance, such a waste.

The law sucks here.  peoples with the law are just bullshit cops, CHP
etc. they give speeding ticket even if was safe to speed.  Now they
finally wake up and raise the national speed limit. Ticket Jail walker
even they are crossing the street safe.  Sometime even midnight no
cars on the road.