• MudMan@fedia.io
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    22 hours ago

    I mean, the text say the guy honked for going “70 in a 50”.

    If you take it at face value, the person posting is the asshole and a terrible driver endangering everybody on the road.

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        18 hours ago

        I could be wrong but it looks like a dual direction dash cam. Since it’s the internet, the text and pic might have never been related. Also, the person doing over 70 in a 50 couldn’t overtake at 20? The whole thing seems like rage bait.

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      15 hours ago

      And the other guy is the bigger asshole for honking at the poster for going too slowly when she’s doing 20 over.

      If you take it all at face value, that is.

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      21 hours ago

      The other person would have to be doing 70 as well, in order to honk at them.

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        21 hours ago

        Sure. There can be more than one terrible driver endangering everybody on the road at the same time.

        I’m constantly, endlessly disappointed at how hard it is for human brains to accept that two people disagreeing with each other can both be wrong.

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          21 hours ago

          The only thing I was in disagreement over was that you said “was the asshole”.

          When they were both assholes all along.

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            18 hours ago

            The alternative interpretation is that the second driver was doing 50, and honked at the first driver when they passed doing 70.

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      19 hours ago

      No one is in danger strictly because of 20 over. Please. Our speed limits are insane and not grounded in safety.

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        18 hours ago

        I never really looked into this (relation between speed limits and accidents/safety), so I figured I’d verify your statement with a quick google search and it turns out you’ve got it all wrong. There is a deep well established link between speed limits and accident risk, see for example here:

        https://road-safety.transport.ec.europa.eu/eu-road-safety-policy/priorities/safe-road-use/safe-speed/archive/speeding/speed-central-issue-road-safety/speed-and-accident-risk_en

        Now you know! :)

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          17 hours ago

          We’re talking about speeding and you post some study about absolute speed? GTFO🤣.

          You want to talk about absolute risk? What’s the increase in risk when you set an arbitrarily low speed limit on a highway clearly able to handle high speeds? When you look at the reality of induced road rage and creating large deltas in speed?

          You’d be that politician giving yourself a pat on the back while ignoring the actual effects of your policy.

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            17 hours ago

            Oh hey look a guy on the internet who doesn’t when someone contradicts his baseless claims with evidence. There’s something you don’t see every day.

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              16 hours ago

              Oh hey, some guy mouthing off who doesn’t understand how relative and absolute risk work who just went off to have Google to search for the phrase that validates their assumptions. Rare sighting indeed.

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                16 hours ago

                Facts don’t care about your feelings. You’ve presented zero evidence to the contrary, how are you this confident about your assertion? This is such a joke