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The Bad Drivers of Ontario Thread
- Thread starter Boots
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One guy timing the light, and the other turning late on the signal. Edit: Might be he was trying to catch the light. The other car I thought was stopped for the light might have been in the left turn lane, and gone through as the light changed.
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[video=youtube;4mmWv6pgBQg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mmWv6pgBQg[/video]
Boots
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Yeah I was gonna say, they're pretty dangerous actually. Hence why tractor trailers have to take the ice off their load which many didn't do. No idea what warranted that post or that rant about "real problems". As far as I'm concerned, anything that puts another vehicle in danger is a real problem.
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Xhumeka
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lmfao!
“It’s the gear-shifter or something,” said the man, who would not give his or his mother’s name. “Something locked and it didn’t drive properly. The car was basically out of control.”
Yeah, something is out of control and I doubt is part of the car (unless mercedes has been playing with their collision avoidance programming [oh *****, I've been in an accident, reverse quickly before anyone sees the self-driving car caused a crash])
Notice how everyone was fine?
Boots
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If someone drives home drunk and makes it without killing anyone, everyone is fine but there's still a "real problem" that exists.
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Xhumeka
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With the wrong driver (eg. most of those in videos above), a broken windshield could easily turn into a multi-vehicle crash. Of course it doesn't need to and never should, but people are dumb.
Xhumeka
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I agree 100 percent, I'm in the "flying ice sheets can damage vehicles" boat. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
I was trying to point out out the fact that Fastar originally said "Those sheets of ice aren't going to do any harm to vehicles", then when video proof of a vehicle being harmed by flying ice was presented he changed is story to "Notice how everyone was fine?".
I was trying to infer that he must have originally meant "those sheets of ice aren't going to do any harm to PEOPLE", but because he said vehicle he must think a person is a vehicle. Stupid wording on my part, I know
I was trying to point out out the fact that Fastar originally said "Those sheets of ice aren't going to do any harm to vehicles", then when video proof of a vehicle being harmed by flying ice was presented he changed is story to "Notice how everyone was fine?".
I was trying to infer that he must have originally meant "those sheets of ice aren't going to do any harm to PEOPLE", but because he said vehicle he must think a person is a vehicle. Stupid wording on my part, I know
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Notice how the driver was virtually blind and things could have ended far worse? The morning after the freezing rain I had to dodge three Metre square slabs of ice that went no less than 5 metres into the air, before coming down. One went high enough that I lost it in the lights. I would rather not have my windscreen smashed on a busy 427.
mikeherdes
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Something positive for once
Good Guelph Bus Driver / Passenger Save the day:
[video=youtube;X1EdR4JnpRU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1EdR4JnpRU[/video]
Good Guelph Bus Driver / Passenger Save the day:
[video=youtube;X1EdR4JnpRU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1EdR4JnpRU[/video]
Absolutely. Drunk driving is one of the greatest threats on our roads. Flying ice is another threat that is so far down the list as to be nonexistent. Has anyone ever been injured or killed by flying ice? I assume so, but when, who, where, how? Nobody seems to consider the level of risk before jumping on the easy riding 'think of the children' bandwagon for every little thing.
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"Those sheets of ice" I was referring to was a reply to the videos our freezing rain. Not all freezing rain of all time. None of those ice sheets were going to produce any harm.
Again, just because a sheet of ice probably flew off a vehicle and maimed or killed someone somewhere at some time, doesn't mean every time ice forms we should all get out our ladders and scrape our roofs, err.. chip the ice off... I mean shatter the ice with a stick... no take a blow torch to it... whatever just IIICCCEEE!!! Do something! Anything!
C'mon.
How many windshields are shattered by flying ice rather than all the other hazards left on the road? How much harm are we really preventing by expecting everyone to always clear off the ice from their cars, even when it's so thin as to be harmless (as in the videos of Toronto)?
It's just so utterly unrealistic. It's just such a clear example of how society's "think of children"-itis makes people support really dumb things
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