Comment on Oregonian driving

• Shellbeach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You can do that in the proper lane, the right one

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  • variants@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What if each morning we send out a few grannies driving side by side to accumulate traffic so everyone can enjoy an hour drive instead of 20 minutes

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    • Dkarma@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’d have some dead grannies

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• SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I drive 3 hours round trip commuting every day. I can assure you those “diminishing returns” result in days of my life back at the end of the year.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The average commute is 24 miles a day. If you’re doing a 3 hour commute like it’s a NASCAR event then you need to reevaluate something. Not put everyone’s lives at risk with reckless driving.

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    • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Cool. I’m assuming you live in a population center? Possibly over paying for a house or apartment to keep your “sensable commute” down?

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      • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes and no. But if you’re commuting 3 hours a day at an average 65 mph your burning 500 dollars a month in gas. More if you’re going faster.

        At that point eating 250 more a month in rent to live closer in isn’t the world’s worst idea.

        And you’re still putting other people in a lot of danger just for your convenience. If an accident does happen then survivability drops off sharply after 65-70 mph.

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• Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There are a few simples principles that would make traffic a lot better, and yielding the left lane for faster cars is one of them.

  The other simple one is if you are not passing another car, stay on the right.

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  • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I assume that’s the law pretty much everywhere. That said, most of my troubles have been with people who speed by a lot and weave through traffic. Slower cars are less of a problem because while it might be the same speed difference, I see them much better and they usually don’t switch lanes erratically.

    That said, I like traffic where I live now, because speeding 15% will get your license suspended, 30% will get you into jail. Traffic tends to be speedy, but coherent, everyone drives around the limit.

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    • Dkarma@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They weave because of the slow cars not moving properly

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      • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Weaving is not moving properly though either. Speeding and weaving through traffic is public endangerment where I live. We have a very good road safety record as well.

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• Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The gas is meant to hug the floor tightly, engine is meant to roar, adrenaline to be pumped, and zoomies to be upheld.

  …in a race. However, zoomies apply everywhere.

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• exu@feditown.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Even better would be taking the train, because it gives you time to study nature, read a book of take a short walk if you feel like it without delaying your arrival.

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  • AlotOfReading@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Have you ever taken the coast starlight or the Cascade trains? Last time I took the former it arrived 14 hours late.

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    • RHSJack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I took the starlight, too. Same. Took the bus on the return trip, also awful experience.

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• Maven@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Okay but I have a counterpoint…

  Vroom vroom

  I rest my case your honor

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• RHSJack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Because you are not important. I am very important. I have places I need to be yesterday. And, yes, it IS a truck. I have never used the bed of my truck or it would get dirty. /dont drive //dont have a car ///but I DO have a DL! Has my picture and everything

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