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- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I think this is just actual mental illness. The guy needs professional therapy, not an internet account.
- Comment on reading poetry by the Han River💖 1 week ago:
This is poetry. Oh well - it actually is :D
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 1 week ago:
You are just trying to drive how you are used to drive in another country.
Yes, because the safety aspect of keeping your distance etc are a matter of speed and a simple formula - whether you can break in time if the person in front of you steps on the breaks depends on physics, not laws.
“Bumperkleven” is forbidden. Whoever is creeping up to you in a few meters is breaking the law.
Obviously forbidden - my point was that whatever the Netherlands doing is not “working” in terms of teaching drivers to drive more safely. I do appreciate the global speed limit though, it’s simply less dangerous.
I barely even see this happening.
You clearly haven’t tried the A2 between Utrecht & 's-Hertogenbosch then.
why the fuck should the person getting overtaken slow down?
Are you maybe one of the drivers who don’t get it? If the speed limit prevents the car overtaking from doing so speedily, then the car being overtaken slows down ever so slightly, the whole process is sped up immensely. You talking about “sudden changes” tells me you completely missed the point. We’re not talking about using the brakes, we’re talking about letting off the pedal for a bit to slow down 2-5 km/h. Difference between a car going 120 being overtaken at 121 vs. going 117 being overtaken at 121 is 1/4 of the total time needed to complete overtaking.
I’m not even going to comment on 3, because you failed to understand the previous point.
The idea behind it is that the flow of traffic should not be interrupted. The earlier you merge while everybody including yourself is driving at a steady pace, the better.
See - you don’t understand how “ritsen” works, and even how the law is in the Netherlands regarding how to do “ritsen”. Please educate yourself, because your logic is wrong and slows down traffic / causes unnecessary traffic jams.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 1 week ago:
The last part about governments not acting upon reckless driving, I think it depends on the country. In the Netherlands it is pretty well done.
Absolutely not! My experience from a couple of years living and driving in NL: Speeding is expensive, but has no other consequences -> speed limits are effective for poor people only. No other controls are in effect. The average speed measurement over longer stretches of road is a nice touch, but again, no consequences but expensive tickets. Also, contrary to Switzerland, fines are NOT bound to your income / wealth.
Most disciplined drivers you could find in the world.
Also not. Things wrong with the average Dutch driver that come to mind immediatley: Due to the low speed limits, overtaking another vehicle is a long process - that’s not the fault of the drivers, but the system’s fault (although the average speed limit is designed to allow a quick burst in speed for this, it’s hard to know when you’ll pay an expensive fine and I wouldn’t rely on it either). What the average Dutch driver does with it however is a problem:
- the driver overtaking will creep up to the car to be overtaken’s rear bumper before changing to the left lane, and will typically go right back into the original lane after clearing the slower car by like 5 meters - due to the slow process of “catching up” this leads to minutes with a very dangerous distance to the car in front of them, and will occasionally cause accidents (thanks to the low speed those are not as fatal).
- the driver being overtaken basically never slows down to speed up the process and make it safer for all involved
- on the contrary, people will sometimes even drive at very irregular speeds and speed up a little just when someone attempts to overtake them
and then 4) many Dutch drivers do not understand zip merging and hate people doing it correctly. If a lane is closed down, people will merge onto the other lane(s) kilometres before the road closure, and there will always be someone who behaves aggressively towards vehicles using the lane until the frontmost part where it is closed and the zip merger should be done. I’ve seen truckers(!) veer to the side to try and intimidate cars passing for a zip merger, because they perceive these people as “cutting the line”
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 1 week ago:
In one of my other comments I mentioned the reduce of traffic jams as an argument, due to coordination between vehicles.
Yes, that is possible. However, in today’s neofascist regimes, this is a beloved excuse for total surveillance. Not that they still need it - we basically have always-online and trackable cars already anyways. :(
About the accidents: reckless drivers also (mainly even I think, no source) kill innocent people on the road. Reducing the total amount of deaths is more important than some supposed moral superiority of only reckless drivers dying vs people dying due to technical faults.
This is an alternative of the trolley problem. There’s no clear ethical answer to this. Personally, I think that today’s technology proves that companies will always put profits over safety, and I will always prefer to control my own vehicle when it comes to personal travel, over having any kind of safety relevant automation. Just think of Boeing’s 737 MAX debacle, where Boeing murdered (with the amount of criminal energy they put into obfuscating the redesign of the plane there’s no other way for me to see this) the crew and passengers of two civil airliners for profit.
We’re not doing anything meaningful against reckless drivers in today’s world, even when it’s trivial, and our governments are corrupt to the core and will never exert more control over corporations than they will over private people who drive recklessly.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 1 week ago:
Ik vind het meestal een bad-faith argument wanneer mensen op basis van de huidige technologie tegen het principe van zelfrijdende auto’s zijn.
Dat zei ik maar niet. Ik zei dat volgens mij de mensheid te stom ervoor is. En daaroom gaan die nooit zeker zijn, tenzij de mensheid leert minder egoistisch te zijn.
Dat laatste geeft ook aan dat je psychologisch iets erop tegen hebt.
Ook niet. Ik zei dat het niet zeker genoeg is voor mij. Een metro zonder chauffeur is iets anders, die gebruik ik wel.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 1 week ago:
We hebben het over een hypothetische toekomst waar de technologie veiliger zou zijn dan mensen.
Dat zou volgens mij nooit gebeuren. Terwijl ik niet zou zeggen dat het onmogelijk is, zijn de mensen toch gemiddelt te egoïstisch en gefocusseerd op geld.
Overigens rijden er al een decennia zelfrijdende bussen in Rotterdam.
- bekende weg
- nog steeds een chauffeur voor de controle / toezicht
- rijd langzaam
Zeker niet de gevaarlijkste vehikel, maar… niet voor mij.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 1 week ago:
You used the self-driving bit saving you time as an argument in favor of self-driving cars, hence the correction. The time save has nothing to do with who operates the car (unless it’s a F1 driver).
The problem is that this whole debate is poisoned. Self-driving cars are not, and will likely never be safe. They can be safer on average than human drivers, it’s just that other people will die in accidents than those killed by reckless drivers. The ones dying will die due to software errors / profit calculations and the likes. As such, promoting self-driving without a mechanical guiding control (as in railways) is highly unethical.
It might be possible to overcome the technological challenges of safe self-driving, but humankind as a whole is too selfish and profit-driven to ever reach a point where that kind of research will even be funded with any meaningful budget. That’s my prediction.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 1 week ago:
want geen ziel wil buschauffeur worden in de huidige economie. Hoeveel jaren hebben we al een tekort aan buschauffeurs?
En in plaats van één goede salaris te betalen, gaan we liever levensgevaarlijke bussen op straat plaatsen. Prima idee.
- Comment on Someone should really develop this idea 1 week ago:
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self-drivingcar would save me at least 45 minutes during my commutes (one way), purely because of the flexibility.Fixed that for you. I don’t see how “self-driving” would be 45 minutes faster.
- Comment on These corpos who feel entitled to Open Source code 2 weeks ago:
Has to be. No one can be unironically this dense. Right? Right?
- Comment on Let it sink in. 3 weeks ago:
12 distinctions on one hand and 4 on the other doesn’t seem too smart to me… I’m with the binary crowd.
- Comment on I bought a schuko plug adapter. They didn't read specs or even tried it: the diameter of the hole is too small! 3 weeks ago:
Okay, fair point, but that’s the same issue as connecting muliple consumers to the same wall outlet via an extension cord / multisocket.
- Comment on I bought a schuko plug adapter. They didn't read specs or even tried it: the diameter of the hole is too small! 3 weeks ago:
I mean as a female socket it could have the “fat holes” - because the current limiting interface is the thin, male part that goes into the outlet. It’s not like a consumer will feed back 16 power into the outlet.
- Comment on my own personal Chatgpt 3 weeks ago:
The state of affairs right now when I am not sure if that is a shitpost or OP meant this seriously…
- Comment on They're Lying To You. Get The Truth Out. 3 weeks ago:
It does, but the relevant info is in the URL already
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 4 weeks ago:
Funnily enough, oil is just solar energy stored in molecules.
- Comment on They're Lying To You. Get The Truth Out. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I can feel my horny level rising to 30% 4 weeks ago:
Reminds me of the fortune teller / writer in After Life Season 2 (or was ir beginning of season 3?) - did they write a whole book in that style? :D
- Comment on Are there words in reverse order between two languages using the Latin Alphabet? 4 weeks ago:
¡Sí, por cierto! :)
- Comment on Are there words in reverse order between two languages using the Latin Alphabet? 4 weeks ago:
Spanish loves to turn acronyms backwards: NATO-OTAN, UNO-ONU
- Comment on When somebody mentions Reddit. 5 weeks ago:
So far, yes, seems we can say things that are basically objectively true.
- Comment on When somebody mentions Reddit. 5 weeks ago:
This post isn’t memeing with Magastan in the picture though.
- Comment on Operation enduring algae 5 weeks ago:
Of course but they had different excuses to start wars there.
- Comment on When somebody mentions Reddit. 5 weeks ago:
Jerry Seinfeld is a genocide condoning piece of shit.
- Comment on Lol 5 weeks ago:
For me it’s “I don’t know if I should be disgusted or intrigued”.
- Comment on Operation enduring algae 5 weeks ago:
Even if true, there’s nothing “fun” about the origin story that led to a war killing over a hundred thousands and including some horrible war crimes.
- Comment on Operation enduring algae 5 weeks ago:
Nah, these are just vaginal beads ;p
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 5 weeks ago:
To the surprise of no one who had been reading the news, though. It was mostly putting some details to thinks we already knew about. Still, I commend he did do it, and I wish he could live a life less controlled by those in power - but I don’t consider him a hero. More like a tragical figure.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 5 weeks ago:
We don’t disagree - I commented something very similar deeper down in this thread. have no idea how to link it here though on mobile - my apologies.