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Elderly Drivers In Japan Could Be Limited To Vehicles With Automatic Braking (japantimes.co.jp)
AmiMoJo writes:
Japan's National Police Agency has proposed several new rules to regulate elderly drivers, including limiting them to vehicles with automatic braking systems to increase public safety. "The panel was tasked with finding ways to mitigate the risks associated with dementia, poor vision and deteriorating physical strength associated with seniors," reports the Japan Times. "Deadly traffic accidents caused by people 75 or older are on the rise, though fatal accidents overall are on the decline." Automatic braking systems apply the car's brakes if a collision is imminent. Separately Japanese authorities are offering elderly drivers who give up their licenses a discount on their funerals.
why are you letting demented, blind, weak and slow people operate heavy machinery?
I'm a Straight White Christian Male. Why am I not special? Where's MY safe space? How come nobody pays any attention to me anymore?
I can scarcely imagine something more awkward and frustrating than trying to convince an elderly person that they are incapable of doing something... They will get insulted to say the least.
Asian driver jokes aside, I find this policy to be unfairly critical of a large segment of the population who aren't senile or suffering from a major illness. There should be a yearly form that your doctor signs off on saying your vision and response time is as good as any. From that, i doubt Japanese seniors aren't a horrible road threat as it may seem to their insurance companies.
Death to CNN. Long live the new flesh.
Make the twenty-somethings who are fucking around with their phones instead of paying attention drive the auto-braking cars. At least the old people are trying to drive.
I'm a Straight White Christian Male. Why am I not special? Where's MY safe space? How come nobody pays any attention to me anymore?
You have the KKK, isn't that bad enough?
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Hodgies? People with Hodgkin's disease?
Its not just the elderly. Teenagers. Distracted drivers. Epileptics. Narcoleptics. Suddenly incapacitated people (heart attacks, strokes). Drunk drivers. Texters. Everyone would benefit from cars that maintain their lanes and automatically brake. This is technology we already have and we already mass produce. This rule should, and most likely will, be expanded to all drivers in all cars - all the time.
Elon Musk: "In the distant future, I think people may outlaw driving cars because it's too dangerous. You can't have a person driving a two-ton death machine."
Its happening.
I'm a Straight White Christian Male. Why am I not special? Where's MY safe space? How come nobody pays any attention to me anymore?
Welcome to disenfranchisement. If you're not a member of a special class, the Democrats won't pay any attention to you, and if you're not rich, the Republicans won't pay any attention to you. Marketers will portray you as a bumbling cuckolded partner of the woman they're trying to sell to. Not much you can do about it other than let the anger build and make the parties pay - like you did with Trump.
The KKK hasn't been relevant for decades.
That humans are bad drivers.
A Japanese company known as Cyberdyne offers a solution: Kill all the humans!
It's an ethnic slur for arabs/muslims.
Why not mandate this for all vehicles?
Are we trying to preserve the right for a privileged demographic to crash into things?
"Hajis". Fucking illiterates.
What about Special K? It's still part of a complete breakfast!*
* according to the Foods Manufacturers Association and the illuminati
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"hodgies" is the common usage in the US military, dumbass.
Since they're Asian, I hope the age limit is 18 years. :-)
Elon Musk: "In the distant future, I think people may outlaw driving cars because it's too dangerous. You can't have a person driving a two-ton death machine."
Larry Niven cited turning off autonomous driving features as a reason to be given the death penalty in his "Known Universe" stories written in the 1960s. Society benefits from safer use of automobiles and an increased supply of spare parts.
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before too much longer, if only because of insurance companies. It's going to be the death of the auto body industry though. Heck, this plus single payer health care (to cover the injury costs) could make Auto insurance all but obsolete. If nothing else it'd drive prices way down as the risk drops to nil and more players could afford to enter the market.
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What does it mean to "make the hajj"?
Should "hodgie" be spelled more like "hajji" since the actual word has two j's?
Also, I could have sworn there was a cartoon show where one of the main character's names was literally "Hajji".
what said they were literate. Point, set, match.
"Separately Japanese authorities are offering elderly drivers who give up their licenses a discount on their funerals."
Dang dude.
it's "game, set, match", you illiterate fuck.
Just remember people, it's a different culture.
Japan has an aging population and very packed urban centers...
Driving classes are very strict, they have a policy about new drivers using different plates, clear identification, and not driving by themselves.
That and public transportation being very nice there.
It's a country that is anxiously waiting for autonomous cars to arrive.
Here in Brazil, elderly drivers aren't much of a problem... in fact, among all age ranges they are the ones least involved in car accidents. Age range between 30-40 are the ones involved with accidents the most.
Has anyone bothered to determine whether faster braking would have prevented these accidents? "No, let's just throw technology at it and hope for the best!" Having been around many seniors and watching them drive, my guess is that it's mostly that they're "turning into things" or getting in the way of normal traffic flow.
In fact, the last time I was hit was by a senior who turned into the side of me while I was crossing an intersection, even though he had already stopped because his green turn-arrow had expired.
As a side note (I know this will be unpopular on Slashdot where science now takes a back seat), I'm not a fan of millions of cars spraying EM radiation all around me as I drive. No, there's no definitive study/link between microwaves and cancer (nor will there ever be), but as an amateur scientist, I'll use logic as my guide and remind other like-minded folks about the superposition concept, where EM radiation can be additive in the minute destruction of your DNA.
Should go through an actual drivers test yearly after say age 60. I watched an elderly lady stop at every offramp on the freeway and look both ways before proceeding at a whopping 30mph on a 65mph freeway. Another one driving on a rim with no tire.
The only way this is fair is if vehicles with such capabilities cost the same as other vehicles, even taking into account the used car market.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
The KKK??! Geez, even teenaged trolls are savvy enough to at least babble about the "Alt Right" or "White Supremacists." The teens are also smart enough to know that when the KKK was doing their very best cross-burning, lynching and KKK'ing they were the party of Southern Democrats, and *that* sure doesn't play well in these online forums.
Why not just equate the behavior and mores of all Christians with the medieval Church Inquisition, like the real n00b anti-Christian trolls do, and call it a day?
To put this in perspective, recall that old people in Korea only use email.
The teens are also smart enough to know that when the KKK was doing their very best cross-burning, lynching and KKK'ing they were the party of Southern Democrats, and *that* sure doesn't play well in these online forums.
Why wouldn't it? Southern Democrats are Republicans now.
The KKK??! Geez, even teenaged trolls are savvy enough to at least babble about the "Alt Right" or "White Supremacists."
Don't forget the Aryan Nation, the Old Order and Sovereign Citizens.
The teens are also smart enough to know that when the KKK was doing their very best cross-burning, lynching and KKK'ing they were the party of Southern Democrats, and *that* sure doesn't play well in these online forums.
Indeed, the Conservative Southern Democrats existed, but then, once the rejection of their bigotry and violence set it, they suddenly began to flock to a party that was willing to cozen them.
It's the real reason you know Byrd, but never mention Strom Thurmond.
Apologists for the right-wing such as yourself are rather transparent.
But you know what's really funny? When those apologists suddenly start screaming for state's rights and denouncing Lincoln as the real racist.
More intelligent people, or IOW, not your crass teenagers, can even study history and realize that the Dead are not running any parties today. Well, ok, Trump may be brain dead, I won't argue that he isn't.
Why not just equate the behavior and mores of all Christians with the medieval Church Inquisition, like the real n00b anti-Christian trolls do, and call it a day?
You have noticed the ways of the murderous anti-abortion movement, right? Not to mention their hysteria over same-sex marriage, transgenders using a bathroom and Sharia law, right?
Not to mention all the people insistent that Trump is a good "Christian" man who write letters to the editor about how we shouldn't judge him, and praising his accomplishments. Seriously, you can read these letters yourself. What are they thinking?
Look @ who runs them (Zucker, Page/Brin, Zuckerberg), the banks etc. Jews believe this of others they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all (for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Perrone, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://justice4poland.com/2016/12/12/the-hidden-tyranny-shocking-1976-interview-with-zionist-harold-wallace-rosenthal/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud. This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Khazar/Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple):
1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."
2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."
3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."
4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."
5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."
6. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."
7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."
8. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth."
9. Choschen Hamm 266,1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."
10. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."
11. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."
12. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves."
13. Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L: "Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night."
14. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated."
15. Gad. Shas. 2:2: "A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl."
16. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: "If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible."
17. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: "It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces."
18. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: "All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples."
19. Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5: "How to interpret the word 'robbery.' A goy is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or from a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a goy."
20. Seph. Jp., 92, 1: "God has given the Jews power over the possessions and blood of all nations."
21. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 156: "When a Jew has a Gentile in his clutches, another Jew may go to the same Gentile, lend him money and in turn deceive him, so
Look @ who runs them (Zucker, Page/Brin, Zuckerberg), the banks etc. Jews believe this of others they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all (for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Perrone, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://justice4poland.com/2016/12/12/the-hidden-tyranny-shocking-1976-interview-with-zionist-harold-wallace-rosenthal/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud. This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Khazar/Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple):
1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."
2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."
3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."
4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."
5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."
6. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."
7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."
8. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth."
9. Choschen Hamm 266,1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."
10. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."
11. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."
12. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves."
13. Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L: "Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night."
14. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated."
15. Gad. Shas. 2:2: "A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl."
16. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: "If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible."
17. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: "It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces."
18. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: "All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples."
19. Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5: "How to interpret the word 'robbery.' A goy is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or from a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a goy."
20. Seph. Jp., 92, 1: "God has given the Jews power over the possessions and blood of all nations."
21. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 156: "When a Jew has a Gentile in his clutches, another Jew may go to the same Gentile, lend him money and in turn deceive him, so
Seriously, in the future, we may wish to require AP equipped cars for elderly, as well as those with a DUI.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Also, I could have sworn there was a cartoon show where one of the main character's names was literally "Hajji".
That was Johnny Quest. His sidekick's name was Hadji.
Try to get a bill through to pay for reliable public transportation (along with the taxes to fund it) and let me know how that turns out.
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Come guys! It doesn't matter how you spell them, as long as you hate 'em! Please, don't forget what's important!
In Japan, they already sort of do this. New drivers are required to display the "newbie mark" on their cars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And, they also already have the "old geezer mark"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So the new rules will be in addition to these much older measures.
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