"I grew up in such a neighborhood in Detroit. Nobody died. Nobody got physically hurt. Break-ins were a problem, and there was an armed robbery spree; but in general the local criminals would go out of their way not to physically hurt us because doing so would bring the cops in like avenging angels."
And you were ok with this? You're ok with people taking your stuff? You borderline sound like they were doing you a favor by not hurting you...
The excuses are insane. If you can't stop in time for a red light on a wet road then you're driving too fast for the weather conditions and need to slow down. There's no justification for running the red light in those conditions.
I'm not for red-light cameras at all, they put private companies in charge of enforcing laws, they put responsibility on owners of cars instead of the drivers (hence charging and convicting innocent people) and they're strict to the letter (camera flashing for rolling onto the white stripe, though they usually catch those here and you don't get a ticket), but the idiots trying to downplay the cameras by justifying running a red light is just stupid. Your red light means someone else's is green, so when you have these retarded thoughts in your head about when it's ok for you to run a red light, consider someone else already being in the intersection on a green.
"You are lucky. I do my job, I get paid. I feel unappreciated."
It's not luck, it's a demand for respect.
When you start respecting yourself, your employer (whether this one or the next) will, too.
I have this now, and thought it would be cool, until you factor in that the vehicle doesn't know when the vehicle in front of it is pulling into the next lane, or off into a driveway. This feature came coupled with the Adaptive Cruise Control feature, too, and very often my vehicle slows down harsh to stay behind a vehicle that has just moved out of my lane into a turning lane. The one time that it did slam on the brakes for me, it was to avoid hitting a car that pulled into a convenience store driveway and I was no risk of hitting.
Since turning off the auto-brake, I left the alarm on, and it goes off quite frequently for a variety of reasons, only a couple times being a real vehicle in front of me coming at me at a high rate of speed.
I like the technology, but I don't think it's anywhere good enough to make it mandatory.
... or let the kids, retirees, and part-time-working-for-something-to-do folks handle it. No one promised starbucks or mcdonalds would be a career for raising families, and no one guaranteed a right to live in the rich neighborhood. There are plenty of places in the country where the cost of living isn't so high.
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"I grew up in such a neighborhood in Detroit. Nobody died. Nobody got physically hurt. Break-ins were a problem, and there was an armed robbery spree; but in general the local criminals would go out of their way not to physically hurt us because doing so would bring the cops in like avenging angels." And you were ok with this? You're ok with people taking your stuff? You borderline sound like they were doing you a favor by not hurting you...
0-365 is 366 days, so you're wrong, among other reasons.
The excuses are insane. If you can't stop in time for a red light on a wet road then you're driving too fast for the weather conditions and need to slow down. There's no justification for running the red light in those conditions. I'm not for red-light cameras at all, they put private companies in charge of enforcing laws, they put responsibility on owners of cars instead of the drivers (hence charging and convicting innocent people) and they're strict to the letter (camera flashing for rolling onto the white stripe, though they usually catch those here and you don't get a ticket), but the idiots trying to downplay the cameras by justifying running a red light is just stupid. Your red light means someone else's is green, so when you have these retarded thoughts in your head about when it's ok for you to run a red light, consider someone else already being in the intersection on a green.
"You are lucky. I do my job, I get paid. I feel unappreciated." It's not luck, it's a demand for respect. When you start respecting yourself, your employer (whether this one or the next) will, too.
lol... good try though.
Do you not have problems when the car in front of you pulls into the turning lane? That's where in-town ACC driving seems to not be so great for me.
I have this now, and thought it would be cool, until you factor in that the vehicle doesn't know when the vehicle in front of it is pulling into the next lane, or off into a driveway. This feature came coupled with the Adaptive Cruise Control feature, too, and very often my vehicle slows down harsh to stay behind a vehicle that has just moved out of my lane into a turning lane. The one time that it did slam on the brakes for me, it was to avoid hitting a car that pulled into a convenience store driveway and I was no risk of hitting. Since turning off the auto-brake, I left the alarm on, and it goes off quite frequently for a variety of reasons, only a couple times being a real vehicle in front of me coming at me at a high rate of speed. I like the technology, but I don't think it's anywhere good enough to make it mandatory.
So does it cut your b/w in half when it starts piping all your internet activity back to google hq?
... or let the kids, retirees, and part-time-working-for-something-to-do folks handle it. No one promised starbucks or mcdonalds would be a career for raising families, and no one guaranteed a right to live in the rich neighborhood. There are plenty of places in the country where the cost of living isn't so high.