It means we need mandatory driver’s education.
Most people don’t even know how to merge properly (not even a zipper merge, just the concept of matching/exceeding the lane speed so that you can enter safely) let alone how close to follow, how to use a roundabout, or when to signal and why.
People seem to think signalling is for them and not others, so they signal for literally a split second or don’t signal at all and I have no idea how they came up with those maneuvers other than in complete desperation and ignorance.
All of that means that people die/kill people because they’re not skilled or knowledgeable enough, something that could be prevented.
I’ve said it in the past and I’ll say it again: we need mandatory driving exams every 5 years for everyone.
As my old boss put it - he drove race cars also - those drivers “ran out of skill”.
Are we mandating driver’s education? No. Are we imposing tough sentences on people driving like idiots in winter? Also no. Are print-media headlines consistent about verb use? Again, no.
driver’s education
100% this.
I got my permit about 10 years ago at age 32. In Quebec, classes are mandatory now so I had to do them. It is absolutely insane the number of dangerous and stupid decisions I see drivers make when I go out on the road. Changing lanes while turning because you go too fast to keep in your lane, stopping in the middle of roundabouts to give priority to someone waiting to get in, taking an exit from the fast lane cutting every one without looking at the last second. Going too slow on the middle or fast lane on the highway or too fast inside school zone, not even bothering to do a rolling stop, turning full speed in residential areas onto bike lanes… Just a few…
Speed is not the main cause of accidents in my book, unpredictability is. Go at the speed of the traffic or even a bit faster but be predictable, put your fucking blinker on when you turn and when you change lanes, don’t stop in the middle of the road to be nice to someone but do stop if signage says you must and if for a reason you absolutely need to stop or slow down fast because traffic or something dangerous in front of you, put your hazards on to warn people in the back. If you go fast, take to the fast lane and do slow down when you cross people in the middle lane so that you get time to react if they do something stupid.
My driving instructor told me one thing that stuck with me. Drive as if everyone is trying to kill you. I believe it saved me from a lot of accidents and the one accident I got into was because the other driver tried to exit from the left lane while I was in the right thinking for some reason that I would stop to let him pass when we were both going 50 kph.
They aren’t accidents if they’re statistically consistent and predictable.
You can’t have 0 ladder accidents while gravity is constant.
Unless you want the government telling you how to use a ladder.
Official vocab guidelines state we no longer refer to these incidents as acccidents, they’re now collisions.
It wasn’t the fall that killed them; it was the collision.
That’s last year’s term. We’re now calling them unintended inter-vehicular contact events.
I thought it was “un-requested kinetic energy surplus mitigation manifold”
Within accidents about 8,000 are falls, 7,000 are drug overdoses, and 2,000 are car accidents.
There are ~21,000 “accidents causing death” per year of ~330,000 deaths per year.
People constantly underestimate the danger of ladders.
This is their own fault.
Well, obviously we need to ban accidents. Someone needs to put some legislation on the table that criminalizes this shit, before it destroys the fabric of our society.
Could lock up some city planners while we’re at it.
I’m more concerned that the first two causes of death are intentional ducks
My fear of ducks is justified!
