The driver is absolutely culpable in most instances of road kill even though they act like they’re all tragic unavoidable accidents, change my mind.
If a critter is crossing the road in front a vehicle I think it is more dangerous to try to swerve or brake suddenly. Folks on here are rightfully vocal about how absurd it is that driving is the primary mobility in USian society (I didn’t even notice this was the trains comm) but the upshot of that, IMO, is that drivers must always operate as safely and predictably as possible.
yeah. I have hit a duck before during rush traffic. I couldn’t break without getting rear ended. I hate driving
Yeah that’s stressful! I was thinking of a time I was in in close-packed-but-slow-moving traffic and successfully swerved to avoid hitting a stray-looking domestic animal, but I low key carry some trauma from that because I think about what if I’d miscalculated and lost control of the vehicle I was driving, or what if my sudden unexpected movement spooked the driver behind me, it’s such high stakes and BS that we have to navigate that on the near-daily.
Yeah, in this case there were cars on my left and right as well
I’m jealous of your rush hour. Ours is a stop-and-go bumper to bumper mess.
If the person behind you is too close for you to safely break, you should slowly slow down until they’re going a safe speed for the distance.
Definitely don’t swerve, you might lose control, but do brake! Suddenly if you have to!
More dangerous to … brake suddenly
More dangerous for who?
Saving a life is worth getting rear ended imo.More dangerous for the occupants of the vehicle and occupants of other vehicles on the road edit: and pedestrians, cyclists, dogwalkers. I can’t control what level of injury may occur in a vehicle collision, or the physics of every vehicle involved or the reactions of other drivers to me making an unanticipated hard stop. I’m not going to risk human safety or nonconsensually risk the safety of others to save the life of a rabbit or a squirrel and I sincerely hope anyone reading this makes the same calculation when they are operating heavy machinery. You are free to disagree but I don’t think I’m hiding the ball on how I’m coming to this conclusion.
If people don’t see an animal they also wouldn’t see and break for a child.
Not that i condone following the law but here one is supposed to drive over a small animal instead of braking suddenly. The state is also culpable is what I’m saying
Sounds like they saw the geese plenty far in advance to have gently slowed down or at least give warning to drivers behind them. Most of the time, if you drive safely, that should be the case. Unfortunately, driving unsafely is the norm and you could get in trouble for “holding up traffic” by driving a speed that’s safe for the visibility conditions.
I’m not talking about the op, just responding to abracadaniel
Isn’t the law also that the person rear ending you is usually at fault?
Yeah, usually. In the age of most people having dash cams it’s harder to argue you saw a kid running after a ball or whatever. In fact i bet the proliferation of dash cams is at least partially to counter the classic scam of getting someone to swerve next to someone behind you right as you brake check them.
I think it’s fairly unlikely that you get to eat the damage if you break for a group of geese and someone rear ends you. Not that the law cares about animals but geese are a pretty legit obstacle.
They changed our provincial insurance to no fault insurance anyway but i would have stopped regardless
the wisdom for deer is to keep going straight because the deer is most likely going to move and most of the directions it will go are not in line with your path.
Someone keeps a goose down the road from us; it is always out and about, escaping from the property, stalking up and down side walks, waddeling across the road. If anything happened to that goose, I’d go on a vengeance quest in its name.
Next John Wick movie is gonna be very realistic I see /j
their goal is to legalize murdering pedestrians and cyclists like this
kinda seems like a content warning would help this post
Done, sorry
this won’t load for me, would you mind also including the source URL that was archived
I had just set it up so it’s probably still in the queue. Here’s the original.
Edit - Damn, this takes longer than it used to. More than ten minutes and it’s still #1767 in the queue.
You thought so little of those poor things’ lives that you didn’t even fucking bother to hit the brakes yourself. You absolute piece of shit.
“people”
So the ecocidal narcissist turned life and death decisions over to a clanker and is surprised the results are tragic?
And of course even killing a human with an automobile is legally considered a whoopsie and not a murder, so I’m sure carbrains view this as an unavoidable circumstance. There’s already one making carbrain apologia in this thread.
Don’t sephirothpost……don’t sephirothpost……
Did they back up to count how many exploded? Such an odd detail to note.
New Death Race looking lame as hell.
I wonder what would have happened if that goose family had been crossing train tracks when a train comes through at 60 mph?
Therefore it’s ok to turn over control and choose to not intervene. If those geese were somewhere else they could have died too!
Contrarian ass
I don’t worry about my stupid vroomvroombrained neighbor getting a personal locomotive and driving it in my street. I do worry about him (and millions like him) getting a dipshitspanzermobile and using it on autopilot
Don’t be obtuse
do you care?
False fucking equivalence. A train’s stop distance is too great to avoid hitting a goose that steps out in front of it. The knob in question explicitly stated there was enough time for the vehicle to stop before hitting the goose family, they just didn’t bother to take action because they’re too lazy to take over from the self-driving program.
Would probably happen fewer since fewer rails than roads as well as can afford to invest in more deterrents around the smaller amount of rails as well.
Edit: tipping my cap to a fellow sodaman.
Simply pull the switch and move the trolley down a different path
brave comment it actually made me laugh
Holy whataboutism
A train? In America? We just out here making up crazy things huh
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