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chibaka wrote:Can't believe what I just saw, woman with a baby strapped to her back, got into her car and drove off. Baby still strapped on, stuck between woman and her seat. If something hits her from behind, kid will be dead. Unbelievable
matsuki wrote:Probably why she left the kiddo on her back...forgot the child seat?
matsuki wrote:Mock Cockpit wrote:Coligny wrote:But since my driving strategery include never having to swerve as primary evading method, treating every intersection as an ambush and always having 1.5-2 cars safety distance there's a lot of stuff less likely to happen/surprise me. Plus there's this weird statistical anomaly where anytime i start to relax too much a cat cross in front of me... Kinda keep me nervous all the time.
That's not your strategy that's bog standard defensive driving. Too few people employ it however.
Right...I guess my point is if I was driving like the average person does here, tail gating, flying down narrow streets, signaling after I've already braked to make a ridiculously wide turn, I would have been involved in countless accidents and deaths. That being said, being a careful driver, will prevent many incidents but it can't stop other people from being assholes and giving you these situations.
wagyl wrote:I'm not so sure that it is broken.
Yokohammer wrote:matsuki wrote:Probably why she left the kiddo on her back...forgot the child seat?
Forgot that the kid was strapped to her back.
chibaka wrote:Any recommendations for drive cameras then? Seeing as there are a lot of driving concerns.... and I've got a partly fucked up car outside I think it's necessary. I'm leaning towards a rear view mirror fitted unit for the front, and a cheap small unit for the rear. Preferably easily removed to use on other cars if necessary. What say you FG's ...
Mike Oxlong wrote:matsuki wrote:Mock Cockpit wrote:Coligny wrote:But since my driving strategery include never having to swerve as primary evading method, treating every intersection as an ambush and always having 1.5-2 cars safety distance there's a lot of stuff less likely to happen/surprise me. Plus there's this weird statistical anomaly where anytime i start to relax too much a cat cross in front of me... Kinda keep me nervous all the time.
That's not your strategy that's bog standard defensive driving. Too few people employ it however.
Right...I guess my point is if I was driving like the average person does here, tail gating, flying down narrow streets, signaling after I've already braked to make a ridiculously wide turn, I would have been involved in countless accidents and deaths. That being said, being a careful driver, will prevent many incidents but it can't stop other people from being assholes and giving you these situations.
Any theories as to why the crazies aren't involved in "countless accidents"?
Samurai_Jerk wrote:inflames wrote:chan wrote:Is there a site where drivers who do this shit can be named and shamed daily, Can't count on the police but I assume the transport/taxi companies would start to regulate their driver quality better if there brand image was being tarnished.
instantdomainsearch.com is your friend - sites like meiwakuunten.com are available and pretty much anybody can have a website ready to go with wordpress in 10 minutes.
Publicly shaming people online with photos in Japan could get you into legal trouble.
Mike Oxlong wrote:Any theories as to why the crazies aren't involved in "countless accidents"?
kurogane wrote:They drive like they do, and you're offically a minority. Heartful Pizza Mind, rabo rabu/
matsuki wrote:Oh, no doubt...but it's not always drivers. Like my experience yesterday, it's often clueless bicyclists or people walking down the middle of the road with their eyes fixed on their keitais.
chibaka wrote:matsuki wrote:Oh, no doubt...but it's not always drivers. Like my experience yesterday, it's often clueless bicyclists or people walking down the middle of the road with their eyes fixed on their keitais.
That's what I find here in the outback, although the city has to share responsibility too. It seems to me that there has been little or no serious road planning here since the days of horse and cart. There are NO cycle lanes, and footpaths for pedestrians are rare. As for people, I've seen it all. Cyclists on unlit roads at night, no rear light and wearing dark clothes. Cyclists and pedestrians walking on main roads which are narrow, winding, with visibility obscured by shrubbery.
On one occasion my door mirror made contact with the handle bars of a guys bicycle. He was riding into traffic on a road I just described, as I went around a left hand bend, there he was. He didn't fall off, but stopped, probably to empty his underpants.
Mock Cockpit wrote:Sounds like you need to slow down a bit there Fangio (not that I'm one to talk)
wagyl wrote:If he was wearing lycra, he wasn't wearing underpants.
I'll just leave that there.
matsuki wrote:Add another to the list....
I was pulling out of a gas station on Friday night, making a left....there was a car coming towards me but he flipped on his signal and was pulling into the same gas station, at an entrance about 20 meters before the one I was pulling out from.
As I pull onto the road and the car slows to pull in, a toyota Hiace comes flying around it (into the opposing traffic lane) in a wild attempt to make it around the car before getting hit head on by a kei truck. What he didn't expect was my big, white, soccermom-mobile to be there once he came around the other side. He swerved, braked, and skidded into the curb behind me.
I really need to install a proper rear-facing driving recorder....
Yokohammer wrote:matsuki wrote:Add another to the list....
I was pulling out of a gas station on Friday night, making a left....there was a car coming towards me but he flipped on his signal and was pulling into the same gas station, at an entrance about 20 meters before the one I was pulling out from.
As I pull onto the road and the car slows to pull in, a toyota Hiace comes flying around it (into the opposing traffic lane) in a wild attempt to make it around the car before getting hit head on by a kei truck. What he didn't expect was my big, white, soccermom-mobile to be there once he came around the other side. He swerved, braked, and skidded into the curb behind me.
I really need to install a proper rear-facing driving recorder....
Although the Hiace driver was clearly driving stupid-dangerous like, you couldn't see him approaching too fast behind the driver pulling into the gas station? A Hiace is a pretty big car.
chibaka wrote:Minor update, Obaa chan initially told my wife on the phone she didn't want to communicate, only through insurance companies. Anyway, I launched my opening salvo, she called my number 6 times yesterday...... No need for details, but she is constantly apologizing, saying it's her fault, then agreeing to 90% ~ 10%. What the actual fuck does that mean?
matsuki wrote:
Did she leave a voicemail admitting fault? Record that shit and play it back/send the mp3 to your insurance agent. Sounds like she knows she's fucked and is trying to worm her way down to 90%...
chibaka wrote:matsuki wrote:
Did she leave a voicemail admitting fault? Record that shit and play it back/send the mp3 to your insurance agent. Sounds like she knows she's fucked and is trying to worm her way down to 90%...
My chief negotiator is helping, I'm not proficient enough to fight on the phone, and he relays it to me. Everyone knows she's fucked, but this is Japan. As I mentioned before I had the audacity to actually move my fucking car, therefore in the eyes of the Japanese overlords, I share the blame. Not sure this time if being white is an issue, just being there is enough. To be continued.......
matsuki wrote:Another to add from last night...I've mentioned it before but to get to my home, I have to drive around the roundabout in front of the station. There is a street that intersects it and has a stop sign for those entering the roundabout...there are no stop signs if your already on the round about but many times I've almost T-boned idiots who have wrongly assumed vehicles on the roundabout also have a stop sign. Last night I was behind a mini-bus, on the roundabout, and it made a left at that intersection while I was going straight on the round about....and there just happened to be a dude on a bike at the stop sign that either made a totally blind turn into me or assumed I would stop. I never saw the guy until I was a cm from running his ass over...he was screaming and waving his arms at me like I was in the wrong.
I am soooo buying a fucking train horn or PA system....
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