wagyl wrote:He might be bigging up the drama of these incidents too.
That would be preferable to seeing him in our Dead Gaijins section.
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wagyl wrote:He might be bigging up the drama of these incidents too.
Yokohammer wrote: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....
Matsuki, I'm trying really hard not to sound patronizing here, but these "I didn't see him/her/it until I almost hit him/her/it" or vice versa episodes seem to be occurring with above-average frequency in your daily routine. Do you need to slow down? Pay closer attention? Get your eyes checked? Something needs work, I'm almost sure of it.
wagyl wrote:Reading between the lines Chibaka you have chosen not to do this through your insurance company but to handle this yourself with advice from a mate. That -- the decision not to involve your own insurance in a claim -- is a legitimate choice to make, to avoid future changes to insurance premiums and especially so if the damage is unlikely to exceed the excess on your policy, but I hope you know what you are doing. Your past (and I think ongoing) dealings with insurance here will give you some clues as to how things work. Your outrage at "If I was mobile I am being held minimally liable" suggests that some of the clues might only have sunk in 90% (see what I did there?)
If my understanding is incorrect and you have notified your own insurance about this, for Christ's sake, leave it to them.
Oh, another clue. It is not only about principles. It is, ultimately, only about money. You don't need to agree proportion of blame at this stage, even though they would like you to do so. Sometimes, the actual Yen value of that 10/90 compromise is not worth the hair you pull out getting to it.
matsuki wrote:What you don't really get from the pics/vid is that it's a roundabout....so approaching the intersection behind the bus doesn't give you much of a view of any assholes at that stop sign until the bus has turned.
kurogane wrote:But do drive safe out there.
kurogane wrote:Was that a stop sign? If it was, then yes and fine, he's wrong (and certainly unsafe regardless) but trailing farther behind that bus would have been advisable there. I won't bother suggesting slowing down
wagyl wrote:I am familiar with that particular road and it is a rotary, but not officially a roundabout.
The motorbike has a stop sign.
wagyl wrote:stalker mode/
I did consider posting the streetview, but then remembered that Matsuki has certain specialist knowledge about me too.
matsuki wrote:To be honest, I think the whole "let's share the blame" mentality is encouraged by insurance companies as it probably keeps some assholes from committing insurance fraud, knowing that at the end of the day, they will at least share some of the blame. Unfortunately, the "savings" to be had there don't seem to lower insurance rates.
Salty wrote:matsuki wrote:To be honest, I think the whole "let's share the blame" mentality is encouraged by insurance companies as it probably keeps some assholes from committing insurance fraud, knowing that at the end of the day, they will at least share some of the blame. Unfortunately, the "savings" to be had there don't seem to lower insurance rates.
Sometimes it is the same insurance company, and even when they are different – by having both parties to blame, they get to raise the premiums on both. More profit all the way around.
matsuki wrote:Salty wrote:matsuki wrote:To be honest, I think the whole "let's share the blame" mentality is encouraged by insurance companies as it probably keeps some assholes from committing insurance fraud, knowing that at the end of the day, they will at least share some of the blame. Unfortunately, the "savings" to be had there don't seem to lower insurance rates.
Sometimes it is the same insurance company, and even when they are different – by having both parties to blame, they get to raise the premiums on both. More profit all the way around.
Stacks the odds in the house's favor indeed.
wagyl wrote:Pinko scum. Why do you hate the invisible hand?
kurogane wrote:Wow. You said "arrived by fax" and you weren't making a 90s retro joke Japan is sooooooooo cool.
matsuki wrote:
Insurance is one of those things where I don't see the benefit of free market competition. It's a gamble that the house usually wins...until there's a disaster and the house goes in the red and needs to be bailed out. Would gov-car insurance really be that bad? Once impartial insurer without vested interest to decide blame and such...no need to rig it and I imagine more citations being handed out to those at fault, reducing fraudulent claims.
Yokohammer wrote:I don't understand why people in little kei cars make those big wide lane-straddling left turns. Those things will hug the curb all the way with absolutely no problem. Just turn the steering wheel to the left, fer chrissake. No need to do a big wide preparatory bloom out to the right. A full size car will easily hug the curb on a normal left. And yet they drive like they're in a big ol' 16-wheeler rig. Dangerous numbnuts.
chibaka wrote:Another annoying related thing I noticed is right turns. An apparent inability to turn 90 degrees, every corner must be negotiated by cutting it at 45 degrees, whether they have visibility or not. Wall blocking the view? No problem, cut the corner and hope no one is there. I've had many close calls with those idiots.
Mike Oxlong wrote:Yokohammer wrote:I don't understand why people in little kei cars make those big wide lane-straddling left turns. Those things will hug the curb all the way with absolutely no problem. Just turn the steering wheel to the left, fer chrissake. No need to do a big wide preparatory bloom out to the right. A full size car will easily hug the curb on a normal left. And yet they drive like they're in a big ol' 16-wheeler rig. Dangerous numbnuts.
It's so common it must have been advised by some celeb driving "sensei" on the tv, or some similar way.
wuchan wrote:Mike Oxlong wrote:Yokohammer wrote:I don't understand why people in little kei cars make those big wide lane-straddling left turns. Those things will hug the curb all the way with absolutely no problem. Just turn the steering wheel to the left, fer chrissake. No need to do a big wide preparatory bloom out to the right. A full size car will easily hug the curb on a normal left. And yet they drive like they're in a big ol' 16-wheeler rig. Dangerous numbnuts.
It's so common it must have been advised by some celeb driving "sensei" on the tv, or some similar way.
If you turn wide on the drivers test you will fail. They don't teach it.
I think so many people have misjudged turns and beached their car on those giant curbs that everyone is now afraid of doing it again.
You do have to remember one thing here, you are all living in a country full of asian drivers.
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