Close Call 01-21-2021

[S21FOLGORE]

Watching dash-cam footage, it is pretty obvious the driver was on the phone / texting / something like that.

Dash-cam : Mobius
Horn(s) : PIAA 85112 (500Hz + 600Hz) and Wolo Bad Boy

[Duck-Stew]

 

[Howie]

Seems like every day in the Big Apple

[stopintime]

I feel for you, but at the same time it's one of those easy-to-avoid situations.

[koko64]

Seems like every day in the Big Apple

Here too. Standard of driving is terrible.

[Monsterlover]

Wow 😳

[1.21GW]

I see all this as a race of technology...

The mobile-phone-social-media-notifications-navigation-system-hi-tech-dashboard is advancing to distract us and kill us.

The lane-change-sensors-emergency-braking-system-self-driving-AI is advancing to save us.



So far, I think the former is winning.  Maybe my grandkids will live to see the latter win.



Anyway, glad you made it out alive, S21FOLGORE. 

[Howie]

The safety tech is problematic too.  If I wasn't paying attention I would have hit a bicycle rider who ran a red light.  Twice my car braked for something that wasn't there.  Since my car has a manual transmission it stalled.  Could have been hit in the rear.  Typically blind spot is about 25% off when it comes to bicycles and motorcycles.  Some idiots look at the warning instead of the mirror.  I turned my lane assist off.  Even when these systems work better (and they will) the driver must pay attention.  The driver is the only one who has true IZ_ logic.

I do use navigation, I think less distracting than trying to read chicken scratch directions stuck to your dash somewhere.  I will pick up a phone call hands free if it might be important.  Read a text or send a text?  Never!