wish I was as rich as I am stupid
06-30-2015 | 09:52 PM
#151
Three Wheelin'
Joined: Aug 2013
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From: Phoenix, AZ
The Nanny State should not be designing your car, nor driving it, no telling your how to drive. Steering wheel air bags should be removed and its its place two giant daggers should be installed...one in the steering wheel and one in the headrest. If the driver hits something at five miles an hour or less...from the front, the steering wheel dagger springs out and plunges into the driver's heart. If the driver is backing up and hits something at that speed, the dagger in the headrest snaps out and plunges deep into the driver's brain.
What if person's IQ is above single digits though? They see you as a "****head" driving your fancy Porsche and they having a bad day. So they decide to put their car in reverse and back into your car on purpose at 6MPH while ducking to the right in the driver's seat? You get impaled by the dagger and they drive off?
What if person's IQ is above single digits though? They see you as a "****head" driving your fancy Porsche and they having a bad day. So they decide to put their car in reverse and back into your car on purpose at 6MPH while ducking to the right in the driver's seat? You get impaled by the dagger and they drive off?
07-01-2015 | 12:32 AM
#153
Captain Obvious
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From: Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Yes the most recent story from Belgium tells of a city four way intersection that was rivaling heart disease as a leading cause of death. The put in cameras and four way lights and speed bumps and traffic cameras and signs on top of signs but no matter how many safety items were added, the accident rate kept growing.
Finally a non-traffic safety engineer came forward with the solution that actually worked. He had them remove all signs, all lights, all speed bumps, all traffic cameras, all safety items. The accident rate immediately plummeted and continued to and has not gone up since.
Reason: People realized they were approaching a dangerous intersection and out of selfpreservation they slowed down and paid attention.
The Nanny State should not be designing your car, nor driving it, no telling your how to drive. Steering wheel air bags should be removed and its its place two giant daggers should be installed...one in the steering wheel and one in the headrest. If the driver hits something at five miles an hour or less...from the front, the steering wheel dagger springs out and plunges into the driver's heart. If the driver is backing up and hits something at that speed, the dagger in the headrest snaps out and plunges deep into the driver's brain.
I guarantee that this will do far more to stop low speed impact, front and back, than anything now being used in cars.
Finally a non-traffic safety engineer came forward with the solution that actually worked. He had them remove all signs, all lights, all speed bumps, all traffic cameras, all safety items. The accident rate immediately plummeted and continued to and has not gone up since.
Reason: People realized they were approaching a dangerous intersection and out of selfpreservation they slowed down and paid attention.
The Nanny State should not be designing your car, nor driving it, no telling your how to drive. Steering wheel air bags should be removed and its its place two giant daggers should be installed...one in the steering wheel and one in the headrest. If the driver hits something at five miles an hour or less...from the front, the steering wheel dagger springs out and plunges into the driver's heart. If the driver is backing up and hits something at that speed, the dagger in the headrest snaps out and plunges deep into the driver's brain.
I guarantee that this will do far more to stop low speed impact, front and back, than anything now being used in cars.
They did this several years ago and it works in certain locations. However, roundabouts were in more locations that this and require the same personal judgement to make it through. One of the reasons roundabouts are so safe is that you need to your your head. They are safer for everyone except the blind.
07-01-2015 | 01:54 AM
#154
Burning Brakes
Joined: May 2015
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From: American Southwest
They did this several years ago and it works in certain locations. However, roundabouts were in more locations that this and require the same personal judgement to make it through. One of the reasons roundabouts are so safe is that you need to your your head. They are safer for everyone except the blind.
I've got to sign onto JI's Social Darwinism a little bit, though perhaps not applied to my own car and my own headrest. All of the safety features of our society in the least 100 years, well meant though they might be, serve only to preserve idiots long enough to reproduce over and over, passing their apparently dominant idiot genes along to another generation of buffoons who couldn't safely cross a street or operate a punch press without lights and arrows and guards and whistles and so forth to keep them intact.
A safe, nonthreatening, insulated, and increasingly stupid world. Ah, for the good old industrial accidents and cholera epidemics....!
07-01-2015 | 12:22 PM
#157
Rat Balls
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07-01-2015 | 02:59 PM
#158
Burning Brakes
Joined: May 2015
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From: American Southwest
Bah, these idiot governments with their food safety inspections. To hell with the lot of them. And these child labor laws. Who needs those? Pussies, that's who.
Y'need little kids for those small motor tasks, not some ham handed union machinist.
Underutilized resource, I say. Good enough for Great Grandpa 'Leftie', good enough for the proletariat...
Last edited by Valkuri; 07-01-2015 at 02:59 PM. Reason: spelling
07-01-2015 | 03:06 PM
#159
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wish I was as rich as I am stupid
Originally Posted by 5CHN3LL
Isn't it about time for you to puss out and lock this thread?
Who is the sucker now?
07-01-2015 | 03:13 PM
#160
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