irish_buffalo
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Gov. Mike DeWine signs texting-and-driving ban
New law bans phone use while driving, with a long list of exceptions.
www.cleveland.com
Long overdueGov. Mike DeWine signs texting-and-driving ban
New law bans phone use while driving, with a long list of exceptions.www.cleveland.com
I recently saw someone turn left on a red light. Full stop, go. Wow! Is that legal anywhere?Recently have seen a lot of weaving in and out of traffic at speed. Also, have seen a number of people treating red lights as stop signs.
Welcome to Youngstown. This is a big problem on the east and south sides.Recently have seen a lot of weaving in and out of traffic at speed. Also, have seen a number of people treating red lights as stop signs.
I go for a morning walk every morning. I would like to have a dollar for every car that see the light turn from yellow to red. They speed up and run the red light. I have learned to wait before crossing in the cross walk. The pedestrian with the light doesn't have the right away.Also, have seen a number of people treating red lights as stop signs.
I go for a morning walk every morning. I would like to have a dollar for every car that see the light turn from yellow to red. They speed up and run the red light. I have learned to wait before crossing in the cross walk. The pedestrian with the light doesn't have the right away.
Off topic but a major pet peeve. I went to an event at the local county fair. I had three seats in the front row in the grandstands. The seats have armrests and the seats have been there for ages. Put in back when the average person was smaller than they are today. Of course the next seat was occupied by an older woman and she was huge. Her fat rolled over the top of the arm rest and squeezed through the metal part of the arm rest.
Her thighs were bigger than my waist and covered a good third of my seat surface. I am 6' 1"tall and weigh 205#. I have fairly broad shoulders. Needless to say I couldn't use my seat unless I wanted to be engulfed by a human side airbag. I stood and waited until the crowd was pretty much seated and found an empty seat away from my family. At her age she had to know what the seats are like in the grandstand. If she had any sense of decency she would have bought an extra seat or bought a folding seat in front of the grandstand. To add insult to injury I watched her buy and eat a bag of caramel corn.
Moved with the thiccness instead of the quickness, huh?I'm 5'9ish skinny as a rail. I'd have taken that seat, put the moves on and owned that caramel corn.
Yeah, in Ohio that's legal.Frivelous laws. I asked this question several months ago on another thread. Has ANYONE ever been pulled over specifically for only texting and driving??
Folks no matter what you think, it's here for good. There is no way police want to stop a person and give them a ticket for something like this. Now if there is an accident and it's proven they were texting and driving then yes, they can add that offense on, but this will not happen. Just go sit at a stoplight and see the numbers of people who are looking at their phones at a red light. My guess it's 70% or more.
I will when the drivers in the roundabout leave space to merge.Roundabouts work. Do not stop, merge.
Lots of anger out there.I was attempting to merge onto I70 yesterday. I come Parallel with the lanes of travel and am slightly ahead of a car in the right most lane. I speed up to make sure I have clear distance before merging and so does he. I ended up going 90 trying to merge.
This was always my biggest issue with driving. There are scared drivers who camp out in the passing lane because they do not like people merging from onramps or being sandwiched in the middle lane. They disrupt the flow of traffic. Then there are the extremely prideful who do not like anyone passing them so they speed up. Or, as you said, they pass you and slow down. Special breed right there. It is called the "passing lane" for a reason.If I'm passing you... DO NOT SPEED UP.
If you suddenly realize you've slowed down, or aren't going the speed you wanted to go... let me pass first and keep up with me.
Conversely... If you pass me... DO NOT SLOW DOWN SLOWER THAN I WAS GOING.
I don't know how often those two things happen. And what's worse, that happens on two-lane roads even more often than freeways.
Add to it the people who are trying to time the light, so they are halfway across the intersection before it turns green.The one I've been super annoyed with lately is someone pulled up past the stop sign or white line on the ground when at a light or stop sign. If I have a big vehicle and I'm turning and almost hit you because you're 5-10 feet past the stop sign? Ope.
That is how i always classify those drivers.....scared. They get into that lane, drive about the speed limit, and they do not have to change lanes once their whole trip!This was always my biggest issue with driving. There are scared drivers who camp out in the passing lane because they do not like people merging from onramps or being sandwiched in the middle lane. They disrupt the flow of traffic. Then there are the extremely prideful who do not like anyone passing them so they speed up. Or, as you said, they pass you and slow down. Special breed right there. It is called the "passing lane" for a reason.
It was my biggest issue until what seems like 75% of drivers are on their phones with 50% of those people texting. Just about every stop light sees less and less cars get through because someone is texting and doesn't realize the light is green. Then there are those that actually text while the car is in motion. Ugh.
Unsure if the new law is being enforced but it sure doesn't seem like it.