Traffic light is out and drivers act like a 4-way stop!

[wolfman]

@wolfman

The real fun is watching a busy four way intersection that has even lost backup power*. The number of people who are unable to assume it should be blinking red are amazing. Some people just think no light, no controls. Some people sit forever.

*Fun during the day, freakin deadly at night though.

And curiously enough a huge portion of Downtown Detroit had a complete power outage today, with lights completely out.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Wheelz

Off-topic and I’ll probably get slammed – but this scenario is exactly why I am in favor of red-light cameras. This kind of crap doesn’t happen anymore at a busy intersection on my daily route since they put cameras in, and I love it!<snip>

I’m not going to slam you - I think all kinds of driving will improve when we have a guarantee that we’ll get a ticket from a camera every time we get into our cars and go somewhere if we don’t shape up.

@rachelellogram

An SUV with 16 kids in it? Do you have a link to the news story? Did it actually have capacity for 16 people? SIXTEEN?

ETA: found the goddamn story myself. FOX 26 Houston | Local News, Weather, and Live Streams | KRIV Not that any kid deserves to die, but a family with 6 children who doesn’t put their little kids in seat belts, and holds a 9 month old on her lap instead of putting it in a strapped-in baby carrier… what the fuck did they expect to happen? Jesus fucksticking Christ.

There was an SUV rollover resulting in two fatalities here this week, too - two people not belted in died. I’m not sure what people expect to happen - I think they expect nothing to ever happen, in spite of the statistics on driving being the most dangerous thing anyone does any day.