[quote=Jacarandoso]Until things change though, Flu, it would be safer if people would stop doing the things I mentioned on the freeway. Pretty fucked up when some one is bobbing a weaving around faster than than the flow of traffic.If they just raced over to the fast lane and tailgated at high speed that wouldn’t be so bad. It is especially stupid when they wantonly race into the first two lanes,where mergers and exits are being negotiated. Not as bad a the woman who recently stopped in the center lane to make a u-turn to the off-ramp, but close.[/quote]
I take it to the track. But I know. I agree.
Part of the reason why I think some of these jerks bob and weave is both sides fault. The bober/weaver is impatient and wants to move faster… But there are people in the faster lane that don’t yield right. I think that CA should enforce the yielding right rule, as much as cops should really crack down on bobber/weavers, particular the ones that do this with very little margin between cars.
Besides that issue, a lot of the U.S. freeways are not in such a good condition to be doing speeds that fast. Road surfaces are terrible.
The idea behind another class of license and another set of lanes, would be to make these for more “experienced” courteous drivers. I think part of the problem is that our driving tests are too much of a joke. Europeans goes through extensive amount of training and testing to get a license, and I believe I read somewhere that they have a much lower accident rate despite higher speed limits… I’m not advocating completely no speed limit, especially in CA, just increasing it in areas where conditions can accomodate. The stretch of 5 around San Ysidro is what I’m thinking of. Some of these more experienced license class would be heavily restricted.. No one under the age of XXX, no one over the age of XXX, and no one with more than XXX driving violations.. Vehicles must be equiped with BA testing.etc.etc.etc. No CUV/SUVs… I’d advocate CUV/SUVS or vehicles above a certain weight requiring a special license class to (driving dynamics way different).
Oh well. It’s CA for crying out loud. Nothing is going to change because of all the special interest groups.
