cohenzone
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It is pretty clear that some things are history and new rules apply when one gets behind the wheel:
- Turn/lane change signals are now mere decoration, or just plain too complicated to use in the automated world
- yellow lights are an extension of green lights, and red only counts if it's been red for 5 seconds before you get into the intersection
- speed limit signs are merely suggestive except for the Merritt Parkway where they provide a baseline for the algebra problem: If one car leaves Norwalk going 55 mph and another leaves Milford going 85, at what point will car 2 overtake car 1. Answer: Car 1 has been blown off the road after 3 minutes, and is irrelevant to the problem.
- the more a car guzzles gas, the faster the car is driven
- on the Merritt and Wilbur Cross, if you can drive your car going 50 in the left lane and bottle up traffic, it is your duty to do so, especially if you are a New Yorker,many of whom obviously learned to drive in England
- most drivers are very curious to read the bumper stickers on the car in front of them and are too near sighted to read them from distance
- lots of drivers find it necessary to exercise their middle finger while driving
- the Connecticut ban on using hands-on cell phones is also merely a suggestion, and is okay to do so long as you are texting at the same time, especially while going 50 in the left lane on the Merritt or trying to read the bumper sticker on the car in front of you while going 85 in your SUV.
I'm just po'd because I got stuck in traffic coming down the ever-awful RT 10 in Cheshire which was preceded by an atrocious round of golf. It gave me time to think of all of the things that make me want to run all the driver's ed classes in the world. I need something to do now that I've thrown my golf clubs in the pond.
- Turn/lane change signals are now mere decoration, or just plain too complicated to use in the automated world
- yellow lights are an extension of green lights, and red only counts if it's been red for 5 seconds before you get into the intersection
- speed limit signs are merely suggestive except for the Merritt Parkway where they provide a baseline for the algebra problem: If one car leaves Norwalk going 55 mph and another leaves Milford going 85, at what point will car 2 overtake car 1. Answer: Car 1 has been blown off the road after 3 minutes, and is irrelevant to the problem.
- the more a car guzzles gas, the faster the car is driven
- on the Merritt and Wilbur Cross, if you can drive your car going 50 in the left lane and bottle up traffic, it is your duty to do so, especially if you are a New Yorker,many of whom obviously learned to drive in England
- most drivers are very curious to read the bumper stickers on the car in front of them and are too near sighted to read them from distance
- lots of drivers find it necessary to exercise their middle finger while driving
- the Connecticut ban on using hands-on cell phones is also merely a suggestion, and is okay to do so long as you are texting at the same time, especially while going 50 in the left lane on the Merritt or trying to read the bumper sticker on the car in front of you while going 85 in your SUV.
I'm just po'd because I got stuck in traffic coming down the ever-awful RT 10 in Cheshire which was preceded by an atrocious round of golf. It gave me time to think of all of the things that make me want to run all the driver's ed classes in the world. I need something to do now that I've thrown my golf clubs in the pond.
