A brit got it right?

[Jackal1]

Well, I headed for Las Vegas, only made it out to Needles

In Oklahoma or Arizona what does it matter.

[midnight Target]

So we'd be better off with no street signs at all?

[AKIron]

So we'd be better off with no street signs at all?

That would seem to be the conclusion of the articles author. Strange as it seems to us who are so used to a sign telling us when to pick our noses it may well be true.

[Scherf]

Here in Portland the commie cyclists are getting uppity, I think we should be allowed to run them over. Get your childrens toy off the road you spandex wearing homo.

I feel the same way, and I don't even drive.

Road in Auckland, me on one side, supermarket on the other. Wait for light to change. Outlaw bikie, wearing his colours, chugs up, slows down on the yellow, stops on the red. I start to cross.

Whizz!

Some enviro-friendly superhero reckons his low carbon footprint allows him to ignore the rules of the road, nearly runs into me.

Fargin pillars of society my hairy ***.

[Xasthur]

Beach Road in Melbourne Australia is like that too. The shaven-legged, lycra wearing poofs think that it's ok for them to ignore red lights (which resulted in the death of a pedestrian earlier this year and the cyclist got off lightly). In addition to this, they feel that it is fine to block one and a half lanes of a two lane road whilst rolling along at 20 kms under the speed limit.

The law says bicycles should not ride more than two abreast but that doesn't stop anyone from riding in packs of 30 and 40, 5 riders across.

They essentially form a slow moving bus that drives in the middle of the road.  bastids

There was a funny case of road-rage a while ago.... a bunch of cyclists blocked this guy in his car and wouldn't move or narrow their group so the guy overtook them on the wrong side of the road and got infront of them.....then slammed on his brakes. They all ran up the back of him and crashed into each other 

A bit harsh, one or two of them were in training for the olympics.... but still, good for a laugh. 

[angelsandair]

Never been to the states, but the people I know say that the driving is ok.
Been driving in Germany and France, and Sweden as well. France was sometimes on the funny side...
But...I'd never drive in some parts of the UK....

Driving in the States for the most part is pretty nice. Only time it gets even slightly dangerous is in downtown and then, you're only going at most 20 miles per hour.

But like everywhere, there are idiots on the road and you got to be careful of them. My friend's whole left side of his face is metal because of somebody going 75 in a 55mph speedlimit and T-Boning him.

[Chalenge]

Two places every American should drive just for the experience: Jamaica and the Philippines. Jamaicans appear to have no rules and everyone drives helter-skelter and in the Phils the roads are broken and pitted with potholes and if you leave the road you may never be seen again and there are NO signs and also appears to be no rules and yet fewer CRASHES/capita than the states. Accidents in both places due to mechanical problems (they actually HAVE poverty versus what we CALL poverty) are higher of course.

[Swoop]

The health and safety exec strikes again.

When I was a kid we used to have "adventure playgrounds", no padded floors under the slides, no hand rails, no warning signs, just rough wood and things to jump off while holding a rope and screaming wildly.  Don't see em anymore.....but accidents were rare cos you were always wary of stepping on a nail or falling head first onto a pile of bricks or something.

Same goes with roads, too many rules and regs and you forget to look for that nail......


Did you know the 70mph blanket speed limit in Britain is all due to some fella who drove an AC Cobra (a Shelby to yoo Yanks) up the M1 (the first British freeway) at 180mph.  Liberals were so appalled the gov reacted with the 70mph limit where originally (back in the 60s anyway) there was none.

Poxy.

[angelsandair]

Well... as bad as things are getting now, I was lucky to even get to play tag up to 3rd or 4th grade. Then they tried to ban it and we still played. 

[lazs2]

mt.. what the guy is saying is that if you make enough signs and rules that pretty soon both are ignored...

And.. that the more "safe" you make things the more people feel that they are invincible... "seat belts will save your life in a wreck"  why worry? 

I also notice that since cars feel so stable at 90 mph these days.. you see little girls driving in the rain at 90 mph on tires as wide as my forearm.. one handed.    They kill a bunch every year first day of rain.

In the old days.. when you were going 90 mph... you knew it.. it was loud and things shook and the steering got weird.

lazs

[CAP1]

That would seem to be the conclusion of the articles author. Strange as it seems to us who are so used to a sign telling us when to pick our noses it may well be true.

you guys actually take time to read the signs?