I always use my signal, even in parking lots and even when I'm on a bike. It doesn't matter what the vehicle is, I signal, whether with lights or with hand signals.
Drivers hate other drivers but are so thoughtless about what causes traffic that when they see a bike lane, they all of a sudden have great solidarity with other drivers and believe that bike lanes, and not themselves, cause traffic.
@@77R_ its barely used cus the bike lane itself is poorly done, not protected, and drivers still suck at driving and go OUT THEIR WAY to bully and intimidate bikers, walkers, people waiting at the bus ect ect people are literally getting hit on sidewalks, do we get rid of sidewalks cus theyre useless and people die in them? the issue IS the car itself
@@stephanos6128 I don’t know if the bully part is even a thing or not, but my time driving in the city with a barely used bike lane has shown me that there’s barely any cars that bully bikers that do ride on those lanes. In fact, they are so unused, they exacerbate jams on the streets that have them.
@@stephanos6128 “people are literally getting hit on sidewalks” I think that’s just murder if cars go out of the road and strike pedestrians. I also have never seen that in the city I drive in and through the other cities I’ve traveled through, I don’t really think it happens unless the drivers is out for blood.
@@stephanos6128 But I do agree though, the bike lane should be protected, but it cannot be the only thing that encourages its use. The fact that it, by itself, is not being used speaks to how unpopular it must be in the city I drive through.
As a car enthusiast I support more bike lanes and transit. I still enjoy driving, but some people just shouldn't drive. Plus less wear and tear on the car, I can save it for roadtrips and fun trips. Rather than the mundane trips for every single thing.
Same here. I've been a car lover for my whole life but I love using my bike to get around. Makes me healthier, saves me money, bike commuting is way more fun; win all around for me. Car commuting is boring as hell and I avoid it whenever I can
I'm also a lifelong car nut and I love that I'm fortunate enough to live in a walkable neighborhood, although my city has poor public transit so I still have to drive to work
Even as a car enthusiast I always try to cycle if I can because it actually HURTS my car to take short trips (less than 10 minutes). As long as I am physically capable (which is nearly always) and I don't need to haul anything larger than a backpack (also nearly always), I will choose to cycle of walk.
and now they want to fix pollution with EVs instead of just reducing the number of cars which is just such a shame. they are making cars boring without solving any of the issues.
I started driving earlier this year after 23 years of public transit, and let me tell you, the lack of attention and communication on the roads is what sends people to the pearly gates. I almost got slammed by a semi truck who decided that running a red could save more time than waiting for 40 seconds at most. My insurance tells me that even with 6 months of driving experience, my driving was safer than 25% of drivers 😬😬😬 Stay safe out there non car conformists
Something to consider about semis in particular is that if the truck is close to the light they are gonna run it every time since slamming on the brakes may destroy their cargo or not actually stop the truck outside of the intersection. It's not right, but until the speeds are lowered the trucks will continue to run lights.
I have been driving the Ohio turnpike for over 20 years. I used to always see semis driving 60-65 mph in the rightmost lane, sometimes the center lane if passing. These days it’s common to see semis barreling down the leftmost lane at 75-85 mph. It’s crazy, and it’s just what we have to live and die with. I hate it. It makes me want to [censored for youtube].
i am 30 and only just now getting my permit - your comment gave me some hope that at the very least i will also be a safer driver than most people because i am so nervous to drive and will likely be a very cautious driver.
@@Lunarl4ndr There's a reason that those type of cars have their own set of licenses separate from normal cars, they have to be more skilled than normal drivers. When approaching those lights they have to already slow down a bit to accommodate the time it takes to stop and not just slamming the break like a damn doofus. Skilled drivers can approximate when the light will turn red and a yellow light is there for buffer to stop the vehicle. Remember yellow doesn't mean "Hurry up slam those gas pedal deep guys!"
think that's a new skillset required; to predict what the idiot infront is going to do and avoid an accident. Take it as a warning that they are oblivious to their surroundings.
One of my biggest pet peeves is drivers constantly complaining about how reckless and entitled cyclists are while they themselves drive, park, and dump snow into their bike lanes. Rules for thee, but not for me.
It's even more hypocritical because there are hardly pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and trains in many places. In many places, the streets are empty except for a lot of cars. It's moving cars that are dangerous, scary, and more annoying. Even to other drivers. I hate how drivers won't look around and see that there aren't sidewalks and bike paths everywhere so that's why people have to jaywalk sometimes. Then they just blame non-drivers. Too many innocent people are charged by policemen or face police brutality because of having to jaywalk. It disproportionately affects African Americans.
as someone who frequently rides a bike I second this. Also, I find some drivers get very annoyed if I am in their way (where I live the bike lane goes in between straight and right turning lanes). I’m sorry but it’s not my fault that Florida’s DOT is horrible at designing bike lanes. And also the effort it takes to drive a car is so much less than using a bike. So is it really that big of a deal they had to slow down slightly to not hit me?
Definitely. One reason people on bicycles can roll through stop signs consequence free is because they're on a machine that weights 60 pounds (about 300 including the rider themselves) and those things travel far slower than cars. Less mass, less velocity, far lower kinetic energy; safer for everyone and thus there is little to no consequence on the surroundings for someone on a bike to roll through a stop sign (provided it's safe for the person on the bike to proceed). In fact letting people on bikes roll through stop signs and thus spending less time in danger is better for everyone
I can't tell you the number of times I have taken my life into my own hands by legally crossing the street. One guy even laughed as I had to jump back from him barrelling down on me. He didn't care.
There have been drivers who just started driving when the light was green for them and they drove too close to me. They didn't care about pedestrians or didn't use sense. Instead they just blindly followed the signal lights and were just eager to go. I've seen many pedestrians and myself unable to cross super wide roads in time before the light changed. They don't give pedestrians enough time, roads are so wide, and some people can't move fast. They could be disabled, old, pushing strollers, or carrying something heavy. I hate how many drivers won't look at the situations of pedestrians and won't use sense. It's hard to communicate to drivers because their windows are up and they can't hear or they drive off too fast. But drivers can express anger at non-drivers by honking, yelling at people, doing punishment passes like driving too close on purpose then speeding off and getting away with it.
One of the biggest issues I see (in Australia) is that there is never any consequences for people that cause car crashes and/or kill people. Recently near me there was the case of a woman picking her kids up from school, doing a u-turn and somehow crashing over the nature strip, through the fence and into the school grounds, hitting a group of primary school kids and killing at least one of them. She was released with no charge. This seems to be the default for all serious "accidents". 🙁
Bad driving is hard to police & therefore fine but speeding is easy to police so easy to fine so that is where the attention by police & governments goes - into revenue collecting & not fixing bad driving behaviours.
@@n3lis94 It CAN be but a car driving 20 km over the speed limit while the driver is paying FULL attention to driving is far safer than a car driving 20 km under the speed limit when the driver is NOT paying full attention to driving like texting, daydreaming or looking over their shoulder to talk to the person in the back seat. There are too many 'Passengers' sitting in the driver's seat & this is the Bad Driving Behaviour that needs to be changed. My last car was written off by a 10 km rear ending at a roundabout as we slowly moved forward car length at a time when the drive behind me wasn't paying attention because they were talking to the person sitting in the seat beside them. 40 years ago I drove over 21,000 kms (over 3 years as I drove from home to university) doing 80 km/h over the open road 80 km/h speed limit without a single incident let alone an accident. I got my share of tickets for it but NEVER came close to having an accident because I was taught that driving is a full time activity that requires 100% attention 100% of the time. My instructor was a retired traffic cop who taught me both how to drive legally & illegally saying it is safer sometimes to actually drive illegal. And after 40 plus years of driving as he taught me has keep me nearly accident free, (only 2 & both at intersections & not my fault) & his teaching me how to handle my car at speed has saved me on 2 other occasions. So yes speeding can be a bad behaviour but bad driving is far worse.
@TheFalconerNZ speeding is always a bad driving behaviour and yes there are also many others. Oh yeah I'm not gonna read all pf that ofc that's waay to much text man. I also don't think you realise what impact the 2 has in E=0.5mv^2
@@TheFalconerNZAdmittedly for police it gets a bit messy. Hard to know if the person who just ran the red and almost hit a pedestrian, will actually slow down if you go after them. That said….it’s pretty easy for governments. At least it should be. There’s cameras everywhere and they are readily used to ding people for innocuous nonsense. They should be able to revoke someone’s license for running over and killing a child. Damn, the bar really is that low.
This is my belief it's crazy how we planned cities around everyone having access to a car and nowadays people are just batshit crazy when driving. People work too many hours, not have adequate vacation and rest time and all the stress of traffic can be a toxic concoction.
Car culture in America is not just normalised - IT IS ENFORCED. Any move to reduce car dependency in America is blocked by lobbyists for oil companies, car manufacturers, fire departments along with other first responders, city councils, local businesses & residents. They say it will hurt their profits, it will increase response times, it will increase city spending or it will remove roadside parking. They say anything that will allow them to sit in their car & get fatter. America amazes me as I have seen pictures where the the access to a gym from the parking lot is on top of a 3 to 5 meter rise & there is an external escalator beside the steps to take people up & down the rise instead of giving them a few moments more exercise.
Okay- I honestly never really thought about how de-car-ifying cities would effect first responders (well, firefighters and ambulances.). I always figured it'd be a net good to have everything be less car dependent, and I still think that's the case, but... What about first responders? Maybe some sort of unique, 'emergency lanes' that could be exclusive to them, or something, that COULD run through parks and the like, but are closed off to the general public? Maybe some sort of trolly system, that have stops at every local fire station and hospital, with specially designed carts that would basically act as ambulances, and an actual ambulance and fire truck parked at every stop, so that firefighters and paramedics could take the trolly from the fire station or whatever, to the nearest stop to the emergency, then hop into the fire truck or ambulance, and drive it the rest of the way? Like, all the other lobbying is complete B.S., but for emergency services? Those save lives too- How do we improve the roads so there are less deaths in car crashes, or even removing roads altogether, while keeping emergency services just as, if not more, available? Maybe some non-road solution entirely? Maybe firetrucks could be replaced entirely with helicopters or planes, that would dump water, or some other fire-"R-word"-ant onto fires the same way trucks would with hoses? Give firefighters parachutes so they could quickly get to the ground and chop through the building to save lives? Would a parachute be able to hold someone, wearing a full fire-fighter suit, with an fire-ax strapped to their back, in the first place? Idk, I feel this maybe needs to be thought more of.
Another indicator of car culture in America is how pretty much all news titles are bias for cars, just call it accidents as if nothing can be done about it, biasly blame non-drivers, or not call for people to change things by redesigning the streets instead. I think I saw an urban yt-er talk about this bias and apathy in the news. It backwards how gyms have treadmills and cycling stations, but people won't provide walkability and more bike paths. Then gyms make you pay for it too. Instead of it being free walkable and bikeable spaces in public. Feels dystopian.
Some other video on another channel showed that fire trucks in the USA are way oversized for absolutely no reason. Every time someone has a defense against reducing lanes “it will affect emergency vehicles!” Bullshit, emergency vehicles will be way faster anyway with less overall vehicles on the road plus they can go on bike lanes and sidewalks if needed. And fire trucks don’t need to be larger than a city bus
@@chaoticsilver8442 This has been discussed in other videos, but the short answer is that fire truck designs don't have to be as wide or as big as they are in North America, and other places have smaller fire trucks that do the job just fine.
@@chaoticsilver8442 it has been thought of. The Netherlands has all of its emergency equipment and considerations built physically into its infrastructure. Not Just Bikes made a video a few months back about it, to the point where response times are actually *faster* than here in the US, even accounting for distance. It's entirely possible to integrate emergency infrastructure into city infrastructure, the problem is that it requires lawmakers to actually, yknow, care, and for emergency services here in the US to lose all of their complacency.
Collisions are rare for the average person, but near misses are not. And yes, road design, traffic light cycles, and even living conditions (mainly distance from home / work, and lack of reliable public transit) do contribute to the dangerious roads. And I'm saying this as someone who enjoys driving, but even I find it ridiculious that (at least in the US) that if you don't have a license, you almost can't live here. Being a rideshare drive where I live was eye opening to how stuck a lot of people are when driving is not an option for them.
I think every single time I go out in rush hour I have a near miss. It's why I try ny best to avoid rush hour. And I hate driving this time of year because of the holiday traffic from stressed holiday drivers. I think reminding people that even though they've done it a thousand times they're operating a 2 ton machine that can and will easily kill a person would do alot of good. There's no reason to run the lights or cut people off and no reason to not look and pay attention. You're operating heavy machinery, not washing dishes. Treat it with the respect it deserves.
Many drivers who don't use sidewalks much, don't bike, and don't use public transit also think that there are sidewalks everywhere when there isn't. I've seen some car people say that. They then get mad that people have to jaywalk sometimes because there aren't sidewalks everywhere. Those drivers won't look and see that there aren't sidewalks or bike paths everywhere. It's hard to tell them too because they have their windows up and can't hear you or they are speeding by too fast.
My main transportation is by car, i always give pedestrians respect. Some car drivers are so far gone they dont see people as humans from the inside of their cars pov.
In the US you really only have to be a “good driver” one time and that’s to get your drivers license. you can have one for the rest of your life as long as pay to renew it even you have a terrible driving record
@@ryancraig2795exactly! We make ourselves more and more car dependant, but aggressively lower the skill requirements and aggressively increasing the car speeds.
CityNerd asked how many pfps do you see of people in their cars? Then I started noticing it a lot and many of them were Americans. Also, how many people post videos of them talking in their cars even while driving. Or looking at the camera too much while driving.
good luck finding a place on the train to stow your luggage if everyone else if going at the same time! I share the same train for my commute and some days the cases are everywhere blocking the aisles and all...that'll probably be the day you need to go to the airport! depressing.
100 times per day a vehicle crashes into a building in the US????? If this happens in Germany you could read nationwide in the newspaper of such an accident. And I don't remember having read nearly as much accidents of this kind (based on the population)
@@lagunitoast As dumb as american drivers are on the whole, and as an american myself, I still wouldn't say "most" americans do those things while driving. Also I never owned an automatic transmission vehicle since I started driving in 2003, until 2 years ago. Manuals are easy to drive, nothing hard about it.
When im driving to or from work at night with minimal drivers, i notice i prefer to drive SLOWER than the speed limit, as it feels safer and is just more enjoyable. As soon as day hits and the roads wake up, there is just a mad dash of people going everywhere to fast. it takes away from the fun of just driving and enjoying the scenery.
It's nicer and easier to take in the scenery while walking, biking, or riding public transit instead. Walkability and density also incentizes building a beautiful environment with greenery more. Density and mixed zoning invites more small local shops where people can decorate their own shops. Car centric design incentizes building deserts of asphalt and super wide roads just for cars to speed by. It incentizes building giant parking lots too. Suburb HOAs and NIMBYs also forces people to make their homes or blocks look the same and bland too much. There are many videos with comments there that complain about modern ugly architecture. But they won't stop supporting car centric design and getting to a major root of the problem.
@@user-gu9yq5sj7c I would use an alternative means of transport, but my job requires a car and could send me out to a location over 100 miles from where I live.
Watch Kavernacle on dangerous problems with the cybertruck. Such as a piece on the accelerator sliding out, getting stuck, and causing the car to keep accelerating and causing drivers to not be able to brake and stop the car.
@@user-gu9yq5sj7c all cars from the factory have braking systems stronger than the motor/engine. so yes although this is somewhat dangerous, a driver should still be able to react and press the brake.
@@ezmattSure, but a vehicle that’s both braking and throttling itself is going to take longer to stop than the same vehicle that’s just braking. And that difference in time is not exactly something a driver can always account for or accommodate. And I’m in favor of putting more onus on drivers to drive carefully, but come on: you can’t expect the average person to overcome physics.
@@TheNwr1 ya true i guess thats a good point, i never really thought about unintended acceleration at speed, for some reason i only pictured it from a stop.
I moved to a small town in GA and was baffled by the fact that sidewalks are so rare. As a person who can’t afford or even needs a car, I’m forced to have to walk on streets with cars it’s nerve wracking asf. We need to normalize walking, biking, and other forms of transportation.
Under policing in my city is the reason for constant accidents across the area. It's normalized to us now. There's little consequences as well for at fault drivers because the little policing there is , they don't care to actually investigate because the city is already in disarray.
That's another reason why car centric design fails because there can't be enough policing or justice about all these car collisions or drivers that park in the bike lanes, etc. Many people and news already default to being bias for drivers already. I prefer walkability because a cop on Shifter said many cops don't care about bike theft too. Many cops are even corrupt and steal and sell bikes in the lost and found.
@@77R_ Yes, we need to solve the lack of safety in public transit too. But moving cars and many cars are deadlier weapons. It's easier to be aware and courteous around people on transit compared to drivers versus pedestrians. It's hard to communicate to drivers with their windows up and being unable to hear or when they just quickly speed off. Some drivers give punishment passes like grazing people or blowing smoke on them and just speed off and get away with it. It's hard to police this or report this or get justice about this assault from drivers too. Many drivers won't look around and see that there aren't sidewalks or bike paths everywhere that cause people to have to jaywalk. Or drivers refuse to notice when pedestrians have situations, like with disability. Then those drivers just blame non-drivers. Hopefully we can have more walkability and bike paths instead so we don't have to rely on public transit too much. Hopefully we can have a lot of public transit so it's more spacious in there to increase safety and boundaries.
Even if police wanted to there can never be enough police for all these many car collisions. It's like that in first world countries and everywhere. Police is already stretched too thin even on important things like s3x abuse on children. @موسى_7
I live in the DC area and when I have to drive I hate being in the left lane (even to turn left) because I feel like I'm annoying everyone behind me by not going 10-20mph over the limit which happens alot. It's insane how fast the roads are designed and how fast people drive around here!
the "left lane is for passing" rule doesn't apply on surface roads. I feel the need to state this because I have seen mfs argue with 100% seriousness that it does
America has a HARD ON for putting people into awkward situations and then making fun of people for being awkward. Like if you look at most social media posts usually people blame other people for doing something stupid but no one ever questions why they are in that situation to begin with??? Maybe instead of constantly throwing people into gladiator style competitive pits we could build a society where people don't have to do all this insanity. America LOVES to pin all the blame on the individual because it's easy for corporations and policy makers to avoid any blame. America is the worst of all worlds because we have all the responsibility of "freedom" with none of the benefits.
Everyone always has someone else to blame I've noticed, but *_cannot_* admit when they themselves are wrong, or admit fault when it comes down to that. People pretending that they somehow can do no wrong is really laughable and stupid.
It's been normalized for YEARS in Boston. I'm 33 and only got my license 2 years ago, the biggest reason I waited so long was because of how DANGEROUSLY everyone drives. Now that I've been driving, it's even worse than I imagined!!! Imagine this: you're going the speed limit on a main road, no cars ahead or behind you. A car approaches from a side road less than 30ft away. You'd think they'd stop and let you pass. 9/10 they're going to FLOOR it, almost spin out because they cut a turn too fast, you slam the brakes, and what was a very safe and casual drive became very dangerous very quickly. And before you even processed what happened, the car speeds off into the sun.
What's insane is that Doug Ford pushed a law through Ontario provincial parliament essentially banning all new bike lanes and compelling the removal of all bike lanes on three major arteries in Toronto.
The thing is, a LOT of people hate driving and only want the freedom to get to any point without transit logistics. This in turn will make the worse drivers raise the insurance premiums until they make human driving the worse. Then they will skip to the auto driving car leaving all the good drivers with the higher floor for insurance premiums.
I don't like cars, but I don't like American public transportation either.... I used to take the bus and light rail when I was in highschool. It would take me like over an hour to get home and it was a simple thing. As soon as I got my license and a car it only took me 10-15 minutes.... America just sucks idk. Almost everything is crumbling, unpleasant, and not really all that enjoyable.
I am tired of people using the elderly and other people with mobility challenges as arguments for unrestricted driving and parking in our cities. A street redesign project in my neighborhood got pummelled by the town criers until the plan was compromised, watered down, delayed, and in the end just half-assed implemented. They cited elderly mobility/access until they were blue in the face. But, what the complaintants really wanted was to have their own personal car commercial fantasy, no matter what. The reality is that accomodations for the people who need them are part of every plan I've seen, but for some reason that sinks to the bottom. That is why, in my opinion, initiatives to restrict or decenter cars need to lead with messaging that explicitly states how a plan will improve the lives of the elderly and mobility challenged. There needs to be a stronger pushback against the town criers.
I saw a comment on an urban video saying his aunt or someone had a disability and would faint while driving. Luckily she didn't get into an accident yet. She is forced to have to drive. Don't car people see how they endanger themselves too by forcing people who shouldn't be driving to drive? What if that disabled woman crashes into one of these car obsessed people who fight against urbanism?
Change is coming in some places. Examples London, England - there is a cost for driving into the city. They want you to take a taxi or use public transport. Salt Lake City and Washington DC - both cities included bus and bike lanes in the original design. Removing parking spaces means more room for green spaces and places to socialize. Oslo, Norway. - tax on gas-powered vehicles while electric vehicles get a sales tax break. This leads to less noise and less pollution. It is also more difficult to drive a car into a crowded Christmas market if cars are not allowed.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is striving very hard for the worst of all worlds: creating traffic congestion by narrowing roads and removing bus stop pull-ins, and indeed waging just as much a war on public transport as he is on cars. The only thing he's interested in encouraging is cycling, who don't take any notice of traffic laws at all
This stuff really grinds my gears. It took me weeks of research to find a small, aforable compqct car. They just don’t sell them in the u.s. U.s car companies only seem to make big giant death machines.
13:38 absolute irony. Literally saying they want to keep their street safe by actively keeping the street dangerous. Like I can’t believe they are stupid enough to think that reducing lanes and adding bike lanes will make it more dangerous
My dad used to work on self driving at Bosch for Benz/Daimler. The company being in Germany makes the safety required much higher than elsewhere. The technology and complexity is insanely impressive, it literally takes landmarks like houses and churches into account to know it's exact location. And all that for highways only. It really shows how far away self driving cars are from going anywhere outside straight simple safe highway roads.
It is so normalised that most people don't even register most of the violations that occur on a journey. They also don't regard their own rule breaking as anything other than taking opportunities where the law makers don't understand the realities of driving. However, they are very aware in their opinion that cyclists or pedestrians are breaking rules and this is wrong.
"Let the semi pass Look further ahead than you have to Drive with your mirrors (constantly checking)" Words of wisdom from my dad who was and is a truck driver
It's depressing to see my hometown, Toronto, Ontario featured in this video. The provincial government of Ontario has just rewritten the law in order to intercede and rip out municipally installed bike lanes. After a century of mass automobility we've yet to overcome the same fallacy. To wit, assigning precedence to drivers and driving is essential to safe, economical and efficient urban transportation.
Movies are a lie because I saw a video that said when they depicted kids walking or biking safely around in movies, the studios just rented those big areas or built fake sets.
It probably is actually exponential. That is the risk of injury/death, not momentum (or whatever that equation was, idr and I'm not going back). While it depends on many factors, increasing speed (and weight) drastically worsens the situation for the pedestrian. though it may be worth noting that the weight ratio of small vehicle to ped versus large vehicle to ped probably doesn't change a whole lot... the odds are very stacked against the pedestrian in any vehicle on pedestrian collision. You'd need a deeper study, not just looking at this physics equation and going "weight and speed increases pedestrian fatalities expoentially"
I love cars, but I am all for putting more money for a subway, a train, a tramway, bike lanes as overall it's good for the economy, sustainable, and accessible. As a young driver, I've noticed that these speed limits (in Montreal) are literally made due to horrible urban planning. Other than that, drivers nowadays are all in a "rush", have no patience, and are overall careless.
if someone who doesn't want to drive takes alternative transport it frees up a space on the road..but drivers cant see that logic. Drivers are usually to selfish to see beyond their own bonnet.
don't hate the driver, hate the person who put the speed limit there, just doing as we're told. free to overtake but that takes skill so obviously asking for too much there! lol
I recently drove home on an absurdly foggy night. The speed limit was 60, but I slowed down to 45 because I couldn't see shit. Somebody came up behind me, flashed their brights several times, and then decided to not just pass me, but actively drive me off the road.
This is a great video but the crediting of sources is so bad it comes off as at least unintentionally resembling dishonesty. Beginning at 13:56, the video presents an extended, 66-second summary of my first book, Fighting Traffic, including images I uncovered., A microscopic credit to this source appears in a corner for just six seconds - as if only one point in this video segment came from the book, rather than the entire segment. No closing credits are offered. And then the book itself is entirely omitted from the main references list, even though a summary of this book accounts for a whole chapter of this video. Instead readers are referred to a link for additional sources, while other sources that were used far less are featured in the main list. For the sake of hard-working scholars who uncovered the information you use, please do better.
I live just outside of Los Angeles and crossing the line from outside to the city is like a completely different world. You are forced to drive unlawfully or at least blur the lines of legal to get anywhere.
I live in Germany. I have an e-bike with attachable bags and a trailer I built for it. It gives me total freedom to go wherever I want to go. I don't need to drive 100km, as most of the time that something I need is also available at a distance of under 20km. It's honestly so much fun, and even lets me save time going to and from school (about 12km), as my bus starts way early in the morning and 27 minutes late after the end of school. It's faster, sure, but I can start sooner and still arrive at the same time if not sooner. And I can drive straight through forest streets, which feels like a small adventure every time. No car needed. One time I used my trailer to tow a broken lawnmower and microwave, which took 2 trip and the distance was about 3km. That was such a great experience to know I can basically do anything! And at the end of the day, just charge it with the power from our solar panels! ZERO COST!! It's actually so good that I'm not that thrilled about taking a driver's license, and I'm mostly doing it only for a cheaper insurance, not because I really need it. E-Bikes and trains are frustratingly underrated No, seriously think about trains! What would a school class do if they wanted to travel somewhere far? By bus?? By plane??? NO, by train.
It's terrifying how many people drive their cars. Recklessly and how low the bar is. I got a zero on the eye test the DMV and was still able to get my permit despite being dangerously unqualified
you think usa is bad you should try south Africa with hundreds of people forced to walk next to major roads with out any sidewalk and we are told, o there is one some where else...
Just got back from Canada around Toronto and wow was that the absolute worst driving I’ve ever seen. Glad to be in a small city in Ohio. Much better drivers here for sure.
A few days ago me and my family were in a car accident on the highway because the person behind us wasn't paying attention( everyone in my family is ok other than having concussions). Things like this make me scared to drive even when necessary
when i was in drivers ed a few years ago we were talking about speed limits. basically drive the speed limit, not too fast or too slow. and our licensed driving instructor at this highly rated driving academy that taking can lower costs of insurance and make it quicker to get your full license, said "you can drive 10-15khm above the speed limit" losing my mind
3:38 The reason people in my area don't consider driving 5-10mph over the limit speeding is because if you don't, whoever is behind you will ride your rear bumper extremely close and possibly flash their high beams at you, forcing you to either go faster or try to tune out their distraction and hope you don't get rear ended.
Im 100% for more transit, and alternatives for driving, but the issue with speeding in north america is the fact that a lot of speed limits are just dumb. Here in Canada, you have stroads that let you go 50km/h, which is usually too fast, and highways limited to 80 km/h, which is too slow. If the speed limits dont make sense to you, why would you follow them? Back when I lived in Switzerland, the few times I drove there, I noticed most highways are 120, town roads are 30-50, and surprise surprise, they managed to do it without needing stroads. Over there they set speed limits based on how people actually drive, if people tend to speed in a certain areas, they're not afraid to adjust it, because whats dangerous is not the speed, but the fact that people on the same road are going at different speeds. Edit: Speed cameras are a cash grab. They dont make the road's safer, they actually make them more dangerous. If everyone natually flows at 110 on an 80 km/h road, and then you come across a speed camera, all you've done is create a point where everyone slows down, and then you just have more people driving at different speeds. The safest speed limit is the one most people agree on.
Did Sweden ever have 80km/h highway limits? Apparently that's a thing here because of the 1970s oil crisis leading to legislation to set highway speed limits to maximize fuel efficiency, I'm curious if that was tried and dropped, or if Sweden just never took that approach to the oil crisis.
@ no Sweden had trains for people to take to save gas. Alternative modes of transportation still remain the best solution for most transportation problems.
@@themischief420 somewhat, but for a given driver speed alone doesn't really increase the risk of crashing... so yeah even if the crash is going to be worse, is it really worth it to double everyone's transport time just so some stupid driver ends up in hospital instead of a grave?
Not going to lie - this might be one of the best TH-cam videos I watched all year. Plus Toronto for the win! There is absolutely no way I am trusting the self-driving features in my Tesla. Even if it’s only a tenth of a percent chance it will mess up and cause an accident, that is an appallingly high error rate from a multi-billion dollar company owned by the worlds richest man, all of whom put their technology failure on me. Your commentary on technology introducing new problems is entirely accurate. Once the manufacturer assumes liability for anything that happens while using their self-driving, I’ll consider it… after two years of flawless performance, perhaps. For the record, I work in the software industry and don’t trust software any further than I can throw it. Certainly not with my car and my life and the lives of others.
In reference to the technology part, my car has blind spot sensors that I use every time I drive and they’re really helpful. However, I’ve noticed that I rely on them too much. I catch myself not looking over my shoulder, not checking my rear view mirror, etc. I’ve had one incident where the sensor didn’t light up when a car was next to me. Luckily that time I double checked, but it could be dangerous if it quits working unexpectedly. I kinda prefer to drive manual cars just to keep my skills sharp.
2:15 Damn, what a polite way to say "some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make". 😂 I guess that's unsurprising coming from american politician, with profit over everything else mindset and all.
I once dated someone who refused to get his license. When he had his permit he realized he was just not capable of becoming a good driver so he didn't go through with it. The downside was that his living options were extremely limited. He had to live somewhere with easy bus access to his work but also to a grocery store. And our city's public transit system absolutely sucks so that meant he was forced to live downtown which acts as a hub for a lot of the lines, but there's literally nothing there except for offices and a few apartments. He couldn't go anywhere within walking distance after 6pm because it was all closed. The city is currently talking about revamping the routes but a lot of the proposed changes would make many things worse. "No one rides this line so we'll cut it." Yeah no one rides it because it only runs every hour and sometimes doesn't even show up at all. When it ran more frequently it was more popular.
Learning to drive and taking defensive driving lessons has opened my eyes to the fact that my parents are horrible drivers. Mom, why are you in the bike lane? Dad, I KNOW you're going to turn right at this light, USE YOUR SIGNAL.
There is only one country in the world that has proper driving course system: Finland. In Finland a driver is expected to predict dangers and actually handle a car. Maybe 5% of drivers from other countries would pass Finnish test without extensive preparations. In Finland if a driver crashes on a simulator, fails to control skid in a real car, hits the cones or finishes test course exceeding given time it's a fail.
Even though I am a car enthusiast I always try to cycle if I can because it actually HURTS my car to take short trips (less than 10 minutes). As long as I am physically capable (which is nearly always) and I don't need to haul anything larger than a backpack (also nearly always), I will choose to cycle of walk. It's great for your health as well!
- bad driving is contagious - people driving like they learned how out of GTA - people driving like there's no consequences - abilities of drivers in their +70s, has diminished from their sub 50s days - everyone in Canada stressed from housing/cost of living/politics/brain rot/just living May we live in interesting times
I'm one of those people who believe that speeding isn't the issue because I usually only do it on fairly clear roads or to keep with traffic. I believe that speeding only becomes an issue when you're trying to do it in traffic that's too congested or when you're going too fast compared to the other drivers.
I'm a Phoenix, AZ native, and the speeding habit out here is atrocious. I love driving my car, but I'm also guilty of speeding with everyone else. Sometimes the freeways feel like gridlock traffic at 80mph. I'm just trying to get to work every day. We could all use a chill pill and slow down and stop cutting each other off. Also, you're supposed to stop BEHIND the crosswalk at an intersection.
As a cross country truck driver I can definitely say most people don’t care about speed limits, safe following distance, or really any of the rules on the road….. Have people pass me well over 100mph many times a day…..
People get mad at me when I go the speed limit. I really don't understand that. One dude almost wrecked behind me because I was doing just that and refused to go his speed. There was a car next to me too, so his speed caused him to weave in traffic unsafe like because he had to avoid me and the others. It amazing me how some people act like that.
My biggest issue is people who block roads and entrances when waiting at a light. Like if there’s a street I’m not gonna block it I’ll leave it open so people can turn into it or a gas station
I love driving. I take the bus to work relatively often. I used to daily drive a manual transmission car, and I know how to drive a motorcycle. I have noticed in myself that i tend to drive much better in my stick shift. It kind of forces you to pay attention to the road and your car. I think this may also contribute to the Europe/NA divide
I drove in Japan expecting the drivers to have better manners and obey the speed limit, but nope, I got tailgated, people sped past me, and generally were quite aggressive on the streets and roads. I really didn't encounter Traffic while driving, but I was mostly in Tohoku and Shikoku where the populations are not as large. But I have seen bad traffic on some highways in Japan while on the bus.
One of the issues is that if us cities stray from american traffic engineer's guidelines or best practices its possiable for the city to be held liabe for damages resulting from crashes on noncompliant streets or roads. Thus most cities are not only super carcentric to begin with thus there would be natural resistance to anything the makes car travel harder but they are too afraid of getting sued.
I'm 58 and never had a drivers license. But yeah, I live in the Netherlands. What hardly ever is mentioned btw: I hate the noise of cars, also EV's, because it's the sound the tires make.
I think the problem with speed cameras is that they just don't work to lower speed. They lower the speed around the camera and might slow down people who don't know where they are but they don't slow down local commuters, at least in Maryland. My morning commute was going 30ish over the limit with everyone else until a camera came up then we would all slow down and repeat😭😂
People not signaling reminds me daily that people suck at driving.
I don’t let people merge unless they use their goddam blinker.
@Silver77cyn They'll force a merge and honk at you for "being a bad driver"
Also those same people will slam on the gas to prevent you from merging in front of them if you do signal
People? How about MTA bus and NYC Sanitation drivers? Zero accountability.
I always use my signal, even in parking lots and even when I'm on a bike. It doesn't matter what the vehicle is, I signal, whether with lights or with hand signals.
Drivers hate other drivers but are so thoughtless about what causes traffic that when they see a bike lane, they all of a sudden have great solidarity with other drivers and believe that bike lanes, and not themselves, cause traffic.
A bike lane that is barely used at all will undoubtedly cause more traffic when it takes the place of a lane for cars
@@77R_ its barely used cus the bike lane itself is poorly done, not protected, and drivers still suck at driving and go OUT THEIR WAY to bully and intimidate bikers, walkers, people waiting at the bus ect ect people are literally getting hit on sidewalks, do we get rid of sidewalks cus theyre useless and people die in them? the issue IS the car itself
@@stephanos6128 I don’t know if the bully part is even a thing or not, but my time driving in the city with a barely used bike lane has shown me that there’s barely any cars that bully bikers that do ride on those lanes. In fact, they are so unused, they exacerbate jams on the streets that have them.
@@stephanos6128 “people are literally getting hit on sidewalks” I think that’s just murder if cars go out of the road and strike pedestrians. I also have never seen that in the city I drive in and through the other cities I’ve traveled through, I don’t really think it happens unless the drivers is out for blood.
@@stephanos6128 But I do agree though, the bike lane should be protected, but it cannot be the only thing that encourages its use. The fact that it, by itself, is not being used speaks to how unpopular it must be in the city I drive through.
As a car enthusiast I support more bike lanes and transit. I still enjoy driving, but some people just shouldn't drive. Plus less wear and tear on the car, I can save it for roadtrips and fun trips. Rather than the mundane trips for every single thing.
Plus the roads will stay smooth and nice for when you want to drive
Same here. I've been a car lover for my whole life but I love using my bike to get around. Makes me healthier, saves me money, bike commuting is way more fun; win all around for me. Car commuting is boring as hell and I avoid it whenever I can
I'm also a lifelong car nut and I love that I'm fortunate enough to live in a walkable neighborhood, although my city has poor public transit so I still have to drive to work
Even as a car enthusiast I always try to cycle if I can because it actually HURTS my car to take short trips (less than 10 minutes). As long as I am physically capable (which is nearly always) and I don't need to haul anything larger than a backpack (also nearly always), I will choose to cycle of walk.
and now they want to fix pollution with EVs instead of just reducing the number of cars which is just such a shame. they are making cars boring without solving any of the issues.
I started driving earlier this year after 23 years of public transit, and let me tell you, the lack of attention and communication on the roads is what sends people to the pearly gates. I almost got slammed by a semi truck who decided that running a red could save more time than waiting for 40 seconds at most. My insurance tells me that even with 6 months of driving experience, my driving was safer than 25% of drivers 😬😬😬 Stay safe out there non car conformists
Something to consider about semis in particular is that if the truck is close to the light they are gonna run it every time since slamming on the brakes may destroy their cargo or not actually stop the truck outside of the intersection. It's not right, but until the speeds are lowered the trucks will continue to run lights.
I have been driving the Ohio turnpike for over 20 years. I used to always see semis driving 60-65 mph in the rightmost lane, sometimes the center lane if passing. These days it’s common to see semis barreling down the leftmost lane at 75-85 mph. It’s crazy, and it’s just what we have to live and die with. I hate it. It makes me want to [censored for youtube].
My driving is likely safer than at least 50% of drivers if not greater.
i am 30 and only just now getting my permit - your comment gave me some hope that at the very least i will also be a safer driver than most people because i am so nervous to drive and will likely be a very cautious driver.
@@Lunarl4ndr There's a reason that those type of cars have their own set of licenses separate from normal cars, they have to be more skilled than normal drivers. When approaching those lights they have to already slow down a bit to accommodate the time it takes to stop and not just slamming the break like a damn doofus. Skilled drivers can approximate when the light will turn red and a yellow light is there for buffer to stop the vehicle. Remember yellow doesn't mean "Hurry up slam those gas pedal deep guys!"
It staggers me how many people don’t get how indicators need to be used to indicate a future intent, not indicating what you’re already doing.
think that's a new skillset required; to predict what the idiot infront is going to do and avoid an accident. Take it as a warning that they are oblivious to their surroundings.
One of my biggest pet peeves is drivers constantly complaining about how reckless and entitled cyclists are while they themselves drive, park, and dump snow into their bike lanes. Rules for thee, but not for me.
Share the road, we are all humans here
It's even more hypocritical because there are hardly pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and trains in many places.
In many places, the streets are empty except for a lot of cars.
It's moving cars that are dangerous, scary, and more annoying. Even to other drivers.
I hate how drivers won't look around and see that there aren't sidewalks and bike paths everywhere so that's why people have to jaywalk sometimes.
Then they just blame non-drivers.
Too many innocent people are charged by policemen or face police brutality because of having to jaywalk.
It disproportionately affects African Americans.
as someone who frequently rides a bike I second this. Also, I find some drivers get very annoyed if I am in their way (where I live the bike lane goes in between straight and right turning lanes). I’m sorry but it’s not my fault that Florida’s DOT is horrible at designing bike lanes. And also the effort it takes to drive a car is so much less than using a bike. So is it really that big of a deal they had to slow down slightly to not hit me?
@@user-gu9yq5sj7cIt’s ridiculous that places won’t build safe pedestrian crossings for literal miles and then criminalize jaywalking.
Definitely. One reason people on bicycles can roll through stop signs consequence free is because they're on a machine that weights 60 pounds (about 300 including the rider themselves) and those things travel far slower than cars. Less mass, less velocity, far lower kinetic energy; safer for everyone and thus there is little to no consequence on the surroundings for someone on a bike to roll through a stop sign (provided it's safe for the person on the bike to proceed). In fact letting people on bikes roll through stop signs and thus spending less time in danger is better for everyone
I can't tell you the number of times I have taken my life into my own hands by legally crossing the street. One guy even laughed as I had to jump back from him barrelling down on me. He didn't care.
There have been drivers who just started driving when the light was green for them and they drove too close to me. They didn't care about pedestrians or didn't use sense.
Instead they just blindly followed the signal lights and were just eager to go.
I've seen many pedestrians and myself unable to cross super wide roads in time before the light changed.
They don't give pedestrians enough time, roads are so wide, and some people can't move fast. They could be disabled, old, pushing strollers, or carrying something heavy.
I hate how many drivers won't look at the situations of pedestrians and won't use sense.
It's hard to communicate to drivers because their windows are up and they can't hear or they drive off too fast.
But drivers can express anger at non-drivers by honking, yelling at people, doing punishment passes like driving too close on purpose then speeding off and getting away with it.
"Some of you may die, but it's a sacrafice I'm willing to make"
One of the biggest issues I see (in Australia) is that there is never any consequences for people that cause car crashes and/or kill people. Recently near me there was the case of a woman picking her kids up from school, doing a u-turn and somehow crashing over the nature strip, through the fence and into the school grounds, hitting a group of primary school kids and killing at least one of them. She was released with no charge. This seems to be the default for all serious "accidents". 🙁
Bad driving is hard to police & therefore fine but speeding is easy to police so easy to fine so that is where the attention by police & governments goes - into revenue collecting & not fixing bad driving behaviours.
@@TheFalconerNZ speeding is a bad driving behaviour...
@@n3lis94 It CAN be but a car driving 20 km over the speed limit while the driver is paying FULL attention to driving is far safer than a car driving 20 km under the speed limit when the driver is NOT paying full attention to driving like texting, daydreaming or looking over their shoulder to talk to the person in the back seat. There are too many 'Passengers' sitting in the driver's seat & this is the Bad Driving Behaviour that needs to be changed.
My last car was written off by a 10 km rear ending at a roundabout as we slowly moved forward car length at a time when the drive behind me wasn't paying attention because they were talking to the person sitting in the seat beside them.
40 years ago I drove over 21,000 kms (over 3 years as I drove from home to university) doing 80 km/h over the open road 80 km/h speed limit without a single incident let alone an accident. I got my share of tickets for it but NEVER came close to having an accident because I was taught that driving is a full time activity that requires 100% attention 100% of the time.
My instructor was a retired traffic cop who taught me both how to drive legally & illegally saying it is safer sometimes to actually drive illegal. And after 40 plus years of driving as he taught me has keep me nearly accident free, (only 2 & both at intersections & not my fault) & his teaching me how to handle my car at speed has saved me on 2 other occasions.
So yes speeding can be a bad behaviour but bad driving is far worse.
@TheFalconerNZ speeding is always a bad driving behaviour and yes there are also many others. Oh yeah I'm not gonna read all pf that ofc that's waay to much text man.
I also don't think you realise what impact the 2 has in E=0.5mv^2
@@TheFalconerNZAdmittedly for police it gets a bit messy. Hard to know if the person who just ran the red and almost hit a pedestrian, will actually slow down if you go after them.
That said….it’s pretty easy for governments. At least it should be. There’s cameras everywhere and they are readily used to ding people for innocuous nonsense. They should be able to revoke someone’s license for running over and killing a child.
Damn, the bar really is that low.
This is my belief it's crazy how we planned cities around everyone having access to a car and nowadays people are just batshit crazy when driving. People work too many hours, not have adequate vacation and rest time and all the stress of traffic can be a toxic concoction.
Just lack of sleep too, and the high cost of living just means more improperly maintained vehicles.
Car culture in America is not just normalised - IT IS ENFORCED. Any move to reduce car dependency in America is blocked by lobbyists for oil companies, car manufacturers, fire departments along with other first responders, city councils, local businesses & residents. They say it will hurt their profits, it will increase response times, it will increase city spending or it will remove roadside parking. They say anything that will allow them to sit in their car & get fatter. America amazes me as I have seen pictures where the the access to a gym from the parking lot is on top of a 3 to 5 meter rise & there is an external escalator beside the steps to take people up & down the rise instead of giving them a few moments more exercise.
Okay- I honestly never really thought about how de-car-ifying cities would effect first responders (well, firefighters and ambulances.). I always figured it'd be a net good to have everything be less car dependent, and I still think that's the case, but... What about first responders?
Maybe some sort of unique, 'emergency lanes' that could be exclusive to them, or something, that COULD run through parks and the like, but are closed off to the general public? Maybe some sort of trolly system, that have stops at every local fire station and hospital, with specially designed carts that would basically act as ambulances, and an actual ambulance and fire truck parked at every stop, so that firefighters and paramedics could take the trolly from the fire station or whatever, to the nearest stop to the emergency, then hop into the fire truck or ambulance, and drive it the rest of the way?
Like, all the other lobbying is complete B.S., but for emergency services? Those save lives too- How do we improve the roads so there are less deaths in car crashes, or even removing roads altogether, while keeping emergency services just as, if not more, available?
Maybe some non-road solution entirely? Maybe firetrucks could be replaced entirely with helicopters or planes, that would dump water, or some other fire-"R-word"-ant onto fires the same way trucks would with hoses? Give firefighters parachutes so they could quickly get to the ground and chop through the building to save lives? Would a parachute be able to hold someone, wearing a full fire-fighter suit, with an fire-ax strapped to their back, in the first place?
Idk, I feel this maybe needs to be thought more of.
Another indicator of car culture in America is how pretty much all news titles are bias for cars, just call it accidents as if nothing can be done about it, biasly blame non-drivers, or not call for people to change things by redesigning the streets instead.
I think I saw an urban yt-er talk about this bias and apathy in the news.
It backwards how gyms have treadmills and cycling stations, but people won't provide walkability and more bike paths.
Then gyms make you pay for it too. Instead of it being free walkable and bikeable spaces in public.
Feels dystopian.
Some other video on another channel showed that fire trucks in the USA are way oversized for absolutely no reason. Every time someone has a defense against reducing lanes “it will affect emergency vehicles!” Bullshit, emergency vehicles will be way faster anyway with less overall vehicles on the road plus they can go on bike lanes and sidewalks if needed. And fire trucks don’t need to be larger than a city bus
@@chaoticsilver8442 This has been discussed in other videos, but the short answer is that fire truck designs don't have to be as wide or as big as they are in North America, and other places have smaller fire trucks that do the job just fine.
@@chaoticsilver8442 it has been thought of. The Netherlands has all of its emergency equipment and considerations built physically into its infrastructure. Not Just Bikes made a video a few months back about it, to the point where response times are actually *faster* than here in the US, even accounting for distance. It's entirely possible to integrate emergency infrastructure into city infrastructure, the problem is that it requires lawmakers to actually, yknow, care, and for emergency services here in the US to lose all of their complacency.
Collisions are rare for the average person, but near misses are not.
And yes, road design, traffic light cycles, and even living conditions (mainly distance from home / work, and lack of reliable public transit) do contribute to the dangerious roads. And I'm saying this as someone who enjoys driving, but even I find it ridiculious that (at least in the US) that if you don't have a license, you almost can't live here. Being a rideshare drive where I live was eye opening to how stuck a lot of people are when driving is not an option for them.
I think every single time I go out in rush hour I have a near miss. It's why I try ny best to avoid rush hour.
And I hate driving this time of year because of the holiday traffic from stressed holiday drivers.
I think reminding people that even though they've done it a thousand times they're operating a 2 ton machine that can and will easily kill a person would do alot of good.
There's no reason to run the lights or cut people off and no reason to not look and pay attention.
You're operating heavy machinery, not washing dishes. Treat it with the respect it deserves.
They would never know what it's like walking on a dangerous road/intersection, because they don't do it.
Many drivers who don't use sidewalks much, don't bike, and don't use public transit also think that there are sidewalks everywhere when there isn't.
I've seen some car people say that.
They then get mad that people have to jaywalk sometimes because there aren't sidewalks everywhere.
Those drivers won't look and see that there aren't sidewalks or bike paths everywhere.
It's hard to tell them too because they have their windows up and can't hear you or they are speeding by too fast.
My main transportation is by car, i always give pedestrians respect. Some car drivers are so far gone they dont see people as humans from the inside of their cars pov.
In the US you really only have to be a “good driver” one time and that’s to get your drivers license. you can have one for the rest of your life as long as pay to renew it even you have a terrible driving record
You don't even have to be "good" one time, just barely competent.
@@ryancraig2795exactly! We make ourselves more and more car dependant, but aggressively lower the skill requirements and aggressively increasing the car speeds.
Just like here in Iraq
What a weird culture we have around cars in the US
CityNerd asked how many pfps do you see of people in their cars? Then I started noticing it a lot and many of them were Americans.
Also, how many people post videos of them talking in their cars even while driving. Or looking at the camera too much while driving.
its yet again caused by oligarchy and their propaganda of why everyone needs a car, US history is written by oligarchs
I am taking the train to the airport instead of driving.
Sadly my city has no train infrastructure for anything except for cargo despite having a train station and being built on trains. Oof
Can i borrow it? mine just got totaled by a careless parked car one night when i was driving with no lights on
good luck finding a place on the train to stow your luggage if everyone else if going at the same time! I share the same train for my commute and some days the cases are everywhere blocking the aisles and all...that'll probably be the day you need to go to the airport! depressing.
100 times per day a vehicle crashes into a building in the US????? If this happens in Germany you could read nationwide in the newspaper of such an accident. And I don't remember having read nearly as much accidents of this kind (based on the population)
It is because of them driving an automatic gearbox. We Dutch and you Germans etc mostly drive a hand shifted car.
@@gerhard6105 Copout answer - you can still get going super fast and then leave the road with a manual transmission
@@blitzn00dle50 yes but you cant do your makeup, text, or eat your breakfast while driving like most americans do
@@lagunitoast As dumb as american drivers are on the whole, and as an american myself, I still wouldn't say "most" americans do those things while driving. Also I never owned an automatic transmission vehicle since I started driving in 2003, until 2 years ago. Manuals are easy to drive, nothing hard about it.
When im driving to or from work at night with minimal drivers, i notice i prefer to drive SLOWER than the speed limit, as it feels safer and is just more enjoyable. As soon as day hits and the roads wake up, there is just a mad dash of people going everywhere to fast. it takes away from the fun of just driving and enjoying the scenery.
Don’t drive under the speed limit in the passing lane, or impede the passing lane. All it does is cause accidents.
@@Worldaffairslover I'm talking about 3am in the morning when there are no other cars
@@Worldaffairsloverso the accidents are caused by safe slower drivers, somehow?
It's nicer and easier to take in the scenery while walking, biking, or riding public transit instead.
Walkability and density also incentizes building a beautiful environment with greenery more.
Density and mixed zoning invites more small local shops where people can decorate their own shops.
Car centric design incentizes building deserts of asphalt and super wide roads just for cars to speed by.
It incentizes building giant parking lots too.
Suburb HOAs and NIMBYs also forces people to make their homes or blocks look the same and bland too much.
There are many videos with comments there that complain about modern ugly architecture.
But they won't stop supporting car centric design and getting to a major root of the problem.
@@user-gu9yq5sj7c I would use an alternative means of transport, but my job requires a car and could send me out to a location over 100 miles from where I live.
This is why having good public transport is important
and that's why they don't provide it so you have to keep driving.
Bad cars have also become normalised.
Watch Kavernacle on dangerous problems with the cybertruck.
Such as a piece on the accelerator sliding out, getting stuck, and causing the car to keep accelerating and causing drivers to not be able to brake and stop the car.
@@user-gu9yq5sj7c all cars from the factory have braking systems stronger than the motor/engine. so yes although this is somewhat dangerous, a driver should still be able to react and press the brake.
@@ezmattSure, but a vehicle that’s both braking and throttling itself is going to take longer to stop than the same vehicle that’s just braking. And that difference in time is not exactly something a driver can always account for or accommodate.
And I’m in favor of putting more onus on drivers to drive carefully, but come on: you can’t expect the average person to overcome physics.
@@TheNwr1 ya true i guess thats a good point, i never really thought about unintended acceleration at speed, for some reason i only pictured it from a stop.
I moved to a small town in GA and was baffled by the fact that sidewalks are so rare. As a person who can’t afford or even needs a car, I’m forced to have to walk on streets with cars it’s nerve wracking asf. We need to normalize walking, biking, and other forms of transportation.
I saw someone riding a horse near like Greenville GA almost 2 years ago I'd say.
Most of this country is just flat plains and deserts and yet refuse to make reliable trains
Under policing in my city is the reason for constant accidents across the area. It's normalized to us now. There's little consequences as well for at fault drivers because the little policing there is , they don't care to actually investigate because the city is already in disarray.
And that will also be the cause of unsafe public transit, meaning less people would be willing to use it
Sound like a third world country with a tiny government
That's another reason why car centric design fails because there can't be enough policing or justice about all these car collisions or drivers that park in the bike lanes, etc.
Many people and news already default to being bias for drivers already.
I prefer walkability because a cop on Shifter said many cops don't care about bike theft too.
Many cops are even corrupt and steal and sell bikes in the lost and found.
@@77R_ Yes, we need to solve the lack of safety in public transit too.
But moving cars and many cars are deadlier weapons.
It's easier to be aware and courteous around people on transit compared to drivers versus pedestrians.
It's hard to communicate to drivers with their windows up and being unable to hear or when they just quickly speed off.
Some drivers give punishment passes like grazing people or blowing smoke on them and just speed off and get away with it.
It's hard to police this or report this or get justice about this assault from drivers too.
Many drivers won't look around and see that there aren't sidewalks or bike paths everywhere that cause people to have to jaywalk.
Or drivers refuse to notice when pedestrians have situations, like with disability.
Then those drivers just blame non-drivers.
Hopefully we can have more walkability and bike paths instead so we don't have to rely on public transit too much.
Hopefully we can have a lot of public transit so it's more spacious in there to increase safety and boundaries.
Even if police wanted to there can never be enough police for all these many car collisions. It's like that in first world countries and everywhere. Police is already stretched too thin even on important things like s3x abuse on children. @موسى_7
Bro is carrying the urbanist movement on his back
I commemorate him for it...i dont see alotta folks bringing car centric awareness to the table..hopefully the movement grows
I live in the DC area and when I have to drive I hate being in the left lane (even to turn left) because I feel like I'm annoying everyone behind me by not going 10-20mph over the limit which happens alot. It's insane how fast the roads are designed and how fast people drive around here!
Just stick to the speed limit. It's their problem, not yours. Regards from a Dutch.
Just stick to the speed limit. It's their problem, not yours. Regards from a Dutch.
Just stick to the speed limit. It's their problem, not yours. Regards from a Dutch.
the "left lane is for passing" rule doesn't apply on surface roads. I feel the need to state this because I have seen mfs argue with 100% seriousness that it does
America has a HARD ON for putting people into awkward situations and then making fun of people for being awkward.
Like if you look at most social media posts usually people blame other people for doing something stupid but no one ever questions why they are in that situation to begin with??? Maybe instead of constantly throwing people into gladiator style competitive pits we could build a society where people don't have to do all this insanity.
America LOVES to pin all the blame on the individual because it's easy for corporations and policy makers to avoid any blame.
America is the worst of all worlds because we have all the responsibility of "freedom" with none of the benefits.
Everyone always has someone else to blame I've noticed, but *_cannot_* admit when they themselves are wrong, or admit fault when it comes down to that. People pretending that they somehow can do no wrong is really laughable and stupid.
As a pedestrian, nothing infuriates me more than a stupid driver. I've flipped the bird at many of them. I don't care. My life is on the line.
It's pedestrians had medieval polehammers or Dane Axes, perhaps drivers would think twice about how they drive
@@موسى_7or just guns
then just drive lol
It's been normalized for YEARS in Boston. I'm 33 and only got my license 2 years ago, the biggest reason I waited so long was because of how DANGEROUSLY everyone drives. Now that I've been driving, it's even worse than I imagined!!! Imagine this: you're going the speed limit on a main road, no cars ahead or behind you. A car approaches from a side road less than 30ft away. You'd think they'd stop and let you pass. 9/10 they're going to FLOOR it, almost spin out because they cut a turn too fast, you slam the brakes, and what was a very safe and casual drive became very dangerous very quickly. And before you even processed what happened, the car speeds off into the sun.
It's like most people in America are too stupid to handle the simplest of tasks.
Great video!
What's insane is that Doug Ford pushed a law through Ontario provincial parliament essentially banning all new bike lanes and compelling the removal of all bike lanes on three major arteries in Toronto.
Wake up! Flurf uploaded about bad urban planning
The thing is, a LOT of people hate driving and only want the freedom to get to any point without transit logistics. This in turn will make the worse drivers raise the insurance premiums until they make human driving the worse. Then they will skip to the auto driving car leaving all the good drivers with the higher floor for insurance premiums.
I don't like cars, but I don't like American public transportation either.... I used to take the bus and light rail when I was in highschool. It would take me like over an hour to get home and it was a simple thing. As soon as I got my license and a car it only took me 10-15 minutes....
America just sucks idk. Almost everything is crumbling, unpleasant, and not really all that enjoyable.
I am tired of people using the elderly and other people with mobility challenges as arguments for unrestricted driving and parking in our cities. A street redesign project in my neighborhood got pummelled by the town criers until the plan was compromised, watered down, delayed, and in the end just half-assed implemented. They cited elderly mobility/access until they were blue in the face. But, what the complaintants really wanted was to have their own personal car commercial fantasy, no matter what. The reality is that accomodations for the people who need them are part of every plan I've seen, but for some reason that sinks to the bottom. That is why, in my opinion, initiatives to restrict or decenter cars need to lead with messaging that explicitly states how a plan will improve the lives of the elderly and mobility challenged. There needs to be a stronger pushback against the town criers.
I saw a comment on an urban video saying his aunt or someone had a disability and would faint while driving. Luckily she didn't get into an accident yet. She is forced to have to drive.
Don't car people see how they endanger themselves too by forcing people who shouldn't be driving to drive?
What if that disabled woman crashes into one of these car obsessed people who fight against urbanism?
Change is coming in some places.
Examples
London, England - there is a cost for driving into the city. They want you to take a taxi or use public transport.
Salt Lake City and Washington DC - both cities included bus and bike lanes in the original design. Removing parking spaces means more room for green spaces and places to socialize.
Oslo, Norway. - tax on gas-powered vehicles while electric vehicles get a sales tax break. This leads to less noise and less pollution.
It is also more difficult to drive a car into a crowded Christmas market if cars are not allowed.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan is striving very hard for the worst of all worlds: creating traffic congestion by narrowing roads and removing bus stop pull-ins, and indeed waging just as much a war on public transport as he is on cars. The only thing he's interested in encouraging is cycling, who don't take any notice of traffic laws at all
This stuff really grinds my gears. It took me weeks of research to find a small, aforable compqct car. They just don’t sell them in the u.s. U.s car companies only seem to make big giant death machines.
13:38 absolute irony. Literally saying they want to keep their street safe by actively keeping the street dangerous. Like I can’t believe they are stupid enough to think that reducing lanes and adding bike lanes will make it more dangerous
My dad used to work on self driving at Bosch for Benz/Daimler.
The company being in Germany makes the safety required much higher than elsewhere.
The technology and complexity is insanely impressive, it literally takes landmarks like houses and churches into account to know it's exact location.
And all that for highways only.
It really shows how far away self driving cars are from going anywhere outside straight simple safe highway roads.
All because people have had their viable alternatives to driving taken away from them.
It is so normalised that most people don't even register most of the violations that occur on a journey. They also don't regard their own rule breaking as anything other than taking opportunities where the law makers don't understand the realities of driving. However, they are very aware in their opinion that cyclists or pedestrians are breaking rules and this is wrong.
Should everyone be driving? No
Does everyone have the potential to learn how to drive safely? Yes
Will they? Probably not
As an American, not having a car basically means you're under house arrest....
"Let the semi pass
Look further ahead than you have to
Drive with your mirrors (constantly checking)"
Words of wisdom from my dad who was and is a truck driver
It's depressing to see my hometown, Toronto, Ontario featured in this video. The provincial government of Ontario has just rewritten the law in order to intercede and rip out municipally installed bike lanes. After a century of mass automobility we've yet to overcome the same fallacy. To wit, assigning precedence to drivers and driving is essential to safe, economical and efficient urban transportation.
Note from kid me... "Powered zip lines!" I don't know much about it, but flawless logic in my mind XD
In 2004, I rode my bicycle 50 miles every day without a care in the world. Twenty years later, doing that would be sue0side.
Movies are a lie because I saw a video that said when they depicted kids walking or biking safely around in movies, the studios just rented those big areas or built fake sets.
3:25 quadratically, not exponentially.
this hyperbole needs to get back to parabola status.
hahahahaha
It probably is actually exponential. That is the risk of injury/death, not momentum (or whatever that equation was, idr and I'm not going back). While it depends on many factors, increasing speed (and weight) drastically worsens the situation for the pedestrian. though it may be worth noting that the weight ratio of small vehicle to ped versus large vehicle to ped probably doesn't change a whole lot... the odds are very stacked against the pedestrian in any vehicle on pedestrian collision.
You'd need a deeper study, not just looking at this physics equation and going "weight and speed increases pedestrian fatalities expoentially"
I love cars, but I am all for putting more money for a subway, a train, a tramway, bike lanes as overall it's good for the economy, sustainable, and accessible. As a young driver, I've noticed that these speed limits (in Montreal) are literally made due to horrible urban planning. Other than that, drivers nowadays are all in a "rush", have no patience, and are overall careless.
if someone who doesn't want to drive takes alternative transport it frees up a space on the road..but drivers cant see that logic. Drivers are usually to selfish to see beyond their own bonnet.
I drive the speed limit and people can deal with it. Don't care if every "local" thinks I'm holding them up.
don't hate the driver, hate the person who put the speed limit there, just doing as we're told. free to overtake but that takes skill so obviously asking for too much there! lol
I recently drove home on an absurdly foggy night. The speed limit was 60, but I slowed down to 45 because I couldn't see shit.
Somebody came up behind me, flashed their brights several times, and then decided to not just pass me, but actively drive me off the road.
This is a great video but the crediting of sources is so bad it comes off as at least unintentionally resembling dishonesty. Beginning at 13:56, the video presents an extended, 66-second summary of my first book, Fighting Traffic, including images I uncovered., A microscopic credit to this source appears in a corner for just six seconds - as if only one point in this video segment came from the book, rather than the entire segment. No closing credits are offered. And then the book itself is entirely omitted from the main references list, even though a summary of this book accounts for a whole chapter of this video. Instead readers are referred to a link for additional sources, while other sources that were used far less are featured in the main list. For the sake of hard-working scholars who uncovered the information you use, please do better.
I live just outside of Los Angeles and crossing the line from outside to the city is like a completely different world. You are forced to drive unlawfully or at least blur the lines of legal to get anywhere.
Nowadays, you are more likely to be punished for not speeding by other drivers. I have been tailgated and cut off for following speed limits.
I live in Germany.
I have an e-bike with attachable bags and a trailer I built for it. It gives me total freedom to go wherever I want to go.
I don't need to drive 100km, as most of the time that something I need is also available at a distance of under 20km.
It's honestly so much fun, and even lets me save time going to and from school (about 12km), as my bus starts way early in the morning and 27 minutes late after the end of school. It's faster, sure, but I can start sooner and still arrive at the same time if not sooner.
And I can drive straight through forest streets, which feels like a small adventure every time. No car needed.
One time I used my trailer to tow a broken lawnmower and microwave, which took 2 trip and the distance was about 3km. That was such a great experience to know I can basically do anything!
And at the end of the day, just charge it with the power from our solar panels! ZERO COST!!
It's actually so good that I'm not that thrilled about taking a driver's license, and I'm mostly doing it only for a cheaper insurance, not because I really need it.
E-Bikes and trains are frustratingly underrated
No, seriously think about trains! What would a school class do if they wanted to travel somewhere far? By bus?? By plane??? NO, by train.
It's terrifying how many people drive their cars. Recklessly and how low the bar is. I got a zero on the eye test the DMV and was still able to get my permit despite being dangerously unqualified
When a car crashed, we blame the car and not the driver
The people we all try to avoid on the roads are the ones downvoting this video 😂
I will have you knowit has been two months since my last car crash.
You don't need gas for a bike, which is a freedom from spending cash on your transportation
lobby, lobby, lobby. If everyone who watched this video fought hard enough, there wouldn't even be the need to make it
you think usa is bad you should try south Africa with hundreds of people forced to walk next to major roads with out any sidewalk and we are told, o there is one some where else...
Same in Iraq
we are not comparing 3rd and 1st world countries (apples and oranges) though
@@CrazyKraut20 haha you never been to south Africa? its a 1st world country in many ways
Just got back from Canada around Toronto and wow was that the absolute worst driving I’ve ever seen. Glad to be in a small city in Ohio. Much better drivers here for sure.
Agreed.
Pay attention to the road AND the drivers around you. Don't just live in your own little bubble.
drivers when they're punished for breaking the rules they're legally obliged to follow: 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬
A few days ago me and my family were in a car accident on the highway because the person behind us wasn't paying attention( everyone in my family is ok other than having concussions). Things like this make me scared to drive even when necessary
2 strikes and you can't drive!
my buddies say I drive like a grandma. I tell them, I drive like a sane person
amazing video! when i looked and saw the video didnt have 1mil+ views i was shocked! the quality is amazing!
My guess is you didn't look at the upload date either 😂
when i was in drivers ed a few years ago we were talking about speed limits. basically drive the speed limit, not too fast or too slow. and our licensed driving instructor at this highly rated driving academy that taking can lower costs of insurance and make it quicker to get your full license, said "you can drive 10-15khm above the speed limit"
losing my mind
10:17
That's an Iranian Taxi!! Specifically an inter-city taxi!!
Didn't expect to see that in this video lool
this video feels SO Not Just Bikes inspired and i am HERE for it
3:38 The reason people in my area don't consider driving 5-10mph over the limit speeding is because if you don't, whoever is behind you will ride your rear bumper extremely close and possibly flash their high beams at you, forcing you to either go faster or try to tune out their distraction and hope you don't get rear ended.
I can't tell you how much I resonate with this video. What a great breakdown!
Im 100% for more transit, and alternatives for driving, but the issue with speeding in north america is the fact that a lot of speed limits are just dumb. Here in Canada, you have stroads that let you go 50km/h, which is usually too fast, and highways limited to 80 km/h, which is too slow. If the speed limits dont make sense to you, why would you follow them? Back when I lived in Switzerland, the few times I drove there, I noticed most highways are 120, town roads are 30-50, and surprise surprise, they managed to do it without needing stroads. Over there they set speed limits based on how people actually drive, if people tend to speed in a certain areas, they're not afraid to adjust it, because whats dangerous is not the speed, but the fact that people on the same road are going at different speeds.
Edit: Speed cameras are a cash grab. They dont make the road's safer, they actually make them more dangerous. If everyone natually flows at 110 on an 80 km/h road, and then you come across a speed camera, all you've done is create a point where everyone slows down, and then you just have more people driving at different speeds. The safest speed limit is the one most people agree on.
Did Sweden ever have 80km/h highway limits? Apparently that's a thing here because of the 1970s oil crisis leading to legislation to set highway speed limits to maximize fuel efficiency, I'm curious if that was tried and dropped, or if Sweden just never took that approach to the oil crisis.
@ no Sweden had trains for people to take to save gas. Alternative modes of transportation still remain the best solution for most transportation problems.
id argue that the speed is very much a part of the danger, what? crashing at 60 is going to be pretty different from a crash at 120
@@themischief420 somewhat, but for a given driver speed alone doesn't really increase the risk of crashing... so yeah even if the crash is going to be worse, is it really worth it to double everyone's transport time just so some stupid driver ends up in hospital instead of a grave?
Not going to lie - this might be one of the best TH-cam videos I watched all year. Plus Toronto for the win!
There is absolutely no way I am trusting the self-driving features in my Tesla. Even if it’s only a tenth of a percent chance it will mess up and cause an accident, that is an appallingly high error rate from a multi-billion dollar company owned by the worlds richest man, all of whom put their technology failure on me. Your commentary on technology introducing new problems is entirely accurate.
Once the manufacturer assumes liability for anything that happens while using their self-driving, I’ll consider it… after two years of flawless performance, perhaps.
For the record, I work in the software industry and don’t trust software any further than I can throw it. Certainly not with my car and my life and the lives of others.
drivers insist that cyclists wear helmets so that they can feel better sbout themselves when they hit them.
In reference to the technology part, my car has blind spot sensors that I use every time I drive and they’re really helpful. However, I’ve noticed that I rely on them too much. I catch myself not looking over my shoulder, not checking my rear view mirror, etc. I’ve had one incident where the sensor didn’t light up when a car was next to me. Luckily that time I double checked, but it could be dangerous if it quits working unexpectedly. I kinda prefer to drive manual cars just to keep my skills sharp.
Been hit twice in 2 months 😮💨
12:30 I prefer to call sustainable safety "idiotproof safety"
2:15
Damn, what a polite way to say "some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make". 😂
I guess that's unsurprising coming from american politician, with profit over everything else mindset and all.
Great video thank you.
People also forget that you can be the best driver in the world 99.999% of the time but 2 seconds of inattention can be fatal for yourself or others.
I once dated someone who refused to get his license. When he had his permit he realized he was just not capable of becoming a good driver so he didn't go through with it. The downside was that his living options were extremely limited. He had to live somewhere with easy bus access to his work but also to a grocery store. And our city's public transit system absolutely sucks so that meant he was forced to live downtown which acts as a hub for a lot of the lines, but there's literally nothing there except for offices and a few apartments. He couldn't go anywhere within walking distance after 6pm because it was all closed. The city is currently talking about revamping the routes but a lot of the proposed changes would make many things worse. "No one rides this line so we'll cut it." Yeah no one rides it because it only runs every hour and sometimes doesn't even show up at all. When it ran more frequently it was more popular.
Went out of state and was at a stop light, it turned green and 3 seconds after that 2 people ran a red arrow. Across me
Learning to drive and taking defensive driving lessons has opened my eyes to the fact that my parents are horrible drivers. Mom, why are you in the bike lane? Dad, I KNOW you're going to turn right at this light, USE YOUR SIGNAL.
There is only one country in the world that has proper driving course system: Finland. In Finland a driver is expected to predict dangers and actually handle a car. Maybe 5% of drivers from other countries would pass Finnish test without extensive preparations. In Finland if a driver crashes on a simulator, fails to control skid in a real car, hits the cones or finishes test course exceeding given time it's a fail.
Even though I am a car enthusiast I always try to cycle if I can because it actually HURTS my car to take short trips (less than 10 minutes). As long as I am physically capable (which is nearly always) and I don't need to haul anything larger than a backpack (also nearly always), I will choose to cycle of walk. It's great for your health as well!
- bad driving is contagious
- people driving like they learned how out of GTA
- people driving like there's no consequences
- abilities of drivers in their +70s, has diminished from their sub 50s days
- everyone in Canada stressed from housing/cost of living/politics/brain rot/just living
May we live in interesting times
I can't believe I just watched a summary of the Not Just Bikes entire TH-cam channel in one video.
But anyways good work on spreading the good word.
I'm one of those people who believe that speeding isn't the issue because I usually only do it on fairly clear roads or to keep with traffic. I believe that speeding only becomes an issue when you're trying to do it in traffic that's too congested or when you're going too fast compared to the other drivers.
I'm a Phoenix, AZ native, and the speeding habit out here is atrocious. I love driving my car, but I'm also guilty of speeding with everyone else. Sometimes the freeways feel like gridlock traffic at 80mph. I'm just trying to get to work every day. We could all use a chill pill and slow down and stop cutting each other off. Also, you're supposed to stop BEHIND the crosswalk at an intersection.
As a cross country truck driver I can definitely say most people don’t care about speed limits, safe following distance, or really any of the rules on the road….. Have people pass me well over 100mph many times a day…..
Insurance companies are probably reporting this video😂
People get mad at me when I go the speed limit. I really don't understand that. One dude almost wrecked behind me because I was doing just that and refused to go his speed. There was a car next to me too, so his speed caused him to weave in traffic unsafe like because he had to avoid me and the others. It amazing me how some people act like that.
Assuming that everyone can drive, likes to drive or wants to drive is moronic.
My biggest issue is people who block roads and entrances when waiting at a light. Like if there’s a street I’m not gonna block it I’ll leave it open so people can turn into it or a gas station
I love driving. I take the bus to work relatively often. I used to daily drive a manual transmission car, and I know how to drive a motorcycle. I have noticed in myself that i tend to drive much better in my stick shift. It kind of forces you to pay attention to the road and your car. I think this may also contribute to the Europe/NA divide
I drove in Japan expecting the drivers to have better manners and obey the speed limit, but nope, I got tailgated, people sped past me, and generally were quite aggressive on the streets and roads. I really didn't encounter Traffic while driving, but I was mostly in Tohoku and Shikoku where the populations are not as large. But I have seen bad traffic on some highways in Japan while on the bus.
Even in the EU, once a person told me "oh you are alwaays so on point with the speed limit." as if that was a weird thing LMAO
One of the issues is that if us cities stray from american traffic engineer's guidelines or best practices its possiable for the city to be held liabe for damages resulting from crashes on noncompliant streets or roads. Thus most cities are not only super carcentric to begin with thus there would be natural resistance to anything the makes car travel harder but they are too afraid of getting sued.
I'm 58 and never had a drivers license. But yeah, I live in the Netherlands. What hardly ever is mentioned btw: I hate the noise of cars, also EV's, because it's the sound the tires make.
I think the problem with speed cameras is that they just don't work to lower speed. They lower the speed around the camera and might slow down people who don't know where they are but they don't slow down local commuters, at least in Maryland. My morning commute was going 30ish over the limit with everyone else until a camera came up then we would all slow down and repeat😭😂