It is definitely your fault if you get in the car with an impaired driver. If the driver was not impaired, then this whole discussion is moot, but if he was, then there is some blame to be placed on the person who got in the car with him. I’m not saying the accident was his fault, nor am I saying he didn’t deserve…

It’s actually worse than that. Modern Republicans believe the government is the enemy, that it cannot be a solution and cannot help people. So when faced with a crisis where the government has to help people and has to be the solution, they fail miserably. Voting for a person who does not understand how government…

If you choose to get in the car with a sleepy, hungover driver, it is at least partially your fault if that driver crashes and you get hurt. He made a bad choice, and there were consequences for it.

That line is funny, but it also my biggest pet peeve. There is absolutely no way a man like Gaston would know the word “expectorating.”

I guess I’m in the minority, but I liked this movie. Maybe the way to view it is as a movie for younger kids, than for the pre-teen set most Pixar is aimed at. My 7 and 3 year olds loved it, both of them crying at the end when Arlo has to give Spot up to the other humans.

Yeah, turn signals do have indicators when they are out...unless your car is an old beater because you can’t afford a new one.

People drive the way they drive. While it may be possible to drive more carefully for a while, usually after something that reminds you to worry about it, like a close call, warning, or actual ticket, people are not able to keep that heightened level of awareness up and will eventually fall back into their normal…

I’m glad it worked for you, but I think you are an outlier. When I was growing up, people rarely worried about fines, and they had all sorts of crazy theories about how to get out of fines even if they did happen, including just speeding to the county line. None of which would actually work, but did make the kids feel…

Which all goes to show, our traffic laws are not a deterrent. People are going to drive how they feel is safe regardless of the laws, so if we got rid of those laws, our traffic safety would remain about the same, and may even improve due to people not changing their driving habits suddenly when they spot a cop.

Nah, they can have the Autobahn because most people will drive safely (however they define that themselves) and the ones that don’t are not being stopped by our traffic laws anyway. We could have the autobahn here and I doubt our traffic would be any less safe.

The traffic stop is a far too effective tool at catching criminals that would have otherwise slipped through the cracks.

So get rid of the speed limits entirely and replace them with “suggested speeds.” Most people would follow them, the ones that would’t already don’t. They slow down for traffic cameras or speed traps, then speed back up, and that slowing and speeding back up are just as/more dangerous than if they had just kept it at…

Traffic violations and defective equipment are dangerous. I know someone who rear ended a car with no brakelights

Huge flawed argument. If everyone knew that traffic laws were no longer being enforced, people would simply start driving worse. That fear of getting a ticket is a big reason why a lot of people barely follow the rules of the road to begin with.

Because they have to. If someone gets pulled over for speeding a little (which we pretty much all do), but they cannot afford the ticket, they lose their license. That does not mean they lose the reasons for driving. They still need to get to work, get to school, get to other appointments. When public transportation…

Do you not get points assessed to your license that accumulate and eventually lead to revoking your license?

But they don’t get drunks off the road very quickly. I live in WI, so I know from which I speak. I can count on the fingers of one hand the people I know of driving age who have never driven drunk, and I can count on the fingers of the other hand the number of those people who have driven drunk that have ever been…

Traffic stops are necessary to stop people from driving like morons.

The problem with speed cameras, often, is that they catch the car, not necessarily the driver. The ticket then goes to whomever owns the car, but that might not actually be who sped.

I literally just posted about this on Facebook, so I’m going to copy it over here, too.