05-03-2018, 04:00 AM
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Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge
Imagine what happens if you combine the two, a lava outbreak with bad driving. I hope we won't find out.
Judging by the way every other evacuation in the rest of the world goes, it'll be walking pace at best. Bad or good drivers won't matter.
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Originally posted by Mimosa
Elkad -Our truck is lifted - If for what ever reason we can not see you - you will be toast. This is not the stainland - keep your idiotic driving from where you came from PLEASE. Yes we sometimes go 50mph in the slow lane on 130. If you insist on cutting in front of us and we must slam brake - our dash cam will record you and unko blue light will take it from there.The ER is in Hilo - not puna . Drive with Aloha .
Mrs.Mimosa and Ohana
If I failed to check for brake lights ahead and cut in front of you to be rear-ended, it's my fault and I'll take my lumps. Unlikely though. And near-same-speed rear-end accidents are rarely bad (for the occupants) anyway, just an inconvenience.
I haven't mentioned being aggressive or driving recklessly anywhere here. Just being polite to other drivers and encouraging traffic to flow smoothly. There is no reason to stop at the roundabout because a car on the far side is arriving at the same time as you. The roundabout will hold a half-dozen cars easily, yet people seem to think it's a one-car-at-a-time road.
Marking police doesn't matter in Puna (do they even work traffic in Puna? I've never seen it. Of course I've only spent about a year there over the last decade). You generally can't speed anyway, and the limits are on the reasonable side.
On the excessively low speed limits on Saddle, it does matter. That road is well-engineered from end to end, no reason for it to have a limit below 75mph. But not only is it set low, it randomly changes to even lower limits in spots, without even a cross-street.
And marking other stuff on Waze would be handy. Waze happily led me right into a construction+schoolzone mess in Hilo recently, because nobody had marked any of it. I marked it myself, and the next day it guided me around it.