This saved my mom just the other day. She sat for an extra second at a green, and the car behind her whipped around to pass her. That car almost got t-boned by the fucking bus that ran the red light. If she had gone as soon as the light turned green, she would have been directly in front of the bus. But she noticed the bus wasn’t slowing down at all, so she waited.
Yeah where I live there is this funny obsession with waiting for the walk light and soo many people just step out without looking. Meanwhile you will often literally get people grumbling at you if you walk on a red no matter how clear the street is.
Have you been to Italy? I do this on every street because there is a serious chance of finding a bike, or electric scooter or even moped going the wrong way.
I had no idea that mario kart was a documentary. I never get carsick, but after travelling for 24 hours, let me tell you, I got carsick. I didn't get carsick traveling that far before either.
I got a driver from the airport to my hotel in Rome. I decided that in Rome you're allowed to break one law at a time while driving. So you could drive on the wrong side of the road but you still had to respect that red traffic light unless you got back onto the right side of traffic.
As a forced pedestrian (can't drive due to health issues), this is so true. Also at crosswalks, a lot of drivers turning right while looking left. They always appear genuinely SHOCKED to encounter "a walker." Like, "A PERSON...? NOT IN A... CAR?? IS THAT POSSIBLE?" Like it shatters their entire concept of the universe and how things work. Yes, I live in America, and this happens in both suburbs and downtown DC.
I make a point to make eye contact with the driver in those sorts of situations. Which is a big part of why darkened front windows should be illegal. You need to be able to see where a driver is looking.
part of why i use a mobility device is that i can use it to bang on vehicles and alert them of my presence without kicking/hitting it with my bones, in sitiations just like you describe. a sock full of pool balls would also work.
i have to say tho, as another forced pedestrian, the best thing for my getting around has been getting a recumbent trike.
yeah something didn't quite smell right (it was also me) but i will ask for your forgiveness, i was a fart and a sneeze away from dying until like 6 hours ago and can be forgiven for a touch of insanity.
Yep, one of the worst crashes I've ever had to work, was a wrong way car that hit 2 bicycles that didn't look. Each bicycle had a parent and a child on board. All sustained very serious injuries. It was a true definition of "blood bath".
We look both ways no matter what because that's the protocol and the protocol keeps us safe. If you believe it's safe to deviate from the protocol, you're opening up a chance to be wrong. It's that simple.
My chemistry teacher told us this when we were first handling dangerous chemicals and it's stuck with me ever since.
I’ve been to a lot of countries that had exceptions for bikes. But most of the time there is a special sign that allows them to enter a one way street from the other side.
Edit:
Looked up one I saw in Germany:
Left sign: „bikes free“
Right sign: „One way street“ and „bike traffic in both directions“
You joke, but I was talking to a friend about this just a few weeks ago. I always check both ways on one-way streets after almost getting struck by a taxi reversing at 50 km/h while I was crossing in front of a hotel, and coming within 1 ft. of crippling me. Never trust the signage, never trust the cars.
it's because the original image is actually hosted on i.redd.it which may cause issues, especially with weird HTTP headers which some software might struggle with and also with VPNs
Hey bike riders and scooter riders who use the wrong way to go down the street, I do not look both ways when backing out of the building driveway. Be aware.
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dan1101@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 176d
Gotta look both ways when you have a green light at an intersection too.
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 176d
This. I do this and it has saved me from folks who said "fuck it." And ran the red.
toynbee@piefed.social · 6 pts · 176d
My brother might be coming the other way!
(It is gratifying that if you do a DDG search for this phrase, the top result is a video of someone running a red light.)
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 174d
This saved my mom just the other day. She sat for an extra second at a green, and the car behind her whipped around to pass her. That car almost got t-boned by the fucking bus that ran the red light. If she had gone as soon as the light turned green, she would have been directly in front of the bus. But she noticed the bus wasn’t slowing down at all, so she waited.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 174d
Yeah, I never trust that incoming traffic will stop and always make sure they actually are before proceeding.
makyo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 175d
Yeah where I live there is this funny obsession with waiting for the walk light and soo many people just step out without looking. Meanwhile you will often literally get people grumbling at you if you walk on a red no matter how clear the street is.
cattywampas@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 176d
Cemeteries are full of people who had the right of way.
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 175d
It's not about who's right, it's about who's left
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 175d
same as in politics
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 174d
thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 175d
I tell my kid "Even if you're right, you still get the wheelchair. Don't trust drivers, pay attention."
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 175d
Great for organ donors though.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social · 22 pts · 176d
Have you been to Italy? I do this on every street because there is a serious chance of finding a bike, or electric scooter or even moped going the wrong way.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 175d
I visited Italy.
I had no idea that mario kart was a documentary. I never get carsick, but after travelling for 24 hours, let me tell you, I got carsick. I didn't get carsick traveling that far before either.
treesapx@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 175d
I got a driver from the airport to my hotel in Rome. I decided that in Rome you're allowed to break one law at a time while driving. So you could drive on the wrong side of the road but you still had to respect that red traffic light unless you got back onto the right side of traffic.
deacon@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 175d
Some things are good habits whether they are strictly necessary or not. Like looking both ways or signaling your turn or punching nazis.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 175d
This is false equivalency. It is always strictly necessary to punch nazis.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 175d
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 174d
You'll get in trouble!
deacon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 175d
You know what, you’re right.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 176d
Me: at a stop sign waiting for a car to pass before I turn right
Passenger: “You can go. He has his turn signal on.”
Car: zooms past at full speed without turning
Me:
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 175d
Never take a passengers advice.
wjrii@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 176d
I particularly did this when I was in the UK or Japan, but that's more because I have no faith that I will remember to pick the correct way.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 175d
I just can't remember which country I'm in sometimes.
punkwalrus@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 175d
As a forced pedestrian (can't drive due to health issues), this is so true. Also at crosswalks, a lot of drivers turning right while looking left. They always appear genuinely SHOCKED to encounter "a walker." Like, "A PERSON...? NOT IN A... CAR?? IS THAT POSSIBLE?" Like it shatters their entire concept of the universe and how things work. Yes, I live in America, and this happens in both suburbs and downtown DC.
Drusas@fedia.io · 2 pts · 175d
I make a point to make eye contact with the driver in those sorts of situations. Which is a big part of why darkened front windows should be illegal. You need to be able to see where a driver is looking.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 175d
part of why i use a mobility device is that i can use it to bang on vehicles and alert them of my presence without kicking/hitting it with my bones, in sitiations just like you describe. a sock full of pool balls would also work.
i have to say tho, as another forced pedestrian, the best thing for my getting around has been getting a recumbent trike.
Drusas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 175d
Pool balls? Like beach balls?
Edit: Billiards balls. Took me way too long.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 175d
oh yeah sorry. i got some Stasesianisms littered through my speech
Drusas@fedia.io · 2 pts · 175d
I'm one as well, but tend to very literal and don't always know which interpretation of something will hit and immediately get stuck in my brain.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 175d
yeah we got a few kinds of pools balls here. specificity would just be no fun though would it at this point.
apparently these exist
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 174d
After a little search, while "inflatable pool couches" do exist, this isn't what they look like. That picture is definitely AI
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 174d
yeah something didn't quite smell right (it was also me) but i will ask for your forgiveness, i was a fart and a sneeze away from dying until like 6 hours ago and can be forgiven for a touch of insanity.
artifex@piefed.social · 7 pts · 176d
Faith in humanity or not, everyone makes mistakes. Look both ways, kids.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 175d
Yep, one of the worst crashes I've ever had to work, was a wrong way car that hit 2 bicycles that didn't look. Each bicycle had a parent and a child on board. All sustained very serious injuries. It was a true definition of "blood bath".
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 175d
I'm not sure it was necessary for you to bathe in their blood.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 175d
Well, kinda necessary, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to render care very well.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 6 pts · 176d
ALWAYS LOOK BOTH WAYS!
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 175d
Defensive driving is for pedestrians too
endless_nameless@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 175d
We look both ways no matter what because that's the protocol and the protocol keeps us safe. If you believe it's safe to deviate from the protocol, you're opening up a chance to be wrong. It's that simple.
My chemistry teacher told us this when we were first handling dangerous chemicals and it's stuck with me ever since.
elvith@feddit.org · 6 pts · 175d
Even if you look both ways, you can still get killed by a falling flower pot, because you didn't look up.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 175d
Oh no, not again.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 175d
And even then there are uncovered manholes.
Pirasp@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 176d
Most one way streets do not apply do bikes, so looking both ways is advisable
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 175d
I don't know where you live but where I do all traffic laws apply to bicycles too.
DownByLaw@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 175d
I’ve been to a lot of countries that had exceptions for bikes. But most of the time there is a special sign that allows them to enter a one way street from the other side.
Edit: Looked up one I saw in Germany:
Left sign: „bikes free“
Right sign: „One way street“ and „bike traffic in both directions“
Pirasp@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 175d
This is exactly what I was talking about
ekky@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 176d
And even when they apply to bikes, they don "apply" to most bikes anyway.
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 175d
You joke, but I was talking to a friend about this just a few weeks ago. I always check both ways on one-way streets after almost getting struck by a taxi reversing at 50 km/h while I was crossing in front of a hotel, and coming within 1 ft. of crippling me. Never trust the signage, never trust the cars.
zewm@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 176d
I literally do this.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 175d
gonna be honest, emergencies happen.
potustheplant@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 175d
Can't believe no one mentioned Limmy yet.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 175d
For a second I hella thought he was gonna have more song there 🤣
amlor@piefed.social · 4 pts · 176d
Not just lack of faith, but past experience
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 175d
Lemmy.zip image proxy fails again.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 175d
oh sorry. try this one:
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 175d
Thanks, I wonder why that one works. It appears to be going through the image proxy too. I figured you were direct linking or something. Weird.
Was mainly trying to call out the .zip admins. I see these image proxy issues regularly.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 175d
it's because the original image is actually hosted on i.redd.it which may cause issues, especially with weird HTTP headers which some software might struggle with and also with VPNs
Demigodrick@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 174d
Bug fix for this was recently introduced, seems to specifically be reddit images.
https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/releases/tag/v0.5.23
Should be fixed going forwards :)
Please ping me directly if you do see anything like this in future!
Zombie@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 175d
Obligatory Limmy's Show
https://youtu.be/LW7Iv-V1-Jo
gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 175d
Me only looking one way because my finances are a wreck
Drusas@fedia.io · 2 pts · 175d
Must not live in the US because those medical bills won't help.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 175d
Is it because you can't afford to pay attention?
robocall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 175d
Check the road left, right, left.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 175d
Hey bike riders and scooter riders who use the wrong way to go down the street, I do not look both ways when backing out of the building driveway. Be aware.
thebazman@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 175d
And pedestrians on the sidewalk....? I hope theres no sidewalk on your side of the street. Either way extremely bad take
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 175d
I check the sidewalk, lol