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· 3 years ago
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Every moment you are getting closer to your death. What a silly slogan. Most people- save those choosing to commit vehicular suicide- obviously don’t believe that they are in any real and eminent danger wether they are driving 40mph on the express way or 150mph on the freeway. Either one can die and either one can live. Generally we assume that if something goes wrong driving- it won’t be caused by our mistake but by someone else, and generally we are very bad at self awareness in this area. So if they knew that this particular day at this time, driving this speed would end in death- they wouldn’t likely. But they don’t know that, and they’ve probably done the same thing many times before and never died- thusly their experience tells them this time should be no different.
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guest_
· 3 years ago
Given that every trip to the store had a chance of us “traveling to our death,” most of us simply use a basic cognitive mechanism- the first time or early in driving on a freeway- many people get extremely scared or don’t want to do it. But after they’ve done so multiple tiles safely- the subconscious tells them “meh. This is fine. You’re ok, there isn’t the danger you thought.” That is why most motorcyclists I know who ride into old age, every time they ride, they rode with fear. The same fear as the first time they got on the bike. When you stop feeling that sense of danger, you get sloppy. Most people don’t realize they spend their day around thousands of pounds of murder machines, kept from being inside their body cavities simply by the control of a driver who treats the whole affair as though they are operating a toaster.
anthracite
· 3 years ago
The Germans call bullshit. A couple of weeks ago I drove about 600 km through Germany. And on some stretches I hit top speed in my pretty mundane car. According to my GPS it was 197 km/h.
catfluff
· 3 years ago
In a time of a suicidal millennial generation this is a terrible cautionary billboard
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