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re: What's the Real Risk of Taking the Interstate
Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:27 am to JudgeHolden
Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:27 am to JudgeHolden
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But you've got a bunch of people here killed on the interstate by something beyond their control
Isn't this 99.9% of the time?
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Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:28 am to JudgeHolden
Statistically, you're more likely to die in a car wreck on back country highway roads.
Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:29 am to JudgeHolden
If its your time to go its just your time to go.
Live your life.
Live your life.
Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:31 am to JudgeHolden
quote:
if I can take 90 to NOLA from LFT using up an extra thirty minutes of my life, is it worth it because I am less likely to get butt rammed by an eighteen wheeler on I-10 past Lobdell when the traffic screams to a halt?
It's always better to take HWY90 from Lafayette to get to Nola
Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:33 am to CoachChappy
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I take 90 every time I go to NOLA. frick I-10 and going through BRLA.
This
I avoid the NOLA to Laffy 10 stretch at all costs.
12 aint much better
Posted on 4/26/19 at 9:37 am to JudgeHolden
Air travel is much safer. That’s why I just take my G5 everywhere.
Posted on 4/26/19 at 10:04 am to JudgeHolden
Do you feel more safe from a head on collision on a non/barricaded interstate or on a two-lane highway meeting traffic that is only a few feet away from you?
Posted on 4/26/19 at 10:33 am to burdman
I have taken 90 home everyday, in the afternoon, for the last 4 months, from Algiers to St. James parish, no wrecks. Takes me an extra 15 minutes, usually, to get home. I take 10 in the morning. Nothing worse than getting stuck on laplace bridge or Bonnet Carre when there's a wreck. There was one this morning in Laplaz and one last week on the Bonnet Carre. No way to turn around no way to get off. Bonnet Carre you're looking at 2-3 hours minimum, wreck on the Laplaz bridge sets ya back probably an hour if ya lucky.
Posted on 4/26/19 at 10:37 am to TDsngumbo
But dump trucks, garbage trucks, small town police, red lights every 100 feet and school buses make this a shitty route.
Posted on 4/26/19 at 10:37 am to JudgeHolden
I take it youre fairly young?
Lots of horrific crashes happened back in the day on highways, one of the reasons we got the Interstate system in the first place. See Jayne Mansfield, James Dean
Lots of horrific crashes happened back in the day on highways, one of the reasons we got the Interstate system in the first place. See Jayne Mansfield, James Dean
Posted on 4/26/19 at 10:49 am to RobbBobb
When I was a kid, I had an uncle that used to commute to his job in Raceland, and I remember he had a bumper sticker on his truck that said "Pray for me, I drive Hwy 90" .
Posted on 4/26/19 at 10:56 am to JudgeHolden
Paying attention to what's going on around you works wonders. I've been on the interstate when a methed out guy was driving with broken tie rods on both sides, hitting the walls on both sides, and half of the people had no idea. They were just driving along like nothing was happening.
If you pay attention enough, you'll learn to anticipate what other people are doing. That'll save you from almost all accidents
If you pay attention enough, you'll learn to anticipate what other people are doing. That'll save you from almost all accidents
Posted on 4/26/19 at 11:03 am to RobbBobb
quote:
I take it youre fairly young?
I'm OAF.
Moses called me "Old Timer." Noah called me "Sea Dog." Solomon referred to me as "The Old Man on the Mountain."
Posted on 4/26/19 at 11:04 am to JudgeHolden
quote:
I am less likely to get butt rammed
#MeToo
Posted on 4/26/19 at 11:27 am to JudgeHolden
quote:Those darn self driving cars would have killed even more people!!!
I'm not a pussy, and I am not worried about my own driving skills. But you've got a bunch of people here killed on the interstate by something beyond their control
Posted on 4/26/19 at 12:01 pm to burdman
quote:
People get kilt on 90 all the time too.
Just ask Jayne Mansfield.
Posted on 4/26/19 at 2:21 pm to JudgeHolden
Dude was live streaming on youtube when the semi raced past him in I70 in Denver...around 8:32 mark.
He is a strange dude as well.... Burger Planet
He is a strange dude as well.... Burger Planet
Posted on 4/26/19 at 2:48 pm to hawkster
Exactly. It's wild how many times a day we are passed by with almost CERTAIN death. Two enormous laws of inertia heading straight on; separated only by a few dozen inches of air. We'll run for dear life from a honey bee, jump in the car, drive off, and text a friend. Driving is a terribly dangerous thing to do, and we climb into luxurious, relaxing, climate controlled death traps daily, and daily we're fooled by how benign they are- and they are, until we instigate the laws of physics.
Hell we love it. Until we don't. Until it all goes wrong and our world is quite literally flipped upside down (often landing on top of us), and then our luxurious status symbols become our literal hell on earth. That's when we learn the truth, but unfortunately it's oftentimes the last hellish nightmare of a truth that we'll never live to learn from.
I spent many-a-day standing on jobsites next to passing vehicles going full-on highway speeds. The sobering effect that a soccer mom passing by just feet away had on my senses and the power she has bridled at the end of her hands and feet never got old: Sipping a smoothie, kids watching spongebob on the new Suburban's HD screens, she's completely & totally unaware of the thundering roar emanating from her SUV. Ignorant (and often to no fault of her own) of the teeth-rattling, groundshaking, bone-ripping, terrifying laws of nature that she's harnessing. One slip on her or another's part and the harness breaks and the beast is out of the barn. You do not want the beast out of the barn, but she either doesn't know, has forgotten or doesn't care about that or the level of respect that ol' Mr. Physics deserves, or else.
Hell we love it. Until we don't. Until it all goes wrong and our world is quite literally flipped upside down (often landing on top of us), and then our luxurious status symbols become our literal hell on earth. That's when we learn the truth, but unfortunately it's oftentimes the last hellish nightmare of a truth that we'll never live to learn from.
I spent many-a-day standing on jobsites next to passing vehicles going full-on highway speeds. The sobering effect that a soccer mom passing by just feet away had on my senses and the power she has bridled at the end of her hands and feet never got old: Sipping a smoothie, kids watching spongebob on the new Suburban's HD screens, she's completely & totally unaware of the thundering roar emanating from her SUV. Ignorant (and often to no fault of her own) of the teeth-rattling, groundshaking, bone-ripping, terrifying laws of nature that she's harnessing. One slip on her or another's part and the harness breaks and the beast is out of the barn. You do not want the beast out of the barn, but she either doesn't know, has forgotten or doesn't care about that or the level of respect that ol' Mr. Physics deserves, or else.
Posted on 4/26/19 at 2:56 pm to Hammertime
That is sage advice.
I always assume that the other driver is an idiot because oftentimes they are, or they're driving like one: aloof and unaware of what's happening.
Somewhere I read that you're not supposed to stare at oncoming traffic because you instinctually drive towards what you're looking at. I thought that was terrible advice. I would never drive willy nilly past oncoming traffic and consciously ignore what they're doing.
Keeping focus on oncoming traffic and assuming that evasive maneuvers may be needed has possibly saved my life a handful of times, and certainly saved me from an accident many times.
I always assume that the other driver is an idiot because oftentimes they are, or they're driving like one: aloof and unaware of what's happening.
Somewhere I read that you're not supposed to stare at oncoming traffic because you instinctually drive towards what you're looking at. I thought that was terrible advice. I would never drive willy nilly past oncoming traffic and consciously ignore what they're doing.
Keeping focus on oncoming traffic and assuming that evasive maneuvers may be needed has possibly saved my life a handful of times, and certainly saved me from an accident many times.
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