Comment Re:Where's the Work? (Score 1) 348
Sorry, didn't mean to sound snide, but sometimes it seems like lots of drivers look at speed limits as the lowest speed that they can be expected to keep.
It is problematic when traffic lights are configured in a way that makes accidents more likely than they have to. Where I come from, this is even more problematic, since there was a change in the traffic rules a few years back that made it illegal to pass a yellow light. When the lights switch from green to yellow, you are supposed to stop. Don't understand why they even bother to still have the yellow light any more since yellow == red. Really idiotic rule.
Regarding driving experience, I have actually worked both as a truck driver and as a drive tester for a mobile operator before going into IT, so I've spent a fair share of hours behind the wheel. Never the less, I feel that rather often it seems like the people who should be the most experienced, best and safest drivers around, like truck drivers, bus drivers, taxi drivers and others who spend their entire days driving, instead drive like drunk monkeys who's stumbled into a motor vehicle by accident. Especially taxi and bus drivers often fall into this category, but I've seen truck drivers do some really retarded stuff too...