11-03-2016, 07:55 AM
(11-02-2016, 09:09 PM)Elmira Guy Wrote: Part me of hopes that some day one of these drivers will get out to confront me on these hand gestures. Little do they realise how much disdain I have for drivers who disregard laws and willingly put others at risk. It would get ugly.
The problem with this is that you're at a bit of a disadvantage given that they have a car at their disposal. I remember one time, I slapped the rear window of some kind of SUV as it rolled through a stop sign, making a right, not having looked for me because I was "downstream" and the driver was looking left. The driver made a U-Turn, stopped, got out, said he was going to 'f-ing kill' me and yadda yadda. I replied, obviously, but then when I kept on my merry way, he got back into his car and followed me (the wrong way down a one-way, no less), all the while yelling about killing me and- most ridiculously- that the vehicle was a "2014" (I'm serious). Nuts. And, I can say, fairly stressful.
Anyway, I'm with you on traffic cams. They're cheap. I'm as concerned about privacy as anyone else, but we can put safeguards in place to make sure the recordings aren't improperly used. There's not much downside, unless you happen to be someone who dislikes stopping for stop signs.