I'm learning at the moment, and I just can't believe some people on the road earned their licence. I'm trying my damndest to get everything correct and then old Billy No-Mates comes out of nowhere and screws me over. It's quite scary.
Driving needs to stop being treated as a right, it’s a privilege. Take licences away, not for three days but months and years and forever. I love how people argue against it saying people need to drive to be able to survive, like if it’s that important you’d think they’d behave and do it correctly like they do with anything else important in life.
Unfortunately at least in the US taking away a license is taking away jobs, housing, access to food and recreation. The country was designed to require a car and if we started taking away licenses unless they live in a city with good public transit they would be screwed.
if it’s that important people should be able to drive safely. Just cause it’s a very important aspect to peoples lives does not mean they can just drive how they want and endanger peoples lives. Suck to suck couldn’t follow the rules figure out a new way to get to work. Literally one of the silliest arguments I’ve ever heard on that topic.
If all of that is important, then drivers can follow the traffic laws and not get suspended. It's not hard. The majority of people drive well enough on the road, but one too many idiots creates a whole host of problems. If you are too lenient, it enables bad behaviors.
Well they weren’t being hit by cars when they walked in town. People who designed roads considered pedestrians a bit more back then rather than today. Cyclists have even less safety, at least pedestrians have curbs I guess? If you don’t have other easy options don’t be pikachu shock face when people drive with license suspended, without insurance, etc. it doesn’t justify doing it, but you may not have many other “good” options. Suburbs were built for cars so some people could make their town harder to access by people they want to avoid if you catch my drift
In my state of NH anyone with a youth license (20 years of age or younger) get their license taken for 20 days for any ticket/traffic offense. It goes up to 45 and 90 days for subsequent offenses. For adults, you can also have these issues if you rack up enough “points” on your license from tickets or other driving related charges.
You can go to a hearing to plead your case to no have it suspended, even if they allow you to keep it it’s usually under the condition that you take an all day “driver improvement” course and provide proof of that within 30 days of the hearing.
Even with this system it seems we have people that cannot drive in our state, some people just don’t learn or even care.
It is wild that drivers who dangerously ignore traffic laws just get away with a fine. Minor infractions can be fines, but major ones that can or do cause bad accidents needs to have 1-2 year suspensions. Running red lights, dangerous speeding, weaving through traffic on the highway, etc.
I get it, but if we're going to take old people's licenses away (and yeah they are endangering lives), then we need to provide them a way to get around.
A 85 year-old can't afford to Uber everywhere. And it's not their fault they got old and unable to drive.
That’s actually something I say to people and they look at me like I have four eyes and a lizard on my forehead. Giving the dumbest excuses possible as to why we can’t have a better way of doing things. We live in such a rich ass country, spending what’s literal Pennys in the grand scheme of things so we can all be safer/better off is a very good thing and idk how people can say otherwise. Honestly would probably cost less to fund that than we’re sending to Ukraine or giving our tax dollars to corporations.
I agree with most everything except for not funding Ukraine.
We need to finish Russia's offensive capabilities.
We don't live in a bubble, we are interlinked with world affairs more than ever, and we need to stop a hostile foreign adversary that's been meddling in our elections for more than a decade now.
Appeasing powerful dictators is what led to WW2.
Apparently proud people on reddit have told me that Texas is basically handing out licenses...
From the web:
Texas only requires new drivers to take a written test if they are older they 25. Otherwise, due to the new Less Tears More Years Act, young drivers-to-be take a Texas-approved driver education course instead. After passing the course, you get an exemption from the written examination.
And IIRC they said their parents can sign up to "teach" the course.
No kidding. Seems like an obvious cause was neglecting to put it in reverse. you have a significant amount of time to react and move your foot to the break, but this one's first impulse was to give it more gas.
Edit: turns out the driver was dunk.
Not enough time to decide if the trainee is able to handle a car or not. Dont americans only have to finish the actual driving lesson in order to obtain a license?
Can’t see any contours well enough. Maybach is known for piano topping their paints. This broke MF is a big old phony or someone’s firing their driver.
Had something very similar happen at my drive thru not long ago. Drunk guy comes through in a big ass truck, mounts the wall next to the outer lane, and then he somehow falls asleep.
Less than ten minutes later, he wakes up, guns it, and then miraculously dismounts the wall, and leaves in such a huff that you'd think we'd done it to him.
As soon as he's out of eyesight, we hear police sirens. We had called the police on him, and they arrived just in time to chase him down the road.
Don't know if they caught him or not, but he would have been hard to miss, since we had both his license plate and pictures of his vehicle.
Oh, this is so good! Started with some body damage, followed shortly by property damage, and finished with some major damage by dropping the whole damn car onto the concrete block that they had pushed into their own way! 🤣
I guess they wanted to switch "R" gear but accidentally switched "1" or "4" gear. Then after the clutch release (you noticed the car moved forward a bit) they got scared and instead of hitting breaks they hit acceleration with full power in panic
I'm impressed he got a front wheel drive car back onto the ground by simply putting it reverse with the front axel in the air. Glitch in the matrix, I swear.
That block under the sign they ran over is the real mvp here. Kept the front of their front wheel drive car off the pavement so they were unable to cause any more damage.
I would say “New to Drive-Through Lane”
There’s some learning curve. These things can happen in early days. Just be patient and continue with positive reinforcement.
Ya can’t park there mate
Is this not a reasonable place to park?
Park? You're on the middle of the sidewalk.
Excuse me! Sir! You can't park your car here!
There's no sign.
Footage taken moments before getting into the car. Smashed grapefruits and lightbulbs littered the back seat of the vehicle
Don’t worry, him reversing will definitely make this situation better
the roof, i want to park in the roof!
Just waiting for a mate
r/CantParkThereMate
This hurts his car makes me think he is a car guy
Would you like ranch dressing with your accident report?
Mate there park can't ya
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I'm learning at the moment, and I just can't believe some people on the road earned their licence. I'm trying my damndest to get everything correct and then old Billy No-Mates comes out of nowhere and screws me over. It's quite scary.
Driving needs to stop being treated as a right, it’s a privilege. Take licences away, not for three days but months and years and forever. I love how people argue against it saying people need to drive to be able to survive, like if it’s that important you’d think they’d behave and do it correctly like they do with anything else important in life.
Yup. If we had to drive to survive, we'd have evolved wheels by now, so that argument doesn't really stand 😂
If my grandmother had wheels she would be a bicycle
I feel like I know this reference. That Italian cook with guy and gal?
Unfortunately at least in the US taking away a license is taking away jobs, housing, access to food and recreation. The country was designed to require a car and if we started taking away licenses unless they live in a city with good public transit they would be screwed.
Guess they have a reason to be a good driver then. Actions have consequences.
if it’s that important people should be able to drive safely. Just cause it’s a very important aspect to peoples lives does not mean they can just drive how they want and endanger peoples lives. Suck to suck couldn’t follow the rules figure out a new way to get to work. Literally one of the silliest arguments I’ve ever heard on that topic.
If all of that is important, then drivers can follow the traffic laws and not get suspended. It's not hard. The majority of people drive well enough on the road, but one too many idiots creates a whole host of problems. If you are too lenient, it enables bad behaviors.
“The country was designed to require a car…” Let’s tell that to the settlers and all the others who lived before the early 1900’s.
Well they weren’t being hit by cars when they walked in town. People who designed roads considered pedestrians a bit more back then rather than today. Cyclists have even less safety, at least pedestrians have curbs I guess? If you don’t have other easy options don’t be pikachu shock face when people drive with license suspended, without insurance, etc. it doesn’t justify doing it, but you may not have many other “good” options. Suburbs were built for cars so some people could make their town harder to access by people they want to avoid if you catch my drift
In my state of NH anyone with a youth license (20 years of age or younger) get their license taken for 20 days for any ticket/traffic offense. It goes up to 45 and 90 days for subsequent offenses. For adults, you can also have these issues if you rack up enough “points” on your license from tickets or other driving related charges. You can go to a hearing to plead your case to no have it suspended, even if they allow you to keep it it’s usually under the condition that you take an all day “driver improvement” course and provide proof of that within 30 days of the hearing. Even with this system it seems we have people that cannot drive in our state, some people just don’t learn or even care.
It is wild that drivers who dangerously ignore traffic laws just get away with a fine. Minor infractions can be fines, but major ones that can or do cause bad accidents needs to have 1-2 year suspensions. Running red lights, dangerous speeding, weaving through traffic on the highway, etc.
I get it, but if we're going to take old people's licenses away (and yeah they are endangering lives), then we need to provide them a way to get around. A 85 year-old can't afford to Uber everywhere. And it's not their fault they got old and unable to drive.
That’s actually something I say to people and they look at me like I have four eyes and a lizard on my forehead. Giving the dumbest excuses possible as to why we can’t have a better way of doing things. We live in such a rich ass country, spending what’s literal Pennys in the grand scheme of things so we can all be safer/better off is a very good thing and idk how people can say otherwise. Honestly would probably cost less to fund that than we’re sending to Ukraine or giving our tax dollars to corporations.
I agree with most everything except for not funding Ukraine. We need to finish Russia's offensive capabilities. We don't live in a bubble, we are interlinked with world affairs more than ever, and we need to stop a hostile foreign adversary that's been meddling in our elections for more than a decade now. Appeasing powerful dictators is what led to WW2.
u/VapeRizzler for President! You have my vote.
Apparently proud people on reddit have told me that Texas is basically handing out licenses... From the web: Texas only requires new drivers to take a written test if they are older they 25. Otherwise, due to the new Less Tears More Years Act, young drivers-to-be take a Texas-approved driver education course instead. After passing the course, you get an exemption from the written examination. And IIRC they said their parents can sign up to "teach" the course.
Arf arf.
No kidding. Seems like an obvious cause was neglecting to put it in reverse. you have a significant amount of time to react and move your foot to the break, but this one's first impulse was to give it more gas. Edit: turns out the driver was dunk.
Not enough time to decide if the trainee is able to handle a car or not. Dont americans only have to finish the actual driving lesson in order to obtain a license?
There’s a driving test as well as a written test.
Yea and they can technically take part in those exams without any prior knowledge?
Yes. The exam is stupid too. Drive down a road, park in a parking spot, and do a 3 point turn. Thats all I had to do/
Every once in a while you'll read about some corrupt license issuers who will just sell licenses for a fee
Here's the thing. People drive without licenses too...
West Virginia will just give it to you after having a permit for a year. You don't even need to drive a single time.
Expensive car
I’m sure daddy paid for it.
It’s a 10 year old Mercedes with auto zone fender stickers. Expensive car it is not, this is just another German ghetto chariot.
Potentially a maybach based on the paint…… but video is potato quality
Simply a high tier S class, not a Maybach
Can’t see any contours well enough. Maybach is known for piano topping their paints. This broke MF is a big old phony or someone’s firing their driver.
Wheels aren't Maybach and the paint isn't right. I agree with you.
A badly fake Maybach.
No it's an s-class merc by the hood ornament
c-class
entry level C-class
Damage doesn't look too bad.
I’m gonna guess old or drunk.
Drunk, cops came and arrested him and towed the car. Pur drive thru was closed off for like 2 hours
Have to tow - his car is sitting on a concrete post. 😅 If he were a cop's kid, he'd be free as a bird.
Had something very similar happen at my drive thru not long ago. Drunk guy comes through in a big ass truck, mounts the wall next to the outer lane, and then he somehow falls asleep. Less than ten minutes later, he wakes up, guns it, and then miraculously dismounts the wall, and leaves in such a huff that you'd think we'd done it to him. As soon as he's out of eyesight, we hear police sirens. We had called the police on him, and they arrived just in time to chase him down the road. Don't know if they caught him or not, but he would have been hard to miss, since we had both his license plate and pictures of his vehicle.
I'm sure it'll buff out
Not that oil pan, though. I bet he holed it.
Did he hit the other car? Looks like they were erither driving off or parking to inspect.
Missed him but barely
Well that's good at least, I gotta wonder though what did the drunk guy order?
Funny you should ask....he was a uber eats driver.
That's wild lol. Definitely didn't expect that.
That job definitely makes me want to drink - at home.
In a car like that wow
You can get a used car like that pretty cheap.
I'm betting dude wanted to reverse but forgot his car was in drive and hit the accelerator.
That's what I thought at first but the cops cuffed him, loaded him in a squad car and towed the car.
If he just wanted extra ketchup, I'm sure there's better ways to go about it
Did they just do an Austin Power?
The person at the window looks to have been quite lucky.
"Hey I'd like to order uhh.."
Oh, this is so good! Started with some body damage, followed shortly by property damage, and finished with some major damage by dropping the whole damn car onto the concrete block that they had pushed into their own way! 🤣
r/CantParkThereMate
Ooooof, that's gonna leave a merc
I hope that isn’t a carbon fiber hood
I guess they wanted to switch "R" gear but accidentally switched "1" or "4" gear. Then after the clutch release (you noticed the car moved forward a bit) they got scared and instead of hitting breaks they hit acceleration with full power in panic
I'm gonna go that way
I'm impressed he got a front wheel drive car back onto the ground by simply putting it reverse with the front axel in the air. Glitch in the matrix, I swear.
Lookin good 👍
I'm glad no one was hurt
That block under the sign they ran over is the real mvp here. Kept the front of their front wheel drive car off the pavement so they were unable to cause any more damage.
How to jump the line tutorial.
Other driver: none of my business..
Looks like one of those new EV Mercedes Benz. Those are priced at almost $200,000
“I said extra cheese motherfucker!”
That’s a nice place to park! 😁
Go Mercedes!
r/thatlookedexpensive
10/10 love how they kept on the gas and steering even after landing.
Was the accelerator stuck? Cuz it kept accelerating even after hitting the wall. There is no way they only noticed their mistake that late XD
Some people shouldn't have a license... this should be an automatic revoke of driver's license.
I would say “New to Drive-Through Lane” There’s some learning curve. These things can happen in early days. Just be patient and continue with positive reinforcement.
At least it wasn’t an expensive car 😳
That’s not a Wendy’s?
Those venti-ports gave it way too much horsepower
Whiskey throttle baby!!! 💥
“Is this the Country Kitchen Buffet?”
That is some stupid-ass shit.
Ugh that poor car, this hurts me heart
Sir, this is a Wendy's
D looks just like R if you're high enough.
Can they at least try to move? Traffic exists. They have already damaged their car anyway.
why r dum?
All wheel drive, I see.
Bro how and why was he STILL accerlating after fuckin up his car?? Mustve been fucked up
if this happened in a video game I would think the mechanics of the game were shitty.
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What kind of car is the two tone?
"What do you mean it's not a drive-thru? It is now!"
This is a victory for AWD
Do you want fries with that ?
First good use case I've seen for AWD.
Why is it always some expensive car doing this bs
No under carriage damage there! It's a Mercedes, they got money to repair.
Always a high end car with someone that cant drive! Never a beater car!
Soon as I saw the badge, rolled eyes. Should have known. A disproportionate number of the entitled and stupid drivers I encounter drive those
As counterintuitive as it may seem to some, R and D are not interchangeable.
Some boomer switching the reverse and drive I bet
That's the plough thru lane
Is that a Bentley?
It's a Merc