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| PlainName:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal ---I mean, in a politically charged environment with a near even split, it is obvious that being apolitical and walking the centerline makes the most business sense, because any deviation will only reduce your customer base. --- End quote --- I'm not sure that's so. You may reduce your potential customer base, but you might harden the smaller set of customer's loyalty. Look at, for instance, Trump - minority followers but guaranteed to follow no matter what. From a company PoV in that situation, you wouldn't have to worry about churn, for instance. |
| Monkeh:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on July 03, 2023, 06:22:28 pm ---The pandemic, along with the poor response to it by many governments, has reduced the quality of the health system in many countries, so perhaps more of those who have been involved in road collisions are dying now, when they would have survived before? --- End quote --- That could be. Does this pan out with other emergency medical care statistics? |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: Simon on July 03, 2023, 08:12:55 pm --- --- Quote from: PlainName on July 03, 2023, 07:13:24 pm --- --- Quote ---Here in Helsinki, at pedestrian crossings where there are no traffic lights, about half of the drivers assume pedestrians will stop and wait, even though the law says the opposite should happen. --- End quote --- Here in the UK the rule is that drivers should give way to pedestrians waiting to cross, and must give way to pedestrians on a crossing. There are strict meanings for 'should' and 'must', so if one is 'making progress' then a waiting pedestrian is fair game whereas one with a foot on the crossing wins. Most drivers seem to either not know the detail of the rules or just generally considerate. edit: source --- Quote from: https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/rules-for-pedestrians-crossings.html ---Zebra crossings. Give traffic plenty of time to see you and to stop before you start to cross. Vehicles will need more time when the road is slippery. Wait until traffic has stopped from both directions or the road is clear before crossing. Remember that traffic does not have to stop until someone has moved onto the crossing. Drivers and riders should give way to pedestrians waiting to cross and MUST give way to pedestrians on a zebra crossing (see ?Rule H2). Keep looking both ways, and listening, in case a driver or rider has not seen you and attempts to overtake a vehicle that has stopped. --- End quote --- --- End quote --- The law in the UK is totally misrepresented in most peoples head. It's not actually law but it is. Most pedestrians will retort that they have right of way, they do not! What they fail to realize is that the highway code is like any other standard written like a program. If this then that. So the whole I have right of way to be in your way bullshit comes from the fact that a pedestrian has precedence over a car in the terms that if a car does come across a pedestrian that should not be there, then he does not have the right to mow the pedestrian down. Many mistake this for I have the right to do whatever i please. There have been recent changes that seem to confuse things and sound like they pander to the convenient misconceptions of idiots rather than tell the idiots to learn to read and to do just that to the high way code. If you are to cross on a straight peice of road, the last time I looked at the highway code it made clear that a pedestrian has the responsibility of ensuring that they only cross if they can get to the other side without obstructing cars. It also states that pedestrians may not, probably must not actually "be in the road for no other reason than crossing". So basically when that twat just walks out into the road sticking his fingers up at you, it is he that is in the wrong but sadly you are not in the right so hit him, and no explaining will convince the dense jerk otherwise. --- End quote --- Actually no one has right of way, just priority. The recent changes to the highway code are outlined here: https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/legal/new-highway-code-rules-what-you-need-to-know/ |
| TimFox:
--- Quote from: PlainName on July 03, 2023, 08:39:03 pm --- --- Quote from: Nominal Animal ---I mean, in a politically charged environment with a near even split, it is obvious that being apolitical and walking the centerline makes the most business sense, because any deviation will only reduce your customer base. --- End quote --- I'm not sure that's so. You may reduce your potential customer base, but you might harden the smaller set of customer's loyalty. Look at, for instance, Trump - minority followers but guaranteed to follow no matter what. From a company PoV in that situation, you wouldn't have to worry about churn, for instance. --- End quote --- Recently, Anheuser-Busch (now part of AB InBev) shot itself in the foot by ignoring "bar rules": don't discuss politics or religion. After a transgender influencer promoted Bud Light beer on Instagram, conservatives called for a boycott. Thereafter, when they thought the beer company was not defending the beer properly, the LGBTQ+ community decided to boycott it in turn, to own the conservatives. The net result is a huge decrease in sales of what was the most popular single beer in the US, being replaced by another light beer from the Mexican company Modelo, also owned by AB InBev (not mentioned in the article cited below). https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/14/bud-light-loses-top-us-beer-spot-after-promotion-with-transgender-influencer |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: Monkeh on July 03, 2023, 09:02:38 pm --- --- Quote from: Zero999 on July 03, 2023, 06:22:28 pm ---The pandemic, along with the poor response to it by many governments, has reduced the quality of the health system in many countries, so perhaps more of those who have been involved in road collisions are dying now, when they would have survived before? --- End quote --- That could be. Does this pan out with other emergency medical care statistics? --- End quote --- It does appear to be the case in the UK, although the NHS has being deteriorating for years. I don't know about the US. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-7281/ |
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