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Nominal Animal:

--- Quote from: Simon on July 03, 2023, 08:31:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on July 03, 2023, 08:20:50 pm ---Here in Finland, the law states that if the pedestrian is on the pedestrian crossing or is ready to cross at one, the motorist has to let them cross unimpeded.

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At designated crossings yes.
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My point was that about half the drivers here in Helsinki assume that if the pedestrian sees a car say 30m away, the pedestrian will wait because it would be inconvenient for the motorist to stop and give way, even if the speed limit was just 30 km/h.  I can tell from the aggressive revving and speeding (over the speed limit) afterwards.


--- 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.
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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.
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Or you might alienate your existing customer base and lose billions in market valuation and a quarter of your sales.  You do not do that because you think it would make the brand better, you should only do that when you believe it is in the interests of the shareholders.

Of course there are niches where a political profile is a marketing tactic.  They are a risky business, because if the political wind changes, your entire brand may lose its value.  It is very expensive to rebrand.

Exactly why companies like Gillette and Anhauser Busch let their executives play with their personal ideologies using shareholder money, even when it costs the shareholders billions, is the strange thing here.  Laws in many (most? western) countries say the shareholders can sue such executives, and successfully have in the past.  Why is this political-ideological games wasting shareholder money became suddenly acceptable? Is BlackRock using institutional money to fund its executives/founders ideological and political goals?
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: TimFox on July 03, 2023, 08:17:36 pm ---@tggzzz:
"That's true in all trains! Only on Norwegian trains have I seen the carafes of water."

Answer:  passenger trains in the US have potable water plumbing.
https://www.epa.gov/dc/epa-amtrak-agreement-helps-ensure-drinking-water-safety-trains

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Trains in the US? I thought the car companies bought the tracks in the 1930s. :)
bdunham7:

--- Quote from: gnuarm on July 02, 2023, 05:38:07 pm --- I can't think of anything that happened in 1st or 2nd quarter of 2020 to cause such a step function. 

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Police officers stopped or greatly reduced traffic stops during this time, both because of Covid-19 and for other reasons related to the current situation in France. 
TimFox:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 03, 2023, 11:49:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: TimFox on July 03, 2023, 08:17:36 pm ---@tggzzz:
"That's true in all trains! Only on Norwegian trains have I seen the carafes of water."

Answer:  passenger trains in the US have potable water plumbing.
https://www.epa.gov/dc/epa-amtrak-agreement-helps-ensure-drinking-water-safety-trains

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Trains in the US? I thought the car companies bought the tracks in the 1930s. :)

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That story relates to the downfall of light rail (Pacific Electric) in California.
The railroads in the US are owned by the freight companies, and most of the track is owned by four American corporations and two Canadian corporations.
Stray Electron:

--- Quote from: gnuarm on July 02, 2023, 06:32:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: PlainName on July 02, 2023, 05:48:53 pm ---
--- Quote ---I can't think of anything that happened in 1st or 2nd quarter of 2020 to cause such a step function
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Covid lockdown? Over here that resulted in clear roads, so drivers were doing stupid speeds expecting not to meet something in the way. I can easily imagine a higher death rate despite fewer miles travelled.

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Sure, if the step had gone away after things opened up again.  But this step has remained.  It was both abrupt, and significant, around 30%!

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   I don't know where you're located but I'm 2 miles from a major US university with over 60,000 students (plus staff) and one of the earlier posters is right, when Covid happened, and most people quit driving, the roads around here became race tracks for the 20 somethings and there were some horrific high speed accidents. Traffic has picked up here since then but the police don't seemed to have returned to patrolling the roads ANYWHERE that I've been in the last couple of years and after 2+ years of OWNING the roads, the speeders and the reckless drivers are more bold than ever.  Now I'm seeing a lot of cars and motorcycles that don't even have tags, and clearly are not street legal, driving and racing openly on the streets.  As much as I hate to say it, we need the police back on the road and handing out a lot of tickets.
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